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Stephen Alan Marlett
Higher Education
1981
Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, San Diego; Dissertation: The structure of Seri. DAI 42A:2653.
1976
M.A. Linguistics, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks; Thesis: Copy-raising in Koine Greek.
1973
B.A. Spanish, The King’s College, Briarcliff Manor, NY.
Grants and Fellowships Received in Connection with Doctoral Work
Regents Fellowship, University of California at San Diego, 1977-78; Isaac and Clara Jacobs Fee Scholarship, University of
California at San Diego, 1979-80; Dissertation Fellowship, University of California at San Diego; Thesis and
Dissertation Research Grant, Office of Graduate Studies and Research, University of California at San Diego; National
Science Foundation Dissertation Fellowship; Research Assistantship (National Science Foundation, through the
University of California at San Diego, to David Perlmutter)
Grants and Fellowships
2013-2015
Christensen Fund grant to train speakers of the Seri language (Mexico) in video documentation of
traditional food resources and development of video and graphic materials on these subjects for
community use.
2010-2012
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to document the Meꞌphaa genus, through the
Documenting Endangered Languages program. (FN-50079-10).
2008-2009
Christensen Fund grant to facilitate the development of native writers and a body of literature in the Seri
language (Mexico).
2007
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to prepare a grammar of the Seri language, through
the Documenting Endangered Languages program. (FN-50007-06)
2002-2005
National Science Foundation grant (through the University of North Dakota) to complete a bilingual
dictionary of the Seri language and a collection of analyzed texts. (BCS-0110676).
Positions
1981-present Adjunct Professor (Linguistics), summer faculty, University of North Dakota, Summer Institute of
Linguistics program. Instructor since 1977. Courses taught: Introductory Phonology, Advanced
Phonology, Field Methods, Relational Grammar, Semantics & Pragmatics, Topics in Greek Syntax, Text
Glossing; also in fall semester 1987: Introduction to Linguistics, Lexical Phonology.
1981-present Linguistic Consultant, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico. Workshops directed or co-directed:
Linguistics Basics (several); Text Glossing & Archiving (two). Consultant for Zapotec languages, Mixtec
languages, Seri.
1986-1995
MA Advisor for Linguistics program, University of North Dakota.
1993-2001
Director, Program in Linguistics, University of North Dakota
1995-present International Linguistics Consultant, SIL International
1999-2006
Coordinator of Training in Americas Area, SIL International
2003-2005
Instructor, Curso Internacional de Lingüística, Traducción y Alfabetización, Universidad Ricardo Palma,
Lima, Peru: Phonology I, Semantics.
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2005-2006
Director, Curso Internacional de Lingüística, Traducción y Alfabetización, cooperative program between
SIL International and Universidad Ricardo Palma.
2006
Director and Instructor, Curso Superior de Lingüística Aplicada para Comunidades Indígenas,
Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru: Phonetics, Phonology I, Orthography.
2014–
Linguistics Coordinator, Mexico branch of SIL
2014–
President, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (Mexico)
Special Jobs and Services
1984
Research and teaching, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (Mexico City). Course taught: Introductory Phonology. Research project: Zapotec syntax.
1987
Instructor, University of Lima (Peru). Courses taught: Lexical Phonology, Relational Grammar.
1987
Instructor, University of North Dakota, fall semester. Courses taught: Introduction to Linguistics, Lexical
Phonology.
1991
Instructor, Universidad Autónoma de México, Instituto de Estudios Filológicos, special seminar in
computational linguistics, February.
1993
Instructor, Dirección de Lingüística, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, special
seminar in computational linguistics, March.
1998
Special seminar in computational linguistics, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en
Antropología Social, Oaxaca, Oax., Mexico, June.
1998-1999 Instructor, linguistics, SIL, Horsleys Green, U.K.
1999
Instructor, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois (Introduction to Linguistics, fall semester).
2006
Special lecture series, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru (Phonetics and Phonology with
special attention to Seri).
2009
Special lecture series, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico (Seri grammar).
2009
Workshop on Meꞌphaa linguistics, Tlapa, Guerrero, Mexico.
