Thera Crane, UC Berkeley Linguistics

Royal Museum for Central Africa
Postdoctoral researcher

Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification
Belgian Science Policy (Interuniversity Attraction Poles programme project P6/44)

University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Linguistics, May 2007,
PhD Linguistics, May 2011
Dissertation title: Beyond time: temporal and extra-temporal functions of tense and aspect marking in Totela, a Bantu language of Zambia Committee: Larry Hyman (co-chair), Lynn Nichols (co-chair), Line Mikkelsen, Alan Timberlake

LSA Linguistic Institute
Host Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Courses on Special Topics in Fieldwork, Language Documentation, Pragmatics, Semantics, and TAM

InField Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation
Host Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Coursework in Language Documentation, Data Management, Database Design, Fieldwork, and Field Phonetics

Juniata College (Huntingdon, PA)
B.A., Language and Culture/Mathematics, awarded May 2002
Summa Cum Laude

Philipps-Universität Marburg (Marburg, Germany)
Exchange Student, German Language and Linguistics

Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, and Simon Tukumu. 2011. A Grammar of Nzadi [B865]: A Bantu Language of the Democratic Republic of Congo Berkeley: University of California Press.

Submitted. Resultatives, progressives, statives, and relevance: The temporal pragmatics of the -ite Suffix in Totela.

Submitted. Completion and dissociation in Totela tense and aspect.

Narrative structuring (and restructuring) in Totela: a group study of tense-aspect in the field. Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory 2, ed. by Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan, and Peter Sells. London: SOAS, 61-71.

Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Shekgalagari. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, Berkeley: University of California, 224-278. [pdf]

Crane, Thera and Larry M. Hyman. 2007. Review of Halme, Riikka, A Tonal Grammar of Oshikwanyama. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 28.1:82-7.

Crane, Thera, Karl Lindgren-Streicher, and Andy Wingo. 2004. Te ti! A beginner's guide to Oshindonga. US Peace Corps: Namibia. [pdf]

Crane, Thera, Karl Lindgren-Streicher, and Andy Wingo. 2004. Hai ti! A beginner's guide to Oshinkwanyama. US Peace Corps: Namibia. [pdf]

2003

Chung, Donna, Thera Crane, Henry Thurston-Griswold, et al. 2003. Internationalization. Student development: the climate and the process. The Juniata College self study, ed. by Janet Lewis and Pat Weaver, 96-171. Huntingdon, PA: Juniata College.

Presentations

2011

What can Bantu teach us about TAM? Some lessons from Totela and other languages. Invited paper to be presented at he University of Leuven, Belgium, October 2011

Pragmatic development of the -ite Suffix in Totela (and beyond!) Paper presented at the 41st Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics.. Leiden, Netherlands, August 2011.

Completion and dissociation in Totela tense and aspect. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. College Park, MD, June 2011.

A quantitative analysis of narrative-structuring uses of tense and aspect in Totela. Paper presented at The 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Pittsburgh, PA, January 2011.

2010

High-tone anticipation in Totela: an unexpected system. Paper presented at The Fourth European Conference on Tone and Intonation. Stockholm, Sweden, September 2010. [pdf]

High-tone anticipation in Totela: a preliminary description. Paper presented at Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage. CNRS, Lyon, France, January, 2010.

2009

Narrative structuring (and restructuring) in Totela: a group study of tense-aspect in the field. Paper presented at Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, November 2009.

Phrase formation and downstep in Shekgalagari. Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, CA, January 2009.

2008

When relevance trumps time: the information-structuring role of a Bantu anterior in Totela. Paper presented at Chronos 8: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality . Austin, TX, October 2008.

The state (and progress) of the perfect in Totela. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Athens, GA, April 2008.

2007

Totela's diminishing augments: a case study of language change in progress. Paper presented at the International Conference on Bantu Languages: Analysis, Description, and Theory . Gothenberg, Sweden, September 2007.

Contact-induced homophony: the case of Totela's ubiquitous ka. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Language Contact and Morphosyntactic Variation and Change. Paris, France, September 2007.

The ubiquitous ka: Examining morphological homophony in Totela language change. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Gainesville, FL, March 2007.

The force of o-: Left periphery interactions in Oshiwambo. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Anaheim, CA, January 2007.

2006

The force of o-: Focus, assertion, and other left-periphery interactions in Oshiwambo. Paper presented at S-TREND (Syntax and Semantics Trilateral Weekend). Berkeley, CA, October 2006.

2002

Juggling combinations, permutations, and flaming chainsaws. Paper presented with Marty Schettler at the Moravian College Student Mathematics Conference. Bethlehem, PA.