Diane Brentari is an American linguist who specializes in sign languages and American Sign Language in particular.
Education and career[edit]
Brentari received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1990.[1] Her dissertation, entitled Theoretical Foundations of American Sign Language Phonology, was supervised by John Goldsmith.
She is the Mary K. Werkman Professor of Linguistics and co-director of the Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language at the University of Chicago.[2] She held a position at University of California-Davis, and then led the Sign Language program at Purdue University before coming to the University of Chicago in 2011.[3][4]
Brentari's scholarship focuses on the phonology, morphology, and prosody of sign languages.[5]
Honors[edit]
In 2019, Brentari's article "The Noun-Verb Distinction in Established and Emergent Sign Systems" (co-authored with Natasha Abner, Molly Flaherty, Katelyn Stangl, Marie Coppola, and Susan Goldin-Meadow) received the Best Paper in the Linguistic Society of America's Language Award.[6]
In 2020, Brentari was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the project Observing the Creation of Language.[7]
Brentari was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2022.[8]
Selected publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- Brentari, Diane (1998). A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262024457.
- Brentari, Diane (2001). Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages: A Cross-linguistic Investigation of Word Formation. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 9781135670344.*Brentari, Diane (2010). Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139487399.
- Brentari, Diane; Lee, Jackson (2018). Shaping Phonology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226562599.
- Brentari, Diane (2019). Sign Language Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107113473.
Chapters and articles[edit]
- Benedicto, Elena; Brentari, Diane (2004). "Where did all the arguments go?: Argument-changing properties of Classifiers in ASL". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 22 (4): 743–810. doi:10.1007/s11049-003-4698-2. S2CID 170254957.
- Brentari, Diane (2011). "Sign Language Phonology". In John A. Goldsmith; Jason Riggle; Alan C. L. Yu (eds.). Handbook of Phonological Theory. New York/Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 691–721. ISBN 9781444343045.
- Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Brentari, Diane (2017). "Gesture, sign and language: The coming of age of sign language and gesture studies". Brain and Behavioral Sciences. 40: e46. doi:10.1017/S0140525X15001247. PMC 4821822. PMID 26434499.
- Abner, Natasha; Flaherty, Molly; Stangl, Katelyn; Coppola, Marie; Brentari, D; Goldin-Meadow, Ssusan (2019). "The Noun-Verb Distinction in Established and Emergent Sign Systems". Language. 5 (2): 230–267. doi:10.1353/lan.2019.0030. S2CID 198747498.
References[edit]
- ^ "Alumni | Linguistics". linguistics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ^ "Faculty | Linguistics". linguistics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
- ^ Bane, Max (30 March 2011). "Welcome, Diane Brentari! – BLING". Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ^ "Demand high for college sign language classes". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ^ "Diane Brentari". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ^ "Best Paper in Language 2019 Award to be Given to Article on Emergent Sign Systems | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Diane K. Brentari". Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ^ "LSA Elects 2022 Class of Fellows | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
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