Research

Elena E. Benedicto
Linguistics

Books

1990.   M. Vitruvi, De l'arquitectura. Catalan Translation of the Latin Original. (with E.Artigas, E.Espinilla and G.Torres) . AFC, Barcelona.

Edited Books

2000   Benedicto, E. (ed). Mayangna Yayal Sangninaka Yulni. [Mayangna Women’s Stories. Bilingual Edition]. Managua: OED/TN.

2000   Benedicto, E. (ed). The UMass Indigenous Languages Volume. UMOP [University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers] 20. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1998  Benedicto, E., Tomioka, S. and M. Romero (eds). Proceedings of the UMass Workshop on Focus. GLSA [Graduate Linguistics Student Association], University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1994   Benedicto, E. & J. Runner (eds). Functional Projections. UMOP 17, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Articles

2001   “Los clasificadores en Lengua de Señas (Norte-)Americana, ASL: Propiedades Argumentales” [with Diane Brentari]. Proceedings of VI Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo - Sonora, Mexico.

2001   “Los Proyectos Lingüísticos de las Comunidades Mayangna de Nicaragua.” Managua: URACCAN University.

2000   ‘A Community’s Solution to Some Literacy Problems:The Mayangna of Nicaragua,’ Proceedings of the IV Conference on‘Endangered Languages and Literacy,’ Charlotte, NC.

1999   'Indigenous Languages - Peoples - Women in Nicaragua' in Women Studies Newsletter. Purdue University.

1994   “TOPIC from a Syntactic Perspective” in Tema. Techniques et méthodologies modernes appliquées à l’Antiquité. Laboratoire Litala, Université Paris 7.

2000   ‘On Indigenous Languages.’ Introduction chapter to Benedicto, E. (ed). The UMass Indigenous Languages Volume. UMOP [University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers] 20. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

2000   "Mayangna: A Sumu Language and Its Variants" [with Ken Hale]. In Benedicto, E. (ed). The UMass Indigenous Languages Volume. UMOP [University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers] 20. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1999   "Verbal Classifiers as Heads of Functional Projections: Evidence from ASL" [with Diane Brentari]. In Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

1998   "Overt Copulas in AAE Speaking Children". In Proceedings of the BU Conference on Language Development. Boston: Cascadilla Press.

1995   “Mne ne çitaetsja: (Relativized) Modality, Datives and Reflexive Suffixes” in Rajesh Bhatt, Chung-Hye Han, Paul Kingsbury and Susan Garrett (eds), Penn  Working Papers vol II, no.2, University of Pennsylvania.

1994   “AGR, f-features and V-movement: Identifying pro” in E. Benedicto and J. Runner (eds), Functional Projections, UMOP 17, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

1992   "Algunas consideraciones sobre las oraciones de relativo restricivas y no-restrictivas" [Some Issues on Restrictive and Non-restrictive Relative Clauses], in Actes del IX Simposi d´ Estudis Clàssics de la Secció Catalana de la SEEC. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia, Barcelona.

1989   "El reflexivo indirecto" in Actas del VII Congreso Español de Estudios Clásicos, Madrid.

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Presentations

2001              “Indigenous Presence In The Nicaraguan Media: The Mayangna,” [with Eloy Frank, Pulinario Sebastián and Simón Avelino] paper presented at the FEL (Foundation for Endangered Languages) V Conference ‘Endangered Languages and The Media,’ Agadir, Morocco. [cancelled because of Sept. 11 events]

2001              "Argumental Properties of ASL Classifiers" [with Diane Brentari], paper presented at the 11^th Colloquium in Generative Grammar, April 4-6, 2001, Zargoza, Spain.

2000              ‘Los  clasificadores en Lengua de Señas Norte-Americana (ASL): propiedades argumentales,’ [with Diane Brentari] paper presented at the VI Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo - Sonora, Mexico.

2000              ‘Un experimento en formación de lingüistas indígenas: los Mayangna  de Nicaragua,’ paper presented at the VI Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo - Sonora, Mexico.

2000              ‘A Community’s Solution to Some Literacy Problems:The Mayangna of Nicaragua,’  paper presented at the FEL (Foundation for Endangered Languages) IV Conference ‘Endangered Languages and Literacy,’ Charlotte, NC.

2000              The Role of ASL Classifiers in Argument Structure. [with Diane Brentari]. Poster presented at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2000              ‘La diversidad dentro de la unidad: Tawahka, Tuahka, Panamahka como variantes dialectales del Mayangna en el grupo Sumu’. Invited session at the Simposium sobre el Programa de Educación Bilingüe Intercultural Sumu. Rosita-RAAN, Nicaragua.

