Christopher R. Green Contact Syracuse University Mobile: (812) 272-0202 Information Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Office: (315) 443-5498 330 HB Crouse Hall E-mail: [email protected] Syracuse, NY 13244 USA asfaculty.syr.edu/pages/lang/green-christopher.html syr.academia.edu/ChristopherGreen www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher Green22 Research Prosodic structure, tone, meter, stress, syllable structure, phonology and its interfaces, African Interests languages (Mande, Cushitic, Bantu, Saharan). Education Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida USA B.S., Biochemistry, December 2003 B.M., Music Performance, December 2003 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana USA M.A., Linguistics, May 2008 Ph.D., Linguistics, December 2010 • Dissertation Topic: \Prosodic phonology in Bamana (Bambara): Syllable complexity, metrical structure, and tone" (Rutgers Optimality Archive-1115) • Minors: African Studies, African Languages & Linguistics Current Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Affiliation Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Assistant Professor of Linguistics August 2016 - present Other Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya Affiliations Research Affiliate, Institute of African Studies 2017 University of Maryland, College Park, MD Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) Assistant Research Scientist January 2011 - June 2014 Associate Research Scientist July 2014 - August 2016 Adjunct Research Affiliate August 2016 - present Language Science Center Affiliated Faculty January 2015 - August 2016 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana USA Research Assistant 2007 - 2010 Learnability Project, Linguistics and Speech & Hearing Sciences Research Assistant 2008 - 2010 Program in African Studies Research Assistant 2009 - 2010 Department of Applied Health Sciences Universit´e de Bamako, Bamako, Mali Visiting Scholar, Facult´e des languages, arts et science humaines 2010 Grants US National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant #1023781 Co-PIs Samuel Obeng and Stuart Davis, ($12,000) 2010 US National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research Grant: Structure and tone in Luyia, PIs Christopher R. Green ($71,075 - University of Maryland, #1355394), Michael R. Marlo ($343,479 - University of Missouri, #1355750), and Michael Diercks ($62,227 - Pomona College, #1355749) 2014-2017 Contracts US Department of Defense, TTO 7001-1228, Resourcing African Languages Co-PIs Tristan M. Purvis and Christopher R. Green ($973,637) 2011 - 2012 US Department of Defense, TTO 1001, Improving Capabilities for Under-Resoruced Languages Co-PIs Christopher R. Green and Michelle E. Morrison ($725,047) 2012 - 2013 US Department of Defense, DO0050, Future Needs and Capabilities Strategy for Africa Co-PIs Christopher R. Green and Michelle E. Morrison ($1,686,577) 2013 - 2015 US Department of Defense, DO0091, Support for Languages Spoken in Volatile Regions PI Christopher R Green ($400,000) 2015 - 2016 Fellowships US Department of Education, Academic Year Fellow Elementary Bambara 2006 - 2007 US Department of Education, Academic Year Fellow Intermediate Bambara 2007 - 2008 US Department of Education, Summer Fellow Elementary KiSwahili 2008 US Department of Education, Academic Year Fellow Advanced Bambara 2008 - 2009 US National Institutes of Health, Pre-Doctoral Fellow Training Grant in Speech, Hearing, and Sensory Communication, (DC-000012) 2009 - 2010 Journal Articles Christopher R. Green. 2008. Discursive strategies in political speech: The words of Dr. Bingu (Peer-Reviewed) wa Mutharika. Issues in Political Discourse Analysis 2(1), 59-74. Christopher R. Green & Boubacar Diakite. 2008. Emergent syllable complexity in Colloquial Bamana. Journal of West African Languages 35(1-2), 45-56. Christopher R. Green. 2009. Prosody and intonation in Non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages: An annotated bibliography.Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography 11, 1-45. Christopher R. Green & Ashley W. Farris-Trimble. 2010. Voice contrast and cumulative faith- fulness in Luwanga nouns. Studies in African Linguistics 39(2), 183-233. Daniel A. Dinnsen, Judith A. Gierut, Michele L. Morrisette, Christopher R. Green & Ashley W. Farris-Trimble. 2011. On the interaction of Deaffrication and Consonant Harmony. Journal of Child Language 38, 380-403. Daniel A. Dinnsen, Christopher R. Green, Michele L. Morrisette & Judith A. Gierut. 2011. On the interaction of velar fronting and labial harmony. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 25(3), 231-251. Daniel A. Dinnsen, Christopher R. Green, Judith A. Gierut & Michele L. Morrisette. 2011. On the anatomy of a chain shift. Journal of Linguistics 47, 275-299. Tristan M. Purvis, Christopher R. Green & Gregory K. Iverson. 