Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
I am on leave from Pomona College for the 2022-23 academic year, serving as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation for the Linguistics and Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages programs.
You can contact me at mary.paster(at)pomona.edu.
You can download my CV here.
Research interests:
- African languages
- Indigenous American languages
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Field linguistics
- Language documentation and reclamation
Languages I have worked on with native speakers:
- Gã (Kwa; Ghana)
- Leggbo (Benue-Congo; Nigeria)
- Achumawi (Hokan; Northeastern California)
- Buchan Scots (Germanic; Northeastern Scotland)
- Pulaar (Atlantic; Senegal)
- Mixtepec Mixtec (Oto-Manguean; Mexico)
- Tiriki (Bantu; Kenya)
- Maay (Cushitic; Somalia)
- Luganda (Bantu; Uganda)
- Asante Twi (Kwa; Ghana)
- Malayalam (Dravidian; India)
- Manyika (Bantu; Zimbabwe)
- Tofingbe (Kwa; Benin)
- Kikuria (Bantu; Kenya)
- Logoori (Bantu; Kenya)
- Kipsigis (Nilotic; Kenya)
- Yoruba (Benue-Congo; Nigeria)
- Kikuyu (Bantu; Kenya)
Links:
- 7 College Native American Indigenous Studies Network
- Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
- African Linguistics School
- Association of Contemporary African Linguistics
- CoLang: the Institute for Collaborative Language Research
- Foundation for Endangered Languages
- Linguistic Variation journal
- NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages Program
- NSF Linguistics Program
- Pomona College Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department
- Rumsen Language Reclamation Project
- Somali Bantu Community of San Diego
- Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Word Structure journal
- Yurok Language Project