Lauren Schneider

I'm a Visting Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and the Interim Director of the M.A. Program in Native American Languages & Linguistics (NAMA). I earned my PhD in Linguistics from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.

 

I have the honor of working with the Hul'q'umi'num' people on description, analysis, and reclamation of their language. Hul’q’umi’num’ is the Vancouver Island dialect of Halkomelem Salish, which is one of the coastal languages of the Salish Sea region (aka the Pacific Northwest). My dissertation research was on serial verb constructions in Hul'q'umi'num', and I am interested understudied aspects of  the morphosyntax of Salish languages.

 

While I'm here at UA, I get to train NAMA students in research activities focusing on language maintenance, revitalization, and reclamation. I'm also excited to learn more about the morphosyntax of a broader range of North American Indigenous languages.