This is the Home Page of Arienne M. Dwyer

Researcher, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 2000-.

Humboldt Scholar, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 1997-98, 1999.
Ph.D. in Chinese and Altaic Linguistics, University of Washington, 1996.
M.A. in Chinese and Altaic Linguistics, University of Washington, 1990.
B.A. in Linguistics, University of British Columbia, 1984.

• Discourse-based approaches to Grammar
• Sociolinguistics
• Language Contact and Language Variation (esp. areal typology, creolization, dialectology)
• Linguistic Typology (esp. clause combining, TAM systems, prosody and tone)
• Chinese and Turkic modern and historical Linguistics
• Computing Applications for Linguistic and Ethnographic Field Data: Linguistic Corpora, Relational Databases, SGML/XML-aware tools, Unicode-based Multilingual Applications
• Performance, Narrative Structure and Ethnopoetics
• Linguistic and Cultural Contact in Inner Asia, especially Eastern Turkestan
• Turkic languages, especially Uyghur and Salar
• Chinese dialects, especially Northwest Mandarin
• Language, Power, and Ethnicity

• Volkswagen Foundation Endangered Languages Programme Pilot Project: Documentation of Salar and Monguor
• A Discourse-based Grammar of Salar
• The Salar Spoken Text Project (partially funded by UNESCO/CIPSH; joint research with Profs. Han Jianye, Ma Chengjun, and Ma Wei)
• Folklore of the Aksay Kazakhs
• The Uyghur Dialect Archive
• Erotic Love-Songs of the Qinghai-Gansu Plateau: ethnomusicological and linguistic typological research among the Amdo Tibetans, Muslim and Han Chinese, Salars, and Monguors (with Professor Ke Yang, Dr. Antoinet Schimmelpenninck and Mr. Frank Kouwenhoven)

Curriculum Vitae

Tomato-Throwing Opportunities (at upcoming talks and courses)

• Mots d'Heures: Gousse, Rames
• More Gousse, Rames
• Goon Show Philology
• About the Goon Show
• A cautionary note for my potential non-employers
• A Puzzler