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<p> <link href="../linguiststyles.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /></p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="540" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <h1><a target="_blank" href="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~spike/"><img height="240" alt="Spike Gildea" hspace="20" width="240" align="right" border="0" src="/faculty/images/gildea_spike.jpg" /></a>Spike Gildea</h1> <span class="emphasize">Associate Professor of Linguistics</span> <p class="small">Ph.D., University of Oregon (1992)<br /> Email: <a href="mailto:spike@darkwing.uoregon.edu">spike@uoregon.edu</a><br /> Phone: (541) 346-0480<br /> Office: 237 Straub Hall<br /> Website: <a target="_blank" href="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~spike/">darkwing.uoregon.edu/~spike/</a></p> <hr align="left" width="90%" color="#323f30" size="1" noshade="" /> <p>My primary interests are documentary fieldwork, historical syntax, and historical/functional phonology. I have been working in South America with languages of the Cariban family since 1988, when I began fieldwork on Panare in Venezuela.</p> <p>In all, I have worked with speakers of 11 Cariban languages, collecting comparative wordlists and morphosyntactic information for all, working on descriptive grammars of two (Kaxuyana and Akawaio), and serving as dissertation advisor of three (Meira's 1999 reference grammar of Tiriyó, and work in progress by Tavares on Wayana and by Fox on Akawaio).</p> <p>Outside the Cariban family, I have worked on Rama (Chibchan) and Kiché (Mayan), and I have served as dissertation director for Guirardello's 1999 reference grammar of Trumai (isolate), and work in progress by Fleck on Matses (Panoan) and by de Oliveira on Apinajé (Jê). My historical and comparative work is primarily in the Cariban family, with a brief foray into the Tupí-Guaranían family.</p> <p>A good understanding of historical syntax can only come from a good understanding of typology, and my focus in typology has been on the evolutionary connection between voice and alignment systems. My work on phonology began from the assumption that this was the area of linguistics where structure was the least amenable explanation as derived from functionalist motivations; through studying the work of scholars like Bybee, Pierrehumbert, and Ohala, and through the influence of my colleagues here at Oregon, I am increasingly excited at participating in the growth of a functional theory of phonology that could share many (and maybe all) of the foundational presuppositions that underlie our functional theories of morphosyntax.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
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