2012. Prioritizing African Languages: Challenges to macro-level planning for resourcing and capacity building. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 11, 1-30. Daniel A. Dinnsen, Michael C. Dow, Judith A. Gierut, Michele L. Morrisette & Christopher R. Green. 2013. The coronal fricative problem. Lingua 131, 151-178. Christopher R. Green. 2013. Formalizing the prosodic word domain in Bambara tonology. Journal of West African Languages 40(1), 3-20. Christopher R. Green, Jonathan C. Anderson & Samuel G. Obeng. 2013. Interacting tonal processes in Susu. Mandenkan 50, 61-84. Christopher R. Green, Michelle E. Morrison, Nikki B. Adams, Erin Smith Crabb, Evan Jones & Valerie L. Novak. 2014. An annotated bibliography of reference and pedagogical resources for standard Somali. Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography 15, 1-33. Christopher R. Green, Stuart Davis, Boubacar Diakite & Karen Baertsch. 2014. On the role of margin phonotactics in Colloquial Bamana complex syllables. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 32(2), 499-536. doi: 10.1007/s11049-013-9208-6. Kristopher Ebarb, Christopher R. Green & Michael R. Marlo. 2014. Luyia tonal melodies. Africana Linguistica 20, 121-143. Christopher R. Green. 2015. The foot domain in Bambara. 2015. Language 91(1), e1-e26. Christopher R. Green & Michelle E. Morrison. 2016. Somali wordhood and its relationship to prosodic structure. Morphology 26(1), 3-32. doi: 10.1007/s11525-015-9268-x. Christopher R. Green & Jennifer Hill Boutz. 2016. A prosodic perspective on the assignment of tonal melodies to Arabic loanwords in Bambara. Mandenkan 56, 29-76. Christopher R. Green & Michelle E. Morrison. under review. On the morphophonology of domains in Somali verbs and nouns. Christopher R. Green. under revision. On the Kanuri Verb Complex. Jonathan C. Anderson, Christopher R. Green & Samuel G. Obeng. under revision. On the structure and meaning of Susu diminutives. Christopher R. Green & Michelle E. Morrison. in progress. On the role of prosodic structure in mediating Somali topic marking. Christopher R. Green in progress. On the notion of compacit´e tonale in Western Mande. Books Christopher R. Green, Michelle E. Morrison & Nikki B. Adams. A grammar of Somali. [Under contract with Mouton de Gruyter] Christopher R. Green & Michael R. Marlo. in progress. Wanga tonology. Christopher R. Green, Michael J. K. Diercks & Michael R. Marlo. in progress. A grammatical sketch of Wanga. Edited Volumes Jonathan C. Anderson, Christopher R. Green & Samuel G. Obeng (eds.). IULC Working Pa- pers in Linguistics, Volume 8: African Linguistics Across the Discipline. Bloomington, IN: IULC Publications. Michael R. Marlo, Nikki B. Adams, Christopher R. Green, Michelle Morrison & Tristan M. Purvis (eds.). Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Samuel G. Obeng & Christopher R. Green (eds.). African linguistics in the 21st century: Essays in honor of Paul Newman. [tentative title; proposal accepted by Routledge] Papers in Edited Christopher R. Green, Stuart Davis, Boubacar Diakite & Karen Baertsch. 2009. Syncope and the Volumes drive towards minimization in Colloquial Bamana. In Jonathan C. Anderson, Christopher R. Green (Peer-Reviewed) & Samuel G. Obeng (Eds.), Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 8: African Linguistics Across the Discipline, 109-131. Bloomington, IN: IULC Publications. Christopher R. Green. Compacit´e tonale and the Bamana prosodic word domain. 2011. In Indiana University Linguistics Club Online Working Papers: Volume 11. Bloomington, IN: IULC Publications. Christopher R. Green, Stuart Davis, Boubacar Diakite & Karen Baertsch. 2012. Domain- restricted reduction: A proposal for segmental feet in Bamana. In Bruce Connell and Nicholas Rolle (Eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages in Contact, 1-9. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Christopher R. Green. 2012. Paradigm uniformity in Luwanga derived nouns. In Matthias Brenzinger & Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne 2009, 407-417. Cologne: Rdiger Kppe. Christopher R. Green. 2013. On the role of prosodic structure in French loanword incorpora- tion into Bambara. In Olanike Ola Orie & Karen W. Sanders (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on African˙ Linguistics: Linguistic Interfaces in African Languages, 90-105. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Christopher R. Green & Stuart Davis. 2014. Superadditivity and limitations on syllable com- plexity in Bambara words. In Ashley W. Farris-Trimble & Jessica Barlow (eds.), Perspectives on Phonology, Theory, and Acquisition: Papers in honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen, 223-247. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.