2008-present
2014
Maintain bibliography on Seri language and culture, at http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/53261
Instructor, phonology and field methods, PROEL linguistics specialization course, Villablino, Spain
(Fundación Sierra-Pambley and Universidad de León)
Theses supervised at the University of North Dakota:
Peter Constable (1989) Basic clause Structure in Veracruz Huastec; Martin Culy (1989) Relative clauses in Koine
Greek: a transformational approach; Edward Kotynski (1988) Tabaru phonology and morphology; Larry Lovell
(1984) The structure of reflexive clauses in Michif: a relational grammar approach; Pamela G. Wright (1988) Madija
predicates; Sheldon Waskosky (1990) The phonology of Salasaca Quichua; Thomas M. Pinson (1990) Objects in
Lakota Sioux; Stephen Willson (1990) Verb agreement and case in Burushaski; Ronald Hesse (1993) Imyan Tehit
phonology; Benjamin Unseth (1993) Relative clauses in Southern Uzbek; Lawrence Burke (1995) An introduction
to the verbal system of Central Dangaleat; Jennifer Girard (2001) Focus structure in Somali; Inga McKendry (2001)
Two studies in Mixtec; Shirley Souza (2010) The morphology of nouns in the Ugoroŋmo language (Arara of Pará);
April Sachs (2010) Motion events in Seri: Applying Talmy’s typologies. Kevin Cline (2013) The tonal system of
Acatepec Me’paa.
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Volumes Edited
2011ff
Editor. Los Archivos Lingüísticos Meꞌphaa. http://www.sil.org/mexico/workpapers/WP013e-Me
%27phaaGrammarFiles.htm
2008ff
Editor, with Cheryl A. Black & H. Andrew Black, The Zapotec Grammar Files. www.sil.org/mexico/
WorkPapers/WP001i-ZapotecGrammarFiles.htm
2008
Editor, with Donna B. Gerdts. Special issue (vol. 74.4) of International Journal of American Linguistics on
denominal verb constructions.
2006
Editor, Situaciones sociolingüísticas de lenguas amerindias. Lima: SIL International y Universidad Ricardo
Palma. http://lengamer.org/publicaciones/socio.php.
2006
Editor, Ilustraciones fonéticas de lenguas amerindias. Lima: SIL International y Universidad Ricardo Palma.
http://lengamer.org/publicaciones/ilusfon.php.
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volumes 38 (1994), 40 (1996,
with Charles Speck), 41 (1997), 43 (1999, with Mark Karan), 44 (2000). www.und.nodak.edu/dept/linguistics/
wp/wphome.htm.
Publications in journals (refereed or invited)
Submitted (with Thomas Bowen, Enriqueta Velarde & Daniel W. Anderson) Federico Craveri and changes in
nesting seabirds on Isla Rasa since 1856.
2013
How the blue bottlefly makes smoke: on the presentation of a Seri text. Tlalocan 19:225-246.
http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/tlalocan/index.php?page=tlalocan-xix
2010
A place for writing: language cultivation and literacy in the Seri community. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique
55.2: 183-194.
2010
(with Velma B. Pickett & María Villalobos Villalobos) Isthmus ( Juchitán) Zapotec. Journal of the International
Phonetic Association 40.3: 365-372.
2009
Los dos primeros listados léxicos de la lengua seri (siglo XIX). Cuadernos del Sur 14.28: 51-57.
2009
Redundancia e idiosincrasia: sustantivos y determinantes en la lengua seri. In Andrés Acosta Félix & Zarina
Estrada Fernández (editores) Lexicografía y escritura en lenguas mexicanas, pp. 87-105. Editorial UniSon:
Hermosillo, Sonora.
2008
Stress, extrametricality and the minimal word in Seri. Linguistic Discovery 6.1.
2008
Rittma Urquía Sebastián with Stephen A. Marlett. Yine. Journal of the International Phonetic Association
38.3: 365-369.
2008
Donna B. Gerdts & Stephen A. Marlett. The form and function of denominal verb constructions.
International Journal of American Linguistics 74.4: 409-422.
2008
Denominal verbs in Seri. International Journal of American Linguistics 74.4: 471-488.
2008
Fanny Chango Masaquiza with Stephen A. Marlett. Salasaca Quichua. Journal of the International Phonetic
Association 38.2: 223-227.
2008
The Seri and Salinan connection revisited. International Journal of American Linguistics 74.3: 393–99.
2008
The form and use of names in Seri. International Journal of American Linguistics 74.1: 47-82.
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2007
Las relaciones entre las lenguas hokanas en México: ¿cuál es la evidencia? Memorias del III Coloquio
Internacional de Lingüística Mauricio Swadesh, eds. Cristina Buenrostro y otros, pp. 165-192. México, D.F.:
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México e Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas.
2005
A typological overview of the Seri language. Linguistic Discovery 3.1: 54-73. [Online at http://
journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/1/article/282.]
2005
(with F. Xavier Moreno Herrera & Genaro G. Herrera Astorga). Seri. Journal of the International Phonetic
Association 35.1: 117-121.
2004
El diccionario comunitario y dinámico como palanca en el fortalecimiento de la identidad etnolingüística.
Lengua y Sociedad 7(2):89-101.
2002
Reanalysis of passive and negative prefixes in Seri. Linguistic Discovery 1.1. [Online.] Available at: http://
linguistic-discovery.dartmouth.edu/WebObjects/Linguistics.woa/1/page/article/1.
2000
Why the Seri language is interesting and important. Journal of the Southwest 42:3, 611-33.
1993
Zapotec pronoun classification. International Journal of American Linguistics 59:82-101.
1992
Nasalization in Mixtec languages. International Journal of American Linguistics 58:425-35.
1991
(with Patsy Adams Liclán) Antipasivo en madija (culina). Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios
Etnolingüísticos 6:37-48.
1991
(with Patrick Farrell & David M. Perlmutter) Notions of subjecthood and switch reference: evidence from Seri.
Linguistic Inquiry 22:431-56.
1990
Person and number inflection in Seri. International Journal of American Linguistics 56:503-541.
1990
(with Patsy Adams Liclán) Madija noun morphology. International Journal of American Linguistics
56:102-120.
1989
(with Mary B. Moser) Terminología de parentesco seri. Anales de Antropología 26:367-88. Mexico City:
UNAM.
1988
The syllable structure of Seri. International Journal of American Linguistics 54: 245-78.
1987
(with Velma Pickett) The syllable structure and aspect morphology of Isthmus Zapotec. International Journal
of American Linguistics 53: 398-422.
1986
Syntactic levels and multiattachment in Sierra Popoluca. International Journal of American Linguistics
52:359-387.
1984
Compendio del idioma seri. Anales de Antropología XXI: 257-279. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Mexico City.
1983
(with Joseph P. Stemberger) Empty consonants in Seri. Linguistic Inquiry 14:617-639.
Contributions to books
Forthcoming. Panorama of valency changing operations in Seri. ( Volume on Valency, edited by Ía Navarro).
2015
A typological overview of the Seri language. In Stefan Georg, ed., Language isolates, vol. 4. London:
Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415827348/
2014
La semántica léxica contrastiva y los diccionarios bilingües. In Rebeca Barriga Villanueva & Esther Herrera
Zendeja (eds.) Estructuras, lenguas y hablantes: Estudios en homenaje a Thomas C. Smith Stark, vol. 2,
951-968. Mexico City: El Colegio de México.
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2012
Introduction to and translation of “Leatherback sea turtle: Xiica cmotomanoj” by René Montaño Herrera. In
David L. Kozak (ed.) Inside dazzling mountains: Southwest native verbal arts, pp. 31-43. University of
Nebraska Press.
2012
Introduction to and translation of “Those who had Hast Quita as their birthplace” by Lorenzo Herrera
Casanova. In David L. Kozak (ed.) Inside dazzling mountains: Southwest native verbal arts, pp. 44-53.
University of Nebraska Press.
2012
Introduction to and translation of “Twin Peaks: Hast Cacöla” by Francisco Xavier Moreno Herrera. In David L.
Kozak (ed.) Inside dazzling mountains: Southwest native verbal arts, pp. 54-60. University of Nebraska
Press.
2012
Relative clauses in Seri. In Relative clauses in languages of the Americas: A typological overview, Bernard
Comrie & Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), 213–242.
2010
Semantic and syntactic subcategorization in Seri: Recipients and addressees. In D. Gerdts, J. Moore & M.
Polinsky (eds.), Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic explorations in honor of David M. Perlmutter,
293-321. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
1998
(with Mary B. Moser) How Rabbit fooled Puma: a Seri text. In Leanne Hinton & Pamela Munro (eds.), Studies
in American Indian languages: description and theory, pp. 117-29. University of California Publications in
Linguistics 131. Berkeley-Los Angeles, University of California Press.
1984
Switch-reference and subject raising in Seri. In E.-D. Cook & Donna Gerdts (eds.), Syntax and semantics 16:
The syntax of Native American languages, 247-68. New York: Academic Press.
1984
Personal and impersonal passives in Seri. In David M. Perlmutter & Carol Rosen (eds.), Studies in relational
grammar 2, 217-239. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Monograph-length publications
2013
Phonology from the Ground Up. (Introductory text to phonological analysis, available at http://artssciences.und.edu/summer-institute-of-linguistics/teaching-linguistics/_files/docs/marlett-2013-phonologystudent.pdf; now being translated into Spanish.)
2012
The Grammar of Seri. (Available from the author’s faculty page, http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/smarlett/
Stephen_Marlett/Work_in_Progress.html; now being prepared for print publication as The Seri Language.)
