Kelsie Pattillo
Degrees
- PhD Linguistics, UWM (2014)
- MA Linguistics & German, UWM
- BA Foreign Language Teaching & History, Central Washington University
Research Interests
Linguistic typology, lexical semantics, language contact, language documentation & revitalization, phonology, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics
Teaching Areas
Introduction to linguistics, sociolinguistics, TESOL, field methods, ESL, German
Courses Taught
100- Diversity of the Human Language
210- Power of Words
350- Intro to Linguistics
565- Intro to Adult/University Level TESOL
430- Sociolinguistics
490- Field Methods
Other Activities
Teaching Assistant Supervisor
Selected Publications
Pattillo, K. (2020). I bought a bag of bagels. Madison: Wisconsin Englishes Project.
Pattillo, K. (in print) From head to toe: how languages extend the head to name body parts. In I. Kraska-Szlenk (Ed.), Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Head’. Leiden: Brill.
Pattillo, K. (2016). Review of Austin, Peter & Julia Sallabank (eds.), Endangered languages: Beliefs and ideologies in language documentation and description. Studies in Language. 40:3. 705-712.
Pattillo, K. (2015). Review of Iwona Kraszka-Szlenk, Semantics of Body Part Terms: General Trends and a Case Study of Swahili. LinguistList.
Pattillo, K. (2013). The typology of Uyghur harmony and consonants. Rice Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 4. http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/75166.