Advising on Individual Student Research Projects

2019-present    Jonathan Paramore (research assistant on Mankiyali language documentation project; independent research paper of “Syllable Structure and Stress in Mankiyali).

 

2019-present    Javid Iqbal (research assistant on Mankiyali and Burushaski documentation projects; independent research paper on “Verb Morphology in Mankiyali” as part of his Professional Development course).

2019-present    Midhat Shah (research assistant on Mankiyali documentation project; independent research paper on “Use of Metaphor in Rasul Mir's poetry” as part of her Professional Development course).

2019                Eric Englert (LING 4900 Special Problems, worked on a paper on Kashmiri Orthography and issues in various proposals)

 

2017-2018        Mary Burke (independent research paper, titled “A Preliminary Reconstruction of Proto-
Central Chin” as part of Burke's Professional Development course).

 

2018                Jessie Mortensen (undergraduate student; independent research paper on Icelandic
                        language contact situation as part of her Capstone Spring 2018 course).

 

2018                Karla Villarreal Trevino (independent research paper on “Pro-Drop and Agreement” in
                        Kashmir as part of Karla's Professional Development course).

 

2017-2018       Patricia Rector (independent research paper titled “A Diachronic Analysis of Pronouns in
                        Indo-Aryan “Dardic” languages: Evidence for Subgrouping”.

 

2017-2018        Christine Carr (co-authored research paper for presentation at the South Asian Language
                        Analysis roundtable conference in June 2018).

 

2017                Levi Accord (“Diachronic Semantic Change in Kashmiri”; Capstone Spring 2017)

 

2015                 Magdalena Ramirez (independent research study in Capstone Fall 2015)

                         Kaneeze Hussain (independent research study in Capstone Fall 2015).

 

2008                 Amber Dunai (independent research study in LING 5900 Special Problems).

2007                 Melissa Sines (independent research study in LING 4900 Special Problems).

 

Professional Training through Research Assistantships

Through a number of research projects, several UNT students received professional training and experience in methods and procedures involved in language documentation -- data collection, fieldwork, transcription, translation and analysis of texts, database management, metadata collection, and lexicography. The students worked on three research project: Documentation of Mankiyali Language, Burushaski Language Documentation Project, Digitization of Endangered Manuscripts of Kashmir, and Kashmiri Dictionary Project.

 

2020-present    Tiffany Blanchett (through REU award from NSF)
2018-present    Eric Englert (as UG until summer 2020 and as graduate student since Fall 2020)
2019- present   Midhat Shah
2019- present   Javid Iqbal
2019- present   Jonathan Paramore

2020-present    Mayank Pinna (of Computer Science)

2016-2018       Christine Carr

2016-2019       Justin Mortensen

2018-present    Danielle Ivie

2016                Reema Sharma (of Computer Science)

2015                Sahithi Venreddy (of Computer Science)

2012-2015       Tyler Utt

2012                Alex Smith

2012                Ryan Hamilton

2010-2012       Piar Karim

2012                Christopher Hokamp

 

Several fieldworkers and researchers were trained to conduct data collection for various documentation projects (viz. Documentation of Endangered Mankiyali Language (DEML), Archive of Annotated Burushaski Texts (AABUT) and Kashmir Oral History (KOH) project). These include:

 

2019-2020       Gohar Ur-Rehman (DEML)
2019-2020       Aurangzeb (DEML)

2018-2019       Uzma Anjum (DEML)
2018-2019       Afsar Ali Khan (DEML)
2018-2019       Shahid Hussain (DEML)

2010-2017       Muhammad Wazir Shafi (AABUT)

2010-2016        Hasina Bano (AABUT)

2012                 Quwat Khan (AABUT)

2010                 Naseema Ali (AABUT)

2010-2018        Zafar Iqbal Yasini (AABUT)

2010-2018        Naveed Hussain (AABUT)

2015                  Shah Alam (AABUT)

2013                 Shakir Mir (KOH)
2013                  Khalid Shah (KOH)

 

In addition, a weeklong training workshop was held at Air University (Islamabad, Pakistan) in January 2019 in which twenty-five people from various educational universities of Pakistan received intensive hands-on training in tools and methods in language documentation.

 

Advising Through Mentorships

2017-2018       Camille Millard, undergraduate student (Access Mentoring Program, UNT)

2017-2018       Fernando Aldana, undergraduate student (Access Mentoring Program, UNT)

2017-2018       Eloy Lopez, undergraduate student (Access Mentoring Program, UNT)

2017-2018       Caleb Moseley, undergraduate student (Access Mentoring Program, UNT)

2017-2018       Dillion Sprowl, undergraduate student (Access Mentoring Program, UNT)

 

Other Student Advising

Administered Urdu and Hindi language proficiency tests of the following UNT graduate students:

 

2014    Jaya Wagle (Test Administrator Graduate Mentoring and Advising; Hindi Language Proficiency Test)

 

2013    Akeem Ranmal (Test Administrator Graduate Mentoring and Advising; Hindi Language Proficiency Test)

 

2012    Zubi Sara Abbasi (Test Administrator Graduate Mentoring and Advising; Urdu Language Proficiency Test)