2010
(with Mary B. Moser) Comcaac quih yaza quih hant ihiip hac: Diccionario seri-español-inglés. 2d edition.
Hermosillo & Mexico City: Universidad de Sonora & Plaza y Valdés Editores. http://www.sil.org/resources/
archives/42821
2005
(with Mary B. Moser) Comcáac quih yaza quih hant ihíip hac: Diccionario seri-español-inglés. Hermosillo &
Mexico City: Universidad de Sonora & Plaza y Valdés Editores.
Reviews of this publication:
Mixco, Mauricio J. (2006) Anthropological Linguistics 48.3: 293-296.
Estrada, Zarina Fernández & Ana Lidia Munguía Duarte. (2006) Anales de Antropología 40.1: 344-346.
Hill, Kenneth C. (2007). International Journal of American Linguistics 73.3: 367-370.
Moctezuma Zamarrón, José Luis. (2007) Dimensión Antropológica 39: 155-160.
Hills, Jim & David Yetman. (2007) A world revealed by language: A new Seri dictionary and unapologetic
speculations on Seri Indian deep history. Journal of the Southwest 49: 507-530.
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2001
(with Mary B. Moser) Seri. Intercontinental Dictionary Series, edited by Mary Ritchie Key. [archived material
distributed via CD]
1996
(with Mary B. Moser) Seri de Sonora. Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México. Mexico City: El Colegio de
México.
Publications and service related to community-oriented language materials
2015
Consultant and facilitator for 2015 calendar Moluscos en la cultura seri. Mexico City: ILV. http://www.sil.org/
mexico/seri/2015-calendario-sei.pdf
2013
Consultant and facilitator for Ben-Hadad Comito Molina et al., ¿He zó haxölinaail ya? (¿Qué tipo de molusco
soy?), Haxöl Iihom, Sonora: personal.
2013
Consultant and facilitator for 2013 calendar Plantas de los Me’phaa. Mexico City: ILV. http://www.sil.org/
mexico/tlapaneca/2013-calendario-mephaa-ILV.pdf.
2010
Consultant and facilitator for Montaño, René, Xaaslca coi Iicp hac, Socaaix, Sonora: personal.
2010
Consultant and facilitator for Moreno Herrera, Francisco Xavier. Xiica Caailajc coi Ziix quih iti Cöipactoj
hac, Socaaix, Sonora: personal.
2009
Helped publish the following booklets for community use:
Moreno Herrera, Francisco Xavier. Hast Cacöla. MyPublisher.
(no author; traditional song) Hant quih cöipaxi hac. MyPublisher.
2008
Recorded and helped archive oral texts of Elder Efraín Estrella in the Archive of Indigenous Languages of
Latin America. www.ailla.utexas.org/search/search.html
2007
Consultant for René Montaño Herrera, ¿He zó ziicya? (¿Qué tipo de ave soy?), México, D.F.: Instituto
Lingüístico de Verano.
2007
Consultant for René Montaño Herrera, ¿He zó haquíimetya? (¿Qué tipo de lagartija soy?), México, D.F.:
Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
2007
Editor with René Montaño Herrera, Francisco Xavier Moreno Herrera of Comcaac quih ziix quih ocoaaj hac
(Enciclopedia seri). http://lengamer.org/admin/language_folders/seri/ user_uploaded_files/links/File/
Enciclopedia/EncicloSeri.htm
2007
Compiler of Ziix haptc iiha comcaac quih ocoaaj quih ano yaii. (Acervo de textos seris). www.lengamer.org/
admin/language_folders/seri/user_uploaded_files/links/File/Acervo_de_Textos/acervo_de_textos.htm
Conference Proceedings and Special Reports
2008
The phasal verb construction in Seri. In Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin
America-III (25-27 October 2007). Austin: University of Texas. www.ailla.utexas.org/site/cilla3/Marlett_
CILLA_III.pdf
2007
Bringing it home: The implications of documentation for a vibrant endangered language. In Peter K. Austin,
Oliver Bond & David Nathan (eds.), Proceedings of conference on language documentation and
linguistic theory, pp. 157-163. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
2006
Acento, extrametricalidad y la palabra mínima en seri. Encuentro de lenguas indígenas americanas: libro de
actas. Santa Rosa de La Pampa, Argentina: Universidad Nacional de La Pampa.
2006
La evolución del alfabeto seri. In María del Carmen Morúa (ed.), Octavo Encuentro Internacional de
Lingüística en el Noroeste, Tomo 3, pp. 311-325. Hermosillo: Editorial UniSon.
