Christopher R. Green

I received a PhD in Linguistics in 2010 from Indiana University where I was a member of the Learnability Project and later a NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellow, under the supervision of Daniel Dinnsen. While at IU, I began learning Bambara, the language of focus in my dissertation, as a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow. I later collected data for my dissertation during a NSF-funded stay in Bamako, Mali.

From 2011-2016, I was a Research Scientist overseeing of a series of projects focused on African languages, funded by the US federal government, at the University of Maryland's Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL). Then, after a 17 year hiatus, I returned home to Syracuse to join the faculty at Syracuse University.

Since 2014, I am a member of the NSF-funded Structure and Tone in Luyia team, working alongside fellow Co-Principal Investigators Michael Marlo (U-Missouri) and Michael Diercks (Pomona College). Since 2018, I have been conducting research on the Jarawan languages of Nigeria, a project funded by the NEH and the Endangered Languages Project. Thus far, I have focused in most detail on description and documentation of Jhar (Mbat and Galamkya), but I have increasingly begun an expansion to Kulung, Gwak, and Duguri, primarily to assess historical changes in Jarawan morphology, phonology, and tone. I also have longstanding interest in Cushitic languages, particularly different dialects of Somali, as well as Maay and Ashraaf.

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