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Carolyn MacKay

Professor
PhD, University of Texas

Office: Robert Bell 379
Phone: (765) 285-8539
E-mail: cjmackay@bsu.edu
Website: www.bsu.edu/web/cjmackay
Other: Curriculum Vitae: Revised - 2009


Areas of Specialization

Native American Linguistics, Minority Language Maintenance, Language and Culture, Sociolinguistics, Language and Gender, Field Methods, Ethnography of Communication, Language and Prehistory, Historical Linguistics, Romance Languages and Dialectology, Phonology, Morphology.
 

Representative Publications

BOOKS

Tepehua de Pisaflores, VeracruzArchivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México.  in press. co-authored with Frank R. Trechsel.  México D.F.:  El Colegio de México.  

 

Jon paataa'waná' qa'tíilh waalh jon pavoreál.  The Peacock and the Whip-poor-will.  2009. co-ed. with Frank R. Trechsel.  Muncie:  Ball State Printing Services.  

¿Ninchún taa'wá'n, míistu? ¿Dónde estás gatito? 2007. co-ed. with Frank R. Trechsel. Muncie, IN: Ball State Printing Services.

El Totonaco de Misantla. 2005. co-authored with Frank R. Trechsel. Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México. México D.F.: Colegio de México.

¿Dáni da?úncha mistú?  ¿Dónde estás gatito?  2005.  co-ed. with Frank R. Trechsel.  Muncie, IN:  Ball State Printing Services. 

Tisiyúnchacha an mináti? ¿Es una tortuga tu mamá? 2005. co-ed. with Frank R. Trechsel. Ball State Printing Services.

An kuchú. La cotorra. 2005. co-ed. with Frank R. Trechsel. Muncie, IN: Ball State Printing Services.

Il dialetto veneto di Segusino e Chipilo: grammatica e lessico, 2nd Edition. 2002. Treviso, Italia: Grafiche Antiga.

El dialecto veneto de Segusino y Chipilo: gramática y léxico. 2002. Puebla, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. (A translation into Spanish by Agustin Huerta Bortolotti of Il dialetto veneto di Segusino e Chipilo: grammatica e lessico. Cornuda, Treviso: Grafiche Antiga).

A Grammar of Misantla Totonac. 1999. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

A Veneto Lexicon: the Dialect of Segusino and Chipilo. 1995. Treviso, Italy: Grafiche Antiga.

Investigaciones lingüísticas en mesoamérica, Estudios sobre lenguas americanas. 1994. Vol. 1. co-edited with Verónica Vázquez. México D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Il dialetto veneto di Segusino e Chipilo: grammatica e lessico. 1993. Treviso, Italy: Grafiche Antiga. (reprinted 1995).
 

ARTICLES

  • Totonac-Tepehua Language Family. forthcoming. (co-authored with Frank R. Trechsel).  in UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing. Christopher Moseley, editor-in-chief.  Yolanda Lastra ed. Mesoamerican Languages.

  • Panorama preliminar de las lenguas simétricas totonaco-tepehuas. 2008.  (co-authored with Frank R. Trechsel). Memorias del IX Encuentro de Lingüística del Noroeste.  Sonora: UNISON.

  • Prólogo. 2008.  in El Español de  Bucaramanga, Colombia. Luz Mary Rincón.  Caro y Cuervo:  Bogotá, Colombia.   

  • Symmetrical Objects in Misantla Totonac.  2008. (co-authored with Frank R. Trechsel).  in International Journal of American Linguistics.  Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. 227-55. 

  • The Totonacan Languages. 2006. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier Limited. co-authored with Frank R. Trechsel.

  • Identità, standardizzazione e ortografia: il veneto di Chipilo, Messico. 2005. Atti del XXXVIII Congresso, Società Linguistica Italiana. Editore Bulzoni: Università di Modena.

  • Social Networks and Minority Language Maintenance. 2003. (ed.) Coneva, Dimitrina. Proceedings from the Scientific Conference at the University of Rousse 2003, Vol. 40 No. 10.2, pp. 91-95. Rousse, Bulgaria: Bulgarian Language, Literature and Art. University of Rousse.
  • Reciprocal /laa-/ in Totonacan. 2003. International Journal of American Linguistics. Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 275-306. Co-authored with Frank R. Trechsel.
  • Dos casos de mantenimiento linguistico en Mexico: el totonaco y el veneto. In Las causas sociales de la desaparicion y mantenimiento de las lenguas en las Americas. Anita Herzfeld & Yolanda Lastra, eds. Hermosillo, Sonora: Universidad de Sonora, Oficina de Publicaciones. 1999.
  • Prospects and Proposals for Totonacan Research. Panorama de los estudios sobre lenguas indegenas de Mexico. Eds. L. Manrique, Y. Lastra, D. Bartholomew. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994. 137-68.

Awards

Faculty Outstanding Research Award 2003 -- Ball State University.

Al s'cechet d'oro - 'The Little Golden Cheese Award' - for community service to Segusino, Treviso, Italy. December, 2002.

Honorary citizenship of Segusino, Italy, conferred June 4, 1994
Honorary citizenship of Chipilo, Mexico, conferred Sept. 19, 1994

Mary Haas Award.  1992.   Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas  
 

Courses

Graduate Courses:  Sociolinguistics, Language and Culture, Dialectology, Language and Gender, Research/Field Methods, Introduction to Linguistics, Bilingualism and Contact Languages. 
 

Undergraduate Courses:  Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Society, Introduction to Linguistics, Language and Gender, Native American Languages and Cultures.