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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


Areas of Specialization

Mesoamerican languages (Totonac and Tepehua), Romance languages (Veneto, Italian, Spanish) sociolinguistics, language and culture, historical linguistics, field methods, research methods

Representative Publications

BOOKS

  • ¿Ninchún taa'wá'n míistu? ¿Dónde estás gatito? 2007. co-ed. with Frank R. Trechsel. Muncie: Ball State Printing Services.
  • El Totonaco de Misantla. 2006. co-authored with Frank R. Trechsel. Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México (Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Mexico). México D.F.: Colegio de México.
  • ¿Dáni da@úncha mistú? ¿Dónde estás gatito? 2005. co-ed. with Frank R. Trechsel. Muncie: Ball State Printing Services.
  • Tisiyúnchacha an mináti? ¿Es una tortuga tu mamá? 2005. co-ed. with Frank R. Trechsel. Muncie: Ball State Printing Services.
  • An kuchú. La cotorra. 2005. co-ed. with Frank R. Trechsel. Muncie: Ball State Printing Services.
  • A Grammar of Misantla Totonac. University of Utah Press. 1999.
  • Il dialetto veneto di Segusino e Chipilo: grammatica e lessico. Cornuda, Treviso: Grafiche Antiga, 1993, 1995.
  • Investigaciones linguisticas en mesoamerica. Estudios sobre lenguas americanas. Vol 1. 1994. Edited with Veronica Vazquez. Mexico D. F.: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

ARTICLES

  • Symmetrical Objects in Misantla Totonac. forthcoming. in International Journal of American Linguistics. co-authored with Frank R. Trechsel.
  • 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.

Award

Faculty Outstanding Research Award 2003-2004, Ball State University

Courses

Graduate: Sociolinguistics, Language and Culture, Research Methods in Linguistics

Undergraduate: Language and Society, Language and Gender, Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology