Carol Genetti

Genetti earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1990 from the University of Oregon.{{Cite web|url=https://linguistics.uoregon.edu/alumni|title=Alumni {{!}} Linguistics|website=linguistics.uoregon.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-26}} Genetti is an emerita professor from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she was a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics until 2020.{{Cite web|url=http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people|title=People {{!}} Department of Linguistics - UC Santa Barbara|website=www.linguistics.ucsb.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-11-26}}{{Cite web |title="People {{!}} Department of Linguistics - UC Santa Barbara" |url=https://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/emeriti |website=department of Linguistics}} Between 2013 and 2020 she was also the Dean of the UCSB Graduate Division, and she served as Chair of the Department of Linguistics from 1999-2005.{{Cite web|url=http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/news/announcement/367|title=Prof. Carol Genetti appointed Dean {{!}} Department of Linguistics - UC Santa Barbara|website=www.linguistics.ucsb.edu|access-date=2016-06-29}} Genetti now serves as the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs at NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.{{Cite web|last=Dhabi|first=NYU Abu|title=Carol Genetti|url=https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/arts-and-humanities/faculty/carol-genetti.html|access-date=2021-03-08|website=New York University Abu Dhabi|language=en}}

Her work into Newar language is the first comprehensive grammar, focusing on the Dolakhae dialect. Her investigation into languages of the Indosphere has increased understanding of many typological features, including auxiliaries.{{Cite web |title=Carol Genetti Google Scholar Citations |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Zp9bknsAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2017-11-26 |website=scholar.google.se}}

In 2008, she founded InField (now called CoLang),{{Cite web |title=About CoLang (formerly InField) |url=https://www.colanginstitute.org/about |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=CoLang |language=en-US}} an international training workshop in field linguistics and language documentation.{{Cite web |title=20 endangered languages in Alaska; InField to the rescue | University of Alaska Southeast |url=http://www.uas.alaska.edu/soundings/archive-files/2010/09/endangered-languages.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911041237/http://www.uas.alaska.edu/soundings/archive-files/2010/09/endangered-languages.html |archive-date=2015-09-11 |access-date=2015-01-11}} (See papers in Grenoble and Furbee.Grenoble, Lenore A., and N. Louanna Furbee, eds. Language documentation: practice and values. John Benjamins Publishing, 2010.) She served as Director of the first InField when it was hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara.{{Cite web |last=Migliazza |first=Brian |title=Language Documentation Workshop at UCSB (InField) – June 2008 |url=http://www.ethnorema.it/pdf/numero%204/06%20Relazioni.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921022045/http://www.ethnorema.it/pdf/numero%204/06%20Relazioni.pdf |archive-date=2016-09-21 |access-date=2015-01-11 |website=Relazioni}}{{Cite web |date=2008-05-17 |title=UCSB Linguistics: InField - Who is InField? |url=http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/organizers/index.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517124558/http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/organizers/index.html |archive-date=2008-05-17 }} InField/CoLang has provided significant training/support for documentation of endangered languages in North America and worldwide.{{Cite web |title=Ekegusii InField training |url=https://www.colanginstitute.org/content/ekegusii |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=CoLang |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=Nash |first=Carlos M |date=2017-08-24 |title=Documenting Ekegusii |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190256340.003.0008 |journal=Oxford Scholarship Online |doi=10.1093/oso/9780190256340.003.0008|url-access=subscription }}

• 2011. Distinguished visiting fellow, the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.{{Cite web|url=https://research.jcu.edu.au/lcrc/about-lcrc/lcrc-annual-bulletins/LCRG%20Bulletin%20March%202011-pdf.pdf|title=Cairns Institute Bulletin - Language and Culture Research Group|date=March 2011|website=Cairns Institute}}
• 2011. Chair, Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation, Linguistic Society of America{{Cite web |title=Previous Chairs of the Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation {{!}} Linguistic Society of America |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/committee-endangered-languages-and-their-preservation-previous-chairs |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=www.linguisticsociety.org}}
• 2009. Inaugural Georg von der Gabelentz Award, Association for Linguistic Typology (for A Grammar of Dolakha Newar){{Cite web|url=http://www.linguistic-typology.org/awards.html#Gabelentz|title=Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)|website=www.linguistic-typology.org|access-date=2016-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130924150420/http://www.linguistic-typology.org/awards.html#Gabelentz|archive-date=2013-09-24|url-status=dead}}

• 2014. How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Editor) {{ISBN|9781108454513}}
• 2013. (with Rebekka Siemens). Training as Empowering Social Action: An Ethical Response to Language Endangerment: Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation, and Revitalization. ed. by Edith Moravcsik and Kathleen Wheatley. New York: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.142.04gen
• 2013. Tense-Aspect Morphology from Nominalizers in Newar. Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation, ed. by Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop, and Joana Jansen. (Typological Studies in Language 103.) John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.103.10gen
• 2011. The Tapestry of Dolakha Newar: Chaining, Embedding, and the Complexity of Sentences. Linguistic Typology 15. 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2011.002
• 2008. Syntactic Aspects of Nominalization in Five Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Himalayan Area. With Ellen Bartee, A. R. Coupe, Kristine Hildebrandt, and You-Jing Lin. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 31(2), 97-144.{{Cite web |last=Genetti |first=Carol |title=SYNTACTIC ASPECTS OF NOMINALIZATION IN FIVE TIBETO-BURMAN LANGUAGES OF THE HIMALAYAN AREA |url=https://www.jcu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1099595/Genetti-et-al._2008_Syntactic_aspects_of_nominalization_in_f.pdf}}
• 2007. A Grammar of Dolakha Newar. (Mouton Grammar Library 40.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198812

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