Dr. Joan L.G. Baart
Degrees
- PhD linguistics, Leiden University 1987
- MA linguistics, Leiden University, 1982
Current positions
- WEG Academic Affairs Director (2004– )
- Adjunct professor of linguistics, University of North Dakota (2000– )
- WEG linguistics consultant (2000– )
Other experience
- Linguistic fieldwork in Pakistan (1991 – 2004)
- Assistant professor of computational linguistics, Leiden University, (1985 – 1990)
Memberships
- Linguistic Society of America
Language proficiency
- Dutch
- English
- German
- Urdu
- Kalami
Research interests
- Indo-Aryan languages
- prosody
- phonetics
- phonology
- language description
Selected publications
Publications in SIL International Bibliography
2004: Tone and song in Kalam Kohistani (Pakistan). In On Speech and Language: Studies for Sieb G. Nooteboom. Hugo Quené & Vincent van Heuven, eds. Pp. 5-15. Utrecht: Netherlands Graduate School in Linguistics.
2004: Contrastive tone in Kalam Kohistani. Linguistic Discovery Vol. 2(2): 1-20.
2004: Sustainable development and the maintenance of Pakistan’s indigenous languages. In Proceedings of the Conference on the State of Social Sciences and Humanities: Current Scenario and Emerging Trends. Iftikhar N. Hassan, ed. Pp. 202-213. Islamabad: Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and UNESCO.
2003: Tonal features in languages of northern Pakistan. In Pakistani Languages and Society: Problems and Prospects. Joan L.G. Baart and Ghulam Hyder Sindhi, eds. Pp. 132-144. Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies and Summer Institute of Linguistics.
2001: Acoustic Phonetics Field Manual. Dallas, TX: SIL International. (Included on LinguaLinks CD-ROM, v.5).
1999: A Sketch of Kalam Kohistani Grammar. Studies in languages of Pakistan 5. Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies and Summer Institute of Linguistics.
1999: Tone Rules in Kalam Kohistani (Garwi, Bashkarik). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Vol. 62(1): 88-104.
Selected papers presented
2005: “Tone and stress in northwest Indo-Aryan.” Paper presented at the Conference. “Between Stress and Tone ”, Leiden, International Institute of Asian Studies, June 15-18, 2005.
Works online
2005. (with Khawaja A. Rehman.) “A first look at the language of Kundal Shahi in Azad Kashmir.” SIL Electronic Working Papers 2005-008). Dallas, TX: SIL International. URL: http://www.sil.org/silewp/abstract.asp?ref=2005-008