Lisa Green (linguist)
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| Institutions | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Thesis | Topics in African American English: The verb system analysis (1993) |
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Dr. Lisa Green is a linguist specializing in syntax and African American English (AAE). She is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[1] In July 2020 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.[2]
Before beginning her graduate studies in linguistics, Green received a B.S. in English education at Grambling State University and then an M.A. in English at the University of Kentucky.[3] Green then went on to receive a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1993.[4]
Career and research
After completing her Ph.D., Green spent 11 years at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Linguistics,[5] before going on to take up a position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[5] There she founded and directs the Center for the Study of African American Language,[6][7] a resource for students and educators dedicated to dialect and language-related issues. An enduring goal of Green's is to dispel notions of AAE as a substandard linguistic variety by demonstrating its systematic nature.
Green's work has focused on linguistic variation between different dialects of English, with a primary focus on African American English. Her research focuses on morphosyntactic systems in African American English like tense and aspect marking and negation,[8] as well as first language acquisition of AAE by child speakers.[9]