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1998
(with María Luisa Astorga de Estrella, Mary B. Moser, & E. Fernando Nava L.) Las canciones seris: una vision
general. In Zarina Estrada Fernández, Max Figueroa Esteva, Gerardo López Cruz & Andrés Acosta (eds.),
Cuarto Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Tomo 1, Volume 2, pp. 499-526. Editorial
Unison: Hermosillo, Sonora.
1996
Summary of Seri pronominal reference and agreement. In Victor Golla (ed.), Report 9: Survey of California
and other Indian languages. Proceedings of the Hokan-Penutian Workshop, pp. 187-188.
1996
Seri bibliographical items, post-1980. In Victor Golla (ed.), Report 9: Survey of California and other Indian
languages. Proceedings of the Hokan-Penutian Workshop, pp. 163-164.
1996
(with Velma B. Pickett) El pronombre inaudible en el zapoteco del Istmo. In Zarina Estrada Fernández, Max
Figueroa Esteva & Gerardo López Cruz (eds.), III Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste, pp. 119-150.
Editorial Unison: Hermosillo, Sonora. www.sil.org/mexico/ zapoteca/istmo/G008-PronInaudible-ZAI.htm.
1995
La clasificación de los pronombres del zapoteco. In Ramón Arzápalo & Yolanda Lastra (eds.), Vitalidad e
influencia de las lenguas indígenas en Latinoamérica: II Coloquio Mauricio Swadesh, pp. 365-381. Mexico
City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas.
1995
(with Mary B. Moser) Presentación y análisis preliminar de 550 topónimos seris. In José Gaxiola López &
Everardo Mendoza Guerrero (eds.), Coloquio de toponimia: los nombres de los pueblos del Noroeste, pp.
143-204. Culiacán, Sinaloa: El Colegio de Sinaloa.
1994
(with Mary B. Moser) Los números en seri. In Zarina Estrada Fernández (ed.), II Encuentro de lingüística en
el noroeste, memorias, II:63-79, Departamento de Letras y Lingüística, División de Humanidades y Bellas
Artes, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo. www.sil.org/silewp/1997/005.
1994
(with Mary B. Moser) El desarrollo de clases nominales en seri. In Gerardo López Cruz & José Luis
Moctezuma Zamarrón (eds.), Estudios de Lingüística y Sociolingüística, pp. 97-103. Hermosillo: Universidad
de Sonora & Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
1987
(with Patsy Adams) Gender agreement in Madija. In Paul D. Kroeber & Robert E. Moore (eds.), Native
American languages and grammatical typology: Papers from a conference at the University of Chicago,
University of Chicago, April 22, 1987, pp. 1-18. Indiana University Linguistics Club.
1985
(with Velma B. Pickett) Pluralization in Zapotec languages. In Mary C. Marino & Luis A. Pérez (eds.),
Proceedings of the 1985 meeting of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, pp. 246-255.
www.sil.org/mexico/zapoteca/G025a-ZapotecPlurals.htm
1981
The abstract consonant in Seri. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 154-165.
Book reviews
2010
Review of Formas sonoras: mapa fónico de las lenguas mexicanas, by Esther Herrera Zendejas.
International Journal of American Linguistics 76. 3: 400-403.
1991
Review of Masked inversion in French, by Paul M. Postal. Language 67:120-4.
Selected Working Papers and Special Publications
2015
(editor) Seri origin myth, by Roberto Herrera Marcos & Edward W. Moser. SIL-Mexico Electronic Working
Papers #17. http://www.sil.org/mexico/workpapers/WP017i-SeriOriginMyth-sei.pdf
2015
(editor) Doce moluscos en doce meses / Twelve mollusks in twelve months. SIL-Mexico Electronic Working
Papers #16. http://www.sil.org/mexico/workpapers/WP016-MoluscosCalendario-sei.pdf
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2014
(with Jaime Raúl Calderón Calderón, Alfonsina Gómez Martínez, Nydia Morales Castillo, Kristian Roncero
Toledo, Bernardino Tomé Catalán, & Rubén van Bemmelen) Un viaje en cayuco para pedir ayuda:
presentación de un texto en fa d’Ambô. Working Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of
North Dakota Session. http://arts-sciences.und.edu/summer-institute-of-linguistics/work-papers/_files/docs/
2014-calderonyotros.pdf
2013
The minimal word in Seri. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota
Session, vol. 53:1-7. http://arts-sciences.und.edu/summer-institute-of-linguistics/work-papers/_files/docs/2013marlett.pdf
2013
Los adjuntos. In Marlett (ed.) 2011ff. http://www.sil.org/MEXICO/workpapers/WP013-PDF/
MephaaAdjuntos.pdf
2012
(with Plácido Neri Remigio). Meꞌpaa de Acatepec. In Stephen A. Marlett (ed.), Ilustraciones fonéticas de lenguas
amerindias. Lima: SIL International & Universidad Ricardo Palma. http://lengamer.org/publicaciones/trabajos/
mepaa_acatepec_afi.pdf
2011
(with Gregorio Tiburcio Cano) Presentación analítica del texto “Smájíín”. In Marlett (ed.) 2011ff.
