Contact Information

Office: 4055 JFSB

Phone: 422-3448

E-mail: janis_nuckolls@byu.edu

Courses Taught:
LING 330, LING 551

Link to Vitae

I am an anthropological linguist with field experience primarily in Amazonian Ecuador, province of Pastaza. My research interests center upon the cultural poetics of Quichua verbal practise and the role of ideophones and, grammatical categories such as evidentiality in the expression of attitudinal alignments with nonhuman nature. My latest research project funded as a Fulbright Teaching/Research grant will involve creating a Masters Degree program in Applied Linguistics for Quichua teachers in Ecuador, with a significant component of teaching to be done in Quichua.

Degrees

BA 1981 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Am 1983 University of Chicago, PhD University of Chicago 1990

Interests

morpholgy, semantics, pragmatics, discourse processes, Quichua languages, sound symbolism, ideophony