I recognize that I live and work on Lenape land, and pay respect and honor to the caretakers of this land, from time immemorial until now, and into the future.
Education
2006, Ph.D. in Linguistics, UCLA
2002, M.A. in Linguistics, UCLA
1998, B.A. in Linguistics, UC Berkeley
Research
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Documentary and descriptive linguistics: Zapotec languages, Mesoamerican languages, lexicography, collaboration, language activism and reclamation
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Philology, historical linguistics, and language change: translation and analysis of 16th—18th century archival documents written in Zapotec
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Digital humanities, technology, social media and their use in documentation, language activism, and collaboration with stake holding speech communities
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Syntax, semantics, morphology, language and space, locatives, prepositions, grammaticalization, word order, focus, case marking
Digital Resources
Ticha: http://ticha.haverford.edu
Press on Ticha
Zapotec Talking Dictionaries: http://www.talkingdictionary.org/zapotecs
Press on the Talking Dictionary
- Swarthmore College Bulletin, Spring 2017
- Noticias Oaxaca Voz e Imagen (in Spanish), June 26, 2016
- Swarthmore College News & Events, May 27, 2014
- National Geographic Daily News, April 10, 2014
Selected Publications
Foreman, John and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen. 2017. Positional Verbs in Colonial Valley Zapotec. International Journal of American Linguistics 82(2): 263-305.
Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle. 2016. Why write in a language that (almost) no one can read? Twitter and the development of written literature. Language Documentation and Conservation 10: 356-392.
Press on Voces del Valle (Twitter Project)
Anderson, Carolyn Jane (SC '15) & Brook Danielle Lillehaugen. 2016. Negation in Colonial Valley Zapotec. Transactions of the Philological Society 114(3): 391-413.
Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle, Gabriela Echavarría Moats, Daniel Gillen* (HC '16), Elizabeth Peters* (HC '15) & Rebecca Schwartz* (HC '14). 2014. A tactile IPA magnet board system: a tool for blind and visually-impaired students in phonetics and phonology classrooms. Language: Teaching Linguistics 90.e274-e283.
Press on Tactile IPA Magnet Board
Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle. 2014. Los usos y significados de loh 'cara' en el zapoteco del valle colonial. In Estructuras, lenguas y hablantes. Estudios en Homenaje a Thomas C. Smith Stark. Rebeca Barriga Villanueva and Esther Hererra Zendejas (eds.). D.F., Mexico. pp. 417—449.
Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle & Aaron Huey Sonnenschein. 2012. Expressing Location in Zapotec: An Introduction. In Expressing Location in Zapotec. Brook Danielle Lillehaugen and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.). Munich: Lincom Europa. pp. 1—34.
Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle & John O. Foreman. 2009. Body parts and the encoding of THING and PLACE in Zapotec. In Studies in Role and Reference Grammar. Lilián Guerrero, Sergio Ibáñez-Cerda, Valeria A. Belloro, eds. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. pp. 203-230.
Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle & Pamela Munro. 2008. Hacia una tipología de locativos de partes. In Memorias: IX Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste,Tomo 2. Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani, Ed. Hermosillo, Sonora: Editorial Unison. pp. 231– 252.
Selected presentations
Anderson, Carolyn* (SC '14) & Brook Danielle Lillehaugen. 2014. "La morfosintaxis de la negación en el zapoteco colonial del Valle." Presented at the Coloquio sobre Lenguas Otomangues y Vecinas VI: Mario Molina Cruz, Oaxaca.
Heher, Anneke* (HC '14), Brook Danielle Lillehaugen & Michael Galant. 2014. "El bilingüismo zapoteco-español temprano: evidencia de documentos coloniales." Presented at the Coloquio sobre Lenguas Otomangues y Vecinas VI: Mario Molina Cruz, Oaxaca.
Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle, Flora Berklein* (HC '14) & Allyson Stronach. 2014. "Towards understanding the phonology of Colonial Valley Zapotec: methods & early results." Poster presented at the Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America, New Haven.
