Marianne Mithun - Curriculum Vitae#

Ph.D, Yale University, 1974

Interests

Morphology, syntax, discourse, prosody, language contact and change, typology; documentation

Visiting positions

• 2013 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Linguistic Institute, Michigan
  
• 2013 Typology, Università Roma 3
  
• 2007 Professeur invité, Université de Nice
  
• 2007 Hale Professor, LSA Institute, Stanford
  
• 2006 Grammatical Relations and Language Contact, Università Roma 3
  
• 2005 Visiting Professor, U. of Hamburg Forschungsgemeinschaft für Mehrsprachigkeit
  
• 2005 Curso Voice and Grammatical Relations, El Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y el Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas, Mexico City
  
• 2003 Typology Summer School, U. of Cagliari, Sardinia
  
• 2002 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft Sommerschule, Düsseldorf
  
• 2001 Robert Austerlitz Professor, LSA Institute, Santa Barbara
  
• 1999 Mellon Visiting Professor, Rice U., Houston
  
• 1999 LSA Institute, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  
• 1996 Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, Summer School, Amsterdam
  
• 1995 LSA Institute, U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
  
• 1994 Australian Linguistic Institute, La Trobe U., Melbourne

Current editorial boards

Amérindia, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Transactions of the Philological Society, Morphology Yearbook, Anthropological Linguistics, Journal of Linguistic Typology, Studies in Language, Journal of Language Contact

Recent activities

• 2015 Scientific Committee, Reference Units in Spontaneous Speech, LABLITA (Ling Lab of Florence) and LEEL (Empirical and Experimental Ling Studies Lab, Minas Gerais, Brazil)
  
• 2015 Scientific Committee Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora. Centre National de la Recherche, Paris.
  
• 2014 Evaluation Panel, European Research Council
  
• 2006-13 Advisory Board, Rivista de Linguistica/Italian Journal of Linguistics
  
• 2012 Scientific Committee, Int. Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, U. of Hawaii
  
• 2010-12 Joint Researcher, Cross-linguistic Studies on Clause Combining, Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo U. of Foreign Studies
  
• 2009 Présidente, Comité d’évaluation, CELIA (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) and SEDYL (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales), France