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Eric Schiller's LinguisticsI have been heavily involved in the study of linguistics since 1982, when I returned to the University of Chicago in 1982. My dissertation on serial verbs, An Autolexical Account of Subordinating Serial Verb Constructions, earned me a Ph.D. in 1991. I have taught at the University of Chicago and Wayne State University. My primary research focus has been Autolexical Linguistics, a framework for the description and explanation of natural language developed at the University of Chicago. My language concentration is in Southeast Asian languages, and in particular the Mon-Khmer Family including Khmer (Cambodian). In addition, I have a strong interest in Pidgin and Creole languages, especially Hawaiian Creole English. In 1992 I became involved with computational linguistics, and worked at the Center for Information and Language Studies at the University of Chicago, under a DARPA grant, helping to build a parser based on autolexical theory. In addition to my work at the University of Chicago, I attended the Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute on FLAS fellowships in 1987 (Northern Illinois University), 1988 and 1989 (University of Hawaii). In 1990 I founded the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (with Martha Ratliff at Wayne State University) and have also been an officer of the Chicago Linguistics Society (1987). Although I am no longer actively involved in academia I continue to lecture at many conferences and am developing language and linguistic software though Linguistics Unlimited. I can often be found at the conferences of the Berkeley Linguistic Society (February), Chicago Linguistic Society (April). and Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. |