1999              "Verbal Classifiers as Heads of Functional Projections: Evidence from ASL" [with Diane Brentari], paper presented at WCCFL (West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics).

1999              “A Unified Account for the Copula in AAE”, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1999              'La situación lingüística en Nicaragua', invited paper presented at the Seminario Internacional “Informe sobre las lenguas del mundo: la situación indoamericana” UNESCO – Linguapax  -  PROEIB Andes 3 al 6 de marzo de 1999. Cochabamba, Bolivia.

1998              'Linguists, Indigenous Languages, Indigenous Peoples and Nicaragua', poster presented at the 25th Anniversary Reunion, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

1998              'Dos proyectos sobre la lengua Mayangna en Nicaragua', paper presented at the V Congreso Internacional de Lingüística del Noroeste, Hermosillo - Sonora, Mexico.

1998              “Some constraints on overt copulas in child African American English” [with Abdulkarim, L., Johnson, V., Garrett, D., & Seymour, H.N]. Poster presented (by Abdulkarim) at the Annual Convention of the National Black Association for Speech, Language and Hearing, Washington, D.C.

1998              “Syntactic-semantic constraints on overt copulas in African American English.” [with Abdulkarim, L., Johnson, V., Garrett, D., & Seymour, H.N]. Paper presented (by Abdulkarim) at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

1997              "Overt Copulas in AAE Speaking Children". Paper presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, Ma.

1997              "V-Movement and Its Interpretational Effects". Paper presented at GLOW 20. Rabat, Morocco.

1997              "Verb Movement and Its Effects on Determinerless Plural Subjects". Paper presented at the LSRL 27. UCI Irvine, CA.

1997              "Determinerless Subjects". Poster presented at NELS 28. Toronto, Canada.

1996              “Twahka: A Neglected Dialect”. Paper presented at the 1996 SSILA (Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages) meeting [with M. Dickey and K. Hale].

1996              “La interpretación de los nombres  plurales sin determinante”. Paper presented at the IV Encuentro de Lingüística del Noroeste. Hermosillo, Sonora (Mexico).

1996              “Raising Existential Closure with the Verb”. Paper presented at the VI Colloquium on Generative Grammar. València (Spain).

1995              “(Relativized) Modality: Datives and Reflexive Suffixes in mne ne çitaetsja”. Paper presented at the V Colloquium on Generative Grammar. A Coruña (Spain).

1995              “Mne ne çitaetsja: (Relativized) Modality, Datives and Reflexive Suffixes”. Paper presented at the 19th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, UPenn. Philadelphia.

1993              “TOPIC from a Syntactic Perspective”. Paper read at the VII International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Jerusalem.

1993              “Mixed pro-drop Systems: Subject clitics and the (IP) functional projections”. Paper read at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) XXIII, DeKalb, Il.

1991              "Latin Sentence Structure and Wh-Movement". Paper read at the Sixth International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics. Budapest.

1990              "L'ordinador i l'ensenyament del llatí"[Teaching Latin through Computers]. Paper read at the X Simposi d´Estudis Clàssics de la Secció Catalana de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos. Tarragona.

1988              "Algunas consideraciones sobre las oraciones de relativo restrictivas y no-restrictivas" [Some issues on restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses]. Paper read at the IX Simposi d´Estudis Clàssics de la Secció Catalana de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos. Sant Feliu de Guíxols.

1987              "Latin Long Distance Anaphora" . Paper read at the Workshop on 'Long Distance Anaphora' . Groningen (Holanda).

1987              "El reflexivo indirecto" . Paper read at the VII Congreso Español de Estudios Clásicos. Madrid.

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Reviews

1998   Review of La determinación y la modificación en Español, Ph. D. by Francesc Roca. GLOT International, The Hague, Holland: Holland Academic Graphics.

Manuscripts

1999   "Proyecto para la creación de un diccionario mayangna" [Project for a Mayangna Dictionary].  West Lafayette, Purdue University.

1999   "Proyecto para la elaboración de una gramática escolar mayangna" [Project for a Mayangna Elementary Grammar]. West Lafayette, Purdue University.

1996   "Proyecto para la creación de un diccionario tawahka" [Project for a Tawahka Dictionary].  Northampton, Massachusetts.

1996   "Proyecto para la elaboración de una gramática escolar tawahka" [Project for a Tawahka Elementary Grammar]. Northampton, Massachusetts.

1995   “Informe sobre la lengua tawahka” [Report on the Tawahka Dialect of Honduras]. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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