Tri-Co Dept of Linguistics
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041

tel. (610) 795-6138
fax. (610) 896-4202

blilleha (at) haverford (dot) edu

Offices & Office Hours

Haverford College
Stokes Hall 118B

Summer 2013 Office Hours:
by appointment only

Swarthmore College
Pearson 114

Summer 2013 Office Hours:
by appointment only

Bryn Mawr College
Park Science 250

Summer 2013 Office Hours:
by appointment only
I am an assistant professor at Haverford College, in the Tri-College Department of Linguistics.  I offer courses at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, and Swarthmore College.  For information on classes I’m teaching this term and upcoming terms, click on the “teaching” link above.

Education
  • 2002. M.A.,  Linguistics, UCLA 

Research Areas
  • Fieldwork on Mesoamerican languages (especially Zapotec) and American Indian languages: documentary and descriptive linguistics, archiving, developing pedagogical language materials, and lexicography
  • Syntax, semantics, morphology, grammaticalization, language change, word order, focus, and case marking
  • Language and space, locative systems, and prepositions
  • Colonial Valley Zapotec: morphological and syntactic analysis of 16th- 18th century documents, written in Zapotec