Willem De Reuse

 
Curriculum Vitae
Willem J. de Reuse
 
  1. Professional preparation
 

Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Germanic Philology  B.A. 1978

University of Kansas, Lawrence                        Linguistics                M.A., 1983

University of Texas, Austin                                  Linguistics                Ph.D., 1988

 

  b.   Appointments

  2005-present          Linguistic consultant to the Ft. Sill Apache Tribe, Apache,
                                      Oklahoma.

  2001-present          Assistant professor, Research, Department of English, University
                                     of  North Texas, Denton.

          1999-2001, 2006   Adjunct professor, Department of English, University of North
                                            Texas, Denton.

  1998-present          Linguistic consultant for the Yavapai-Apache Nation, Camp
                                     Camp Verde, Arizona

          1990-1997               Assistant professor (tenure track), Department of Anthropology, University   
                                             Arizona.
          1989-1990               Assitant professor (tenure track), Department of English, Ball
                                             Ball State University.
 
          1988-1989               Visiting professor in linguistics, Department of Linguistics,
                                             University of Iowa (one year position).

  1987-1988               Visiting lecturer in linguistics, Department of Linguistics,University of Chicago,
                                         one year position.

  1983-1984              Research assistant on Central Alaskan Eskimo morphological and syntactic analysis, and computer processing of texts for Professor Anthony Woodbury, University of Texas, Department Of Linguistics,

  1980-1981             Full-time research assistant to Dr. Ives Goddard, linguistic editor
Of the Handbook of North American Indians, working on Vol. 5, Arctic, and Vol. 10, Southwest, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

  1978                        Assistant Librarian, linguistics library, Universite´ Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

  1977-1978            Translator (Dutch and French) during my military service in the Belgian Armed Forces, Headquarters of the Forces of the Interior, Tervuren, Belgium.

 
  1. Selected publications
 

i.    5 most closely related to proposed project

 2004                     (with Kevin Mullin) Chiricahua Apache Noun list, based on
Hoijer’s published materials, Inde´-English, 47 pp., English-Inde´, 50pp.

1999                      (with Elizabeth Rocha, Rebekah Smith, and Philip Goode) Northern Tonto        Apache Noun Dictionary, viii +81 pp.

1998                     San Carlos Apache Noun Dictionary, xx + 182 pp.

1997                      Western Apache Verb Lexicon. An alphabetical Apache-lexicon of
 Inflected verb forms, vii +235 pp.

1996                     (with Bernadette Adley-Santamaria) Ndee Biáyti' Bígoch'iłaah. (Learning
Apache.) An Introductory textbook in the White Mountain Apache Language for non-speakers.

 
ii.   5 other significant publications

1994     Siberian Yupik Eskimo: the Language and its Contacts with Chukchi, xiii
+ 480 pp. Studies in Indigenous Languages of the Americas Series, Salt Lake
City: University of Utah Press. 
 
2000      La partie et le tout: les extensions métonymiques du duel et du pluriel en yupik sibérien central. In Nicole Tersis and Michèle Therrien, eds. Les langues         eskaléoutes. Sibérie, Alaska, Canada, Groënland. Paris: CNRS Editions. Pp.269-
 282.
 
2001      Prototypes and Fuzziness in the System and Usage of Apachean Classificatory    
Verb Stems. In Proceedings of the 2001 Athabaskan Languages Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, May 18-20, 2001, ed. By Siri Tuttle and Gary Holton. Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers 1.75-94.
 
2002     Tonto Apache and its position within Apachean. In Proceedings of the 2002 Athabascan Languages Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska, June 16-18, 2002, ed. By Gary Holton. Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers 2.78-90.
 
2005     Template-induced prefix deletion, accommodation, and shunting in Western Apache. In Proceedings of the 2005 Athabaskan Languages Conference, ed. by Suzanne Gessner. Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers 5.95-109.
 

Synergistic activities  

April 2004-present      Fieldwork with a rememberer of Chiricahua Apache and tapes of the last speakers from the Ft. Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma in Apache,Oklahoma.

2004                              Assisted Josephine Goode from the Gila County Voter Outreach Program, Globe, Arizona with transcriptions of Apache voting terminology.

2004                              Invited participant to the All Apache Summit, hosted by the Jicarilla Apache Nation, Horse Lake, New Mexico, July 11-14, 2004. Discussed and advised on language preservation issues with members of Apache tribes of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, and carried out fieldwork with a Camp Verde consultant.

1993                              Paid consultant, checking and correcting Apache language in a San Carlos Headstart Program Apache language teaching text, employed by the Office of Indian Programs, University of Arizona.

1991-1993, 1995         Instructed students on field methods of studying native Languages at the University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology.

 
  1. Collaborators and Other Affiliations
 
(ii) Graduate Advisors.

M.A.: Kenneth L. Miner, University of Kansas, Lawrence

Ph.D.: Anthony C. Woodbury, University of Texas, Austin

(ii)Graduate Advisors
(iii) Thesis Advisees