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Name
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Harold Torrence
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Bio
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Dr. Harold Torrence is a professor in the UCLA Department of Linguistics, where he also received his Ph.D in 2005. His research focuses on the comparative syntax and morphology of African and Native American languages. He is currently Co-PI on two research projects. The first project, with Jason Kandybowicz (of the CUNY Graduate Center), titled “Training and Text Collection as a Vehicle for Recruiting and Retaining Endangered Language Fieldworkers”, involves training students to conduct fieldwork through hands-on, up-close work with native speakers of endangered and understudied languages spoken in Ghana. The second, with Ivano Caponigro (UCSD) and Roberto Zavala (CIESAS San Cristóbal), describes and documents the morpho-syntax and semantics of headless relative clauses in Mesoamerican languages.
Some recent publications from Dr. Torrence include:
African Linguistics on the Prairie: Selected Papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.. (with Philip Duncan, Jason Kandybowicz, Travis Major). Language Science Press.
Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches. (with Jason Kandybowicz). Oxford University Press.
“Africas-Endangered-Languages-An-Overview”. (with Jason Kandybowicz). Introductory chapter in Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches. Oxford University Press.
“The-Role-of-Theory-in-Documentation: Intervention Effects and Missing Gaps in the Krachi Documentary Record” (with Jason Kandybowicz). In Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches. Oxford University Press.
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Affiliation
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Position
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Professor
