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Lisa Green is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has served on the faculty since 1995. Green served as Assistant Professor in the Linguistics program at Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY) (1994-1995) and as Visiting Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1997-1998). Green received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research and teaching interests are in syntax, syntactic variation, socio-syntactic approaches, English dialects, and Linguistics and education. She is currently working on a project on child African American English which is supported by the National Science Foundation. Three of her publications are the following: “African American Vernacular English,” in Language in the USA: Themes for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press); African American English: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge University Press); and “Aspectual Be-Type Constructions and Coercion in African American English,” in Natural Language Semantics.

Syntactic Patterns and Variation in African American English | LSA.224
TR 2:55-4:35
Three Week Course | Second Session