KEIRA GEBBIE BALLANTYNE
Curriculum Vitae
email: ballanty at hawaii dot edu
keiraballantyne at gmail dot com
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ballanty/
last updated February 20, 2006
EDUCATIONAL
HISTORY
• Ph.D.,
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Defended
March 2005, Ph.D. granted August 2005. Dissertation Title: Textual
Structure and Discourse Prominence in Yapese Narrative. Chair: Dr.
Benjamin Bergen.
• Bachelor
of Arts with Honours, First Class, University of Western Australia.
1997.
Majors: Anthropology and Linguistics. Honours in Linguistics.
EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
• ESL Instructor, Montgomery Works
Sales & Service Learning Center. Current position.
Teaching
VESL for retail environment.
• ESL
Instructor, Essential Language.
Fall
2005. Teaching ESL to Spanish speaking members of IBEW Local 26
& Ironworkers' Local 201.
•
Freelance Abstractor, Language and Linguistics Behavioral Abstracts.
June 2002 -
September 2002. Prepared abstracts of journal articles for inclusion in
bibliographic database.
• Teaching
Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Aug 1999 -
May 2001.
•
Publications and Editorial Assistant, Center for Korean Studies,
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Feb 2000 -
May 2001.
• Research
Assistant to Dr. William O’Grady, Dept. of Linguistics, University of
Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Spring 1999.
Copyedited academic manuscripts for publication.
• Teacher of
English as a Second Language, Catholic Migrant Resource Centre, Perth,
Australia.
Spring 1998.
• Summer
Research Fellow, Centre for Linguistic Typology, Australian National
University, Canberra.
Jan-Feb
1998. Contributed to cross-linguistic survey of mood systems.
PUBLICATIONS
Ballantyne,
Keira Gebbie. 2005. Review of Deixis and Demonstratives in Oceanic
Languages (Gunter Senft (ed), 2004, Pacific
Linguistics). Linguist
List issue 16.1811.
Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie. 2005. Textual Structure and Discourse
Prominence in Yapese Narrative. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of
Linguistics,
University of
Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Ballantyne,
Keira Gebbie. 2004. Givenness as a Ranking Criterion in Centering
Theory: Evidence from Yapese.
Oceanic
Linguistics. 43(1): 49-72. (peer reviewed)
Ikeda,
Keiko, Jennifer Robideau, Keira Ballantyne, Theo Garneau, Steven Hall
& Linda Lanz (eds). 2003. Proceedings
2003: Selected Papers from the Seventh College-Wide Conference for
Students in Languages, Linguistics and Literature. National
Foreign Language Resource Center Research Note 39: Honolulu.
Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie.2000. Reduplication in Yapese: A Case of
Syllable Copying. In Carolyn Smallwood & Catherine Kitto (eds) The Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal
Linguistics Association VI, Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie.1997. Reduplication in Yapese. Honours
Dissertation (First Class), University of Western Australia.
CONFERENCE
PAPERS
Ballantyne,
Keira Gebbie. 2006. Social interaction trumps spatial distance:
Preliminary evidence from Yapese tripartite person-based deixis.
Presented at the Berkeley Linguistic Society, San Francisco, 2006.
Ballantyne,
Keira Gebbie. 2005. Immersion in the Storyworld: Foregrounding and
Backgrounding in Yapese Narrative. Tuesday Seminar, Dept. of
Linguistics, University of
Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Ballantyne,
Keira Gebbie. 2005. Pronouns, Tense-Mood-Aspect, and the
Figure-Ground Cline in Yapese Narrative. Given at the Linguistic
Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2005.
Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie. 2003. Is Noun Incorporation a Discourse
Variable in Yapese? Seamless Morphology as a Heuristic for
Productivity. Presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Austronesian
Formal Linguistics Association, Honolulu, Mar 28-30.
Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie. 2003. Givenness as a Ranking Criterion in
Centering Theory: Evidence from Yapese. Presented at the Georgetown
University Round Table in Linguistics, Feb 15-17.
Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie. 1999. Reduplication in Yapese: A Case of
Syllable Copying. Presented at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the
Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Toronto.
Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie. 1998. How Many of the World’s Languages are
Endangered? Presented at the Endangered Languages Forum, Dept. of
Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
FIELDWORK
& DATA COLLECTION
•
1997, Perth, Western Australia
Regular
consultation with native speaker of Yapese to elicit data for Honours
project, Reduplication in Yapese.
• 2001 - 2002
Compiled
small interlinearized corpus (approximately 7,000 words) of Yapese
texts for doctoral dissertation.
• Spring
2001, Honolulu
Translation
& interlinearization of written Yapese with native speaker. This
material comprises the first component of the interlinearized corpus.
• Fall 2002,
Colonia, Yap
Collection,
interlinearization & translation of oral data for the second
portion of the corpus.
SUMMARY OF
DISSERTATION RESEARCH
My
dissertation, Textual Structure and
Discourse Prominence in Yapese Narrative, concerns patterns of
foregrounding in narrative and their relationships to the accessibility
of referring expressions in Yapese. My theoretical approach is
primarily cognitive-functionalist, and I draw on traditions of
pragmatics and textlinguistics as well as more research work in
experimental psycholinguistics.
AWARDS
•
Mildred Towle Scholarship for International Students, 2002
• University
of Hawai’i Linguistics Department Fund Grantee, 2002
• Arts and
Sciences Advisory Council Award (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa), 1998,
2002
LANGUAGES
STUDIED
•
French: Approximately ten years of formal study at the elementary, high
school and university level.
• German:
Two years of study at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
• Mandarin:
Three years of high school study.
• Yapese
• Pohnpeian:
Field methods class.