Monica Macaulay (born 1955) is a professor of linguistics at the

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, where she is also affiliated with the American Indian Studies Program.

Biography

During her teenage years, Macaulay attended high school in

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. It was here that she learned

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. After graduating high school and traveling South America she then moved to

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. She relocated shortly after to northern California and pursued art school before enrolling at

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. Macaulay received her PhD in 1987 for her research on

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and

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ization in Chalcatongo Mixtec at the

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''.'' She has worked on documenting various

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s of North America, especially

Menominee The Menominee ( ; meaning ''"Menominee People"'', also spelled Menomini, derived from the Ojibwe language word for "Wild Rice People"; known as ''Mamaceqtaw'', "the people", in the Menominee language) are a federally recognized tribe of Na ...

and

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. She has published a number of linguistic studies on, especially, the

syntax In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...

and

semantics Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

Mixtec The Mixtecs (), or Mixtecos, are Indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica of Guerrero, Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerre ...

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and Algonquian. She has also written a grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec (Macaulay 1996). From 2006 to 2010 she led an

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grant which aimed to write three dictionaries for Menominee. The grant resulted in works including Macaulay (2009, 2012). She has written a survival skills manual for graduate students in linguistics (Macaulay 2011). Macaulay is married to linguist Joe Salmons.

Honors

In 2020, Macaulay was inducted as a

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of the

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. Macaulay is currently the president of the

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, as well as the co-editor of the Papers of the Algonquian Conference. Since 1996, she has been the project director for the Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance (WILMA), a project of the

Key publications

*Macaulay, Monica, Salmons, J. 2017. Synchrony and diachrony in Menominee derivational morphology. ''Morphology'' 27, 179–215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-016-9299-y *Brugman, Claudia M. & Macaulay, Monica. 2015. Characterizing evidentiality. ''Linguistic Typology'' 19, no. 2, pp. 201–237. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2015-0007 *(2014) Macaulay, M. ''Ézhe-bmadzimgek gdebodwéwadmi-zheshmomenan: Potawatomi Dictionary.'' (Co-compiled with Lindsay Marean, Laura Welcher, and Kimberly Wensaut; self-published with Forest County Potawatomi Community.) *(2012) Macaulay, M. ''Menominee Dictionary'' (Self-published with Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin.) *(2011) Macaulay, M. ''Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students'' (second edition). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (First edition 2006.) ISBN 978-1-57473-029-6 *(2009) Macaulay, M. ''A Beginner's Dictionary of Menominee''. (Co-compiled with Marianne Milligan; self-published with Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin.) *(1996) Macaulay, M. ''A Grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec''. (Grammar with texts and dictionary; 298 pp.) University of California Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 127. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press.

References

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