Lisa Green has won one of this year’s Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship awards. The Conti Faculty Fellowship allows faculty members to pursue their research for a full year without any other duties. Fellows are chosen based on their record of “outstanding accomplishments in research and creative activity and on their potential for continued excellence, particularly with regard to the project that would be undertaken during the Fellowship period.” Congratulations, Lisa!

Lisa writes “I will spend the fellowship year completing African American English Through the Years: Getting at the Core Grammar, under contract by Cambridge University Press. The book will serve as a reference source for data on AAE, and it will be the only reference for some topics. It is in line with my previous research in that it shows how general linguistic principles can be applied in describing AAE structures, presents linguistic description informed by general linguistic theory, and underscores the practical application of research on AAE.”