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Marshall C Lewis, PhD
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Term Faculty
Term Assistant Professor |
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Anthropology |
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CB 149 |
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216-687-2386 |
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M.C.LEWIS11@csuohio.edu
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| Address: |
2121 Euclid Ave. CB 149, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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Education: |
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Ph.D., Linguistics, Indiana University, 1993
B.A., Anthropology & English, University of Arizona, 1975
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| Brief Bio: |
| Shortly after receiving the BA in Anthropology and Creative Writing in Tucson, I spent two life-altering years in Togo as a Peace Corps Volunteer, which inspired me to study the languages and cultures of West Africa. During my subsequent graduate training in Linguistics, I founded and served as General Editor of a monograph series of descriptive grammars, "Studies in African Grammatical Systems". A series of research trips back to Togo culminated in 18 months of fieldwork for my dissertation on the semantics and syntax of Gen as a Fulbright-Hays grantee. My research agenda for the current millenium focuses on a set of endangered languages of Togo and Ghana which belong to the "Togo-Remnant" language cluster. |
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| Research Interests: |
| Cognitive grammar, Nonformal semantics, Semiotic, Functional syntax, Grammaticalization, Typology, Language-specific cultural models of Event structure, West African languages, Language endangerment and obsolescence |
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| Teaching Areas: |
| Introductory Linguistics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Anthropological Linguistics, Language-Culture-&-Society, Language Contact, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology |
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