Ramón Escamilla
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Irby 302C
(501) 852-0997
Education
Ph.D. Linguistics, U.C. Berkeley
M.A. Linguistics, U.C. Berkeley
B.A. Japanese, U.C. Berkeley; minor in Business Administration
B.A. Creative Writing, University of Central Arkansas
Current research interests
Hupa (Dene/Athabaskan)
Evidentiality and mirativity
Definiteness
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), moral panics, and Japanese media discourse
Selected recent publications
Forthcoming. Hupa indefinite proforms: Applying and problematizing Haspelmath (1997). In the Southern Journal of Linguistics.
Submitted. Translation, with Tadashi Yanai. Yanai, Tadashi. Films in which gods really breathe: Jean Rouch and the ciné-anthropology of nature. Japanese title: 神々が息づく映画——ルーシュとアフリカ的自然 [kami-gami ga ikizuku eiga: rūshu to afurika-teki shizen]
2023. Whose Satan? U.S. mainstream media depictions of The Satanic Temple. Discourse & Society 34(1), 54–76.
2021. What we do for each other [short story]. Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. Indiana University Press.
2021. When is a causative situation not mapped to a causative construction proper? The case of Hupa (Dene; California). Macrolinguistics 9(1), 101-112.
2019. Surveying the functions of Hupa =gya‘.
Proceedings of the 2018 Dene Languages Conference. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska.
2015. Lexical causativity revisited: material destruction events in Hupa (California Athabaskan). Southern Journal of Linguistics, 39-2: 1-24.
2014b. A preliminary semantics and morphosyntactic typology of Chungli Ao descriptions of cutting and breaking (C&B) events. Indian Linguistics 75 (3-4) 2014: 65-82.