Linguistics

Suzanne Kemmer

Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science

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Contact

kemmer@rice.edu

Links

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Education

Ph.D. Linguistics, Stanford University, 1988
M.A. German Studies, Stanford University, 1988
B.A. Linguistics, German, Spanish, Rice University, 1980.

Honors & awards

Mercator Fellow: Visiting Professorship at the University of Munich funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), PI Hans-Jörg Schmidt, Summers 2016-2019
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Start-up Grant, “Genealogy of Texts and Ideas: Looking Back and Forth through Early English Books Online”. Co-PI with Benjamin Brochstein, Rice, and two others from Baylor College of Medicine, 2015-2017
Visiting Distinguished Fellowship, National Taiwan University, Taipei, April-May 2012
Sr. Research Fellowship, Taiwan Educational & Cultural Office, for research and lectures at: Taiwan National University, Taipei (host), Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chung King University, Tainan, Wenzao University, Kao-hsiung, Summer 2010
Keck Foundation Seed grant for Cognitive Linguistics Meets Bioinformatics. PI: S. Kemmer. Co-PIs: A. Franklin, Rice; J. Smith, Dean, School of Health Info. Sciences; UT Health Sciences Cntr.; J. Zhang, Dean, Research, UTHSC. Awarded 2009 renewed 2010-2011
Senior Research Fellowship, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, Finland, October 2006
Senior Research Fellowship, Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany 2000

Courses taught

LING 216

Words In English

Introduction to the systematic study of English words. Topics include word formation, origins and history of English, etymology, new words, slang and jargon. Students will investigate words using online lexical tools and collect and describe neologisms. Understanding of word formation helps increase mastery of English vocabulary for GRE and other tests. No linguistics background required.

LinguisticsD13 credits

3.79.4hKemmer, Suzanne

LING 480