Michael Boutin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
E-mail: michael_boutin@gial.edu
1994 Ph.D.  Linguistics, University of Florida

Education

               1994Ph.D.Lin    guistics,University of Florida
1980M.A.Linguistics,University of Texas at Arlington
1979B.A. University of New Mexico
Michael Boutin

Professional Experience

 

Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, TX
2006 - Present

 Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
   
 Courses Taught
  AL4410 Principles of Grammatical Analysis
  AL5406 Field Methods and Linguistic Analysis
   
 Current Research and Institutional Instructional Activities
  Grammatical analysis

Publications and Presentations

 

Books

2008(Compiled with Hans J.B. Combrink, Craig Soderberg, and Alanna Y. Boutin.) Indigenous groups of Sabah: An annotated bibliography of linguistic and anthropological sources. Part 1: author index. http://www.sil.org/silepubs/abstract.asp?id=50498.
2008(Compiled with Hans J.B. Combrink, Craig Soderberg, and Alanna Y. Boutin.) Indigenous groups of Sabah: An annotated bibliography of linguistic and anthropological sources. Part 2: ethnic group index; topical index. http://www.sil.org/silepubs/abstract.asp?id=50499.
2006Compiled with Hans J.B. Combrink, Craig Soderberg, and Alanna Y. Boutin.) Indigenous groups of Sabah: An annotated bibliography of linguistic and anthropological sources, revised and updated edition. Sabah Museum Monograph Volume 10 Part 1 and Part 2. (Two volumes.) Kota Kinabalu: Department of Sabah Museum.
2003(Compiler.) Cassava: An annotated bibliography. http://www.sil.org/silewp/abstract.asp?ref=2003-001.
1993(Co-edited with Inka Pekkanen.) Phonological descriptions of Sabah languages. Sabah Museum Monograph 4. Kota Kinabalu: Sabah Museum.
1986(Compiler.) Indigenous groups of Sabah: An annotated bibliography of linguistic and anthropological sources, Supplement 1. Sabah Museum Monograph No. 1, Part 2. Kota Kinabalu: Sabah Museum.
1984(Compiled with Alanna Boutin.) Indigenous groups of Sabah: An annotated bibliography of linguistic and anthropological sources. Sabah Museum Monograph No. 1. Kota Kinabalu: Sabah Museum.

