Rebecca Cover

Department of Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
1203 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

rebecca at berkeley dot edu

Education

Present Ph.D. candidate in linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D. expected May 2009.
Dissertation: Aspect, Modality, and Tense in Badiaranke.
Dissertation committee: Lynn Nichols (chair), Line Mikkelsen, and Alan Timberlake.

2005 M.A. in linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.

2005 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Harvard/MIT.

2005 DOBES Endangered Language Documentation Training Week, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.

2000 B.A. in astrophysics, valedictorian, summa cum laude, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
Honors thesis: h and chi Persei: An Analysis of Cluster Membership.

Grants and Fellowships

2008 Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

2005-2008 With Larry Hyman (PI), NSF/NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Grant

2005 Linguistic Society of America Bloch Memorial Fellowship

2004-2007 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2004 West African Research Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

2004 Rocca Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Award from the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies

2003 Pre-Doctoral Humanities Fellowship from UC Berkeley (2 years)

1996-2000 Honors at Williams College, including valedictorian; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi; Willis I. Milham Award in astronomy; James A. Baxter Honor Scholarship; 1944 Class Scholarship; Class of 1960 Scholar in Physics.

Fieldwork

2008 2 months' fieldwork on Badiaranke (Atlantic) in Paroumba, Senegal and Sounkoutou, Guinea. Elicited data from consultants as well as recording, transcribing, and analyzing longer texts.

2006 3 months' fieldwork on Badiaranke in Paroumba, Senegal and surrounding villages.

2005-2006 Elicitation on Kuki-Thado (Tibeto-Burman) in Berkeley, CA.

2004 2 months' fieldwork on Badiaranke in Paroumba, Senegal.

2000-2002 Developed fluency in Pulaar (Atlantic) as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thiangaye, Senegal.

Publications

Submitted Modal aspects of Badiaranke aspect.

2005 Cover, Rebecca T., and Yuni Kim. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Prosodic Variation and Change. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2005 Cover, Rebecca T., and Yuni Kim. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Languages of West Africa. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Conference Presentations

2009 A preliminary look at Badiaranke counterfactuals. Workshop on Counterfactuals, Causality, and Inertia, Stanford, CA, October 18, 2009.

2009 The modality of aspect in Badiaranke. California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP), Los Angeles, CA, May 24.

2009 Sequence of tense in an aspect language. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Francisco, CA, January 10.

2007 Modal aspects of Badiaranke aspect. Western Conference on Linguistics (WeCoL), San Diego, December 1.

2007 The narrative tense that isn't: Narrative morphology in Badiaranke. 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 38), Gainesville, March 23.

2007 The semantics of aspect in Badiaranke. 81st Annual Meeting of the LSA, Anaheim, January 5.

2006 Reflections on inflection: TAMP in Badiaranke. 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Eugene, April 8, 2006.

2006 Focus on ko: The syntax and semantics of identificational focus in Pulaar. 80th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Albuquerque, January 6.

2005 When antecedents matter: Possessive pronouns in Pulaar. 79th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Boston, January 8.

2005 When endangered languages don't "feel" endangered: The case of Badiaranke. Poster at the 79th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Oakland, January 7.

Informal Presentations

2008 The role of tense in an aspect language. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, September 25.

2007 Inclusory constructions. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle (with Alice Gaby), November 9.

2007 The narrative tense that isnÕt: Narrative morphology in Badiaranke. UC Syntax and Semantics Circle, March 16.

2006 The role of linguistic theory in grammar writing. UC Berkeley Grammar Reading and Writing Group, October 20.

2006 Reflections on inflection: TAMP in Badiaranke. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, March 24.

2006 Aspects of aspect in Badiaranke: Progress and problems. UC Berkeley Data Group, March 17.

2006 Tense/aspect/polarity/person in Badiaranke: An overview. UC Berkeley Data Group, January 27.

2005 Focus on ko: The syntax and semantics of identificational focus in Pulaar. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, November 28.

2005 An introduction to ELAN. Berkeley Endangered Language Lexicography Outfit, November 6.

2004 When antecedents matter: Possessive pronouns in Pulaar. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, November 12.

Non-Linguistics Publications

2008 D.R. Parker, R. Gramling, R.E. Goldman, C.B. Eaton, D. Ahern, R.T. Cover, and J. Borkan. Physicians' perceptions of barriers and facilitators regarding adoption of the National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines. Preventive Cardiology 11(1):29-35.

2006 R.E. Goldman, D.R. Parker, C.B. Eaton, J.M. Borkan, R. Gramling, R.T. Cover, and D.K. Ahern. Patients' perceptions of cholesterol, cardiovascular disease risk, and risk communication strategies. Annals of Family Medicine 4:205-212.

