Thomas
E. Payne
Research Associate
Ph.D., UCLA (1985)
Email: tpayne@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 342-6706
Website: www.uoregon.edu/~tpayne
Thomas E. Payne, Research Associate, specializes in grammatical description
within the typological and functional tradition. His areal interests include
the indigenous languages of Central and South America,
the Pacific, Africa and Siberia.
Dr. Payne also serves as Academic Director of the Oregon
Summer Institute of Linguistics, and is an International Linguistics
Consultant for SIL International . In
this capacity he has traveled in many parts of the world, conducting seminars
and workshops for linguistic fieldworkers who are involved in grammatical
description, and encouraging native speakers of endangered languages to
write grammars, dictionaries and text collections in their own languages.
Thomas Payne also hosts the "Linguistic
Challenge," a good-natured competitive activity in which secondary
school students solve linguistic puzzles in languages they have never
learned.
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