Sally Rice is a professor emerita of linguistics at the

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, where she took up a position soon after earning her PhD in 1987 at the

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, under the supervision of Ronald W. Longacker. Rice is known for her scholarship on the indigenous languages of Canada, especially those of the

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. She was one of the founding directors of CILLDI, the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute, which since 2000 has been an annual tri-Faculty summer institute to provide training in Canadian First Nations languages development.

Awards and distinctions

* Rice was the Landrex Distinguished Professor in the

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from 2007 to 2011. * Rice was a McCalla Research Professor in the University of Alberta Faculty of Arts in 2008–2009. * Rice was awarded a grant from the

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(SSHRC) in 1999 for "The Daghida Project: Language Research and Revitalization in a First Nations Community (

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)." * Rice was awarded a grant from the

(SSHRC) in 2003 for "7th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language ." * Rice and fellow linguist Joyce McDonough were awarded a grant from the US

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in 2009 for "An Interactive Speech Atlas of Dene Speaking Communities in the

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Basin" (award 0853929).

Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI)

Sally Rice was part of a collective of language advocates and educators which including Donna Paskemin and Heather Blair, who established CILLDI in 1999 with its first summer institute held on the Onion Lake First Nation,

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offering one course entitled "Expanding

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Language and Literacy". CILLDI, which is hosted at the

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, is an intensive annual "summer school for Indigenous language activists, speakers, linguists, and teachers." Held during the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences It is a "multicultural, cross-linguistic, interdisciplinary, inter-regional, inter-generational" initiative. Rice is on the Ted Talk
7 Sep 2012. Priscilla's Book, "Strength of Women: AhkamIyimowak" CILLDI Advisory Council.

Publications

*2011. Newman, John, Sally Rice, and Harald Baayen (eds.). ''Corpus-Based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation.'' Amsterdam: Rodopi. *2011. Rice, Sally and John Newman (eds.). ''Experimental and Empirical Methods in the Study of Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language.'' Stanford: CSLI/University of Chicago Press. *2010. Ives, John W., Sally Rice, and Edward Vajda. "Dene-Yeniseian and processes of deep change in kin terminologies." In Kari, J. and B. Potter (eds.), ''Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska (APUA)'', Vol. 6 (1-2): 161–187. Fairbanks: UAF Press. *2007. Rice, Sally and Kaori Kabata. "Cross-linguistic grammaticalization patterns of the ALLATIVE." ''Linguistic Typology'' 11: 453–516. *2004. Newman, John and Sally Rice. "Patterns of usage for English SIT, STAND, and LIE: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics." ''Cognitive Linguistics'' 15: 351–396. *1999. Rice, Sally. "Patterns of acquisition in the emerging mental lexicon: The case of to and for in English." ''Brain and Language'' 68:268-276. *1995. Sandra, Dominiek and Sally Rice. "Network analyses of prepositional meaning: Mirroring whose mind—the linguist’s or the language user’s?" ''Cognitive Linguistics'' 6:89-130.

References

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