2000 Wolk, Scott J., Rebecca T. Cover, Ray Jayawardhana, and Thomas J. Hearty. MBM12: A younger version of the TW Hydrae Association? In From Darkness to Light: Origin and Evolution of Young Stellar Clusters, ed. by Thierry Montmerle and Philippe Andre.

Teaching

Fall 2009 Instructor, Linguistics R6: Endangered Languages, University of California, Berkeley.

Fall 2007 Graduate Student Instructor, Linguistics 100: Introduction to Linguistic Science, University of California, Berkeley. Instructor: Joseph Sabbagh.

Spring 2007 Graduate Student Instructor, Linguistics 55: The American Languages, University of California, Berkeley. Instructor: Robin Lakoff.

1997-1999 Teaching Assistant, Astronomy, Williams College.

Service

2005-2007 Student representative to faculty meetings, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.

2005-2007 Student representative to the Linguistic Society of America Executive Committee.

2005-2007 Member of the Linguistic Society of America's Committee on Membership Services and Information Technology.

2005-2006 Member of the Linguistic Society of America's Information Technology Advisory Group.

2005 Co-organizer (with Yuni Kim) of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Feb. 18-20.

Other Experience

2003 Research Assistant, Department of Family Medicine, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI. Conducted research on cholesterol management in primary health care.

2000-2002 Peace Corps Rural Health Volunteer, Thiangaye, Senegal. Worked and lived as a health educator in northern Senegal, teaching villagers in Pulaar about AIDS, maternal health, hygiene, first aid, and other nationally prioritized health subjects.

2000 Peace Corps Trainee, Thies, Senegal. Completed intensive 12-week training program on Pulaar (oral and written), Senegalese culture, and non-formal education techniques.

1999 Summer Intern, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA. Reduced optical data in preparation for honors thesis.

1999 Team Member, Williams College Eclipse Expedition to Romania. Prepared telescope, focused digital images, and wrote computer code to image the solar corona during total eclipse of the sun.

Professional Membership

2003-present Linguistic Society of America

Languages

English native

Pulaar (Atlantic) fluent

Badiaranke (Atlantic) proficient

French proficient

Italian proficient

Hebrew fair

Swahili beginner

Bambara (Mande) elicitation

Kuki-Thado (Kuki Chin) elicitation

Present	Ph.D. candidate in linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D. expected May 2009. Dissertation: Aspect, Modality, and Tense in Badiaranke. Dissertation committee: Lynn Nichols (chair), Line Mikkelsen, and Alan Timberlake.
2005	M.A. in linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.
2005	Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Harvard/MIT.
2005	DOBES Endangered Language Documentation Training Week, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
2000	B.A. in astrophysics, valedictorian, summa cum laude, Williams College, Williamstown, MA. Honors thesis: h and chi Persei: An Analysis of Cluster Membership.

2008	Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
2005-2008	With Larry Hyman (PI), NSF/NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Grant
2005	Linguistic Society of America Bloch Memorial Fellowship
2004-2007	National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2004	West African Research Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
2004	Rocca Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Award from the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies
2003	Pre-Doctoral Humanities Fellowship from UC Berkeley (2 years)
1996-2000	Honors at Williams College, including valedictorian; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi; Willis I. Milham Award in astronomy; James A. Baxter Honor Scholarship; 1944 Class Scholarship; Class of 1960 Scholar in Physics.

2008	2 months' fieldwork on Badiaranke (Atlantic) in Paroumba, Senegal and Sounkoutou, Guinea. Elicited data from consultants as well as recording, transcribing, and analyzing longer texts.
2006	3 months' fieldwork on Badiaranke in Paroumba, Senegal and surrounding villages.
2005-2006	Elicitation on Kuki-Thado (Tibeto-Burman) in Berkeley, CA.
2004	2 months' fieldwork on Badiaranke in Paroumba, Senegal.
2000-2002	Developed fluency in Pulaar (Atlantic) as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thiangaye, Senegal.

