Summary
Keren D. Rice OC (born 1949) is a Canadian linguist. She is a professor of linguistics and serves as the Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto.[1][2]
Keren D. Rice | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 75–76) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Awards | Order of Canada |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
Education and career
editRice earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Toronto, with a dissertation entitled, "Hare phonology."[3]
She has published numerous works in both theoretical and Native American linguistics, in particular on Athapaskan languages.[4] She specializes in research on Slavey, an indigenous language spoken in Canada's Northwest Territories, and has long been involved in maintaining and revitalizing the language.[5] She has made contributions to the study of phonological markedness (Rice 2007) and to the interaction of phonology, morphology and semantics (Rice 2000).
Awards and distinctions
edit- Rice was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005.[6] She was elected as a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2009.[7]
- Rice was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014.[8]
- From 2002 to 2008 she served on the board of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), a granting agency of the federal government of Canada.[9]
- In 2011 she received the Killam Prize, given annually to five of Canada's finest academics for their career achievements in fields of scientific and scholastic research.[10]
- In 2013 she won the National Achievement Award from the Canadian Linguistic Association for outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics.[11]
- In 2013 she was appointed by the Governor General of Canada as an Officer in the Order of Canada,[12] which is one of Canada's highest civilian honors.[13]
- In 2015 she was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]
- In 2015 Rice received the Pierre Chauveau medal of the Royal Society of Canada, awarded for her continued contributions as a scholar, including her extensive work in language documentation, activism, and theoretical linguistics.[14][15]
- Rice served as president of the Canadian Linguistic Association from 1998 to 2002[16]
- Rice served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 2012.[17]
- Rice served as the president of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) from 2020 until 2022.[18]
Publications
editRice, K. 1977. Hare Noun Dictionary. Ottawa: Northern Social Research Division, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.
E. Cook and K. Rice (eds.) 1989. Athapaskan Linguistics: Current Perspectives on a Language Family. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-011166-8
Rice, K. 1989. A Grammar of Slave. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-010779-1
Rice, K. 1992. "On deriving sonority: a structural account of sonority relationships." Phonology 9: 61—99.
Rice, K. 1993. "A reexamination of the feature [sonorant]: the status of 'sonorant obstruents'." Language 69: 308–344.
Rice, K. 1996. Default variability: The coronal-velar relationship. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14, 493–543. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133597
Rice, K. 2000. Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the Athapaskan Verb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rice, K. 2006. Ethical Issues In Linguistic Fieldwork: An Overview. Journal of Academic Ethics 4, 123–155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-006-9016-2
Rice, K. 2007. Markedness in phonology. In P. Lacy (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, pp. 79–98). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511486371.005
Rice, K. & L. Saxon. 2008. Comparative Athapaskan Syntax: Arguments and Projections. In: The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax, Edited by Guglielmo Cinque and Richard S. Kayne. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195136517.013.0016
References
edit- ^ "Office of the Vice-Provost and Provost, University of Toronto". Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- ^ a b "Keren D. Rice". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- ^ "PhD Alumni". Department of Linguistics. 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
- ^ "Google Scholar – Keren Rice citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ^ Richard Wright. Language lifeline. UC Observer. October 2017 https://www.ucobserver.org/justice/2017/10/language_lifeline/
- ^ "AAAS Member Central: Fellows". Archived from the original on January 25, 2015. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
- ^ "LSA Fellows by Year of Induction | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^ "APS Member History".
- ^ "Keren Rice". Retrieved February 1, 2015.
- ^ "Canada Council awards five prominent scholars $100,000 Killam Prizes". April 19, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
- ^ "Prix nationaux d'excellence / National Achievement Awards". Retrieved January 25, 2014.
- ^ "Order of Canada Appointments". Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- ^ "LSA : Laurels for Linguists". Retrieved January 25, 2015.
- ^ September 16, 2015. Arthur Kaptainis. U of T News. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/royal-society-canada-honours-u-ts-keren-rice-xxx
- ^ Laurels for Linguists. June 28, 2016. http://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2016/06/28/laurels-linguists-keren-rice
- ^ Marianna Di Paolo and Arthur K. Spears (2014). Languages and Dialects in the U.S.: An Introduction to the Linguistics of Diversity: Focus on Diversity and Linguistics. Routledge. p. 218.
- ^ "Presidents: Linguistic Society of America". Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- ^ "Association for Linguistic Typology – Officers". Retrieved May 26, 2023.
External links
edit- Linguist List: Famous Linguists | https://linguistlist.org/linguists/rice/
- LSA Member Spotlight: | http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-member-spotlight/may-june11 Archived 2015-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
- U of T Magazine | http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/feature/keren-rice-u-of-t-aboriginal-studies-program/
- U of T: Boundless | http://boundless.utoronto.ca/story/keren-rice/
- Canada Research Chairs | http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=850