Iain Edgewater

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

Thesis process is spinning up--more about that later.

Key topical interests:

    •    Morphology and its interfaces (especially with phonology and semantics)
    •    Language change, historical linguistics, historical sociolinguistics
    •    Relationships between linguistics, anthropology, and psychology
    •    Statistical and computational approaches generally

Key areal interests:

    •    Austronesian, especially Cham, and Malayo-Indonesian languages generally
    •    Pacific Northwest languages, especially Salish, and Puget Sound area sprachbunding
    •    Evolution of Latin into Romance languages, especially in Spain

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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.