(My status is part-time while attending to ongoing family matters.)

My central interests in linguistics currently gather around morphological issues, but I have others--some left over from a previous attempt to complete a PhD in anthropology, unfortunately interrupted by illness and related matters. While I have deep interests in both Austronesian languages (particularly Indonesian and Hawaiian) and Pacific Northwest languages (especially certain aspects of the ethnohistory of language change there), due to logistical and temporal constraints I am now planning to finish a thesis on a topic in English, with morphological and semantic import. Details forthcoming. With hope I will be able to continue such work in non-English contexts in the near future.

I was also recently admitted to the Applied Master's in Statistics program, as a concurrency, but in keeping with the above have deferred commencing that program for now.

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Teaching experience:

Instructor of record (Type I teaching assistant), 2021-2022
University of Kentucky, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
(Technical Writing x2/2 semesters)

Instructor and Tutor, 2004-2007
Princeton Review Northwest (Seattle region)
(LSAT prep, MCAT prep)

Adjunct instructor of anthropology, 1995-1996
Seattle University, Department of Sociology
(Introduction to Cultural Anthropology *4, Culture and Personality, Northwest Coast Peoples)

Co-instructor [with Dr Fredrik Barth and Dr Alexander Hinton], 1993
Emory University, Department of Anthropology
(Southeast Asian Cultures)

Teaching assistant
[with Dr Charles Nuckolls, Dr Michael Harkin, and Dr Euclid O. Smith], 1991-1992, 1994
Emory University, Department of Anthropology
(Introduction to Cultural Anthropology *2, Introduction to Physical Anthropology [lab])

Selected publications and presentations:

Edgewater, I. D. (2022). Toward deep motivation as a factor in language change: Notes on the nasal->stop transition in Lushootseed (Puget Salish).  Paper given at the 10th Annual Central Kentucky Linguistics Conference (CKLiC), April 2022, Lexington, Kentucky.

Edgewater, I. D. (1999).  Music hath charms...: Fragments toward constructionist biocultural theory, with attention to the relationship of "music" and "emotion".  In A. L. Hinton (Ed.), Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (Pp. 153-181).  Cambridge University Press.