Conor Snoek Curriculum Vitae - University of Alberta

Conor Snoek
Publications
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Curriculum Vitae
Snoek, C. in press. Using semantically restricted word-lists to investigate
relationships among Athapaskan Languages. In Borin, Lars & Anju Saxena
(eds.), Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, Trends in
Linguistics Studies and Monographs 265. Germany: de Gruyter Mouton.
Snoek, C. 2011. Irregular -im suffixation in Tok Pisin: exploratory methods
in multivariate analysis. In Newman, John, Baayen, Harald & Sally Rice
(eds.) Corpus-based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and
Language Documentation, 35-52. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.
* Snoek, C. 2011. The Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy
Development Institute and linguistic research. Ethnoscripts 13 (2): 14-26.
Conference presentations
*R Snoek, C. 2012. Visualizing dialect geography in Northern Athapaskan
through kinship terms. High Desert Linguistics Society Conference.
University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM. 1-3 November 2012.
*R Snoek, C. 2012. Historical Language Relationships and Lexicalization in
Athapaskan. Athabaskan (Dene) Languages Conference. Western
Washington University. Bellingham, WA. 15-17 August 2012.
*R Snoek, C. 2012. Tendencies of Semantic Change in Athapaskan
BEETs. Conceptual Discourse, Structure and Language Conference.
University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC. 17-20 May 2012.
*R Snoek, C. 2012. PACL: A database for linguistic research and language
revitalization. Alberta Graduate Conference. University of Alberta.
Edmonton, AB. 3-5 May 2012.
*R Snoek, C. 2011. Semantically restricted wordlists: classifying Athapaskan
Languages with semantic and phonetic data. Workshop on Comparing
Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences. University of Gothenburg.
Gothenburg, Sweden. 24-25 October 2011.
*R Snoek, C. 2011. Semantic differences in body-part, effluvia, and ephemera
terms in Athapaskan. The Body in Language: Lexicon, Metaphor, Grammar
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and Culture. University of Warsaw (Pałac Kazimierzowski),Warsaw, Poland.
21-22 October 2011.
*R Snoek, C. & S. Rice. 2010. Event metonymies in Northern
Athapaskan. Athabaskan (Dene) Languages Conference. University of
Oregon. Eugene, OR. 26June 2010.
*R Snoek, C. 2009. Variation in the occurrence of the transitive suffix in a
corpus of Tok Pisin. Conference of the American Association for Corpus
Linguistics. University of Alberta. Edmonton, AB. 8-11 October 2009.
*R Snoek, C. & S. Rice. 2009. Lexicalization patterns in body-part and effluvia
terms in Athapaskan. Workshop on American Indigenous Languages.
University of California Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA. 8-9 May 2009.
R Snoek, C. & D. Dowbor. 2006. Metonymy in a construction constructionbased
account of indirect speech acts. Conference of the German Cognitive
Linguistics Association. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
5-7 October 2006.
* Snoek, C. 2011. Tendencies of semantic change in Dene body-part, effluvia
and ephemera terms. Workshop on Cognitive and Usage-Based Approaches
to Language. University of Alberta. Edmonton, AB. 6 October 2011.
* Snoek, C. 2007. Metonymic meaning extension: two case studies in Tok
Pisin. Conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association.
Jagiellonian University. Krakow, Poland. 15-20 July 2007.
Research Assistantships
2008-2012 RA for Dr. Sally Rice, University of Alberta (working on the Pan-
Athapaskan Comparative Lexicon and documentation of Dene Sųłiné as
spoken on Cold Lake First Nations Reserve).
2007-2008 RA for Dr. Insa Gülzow, University of Hamburg (assisting in the preparation
of coursework and exams, instructing students in the use of the CLAN
software, exam supervision).
2004-2007 RA for Dr. Klaus-Uwe Panther, University of Hamburg (assisting in the
preparation of coursework and exams, assisting in the organization of the first
German Cognitive Linguistics Association conference in Hamburg in 2004).
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Fall 2012 RA at Linguistics Abstracts Online Office, University of Alberta.
Teaching and Work Experience
LING 101 Principal Instructor for LING 101: Introduction to Linguistics at the
University of Alberta, 2012.
LING 102 Principal Instructor for LING 102: Introduction to Linguistics II at the
University of Alberta, 2012,
LING 101 Principal Instructor for LING 101: Introduction to Linguistics at the
University of Alberta, 2011.
2012 Invited lecture Language and Culture for the Undergraduate Linguistics Club
(ULC) and the University of Alberta Anthropology Undergraduates (UAAU).
LING 212, 213
Teaching assistant for Dr. Jordan Lachler’s courses LING 212 Morphosyntax
of Indigenous Languages and LING 213 Sentence and Discourse Patterns of
Indigenous Languages at the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy
Development Institute (CILLDI), University of Alberta (a summer school
teaching linguistics and education classes to speakers of Aboriginal
languages), 2010.
LING 212 Teaching assistant for Dr. Sally Rice’s course LING 212 Morphosyntax of
Indigenous Languages at the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy
Development Institute (CILLDI), University of Alberta, 2009.
LING 211 Teaching assistant for Dr. Benjamin Tucker’s course LING 211 Phonetics of
Indigenous Languages at the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy
Development Institute (CILLDI), University of Alberta, 2009.
2008-2012 I have given guest lectures at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in
the following classes at the University of Alberta: LING 101, LING 204,
LING 211, LING 212, LING 213, LING 405, LING 619 and ANTHR 586,
on topics such as transfer problems in second language acquisition, the state
of Aboriginal languages in Canada, grammar of Athapaskan languages,
linguistics and anthropology, historical linguistics and semantics.
2005-2007 Tutor for introductory linguistics courses at the University of Hamburg,
Germany.
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2000-2008 Teaching Business English courses at all levels for EnglishBusiness GbR,
Hamburg, Germany.
Service
2012 Founder of the Dene Reading Group, an Athapaskanist reading and
discussion group now spanning two departments (at University of Alberta
and the University of New Mexico).
2012 Member of the Organizing committee for the 12 th International Cognitive
Linguistics Association conference to be held 23-28 June 2013 at the
University of Alberta, Edmonton.
2012 Member of the Organizing committee for the 2013 Dene (Athapaskan)
Languages Conference to be held 12-14 June 2013 on Tsuut’ina Nation,
Alberta.
2011 Organizer of the LGSA Workshop: Cognitive and Usage-Based Approaches
to Language (with Dr. Joan Bybee), with Corey Telfer, October 6 th 2011,
University of Alberta.
2009 Organizer of the LGSA Networking Event (with Dr. Dekang Lin, Google
Inc.), with Georgie Columbus, 10 th October 2009, University of Alberta.
2009-present President and founding member of Linguistics Graduate Students'
Association (LGSA), University of Alberta.
2008-2010 Representative for Linguistics (Altern) at the council of the Graduate
Students' Association (GSA), University of Alberta.
2005-2007 Treasurer of the students Council at the Institute for Social and Cultural
Anthropology, Hamburg, Germany.
2005-2007 Student representative on the Planning Committee of the Institute for Social
and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany.
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