Theodore B. Fernald, Professor of Linguistics

 

 

I am a semanticist with interests in the distinction between individual - and stage-level predicates, negative polarity items, generic sentences, definite and indefinite descriptions, and all things having to do with Navajo syntax and semantics.

 

 

 

 

Teaching:

On leave Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
Fall 2010 – To be determined

 

CV: PDF

Current Research:

• Navajo Grammar Project
• Navajo Language Academy
• Navajo Conversations
• Navajo Linguistics Archive
• Navajo Linguistics Bibliography

 

I am fortunate to teach summer workshops run by the Navajo Language Academy. Linguists, language teachers, and students join together for three weeks of classes and collaborative research every summer at a location on or near the Navajo reservation.

 

Links:

• Navajo and Athabaskan
• Writing systems , Decipherment, and Cryptography

 

Last updated November 5, 2009