Lisa Green (linguist)

American linguist

Lisa Green

Education|

* Grambling State University (B.S.)
* University of Kentucky (M.A.)
* University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Ph.D.)

Scientific career
Institutions| University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Thesis| Topics in African American English: The verb system analysis (1993)
Website| people.umass.edu/lisag

Dr. Lisa Green is a linguist specializing in syntax and African American English (AAE). She is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[1] In July 2020 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.[2]

## Education[edit]

Before beginning her graduate studies in linguistics, Green received a B.S. in English education at Grambling State University and then an M.A. in English at the University of Kentucky.[3] Green then went on to receive a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1993.[4]

## Career and research[edit]

After completing her Ph.D., Green spent 11 years at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Linguistics,[5] before going on to take up a position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[5] There she founded and directs the Center for the Study of African American Language,[6] a resource for students and educators dedicated to dialect and language-related issues. An enduring goal of Green's is to dispel notions of AAE as a substandard linguistic variety by demonstrating its systematic nature.

Green's work has focused on linguistic variation between different dialects of English, with a primary focus on African American English. Her research focuses on morphosyntactic systems in African American English like tense and aspect marking and negation,[7] as well as first language acquisition of AAE by child speakers.[8]

## Honors and awards[edit]

Green was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.[9]

## Selected publications[edit]

### Books[edit]

* Green, Lisa. (2011). Language and the African American Child. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511975561.[10]
* Green, Lisa. (2002). African American English: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521891387.[11]

### Selected papers[edit]

* Green, Lisa, & Walter Sistrunk (2015). Syntax and Semantics. In Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Sonja Lanehart (ed.). Oxford University Press.[12]
* Green, Lisa. (2014). Force, Focus, and Negation in African American English. In Micro-syntactic Variation in North American English. Raffaella Zanuttini and Laurence R. Horn (eds.). Oxford University Press.
* Green, Lisa, & Tom Roeper (2007). The Acquisition Path for Aspect: Remote Past and Habitual in Child African American English.” Language Acquisition. 269-313.[13]
* Green, Lisa (2000). “Aspectual Be-Type Constructions and Coercion in African American English.”Natural Language Semantics, 8, 1-25.[14]
* Green, Lisa, Linda Bland-Stewart, & Harry Seymour (1998). Difference Versus Deficit in Child African American English. In Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. Vol 29 No. 2, p. 96 - 109.[15]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Lisa Green - UMass Amherst Faculty Webpage". January 6, 2017.
2. ^ "Lisa Green Awarded Distinction by Board of Trustees". 8 August 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
3. ^ "Lisa Green". people.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
4. ^ "List of PhD alumni from the Department of Linguistics at UMass Amherst". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
5. ^ a b "Lisa Green | Department of Linguistics | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
6. ^ "Lisa Green - Faculty Webpage". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
7. ^ "Google Scholar Lisa J. Green". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
8. ^ Green, Lisa, and Thomas Roeper. “The Acquisition Path for Tense-Aspect: Remote Past and Habitual in Child African American English.” Language Acquisition, vol. 14, no. 3, 2007, pp. 269–313. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20462494.
9. ^ "List of LSA Fellows by Year of Induction". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
10. ^ "Language and the African American Child - Cambridge Extra". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
11. ^ "African American English - Sociolinguistics - Cambridge University Press". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
12. ^ The Oxford Handbook of African American English. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press. June 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-979539-0. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
13. ^ "The Acquisition Path for Tense-Aspect". Language Acquisition. 14: 269–313. doi:10.1080/10489220701471024. S2CID 32819172.
14. ^ "Lisa Green". people.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
15. ^ Seymour, Harry N.; Bland-Stewart, Linda; Green, Lisa J. (April 1998). "Difference versus deficit in child African American English". Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. 29 (2): 96–108. doi:10.1044/0161-1461.2902.96. PMID 27764431.