Erin Shay

Curriculum vitae
January 2005

Department of Linguistics

Education:

1999   Ph.D.              Linguistics    University of Colorado, Boulder
1991   M.A.                Linguistics    University of Colorado, Boulder
1981 B.S., Honors    English Ed.   University of Colorado, Boulder

Academic appointments:

2004-present        Co-PI (with Zygmunt Frajzyngier), NSF Project 'Grammars of
                              Mandara and Giziga'
2003-04              Post-doctoral research associate, Butcher Foundation Project
                           ‘Linguistic and Genetic Relationships in Northern Cameroon
                             (Central Africa),’ Z. Frajzyngier, PI
2003                     Visiting professor, University of Colorado
1996-99                Research assistant, NSF project “Four Chadic Grammars,” Z.
                             Frajzyngier, PI
1994-1996            Research assistant, NEH project “Grammaticalization of the
                             Complex Sentence,” Z. Frajzyngier, PI
1991                     Graduate teaching assistant, University of Colorado

Awards
Grant recipient, University of Colorado President's Fund for the Humanities, 1992-94 and 1993-94
Graduate Teaching Peer Award, University of Colorado Linguistics Department, 1992
Doctoral Fellowship, University of Colorado, 1991-1992

Selected publications

________ and Uwe Seibert, eds. 2003. Motion, Direction and location in languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
________. 2003. Review of African Languages: An Introduction, edited by Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse, 2000. Studies in Language 27.1.204-208.
Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Erin Shay. 2003. Explaining Language Structure Through Systems Interaction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, with Erin Shay. 2002. A Grammar of Hdi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, with Erin Shay. 2001. “Modal function of clausal order.” In Dymitr Ibriszimow, Rudolf Leger and Uwe Seibert, eds., Von Aegypten zum Tschadsee: Eine Linguistische Reise durch Afrika: Festschrift für Hermann Jungraithmayr zum 65. Geburtstag.
Erin Shay. 1999. A Grammar of East Dangla: The Simple Sentence. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado. UMI.
________. 1994. “Complementation and modality: Two complementizers in East Dangla.” Colorado Research in Linguistics 13.79-91.
Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, with Erin Shay. 1997. “Grammatical function of nominal classification.” Paper read at the 2nd Congress of the Association of Linguistic Typology, Eugene, Oregon.