2011
(with Benito Apolinar Antonio) Presentación analítica del texto “El plumerillo rojo”; Presentación analítica del
texto “La Wigandia”. In Marlett (ed.) 2011ff.
2011
(with Emilia Neri Méndez) Presentación analítica del texto "Flor de calabaza"; Presentación analítica del texto
“El hongo wíxá-xaxa”. Presentación analítica del texto “La oreja de elefante”. In Marlett (ed.) 2011ff.
2011
(with Plácido Neri Remigio) Presentación analítica del texto “La jarilla”; Presentación analítica del texto “Dos
chivos”. Presentación analítica del texto “El izote”. In Marlett (ed.) 2011ff.
2011
(with Esther Weathers & Mark L. Weathers) Presentación analítica del texto “El burro y el marrano”;
Presentación analítica del texto “Cuento de tres animales”; Presentación Analitica del Texto "Lo que hicieron
el tigre y el grillo". In Marlett (ed.) 2011ff.
2011
(with Elías Tamarit Beristráin) Presentación analítica del texto “El búho”; Presentación analítica del texto
“Cómo se construye una casa” In Marlett (ed.) 2011ff.
2011
(with Kevin L. Cline, Hugh Paterson III, & Mark L. Weathers) Las conexiones externas e internas. In Marlett
(ed.) 2011ff.
2011
Bibliografía; Los cuantificadores; Los demostrativos; Los números cardinales; Tipología morfosintáctica; La
pluralidad en la frase nominal; Los vocativos; La animacidad. In Marlett (ed.) 2011ff.
2011
The Seris and the Comcaac: Sifting fact from fiction about the names and relationships. Work Papers of the
Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session 51:1-20. http://arts-sciences.und.edu/
summer-institute-of-linguistics/work-papers/_files/docs/2011-marlett.pdf
2011
Corrections to and clarifications of the Seri data in Greenberg & Ruhlen’s An Amerind Etymological
Dictionary. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, vol.
51:1-9. http://arts-sciences.und.edu/summer-institute-of-linguistics/work-papers/_files/docs/2011-marlett2.pdf
2010
Round vowel and dorsal consonant epenthesis in Seri. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics,
University of North Dakota 50: 1-13. http://arts-sciences.und.edu/summer-institute-of-linguistics/workpapers/_files/docs/2010-marlett.pdf
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2010
(with Benito Apolinar Antonio, Abad Carrasco Zúñiga, Mónica González Tiburcio, Felícita Guzmán Vallejón,
Emilia Neri Méndez, Plácido Neri Remigio, Charles H. Speck, Elías Tamarit Beristrain, Mark L. Weathers, Søren
Wichmann, & Próspero Zacarías Morán) Vocabulario básico en me’phaa. SIL-Mexico Electronic Working
Papers 9a (with recordings embedded), 9b (without recordings embedded), 1-27. www.sil.org/mexico/
workpapers/WP009eb-VocabularioMe'phaa-tcf-tpl-tpx-tpc-sut.pdf
2010
19th century Seri wordlists: Comparison and analysis. SIL-Mexico Electronic Working Papers #8, 1-61.
www.sil.org/mexico/workpapers/WP008i-SeriWordLists-sei.pdf
2010
The la’a ‘Base’ plus enclitic pronoun phrase. In Black, Black & Marlett 2008ff, 1-9. www.sil.org/mexico/
WorkPapers/WP001PDF/BaseplusencliticpronounZapotec.pdf
2010
(with David B. Riggs) The le’e focus phrase: structural aspects. In Black, Black & Marlett 2008ff, 1-15.
www.sil.org/mexico/WorkPapers/WP001-PDF/Le’eFocusPhrase StructureZapotec.pdf
2010
Personal pronouns: distribution. In Black, Black & Marlett 2008ff, 1-16. www.sil.org/ mexico/WorkPapers/
WP001PDF/PersonalPronounsDistributionZapotec.pdf
2010
Personal pronouns: inventory. In Black, Black & Marlett 2008ff, 1-21. www.sil.org/mexico/WorkPapers/
WP001PDF/PersonalPronounsInventoryZapotec.pdf
2009
Basic vocabulary. In Black, Black & Marlett 2008ff, 1-66. www.sil.org/mexico/ WorkPapers/WP001-PDF/
BasicVocabZapotec.pdf
2009
Possession. In Black, Black & Marlett 2008ff, 1-30. www.sil.org/mexico/WorkPapers/ WP001-PDF/
PossessionZapotec.pdf
2009
(with Hilario M. Coronado Nazario, Ebenecer Coronado Nolasco, Pánfilo de la Cruz Morales & Maurilio Hilario
Juárez). Amuzgo del sur (Huixtepec). In Stephen A. Marlett (ed.), Ilustraciones fonéticas de lenguas amerindias.
