Department of Translation Studies
Robert Carlson, Ph.D.
Director of PhD Programme and Lecturer in Translation Studies
robert.carlson@negst.edu
Education
Ph.D. (Linguistics), University of Oregon
M.A. (Linguistics), University of Oregon
B.A. (Biblical Studies), Southern California College
Research Interests
Cognitive linguistics, syntax, semantics, discourse-pragmatics, lexicography, anthropological linguistics, African languages, Gur languages, Senufo languages
Publications
Book
1994. A grammar of Supyire (Mouton Grammar Library 14). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (xxi + 766 pp.)
Review
1985. Review of: Atlas des langues gur de Cote d'Ivoire, Emmanuel N. A. Mensah and Zakari Tchagbale, editors. Journal of West African Languages 15: 117-18.
Articles
1983. Downstep in Supyire. Studies in African Linguistics 14:35-45.
1985. Grammaticalized verbs in Supyire. Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference, eds. Scott DeLancey and Russell Tomlin. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon, pp.18-53.
1987. Narrative connectives in Supyire. Coherence and grounding in discourse (Typological Studies in Language 11), ed. Russell Tomlin. Amsterdam:Benjamins, 1-19.
1990. Grammaticalization of postpositions and word order in Senufo languages. Approaches to grammaticalization, vol. 2, eds. Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 201-23.
1992. Narrative, subjunctive, and finiteness. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 13: 59-85.
1993. A sketch of J?, a Mande language with a feminine pronoun. Mandekan 25: 1-109.
1997. The Senufo languages. Gur Papers 2: 23-42.
1999. External causation in Supyire culture. Notes on Anthropology 3(3): 7-14.
2000. Event-views and transitivity in the Supyire verbal system. Gur Papers 5: 39-58
2003. Reflexives and reciprocals in Supyire. Gur Papers 6: 43-55.
2006. Genitive focus in Supyire. ZAS Papers in Linguistics: papers on information structure in African languages, eds. Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz. Berlin: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 49-67.
2006. Constructions with verbal nouns in Supyire. Gur Papers 7: 45-54.
Co-authored article:
Payne, Doris, and Robert Carlson. 1989. Genitive classifiers. In Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference, May 1989, University of Oregon, Eugene Oregon , 87-119. Eugene, Oregon: Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon.
Selected Papers and Presentations
Reflexives and reciprocals in Supyire. Presented at 3rd Colloquium on Gur Languages, February 19-20, Kara, Togo. 2001.
Indefiniteness in Supyire. Presented at International Symmposium: Typology of African Languages, May 21-24, Köln, Germany. 2001.
The pragmatics of instrument marking in Supyire. Presented at the 23rd West African Linguistics Conference (West African Linguistic Society), August 7-9, Buea, Cameroon (University of Buea). 2002
Secondary predicates in Supyire. Presented at the joint meeting of the 4th World Congress on African Languages and the 34th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, June 17-22, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (Rutgers University). 2003
My head hurts with shame: Supyire emotion vocabulary. Presented at the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, July 2-3, Cambridge, Massechussetts, USA (Harvard University). 2004
Genitive focus in Supyire. Presented at the International Conference on Focus in African Languages, October 6-8, Berlin, Germany (Humboldt University). 2005
Constructions with verbal nouns in Supyire. Presented at the 4th Colloquium on Gur Languages, October 12-14, Bayreuth, Germany (University of Bayreuth). 2005
Tense, aspect, and modality in African languages. Workshop sponsored by SIL, August 1-29, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 2006
Focused and non-focused genitives in Supyire discourse. Presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, July 8-13, Göteborg, Sweden (University of Göteborg). 2007
Pronominal possessa in Supyire. Presented at the 37th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, August 27-29, Leiden, Netherlands (University of Leiden). 2007