Major Initiatives and Grants

New Books

Comparative Morpho-Syntax of Appalachian English
Raffaella Zanuttini was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation entitled the Comparative Morpho-Syntax of Appalachian English.  This two-year project, to be carried out in collaboration with Judy Bernstein (William Patterson University), Christina Tortora (College of Staten Island and CUNY Graduate Center) and Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center), will support graduate students at Georgetown and CUNY (total amount: $208,037).

Clause Types: Form and Force in Grammatical Theory Directors: Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini
Funding: $206,664

Genetic Counseling as Discourse

Directors: Judith Benkendorf and Michele Prince (Georgetown University Medical Center); Heidi Hamilton (Linguistics)

Funding: National Council of Genetic Counselors, $25,000 (11/97-11/98)

 

GU-FLIRT: Foreign Language Initiatives in Research and Teaching

Directors: Jeff Connor-Linton, Heidi Byrnes

Funding: Georgetown University Teaching/Research Nexus Grant

GUWPTL: Georgetown University Working Papers in Theoretical Linguistics

Directors: Lisa Zsiga, Raffaella Zanuttini, Paul Portner

Funding: Graduate School Research Infrastructure grant, $4,000

 

Hospitalk

Directors: Heidi Hamilton (Linguistics), Dean Larson (School of Nursing), Kathleen Mitchell (Director of Integrated Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center)

 

Internet2 Projects: Linguistics Applications

Funding: Internet2 at Georgetown is supported by a National Science Foundation High Performance Computing grant, awarded Feb.1998.
Synopsis: Linguistics applications included in the NSF proposal are Multimedia Corpus Projects (Old English Audio Corpus, ASL Corpus) and Graduate Distance Education.

 

Learners' perceptions about classroom feedback: second language learning outcomes

Director: Alison Mackey

Funding: Georgetown University Teaching/Research Nexus Grant.

Synopsis: The aim of this project is to examine how linguistic feedback works in the L2 classroom by examining: (a) learners' perceptions about the feedback they receive in the classroom, and (b) the relation of learners' perceptions to learning outcomes. If learners' perceptions about feedback are shown to affect learning, a third aim of the project is (c) to make recommendations for pedagogical practice in terms of materials and methods. The project brings together researchers from the Departments of Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese and German in an exploration of second language acquisition processes.

National Capital Language Resource Center

Director: James E. Alatis

Funding: U.S. Department of Education

Synopsis: The NCLRC is a collaborative project of Georgetown University, the Center for Applied Linguistics, and George Washington University.