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Carolyn J. MacKay

Professor
Program in Applied Linguistics
Department of English
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana 47306
Tel: (765)-285-8539 (work)
(765)-747-9337 (home)
e-mail: cjmackay@bsu.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Texas
MA. in Anthropolgy, Universidad de las Américas
B.A. in French and Spanish, Fort Lewis College

Areas of interest and specialization

Native American Linguistics, Language and Culture, Language and Gender, Sociolinguistics, Field Methods, Historical Linguistics, Language and Prehistory, Ethnography of Speaking, Phonology, Morphology, Romance Dialectology.

Languages

Spanish -- fluent; Italian -- fluent; French -- good; Veneto -- fair.

Grants

National Science Foundation Grant. 2002 - 3. Project for research on Pisaflores Tepehua (with Frank R. Trechsel).
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. 2002. Research on Pisaflores Tepehua (with Fank R. Trechsel).
Ball State University Supplemental Assigned Time. Fall 2001. for work on a volume on Chipilo and Segusino Veneto.
Endangered Language Fund. 1999. for fieldwork on Tepehua (with Frank R. Trechsel).
Ball State University Summer Stipend. 1999. for fieldwork and research time to develop a comparative database of Totonacan.
Ball State University. 1994. cost-sharing for fieldwork on Totonac discourse.
Wenner-Gren Foundation. 1992-94. for fieldwork on Totonac discourse (with Frank R. Trechsel, co-investigator).
Vassar College Research Grant. 1992. for summer fieldwork on Totonac.
Universidad de las Américas Instituto de Estudios Avanzados. 1989-91. for research on Totonac.
Fulbright Lecturer. 1988-89. to teach linguistic anthropology at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla.
Wenner-Gren Foundation. 1986. for fieldwork in Mexico on Totonac.
University of Texas International Exchange Research Grant. 1985. for fieldwork in Mexico on Totonac.
Tinker Foundation. 1984. for fieldwork in Mexico on Totonac.
Alwyn Cotton Foundation. 1983. for fieldwork on the Veneto dialect of Segusino, Italy.
University of the Americas Graduate Research Grant. 1982. for fieldwork on the Veneto dialect of Chipilo, Mexico.

Awards

Faculty Outstanding Research Award 2002-2003-- Ball State University.

Al s'cechet d'oro - 'The Little Golden Cheese Award' - for community service to Segusino,Treviso, Italy. December, 2002.

Honorary citizenship of Segusino, Italy, conferred June 4, 1994.

Honorary citizenship of Chipilo, Mexico conferred Sept. 19, 1994.

SSILA Book Award. 1992. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (Mary R. Haas Award)

Publications

Books

Il dialetto veneto di Segusino e Chipilo: grammatica e lessico 2ed. 2002. Treviso, Italia: Grafiche Antiga.

El dialecto véneto de Segusino e Chipilo: gramática y léxico. 2002. A translation into Spanish by Agustin Huerta Bortolotti of Il dialetto veneto di Segusino e Chipilo: grammatica e lessico. 1993. Cornuda, Treviso: Grafiche Antiga (with updates by the author). published by the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla,Mexico. October 2002.

El Totonaco de Misantla. in press. co-authored with Frank R. Trechsel. Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México. México D.F.: Colegio de México.

A Grammar of Misantla Totonac. 1999. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

A Veneto Lexicon: the dialect of Segusino and Chipilo. 1995. Treviso, Italia: Grafiche Antiga.

Investigaciones lingüísticas en mesoamérica, Estudios sobre lenguas americanas. 1994. Vol. 1. co-edited with Verónica Vázquez. México D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Il dialetto veneto di Segusino e Chipilo: grammatica e lessico. 1993/1995. Treviso, Italia: Grafiche Antiga. (reprinted 1995).

Articles

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 lingüístico en México: el totonaco y el véneto". 1999. in Las causas sociales de la desaparición y mantenimiento de las lenguas en las Américas. Anita Herzfeld and Yolanda Lastra (eds.). Hermosillo, Sonora: Universidad de Sonora, Oficina de Publicaciones.

"Prospects and Proposals for Totonacan Research". 1994. in Panorama de los estudios sobre lenguas indígenas de México. Doris Bartholomew, Yolanda Lastra, Leonardo Manrique (eds.). pp. 137-168. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala.

"A Sketch of Misantla Totonac Phonology". 1994. International Journal of American Linguistics . Vol. 60 No. 4, pp. 199-248.

"Dyadic structure in a Totonac narrative". in Investigaciones lingüísticas en mesoamérica, Estudios sobre lenguas Americanas. 1994. Vol. 1. Carolyn MacKay and Verónica Vázquez (eds.). pp. 263-299. México D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

"Primary Stress in Misantla Totonac". 1992. Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada. No. 15/16, pp. 111-128. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

"Language Maintenance in Chipilo: a Veneto dialect in Mexico". 1992. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Vol. 96, pp. 129-145.

"The Veneto dialect of Chipilo, Mexico". 1984. Texas Linguistic Forum. Vol. 23, pp. 123-33.

Presentations

Ortografía y Comunidad. Paper given at the presentation of the book Il dialetto veneto di Segusino e Chipilo: grammatica e lessico. October 2002. Casa de la Cultura. Chipilo, Mexico. October 5-7, 2002.

"Reciprocal /laa-/ in Totonacan". with Frank R. Trechsel. Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Linguistic Society of America. January 2002. San Francisco, California.

"Double Object Constructions in Misantla Totonac". with Frank R. Trechsel. Conference on American Indian Languages, American Anthropological Association, November 2000, San Francisco, CA.