Lima: SIL International & Universidad Ricardo Palma. http://lengamer.org/publicaciones/trabajos/amuzgo_
huixtepec_afi.pdf
2008
(with Elizabeth D. Merrill). Counting. In Black, Black & Marlett 2008ff. www.sil.org/mexico/workpapers/
WP001PDF/CountingZapotec.pdf
2008
(with Valerie Martínez). Nouns. In Black, Black & Marlett 2008ff, www.sil.org/mexico/workpapers/WP001-PDF/
NounsZapotec.pdf
2008
(with Velma B. Pickett & María Villalobos Villalobos). Zapoteco del Istmo ( Juchitán). Ilustraciones fonéticas
de lenguas amerindias, ed. Stephen A. Marlett. Lima: SIL International y Universidad Ricardo Palma.
www.lengamer.org/publicaciones/trabajos/zapoteco_del_istmo_afi.pdf
2008
(with Michael Ward & Emiliano Zurita Sánchez. Zapoteco de Santa Catarina Quioquitani. Ilustraciones
fonéticas de lenguas amerindias, ed. Stephen A. Marlett. Lima: SIL International y Universidad Ricardo
Palma. www.lengamer.org/publicaciones/trabajos/zapoteco_de_Quioquitani_afi.pdf
2008
The implications of language documentation for an endangered but vibrant language community: a historical
perspective. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, vol. 48.
http://arts-sciences.und.edu/summer-institute-of-linguistics/work-papers/_files/docs/2008-marlett.pdf
2006
(editor) Ejercicios para un curso en morfosintaxis /Exercises for a course in morphosyntax. www.sil.org/
training/capacitar/morfologia/ejercicios/ejerciciosmorfosintaxis.htm
2006
Moser, Mary B. & Marlett, Stephen A., compilers. Seri texts; Textos seris. http://lengamer.org/admin/
language_folders/seri/user_uploaded_files/links/File/Textos/SeriTexts.htm
2006
(with F. Xavier Moreno Herrera & Genaro G. Herrera Astorga). Seri. Ilustraciones Fonéticas de Lenguas
Amerindias, ed. by Stephen A. Marlett. Lima: SIL International & Universidad Ricardo Palma.
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2001
(with Gastón Salamanca). Curso básico en fonética general. www.sil.org/training/capacitar/FONETICA/cursos/
CursoBasicoFonetica.stm
2000
Quantification with ‘all’ in Seri. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North
Dakota Session, vol. 44. http://arts-sciences.und.edu/summer-institute-of-linguistics/work-papers/_files/docs/
2000-marlett.pdf
2000
(with Mary B. Moser) Polar questions in Seri. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University
of North Dakota Session, vol. 44. http://arts-sciences.und.edu/summer-institute-of-linguistics/work-papers/
_files/docs/2000-marlett-moser.pdf
1995
(with J. Albert Bickford) Index to volumes 18-40 (1974-1996), Work Papers of the Summer Institute of
Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session.
1988
(with J. Albert Bickford) The semantics and morphology of Mixtec mood and aspect. Work Papers of the
Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session 32:1-40.
Selected Public Presentations
2014
(with Bernardino Tomé Catalán) Una cuestión de análisis: el morfema <na> en el fa d’Ambû. Encuentro de
Lingüística en el Noroeste 13, Hermosillo, Sonora. Handout: http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/60324.
2014
Las huellas lingüísticas del contacto entre los seris y los grupos yutonahuas. VI Coloquio Leonardo Manrique,
Mexico City. August 2014. Handout: http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/59092.
2013
El uso de la forma marcada en la organización de discurso en me’phaa. Universidad Intercultural del Estado
de Guerrero, La Ciénega, Guerrero.
2013
Panorama of valency-changing operations in Seri. Workshop on Verb Valency Change, University of Sonora,
Hermosillo, Sonora.
2013
The distribution of the “special third person” inflection in Me'phaa (Tlapanec). International Conference on
Mesoamerican Linguistics, California State University, Fullerton.
