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Professor

• Fields of Study

  • Morphology-centered grammar
  • Prosody
  • Cognitive anthropological linguistics
  • NW and W Africa

• About

  Jeff Heath is a linguist (not a subfield linguist). Interests include lexicon, crosslinguistic grammar, tonosyntax, historical grammar, and humor. Fieldwork since 1980 has been in NW and W Africa, especially Mali (Songhay, Tamashek, Hassaniya Arabic, and recently Dogon). For c.v. and current multimedia field research see linked websites.

• Education

  • Ph.D. with distinction, 1976, University of Chicago
  • M.A. 1973
  • A.B. summa cum laude, Linguistics and Arabic, Harvard, 1971

• Grants

  • National Science Foundation & National Endowment for the Humanities, Tamashek (Tuareg) language of Mali
  • 1995-97 National Endowment for the Humanities grant, Grammar-Test-Dictionaries of Songhay (Mali, West Africa)
  • 1991-94 National Science Foundation Grant, Timbuktu-Djenne Songhay
  • 1983-85 National Science Foundation Grant, Judeo-Arabic Dialects of Morocco
  • 1982 National Science Foundation grant, Moroccan Arabic Phonology
  • 1979-81 National Science Foundation Grant,Language Mixing in Moroccan Arabic