Submitted	Modal aspects of Badiaranke aspect.
2005	Cover, Rebecca T., and Yuni Kim. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Prosodic Variation and Change. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
2005	Cover, Rebecca T., and Yuni Kim. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Languages of West Africa. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2009	A preliminary look at Badiaranke counterfactuals. Workshop on Counterfactuals, Causality, and Inertia, Stanford, CA, October 18, 2009.
2009	The modality of aspect in Badiaranke. California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP), Los Angeles, CA, May 24.
2009	Sequence of tense in an aspect language. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Francisco, CA, January 10.
2007	Modal aspects of Badiaranke aspect. Western Conference on Linguistics (WeCoL), San Diego, December 1.
2007	The narrative tense that isn't: Narrative morphology in Badiaranke. 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 38), Gainesville, March 23.
2007	The semantics of aspect in Badiaranke. 81st Annual Meeting of the LSA, Anaheim, January 5.
2006	Reflections on inflection: TAMP in Badiaranke. 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Eugene, April 8, 2006.
2006	Focus on ko: The syntax and semantics of identificational focus in Pulaar. 80th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Albuquerque, January 6.
2005	When antecedents matter: Possessive pronouns in Pulaar. 79th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Boston, January 8.
2005	When endangered languages don't "feel" endangered: The case of Badiaranke. Poster at the 79th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Oakland, January 7.

2008	The role of tense in an aspect language. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, September 25.
2007	Inclusory constructions. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle (with Alice Gaby), November 9.
2007	The narrative tense that isnÕt: Narrative morphology in Badiaranke. UC Syntax and Semantics Circle, March 16.
2006	The role of linguistic theory in grammar writing. UC Berkeley Grammar Reading and Writing Group, October 20.
2006	Reflections on inflection: TAMP in Badiaranke. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, March 24.
2006	Aspects of aspect in Badiaranke: Progress and problems. UC Berkeley Data Group, March 17.
2006	Tense/aspect/polarity/person in Badiaranke: An overview. UC Berkeley Data Group, January 27.
2005	Focus on ko: The syntax and semantics of identificational focus in Pulaar. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, November 28.
2005	An introduction to ELAN. Berkeley Endangered Language Lexicography Outfit, November 6.
2004	When antecedents matter: Possessive pronouns in Pulaar. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, November 12.

2008	D.R. Parker, R. Gramling, R.E. Goldman, C.B. Eaton, D. Ahern, R.T. Cover, and J. Borkan. Physicians' perceptions of barriers and facilitators regarding adoption of the National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines. Preventive Cardiology 11(1):29-35.
2006	R.E. Goldman, D.R. Parker, C.B. Eaton, J.M. Borkan, R. Gramling, R.T. Cover, and D.K. Ahern. Patients' perceptions of cholesterol, cardiovascular disease risk, and risk communication strategies. Annals of Family Medicine 4:205-212.
2000	Wolk, Scott J., Rebecca T. Cover, Ray Jayawardhana, and Thomas J. Hearty. MBM12: A younger version of the TW Hydrae Association? In From Darkness to Light: Origin and Evolution of Young Stellar Clusters, ed. by Thierry Montmerle and Philippe Andre.

Fall 2009	Instructor, Linguistics R6: Endangered Languages, University of California, Berkeley.
Fall 2007	Graduate Student Instructor, Linguistics 100: Introduction to Linguistic Science, University of California, Berkeley. Instructor: Joseph Sabbagh.
Spring 2007	Graduate Student Instructor, Linguistics 55: The American Languages, University of California, Berkeley. Instructor: Robin Lakoff.
1997-1999	Teaching Assistant, Astronomy, Williams College.

2005-2007	Student representative to faculty meetings, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.
2005-2007	Student representative to the Linguistic Society of America Executive Committee.
2005-2007	Member of the Linguistic Society of America's Committee on Membership Services and Information Technology.
2005-2006	Member of the Linguistic Society of America's Information Technology Advisory Group.
2005	Co-organizer (with Yuni Kim) of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Feb. 18-20.

2003	Research Assistant, Department of Family Medicine, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI. Conducted research on cholesterol management in primary health care.
2000-2002	Peace Corps Rural Health Volunteer, Thiangaye, Senegal. Worked and lived as a health educator in northern Senegal, teaching villagers in Pulaar about AIDS, maternal health, hygiene, first aid, and other nationally prioritized health subjects.
2000	Peace Corps Trainee, Thies, Senegal. Completed intensive 12-week training program on Pulaar (oral and written), Senegalese culture, and non-formal education techniques.
1999	Summer Intern, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA. Reduced optical data in preparation for honors thesis.
1999	Team Member, Williams College Eclipse Expedition to Romania. Prepared telescope, focused digital images, and wrote computer code to image the solar corona during total eclipse of the sun.

English	native
Pulaar (Atlantic)	fluent
Badiaranke (Atlantic)	proficient
French	proficient
Italian	proficient
Hebrew	fair
Swahili	beginner
Bambara (Mande)	elicitation
Kuki-Thado (Kuki Chin)	elicitation