Category: Faculty

Firebellies, the Carleton student-run cooking club published an online cookbook in spring term 2020. Volume 1: Academics, shares recipes from academic departments offing a major. Our Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Jenna Conklin, shared her recipe for Apple Pie, enjoy!

“Cooking brings people together, and although we must remain physically distant this spring, we hope that this initiative will help Carleton students, faculty and staff across the country and the world feel part of the Carleton community.” — Irene Stoutland ’21, Firebellies President

Carleton students and professors are joining forces with the Dakotah Language Institute in South Dakota to preserve a critically endangered language.

Linguistics professor Michael Flynn teaches students about the Japanese writing system, which he describes as “one of the most complicated systems in the world.

Professors Jeff Ondich of Computer Science and Mike Flynn of Linguistics have collaborated on a project to build a pedagogical grammar for the Dakota language.

Michael J. Flynn, Professor and Chair of Linguistics, has been named John E. Sawyer Professor of Liberal Learning. (The following text is reprinted from the program for Carleton’s 2011 Honors…

The Carleton Linguistics Program is very pleased to announce the launch of the Carleton Linguistics Colloquium Series. Come one, come all to the first colloquium in this series: Kanji from…

We are pleased to announce that Catherine Fortin, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Carleton since 2007, will be joining the Carleton Linguistics Department as Assistant Professor of Linguistics beginning in fall 2009. Professor Fortin earned her undergraduate degree from Tufts University, where she majored in French Language and Literature, with a minor in Economics. She earned a master’s degree in Linguistics, with a Certificate in American Indian Languages, from the University of Pittsburgh. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan, where she worked primarily in the areas of syntax and semantics. Her dissertation is titled Indonesian Sluicing and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Description and Explanation in a Minimalist Framework. In addition to her dissertation work on Indonesian, Professor Fortin has also worked on Moroccan Arabic and Minangkabau, a language which is spoken by members of a large matrilineal society in West Sumatra, Indonesia. At the University of Michigan, she was awarded the prestigious Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. She will teach Linguistics 325: Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language in the fall of 2009.

We are very happy to announce that Cherlon Ussery will be joining the Carleton Linguistics Department for the 2009-2010 academic year. Professor Ussery earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she majored in Political Science and African and African American Studies. She earned a master’s degree in Linguistics from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Professor Ussery is currently completing her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she is working primarily in the areas of syntax and the syntax-morphology interface. Her dissertation is on case and agreement patterns in Icelandic. Professor Ussery will teach three courses in 2009-2010: Ling 115: Introduction to the Theory of Syntax (4a fall term, no prerequisite), Ling 217: Phonetics and Phonology (4a winter term, prerequisite Ling 110), and an elective in the spring term.

Dr. Michael J. Flynn, Chair of the Carleton Linguistics Program, will deliver a public colloquium talk, entitled ‘A Modern Defense of the Ancient Japanese Writing System’, on Friday, 7 November…

We are very happy to announce that Catherine Fortin will be joining the Carleton Linguistics Program as a full time member of the faculty, beginning this coming fall term. Professor Fortin earned her undergraduate degree from Tufts University, where she majored in French Language and Literature, with a minor in Economics. She earned a master’s degree in Linguistics, with a Certificate in American Indian Languages, from the University of Pittsburgh. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan, where she worked primarily in the areas of syntax and semantics. Her dissertation is titled Indonesian Sluicing and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Description and Explanation in a Minimalist Framework.

In addition to her dissertation work on Indonesian, Professor Fortin has also worked on Moroccan Arabic and Minangkabau, a language which is spoken by members of a large matrilineal society in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Last year at the University of Michigan, she was awarded the prestigious Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.

She will teach two courses in the fall of 2007: Ling 275 Language Acquisition (5a, Ling 110 prerequisite) and the newly opened Ling 115 Introduction to the Theory of Syntax (3a, no prerequisites).