"Language Loss and Language Maintenance: two case studies". symposium on 'Social Causes for the Disappearance or Maintenance of Languages in the Americas'. 49th International Congress of Americanists, July 7-11, 1997, Quito, Ecuador.

Book presentation at the Universidad Autónoma de México in Mexico City of Investigaciones lingüísticas en mesoamérica, Vol. 1. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 1994, edited by Carolyn J. MacKay and Verónica Vázquez. The book was presented by anthropologists Dr. Terrence Kaufman and Dr. John Haviland. February 21, 1995.

Public appearances and lectures related to the publication of Il dialetto veneto di Segusino e Chipilo: grammatica e lessico (MacKay 1993).

Honorary citizenship of Segusino, Italy, conferred June 4, 1994;
Appearance in documentary video about Segusino and Chipilo, May 1994.
Numerous public lectures at schools, municipal and provincial events, and with different immigrant groups such as Trevigiani del Mondo and UTRIM (Unione dei Triveneti nel Mondo) throughout the Veneto area (Belluno, Feltre, Treviso, etc.) - May/June 1994.
Appearance on Puebla, Mexico, radio program, Radio Tribuna with Enrico Montero Ponce, Sept. 14, 1994.
Book presentation at the Casa de la Cultura, Puebla, Mexico. The Italian ambassador to Mexico, Mario Maiolini, presented the book. I gave a lecture on the Veneto dialect "El dialecto Veneto de Chipilo y Segusino". A poem was written in Veneto by Agustin Zago for the occasion (September 19, 1994).
Honorary citizenship of Chipilo, Mexico conferred Sept. 19, 1994.

'Prospects and proposals for Totonacan Research". 13th International Congress of Anthropologicaland Ethnological Sciences, July 1993, Mexico City, Mexico.

"Comitative Inflection in Misantla Totonac". 31st Conference on American Indian Languages, American Anthropological Association, December 1992, San Francisco, CA.

"Acento en el Totonaco de Misantla, Veracruz". Primer Congreso Nacional de Lingüística de la Asociación Mexicana de Lingüística Aplicada, October 1991, Mexico City, Mexico.

"El uso del Veneto en Chipilo, Puebla". La Universidad de las Américas. April 1990, Cholula, Puebla.

"Rhetorical structure applied to a Totonac narrative". University of Texas Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brasilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics, Oct. 1987, Austin, Texas.

Publications in Progress

with Frank R. Trechsel. Object Symmetry in Misantla Totonac.

with Frank R. Trechsel. El Tepehua de Pisaflores, Veracruz. Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México. México D.F.: El Colegio de México.

with Frank R. Trechsel. The Phonology of Pisaflores Tepehua.

El vendedor de cenizas: un cuento en totonaco de Misantla. to be submitted to Tlalocan.

Interviews

Interview with Alejandra Xanic discussing Chipilo and the Veneto dialect used to develop the article on Chipilo in the Mexican Sunday newspaper, El Universal, October 1, 2000.

An article entitled "Hablando con Carolyn J. MacKay" by José Benigno Zilli Manica, (retired Dean of Humanities of the Universidad Veracruzana) appeared in the newspaper Diario de Xalapa - September 1998.

Interview in documentary 'Viaggio in Messico' (Voyage to Mexico). November 1997. RAI International. The first of forty documentaries of the series Radici.

Interview in documentary 'Veneti a Chipilo, Messico' 1994. Marco De Poli, Ufficio Ricerca Indigeni Habitat Interdipendenza, Milan, Italy.

Field research

2002         Continued research on the Tepehua of Pisaflores, Veracruz - June/July
                 2002. Fieldwork was undertaken with Frank R. Trechsel, co-investigator.
                  Fieldwork on the Veneto dialect of Chipilo, Mexico.

2001          Continued research on the Tepehua of Pisaflores, Veracruz, and continued research on
                  Misantla Totonac - June/July 2001.
                  Fieldwork was undertaken with Frank R. Trechsel, co-investigator.
                  Fieldwork on the Veneto dialect of Chipilo, Mexico.

2000          Continued research on the Tepehua of Pisaflores, Veracruz, and continued research on
                  Misantla Totonac - May/June 2000.
                  Fieldwork was undertaken with Frank R. Trechsel, co-investigator.

1999          Continued research on the Tepehua of Pisaflores, Veracruz, and continued research on
                  Misantla Totonac - May/June 1999.
                  Fieldwork was undertaken with Frank R. Trechsel, co-investigator.

1998          Began research on the Tepehua language spoken in Mecapalapa/Pisaflores,Veracruz and
                  continued research on Misantla Totonac - June/July 1998.
                  Fieldwork was undertaken with Frank R. Trechsel, co-investigator.

1994          Fieldwork on Totonac texts in the Misantla dialect area. (5 months)
                  Fieldwork was undertaken with Frank R. Trechsel, co-investigator.
                  Fieldwork on the Veneto dialect of Chipilo, Mexico.

1992          Fieldwork on Totonac texts in the Misantla dialect area. (June/July)

1988-91     Fieldwork on Totonac in the Misantla dialect area.
                  Fieldwork on the Veneto dialect of Chipilo, Mexico.

1986          Fieldwork on Totonac in the Misantla dialect area. (5 months)

1985          Fieldwork on Totonac in the Misantla dialect area, and background research, Mexico City.
                  (4 weeks)

1984           Fieldwork on Totonac in the Misantla and Tajin dialect areas,also research begun in the
                   Central dialect area. (6 weeks)

1983           Fieldwork on the Veneto dialect spoken in Segusino, Italy. (4 months)

1982-83      Fieldwork on Veneto in Chipilo, Puebla. (8 months)