Keren D. Rice | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 74–75) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Awards | Order of Canada |
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| Fields | Linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
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]
Rice 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).
Rice, 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
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