Dr. Douglas Ball
Temporary Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Truman State University
Contact Information
- Snail Mail
- 310 McClain Hall
Truman State University
100 E. Normal St.
Kirksville, MO 63501-4200
|
- Office
- McClain Hall, Room 324
|
- Office Phone
- (660) 785-6010
|
| Email: dball at truman.edu |
My CV [currently unavailable]
- Fall 2009
- Linguistics 238: Introduction to Linguistics
- Linguistics 413: Advanced Linguistics: Morphology
If you are a current student in one of these classes, log on to Blackboard for more information
- Spring 2010
- Linguistics 238: Introduction to Linguistics
- Linguistics 413: Advanced Linguistics: Phonetics/Phonology
- Language groups
- Austronesian languages, especially Polynesian languages (e.g. Tongan)
- Minority languages of the Americas
- Morphosyntax/semantics
- Morphology-syntax interface issues
(word vs. morph; accounting for syntactic facts given a particular morphological status)
- Phrase Structure (tree geometry and constituency), especially in verb-initial languages
- Argument realization and argument alternations
- Morphology/phonology
- Morphological structure and its relationship to phonology
- Consonant alternations
- Historical linguistics
- Diachronic aspects of the above
- Hobby research interests (if that's possible)
- Constructed languages (my own and others)
- Sociology of the field
See my Research Page for further information about my research, including links to publications.
Education
- Conlanging — the hobby of inventing languages
- Music — composing, playing, listening
- Sports
- Science Fiction (e.g. Star Wars)
- Friends from my Grad School Days
- Undergrad Friends, Mentors, and Academic Family Members
- My uncle (Engineering, Arizona State University)
- Jeff Runner (Linguistics, University of Rochester)
- Greg Carlson (Linguistics, University of Rochester)
- Joyce McDonough (Linguistics, University of Rochester)
- Ida Toivonen (Linguistics, Carleton University)
- Katherine Crosswhite (Linguistics, Rice University)
- David Rood (Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Lise Menn (Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Sarah Higley (English, University of Rochester)
- Dave Morris (English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Ian Quinn (Music, Yale)
- Rebecca Montange (Quantum Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- For Fun