2013
What has influenced speakers’ perceptions of sounds in Me'phaa? Special session on Language Contact in
Mesoamerica. SSILA annual meeting, Boston.
2012
El valor de la lengua materna. Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Guerrero, La Ciénega. (Celebration of
the International Day of the Mother Tongue.)
2011
Exploring and mapping Me’phaa phonology. University of North Dakota.
2011
(with Mark L. Weathers) El sistema fonológico del me’phaa a nivel de la familia. Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (Mexico City); and Universidad de Sonora (Hermosillo).
2010
Round vowel and velar consonant epenthesis in Seri. SSILA annual meeting, Baltimore.
2010
Relational preverbs in Seri: A case of non-incorporation. LSA annual meeting, Baltimore.
2009
La semántica lexica contrastiva y los diccionarios bilingües. Encuentro de Lenguas Indígenas Americanas II.
17-19 September, Resistencia, Argentina.
2009
The verb and its non-argument satellites in Seri. Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the
Languages of the Americas. Purdue University.
2008
Nominal coordination in Seri. SSILA annual meeting, Chicago.
2007
Bringing it home: the implications of documentation for a vibrant endangered language. Conference on
Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London.
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2007
Relative clauses in Seri. Hermosillo, Sonora. Conference on Syntactic Complexity. 15-16 November.
2007
The aspectual verb construction in Seri. Conference on Languages of Latin America. Austin, Texas.
2007
(with Donna B. Gerdts) A typology of denominal verb constructions. 7th biennial meeting of the Association
for Linguistic Typology. Paris.
2007
Stress, extrametricality and the minimal word in Seri. SSILA 2007 meeting, Anaheim.
2006
Complement clauses in Seri. Hermosillo, Sonora. Conference on Syntactic Complexity. 13-14 November.
2006
El acento, la extrametricalidad y la palabra mínima en seri. Encuentro de Lenguas Indígenas Americanas.
Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina.
2005
Some argument structure issues in Seri. SSILA 2005 meeting, Oakland.
2004
Inflected postpositions and postposition stranding in Seri. SSILA 2004 meeting, Boston.
2004
(with Cathy Marlett) Principles guiding illustrations for the Seri dictionary. SSILA 2004 meeting, Boston.
2004
La evolución del alfabeto seri. VIII Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste. Hermosillo, Sonora, México.
2003
Surface contrast without phonemic contrast: theoretical and practical implications. SSILA 2003 meeting,
Atlanta
2003
(with Cathy Marlett) Etnomalacología seri. I Simposio Internacional de Lingüística Amerindia: las lenguas
amerindias ante el nuevo milenio. Mérida, Yucatán, México.
2002
Denominal verbs in Seri. SSILA 2002 meeting, San Francisco. [Co-moderator of the session on denominal
verbs.]
2000
The community and dynamic dictionary as the fulcrum in ethnolinguistic identity. 50th Congress of
Americanists, Warsaw, Poland.
2000
Language diversity in Mexico: beauty and challenge. Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C., December.
1985
(with Velma Pickett) Pluralization in Zapotec languages. Linguistic Association of Canada and the United
States. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
1983
Popoluca evidence for syntactic levels. Relational Grammar Symposium, Linguistics Institute, University of
California at Los Angeles.
1982
Possessor ascension in Sierra Popoluca. Linguistic Society of America, Winter Meeting, San Diego.
1982
Nominalizations as independent clauses in Seri. Conference on Far Western Languages, Santa Cruz.
1981
The abstract consonant in Seri. Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley.
1981
Subject raising and transitivity in Seri. Conference on the Syntax of Native American Languages, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada.
1981
Structural aspects of switch-reference systems. International Symposium on Switch-Reference and Universal
Grammar, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Professional Memberships
Linguistic Society of America.
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA).
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Service
Article reviews for International Journal of American Linguistics, Language, Anthropological Linguistics, Journal of
the International Phonetic Association, Tlalocan and other journals.
Travel committee (chair), Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 2006, 2007.
ISO codes committee (chair), Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 2007, 2008.
Panelist on review committee for National Science Foundation (linguistics).
Grant reviews for the National Science Foundation (several).
Associate Editor, Language (journal of the Linguistic Society of America), 1998-2000.
Associate Editor, Linguistic Discovery, 2002-present.
Consulting Editor, International Journal of American Linguistics, 2013-present.
Consultant for the transcription of Seri songs in Carlos E. Ogarrio Perkins (compiler) Cantos de los comcaac: El legado
de los Barnett. Mexico City & Hermosillo: Jorale Editores & Universidad de Sonora.
Marlett