Selected articles

2011Towards a realizational approach to morphology in RRG. New perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar, ed. by Wataru Nakamura, 2-34. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.
2010Metathesis in Bonggi. Piakandatu ami Dr. Howard P. McKaughan, ed. by Loren Billings and Nelleke Goudswaard, 52-63. Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines.
2010A Role and Reference Grammar account of Bonggi adversative constructions. A mosaic of languages and cultures: Studies celebrating the career of Karl J. Franklin, ed. by Kenneth A. McElhanon and Ger Reesink, 20-37. Dallas: SIL International.
2010Review of Kemaloh Lundayeh - English dictionary and bibliographic list of materials relating to the Lundayeh-Lun Bawang-Kelabit and related groups of Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei and East Kalimantan, by Ricky Ganang, Jay Crain, and Vicki Pearson-Rounds (Borneo Research Council Reference Series, volume 1). Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde 166.121-24.
2009The sociohistorical context of English borrowings in Bonggi. Languages in Borneo: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives, ed. by Peter W. Martin and Peter G. Sercombe, 243-79. (Proceedings Series, volume 8). Phillips, ME: Borneo Research Council.
2009  Influence of lexical semantics on reflexes and allomorphs of *<um> and *<in> in Bonggi. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 1.23-47. Available at: http://www.jseals.org/.
2008Review of The Begak (Ida'an) language of Sabah, by Nelleke Goudswaard. Bijdragen Tot De Taal, Land- En Volkenkunde 164.539-42.
2007Lexical decomposition and locative predicates in Bonggi. SEALS VIII Papers from the 8th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 1998, ed. by Mark Alves, Paul Sidwell, and David Gil, 25-43. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. http://www.seals-conference.org/
2006(Co-authored with Patricia Regis and Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan.) Coastal and island groups of Sabah. The encyclopedia of Malaysia: Peoples and traditions, volume 13, ed. Prof. Dato’ Dr. Hood Salleh, 128-29. Kuala Lumpur: Editions Didier Millet.
2004Linguistic encoding of responsibility in the Bonggi language of Sabah, Malaysia. Language, linguistics and the real world, Volume 1: Making linguistics relevant, eds. Gerald Knowles, Jamaliah Mohd Ali, Jariah Mohd Jan, Su’ad Awab and Zuraidah Mohd Don, 67-83. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya.
2004Locative predicates in Bonggi. http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/research/rrg.html.
2004A Role & Reference Grammar account of Bonggi –an. Papers from the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2001 Bangkok), ed. S. Burusphat, Tempe, Arizona, 71-85. Arizona State University, Program for Southeast Asian Studies. http://www.seals-conference.org/
2002Blocking nasal spread in Bonggi. Papers from the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2000, ed. Marlys Macken, 97-114. Tempe, AZ: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University. http://www.seals-conference.org/.
2002Nominative and genitive case alternations in Bonggi. The history and typology of Western Austronesian voice systems, eds. Fay Wouk and Malcolm Ross, 209-39. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
2001Voice alternations in Bonggi. Papers from the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 1996, eds. Karen L. Adams and Thomas John Hudak, 47-70. Tempe, AZ: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University. http://www.seals-conference.org/
2000The role of /l/ in blocking nasal spread in Bonggi. Borneo 2000: Language, management and tourism. Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Borneo Research Conference, ed. Michael Leigh, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 170-88. Kuching: Institute of East Asian Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
1996Bonggi clitics. Pan-Asiatic Linguistics. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Language and Linguistics January 8-10, 1996. Salaya, Thailand: Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University.
1994Aspect in Bonggi. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Florida. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services.
1991Aspect and temporal reference in Banggi. Thematic continuity and development in languages of Sabah, ed. S.H. Levinsohn, 7-28. Pacific Linguistics, Series C - No. 118. Canberra: Australian National University.
1990Evaluating written and oral sources in ethnohistory studies: The case of Bonggi. Language and oral traditions in Borneo, ed. James T. Collins, 1-32. Selected papers from The First Extraordinary Session of The Borneo Research Council, August 4-9, 1990, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Borneo Research Council Proceedings Series, Vol. 2. Williamsburg, VA: The Borneo Research Council Inc.
1990The Bonggi. Social organization of Sabah societies, ed. Sherwood G. Lingenfelter, 91-110. Kota Kinabalu: Sabah Museum and State Achives.
1986(Co-authored with Alanna Boutin.) Banggi death customs. Sabah Society Journal 8(2):274-83.
1987(Co-authored with Alanna Boutin.) Classification of disease among the Banggi of Sabah. Anthropological Linguistics 29(2):157-69.
1984Banggi kinship terminology. Anthropological Linguistics 26(3):305-12.

Selected presentations

2003A corpus study of the syntax and semantics of na in Bonggi discourse. Paper presented on 30 September 2003 at the Third Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (MICOLLAC 2003).
2002A Role & Reference Grammar account of adversative constructions in Bonggi. Paper presented at the Seventh Biennial Conference of the Borneo Research Council July 15-18, 2002, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. To appear in conference proceedings.
2001A Role & Reference Grammar account of Bonggi –an. Paper presented at 11th Annual Southeast Asian Linguistics Conference, May 16-18, 2001, Bangkok, Thailand .
2001Where have all the adjectives gone in the indigenous languages of Sabah? Paper presented at the Third International Malaysian Studies Conference, 6-8 August 2001, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia , Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia .
1999Locative predicates in RRG. Paper presented at the Role and Reference Grammar Workshop and Conference, 23-25 July 1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1996A tale of two passives in Bonggi. Paper presented at the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Borneo Research Council June 10-15, 1996. Universiti Brunei Darussalam.