Colleen M. Fitzgerald
List of John Benjamins publications for which Colleen M. Fitzgerald plays a role.
2020 Chapter 4. Language documentation and revitalization as a feedback loop Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution, Fafulas, Stephen (ed.), pp. 81–104 | Chapter
In this chapter, I present an overview of language documentation and revitalization focused on the Amazonian context, drawing from several case studies. Prominent areas where language documentation in the Amazon has played and continues to play a significant role are in the innovative use of… read more
2013 Revisiting Tohono O’odham high vowels The Persistence of Language: Constructing and confronting the past and present in the voices of Jane H. Hill, Bischoff, Shannon T., Deborah Cole, Amy V. Fountain and Mizuki Miyashita (eds.), pp. 107–132 | Article
Tohono O’odham is a language of much phonological interest from a typological perspective. For example, the language has pre-aspiration, multiple patterns of reduplication, morphological truncation, and displays prosodic inconsistency with a quantity-insensitive stress system that nonetheless… read more
2010 Language documentation in the Tohono O’odham community Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 231–240 | Article
This paper examines language documentation efforts on the Tohono O’odham (formerly known as Papago) reservation. Tohono O’odham is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language spoken in southern Arizona and northern Mexico. The focus here is on legacy documentation, which consists of recordings and… read more
2003 Word order and discourse genre in Tohono O’odham Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley and MaryAnn Willie (eds.), pp. 179–189 | Article