MARY CATHERINE O’CONNOR
2 Sherborn St
.
SED Room 330
Boston
University
Boston
,
MA
02215
(617) 353-3318
mco@bu.edu
Education
Ph.D. Linguistics,
University
of
California
,
Berkeley
. May, 1987. Dissertation: Topics
in Northern Pomo Grammar.
M.A. Linguistics,
University
of
California
,
Berkeley
. June, 1983.
A.B. Human
Language,
Stanford
University
. June, 1977.
Selected
Academic Experience
Program
Director
Program
in Applied Linguistics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Boston
University
(1999-present)
Associate
Professor
Boston
University, Boston, MA.
School
of
Education
: Developmental Studies; and
Graduate
School
: Program in Applied Linguistics,
(1996-present)
Research in Linguistics
Selected Presentations
O’Connor,
M.C., A. Anttila, V. Fong (January 2004). Differential possessor expression in English:
Re-evaluating animacy and topicality effects. Annual
Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 9-11, 2004. Boston, MA.
O’Connor,
M.C., A.R. Deal (January 2004). Case-marking and clause type in Nez Perce: A
corpus study of animacy and discourse dimensions.
Annual Meeting of Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the
Americas
,
January 9-11, 2004
. Boston, MA.
Skarabela,
B., O’Connor, M.C., & J. Maling (January
2004). The mono-lexemic possessor
construction: pragmatic constraints in the noun phrase. Annual Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America, January 9-11, 2004. Boston, MA.
O’Connor, M.C. and A.R. Deal. (July, 2003). Differential possessor expression: Are
pair-wise comparisons required? LFG03:
25th Annual Conference on Lexical Functional Grammar. Workshop on Native American Languages. SUNY
Albany, held at Saratoga, NY. July 19-21.
O'Connor,
M.C. (May, 2003). Implicatures and event frames:
Interpretive consequences of the
external/internal possession alternation. Conference on the Linguistic Encoding of Three-Participant Events: Crosslinguistic and Developmental perspectives. The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen
, NL. May 14-16.
O'Connor,
M.C. (October, 1999). An Optimality Theory account of possessive DPs in Northern Pomo. Joint meeting of the NSF-funded Optimal
Typology projects at Stanford University and U.C. Santa Cruz.
Stevenson
College
, UCSC.
O'Connor,
M.C. (July, 1999). Harmonic alignment of
the animacy hierarchy and the structure of possessive DPs in Northern Pomo. Workshop on Native American Languages, LFG
99.
University
of
Manchester
,
Manchester
UK
.
Selected Publications
O’Connor,
M.C. (2003). Differential possessor
expression: Are pair-wise comparisons ever required? In Butt, M and T. King, (Eds.) Proceedings
of the LFG03 Conference. CSLI
Publications. http://csli-publications.stanford.edu.
Pp. 119-140.
Skarabela, B., C. O'Connor, and J. Maling (2004). Monolexemicke posesory v cestine a jinych jazycich. (Monolexemic possessors in Czech and other languages.) In: Hladka, Z. a P. Karlik. Cestina-- univerzalia a specifika, 5. (Czech – universals and
specifics, 5.) Praha: Nakladatelstvi Lidove Noviny. Pp.28-36.
O'Connor,
M.C. (1996). The situated interpretation
of possessor raising. In S.Thompson and M. Shibatani (Eds), Grammatical
Constructions: Their Form and Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 125-156.
O'Connor,
M.C. (1995) Privative opposition and pragmatic inference: the marking of
possession in Northern Pomo. Proceedings of the 20th
Annual Meeting of the
Berkeley
Linguistics Society. University of
California, Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 387-401.
O'Connor,
M.C. (1993). Disjoint reference and pragmatic
inference: anaphora and switch reference in Northern Pomo.
In W.A.Foley (Ed.) The Role of Theory in Language Description. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs
No. 69. W. Winter, Series Editor. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,
215-242.
O'Connor,
M.C. (1992). Topics in Northern Pomo Grammar. Garland Series of Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, J. Hankamer, Ed. New York: Garland Publishing Inc.
O'Connor,
M.C. (1990). Third person reference in
Northern Pomo conversational narrative: The indexing
of discourse genre and social relations. International Journal of American Linguistics. 56(3): 377-409.
Fillmore,
C.J., Kay, P. and O'Connor, M.C.
(1988). Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical constructions. Language,
64(3): 501-538.
Selected Research Grants in
Linguistics
National Science Foundation, supplement
to "Optimal typology of the DP: Markedness within the nominal" ($31,000) 2003.
National Science Foundation, two-year
grant to conduct a crosslinguistic study of the
internal structure of determiner phrases. "Optimal typology of the DP: Markedness within the nominal" ($158,854), 2000-2002.
National Endowment for the Humanities,
two one-year grants to construct a dictionary and text data base of Northern Pomo ($73,000), 1995-97.
National Science Foundation,
Supplementary Grant to DBS 9111264.($8000), 1994-95.
National Science Foundation, three-year grant to study the
interaction of grammar and discourse in Northern Pomo (DBS 9111264; $124,800), 1991-94.
Research in Applied Linguistics and
Education
Selected Presentations
O'Connor,
M.C. (May, 2002). "Can any fraction be represented as a decimal?" A
case study of position-driven discussion. Invited presentation, International Conference on Qualitative Research in Classrooms,
sponsored by the Spencer Foundation and the Centro de Investigación y
Estudios Avanzados
,
Mexico
City, DF.
O'Connor,
M.C. (May, 1999). Is this square a
rectangle? The linguistic sign and the contexts of classroom discussion. Conference on Problems in Discourse Analysis
in Mathematics and Science Classrooms. Center for Advanced
Studies in the Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford
,
CA
.
Selected Publications
Chapin,
S., O’Connor, C., and Anderson, N. (2003). Classroom Discussions: Using Math Talk to Help Students
Learn, Grades 1-6. Sausalito, CA:
Math Solutions Publications.
O'Connor,
M.C. (2001). "Can any fraction be
turned into a decimal?" A case study of a mathematical group
discussion. Educational Studies in
Mathematics, Vol. 46. pp. 143-185.
O'Connor,
M.C. (1999). Language socialization in
the mathematics classroom: Discourse practices and mathematical thinking. M. Lampert and M. Blunk, Eds. Talking
Mathematics.
Cambridge
University
Press. Pp. 17-55.
O'Connor,
M.C. (1998). Can we trace the "efficacy of social constructivism"? P.
David Pearson & Ali Iran-Nejad, Eds. Review of
Research in Education, Vol.22: 1-47.
O'Connor,
M.C., Godfrey, L. and Moses, R.P. (1998). The missing data point: negotiating
purposes in classroom mathematics and science. J. Greeno and S. Goldman. Thinking
Practices in Mathematics and Science. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Pp. 89-125.
O'Connor,
M.C., Michaels, S. (1996). Shifting
participant frameworks: orchestrating thinking practices in group
discussion. In D.Hicks (Ed.), Child Discourse and Social Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp.
63-102.
O'Connor,
M.C., Michaels, S. (1993). Aligning
academic task and participation status through revoicing:
analysis of a classroom discourse strategy. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 24(4): 318-335.
Gee,
J. , S. Michaels and M.C. O'Connor. (1992). Discourse analysis. In M.D. LeCompte,
W.L. Millroy, & J. Preissle (Eds) Handbook
of Qualitative Research in Education. New York: Academic Press, 227-291.
Gifford, B.R. and O'Connor, M.C. (Eds). (1992). Changing Assessments:
Alternative Views of Aptitude,
Achievement, and Instruction . Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Selected Grants
National Science Foundation, three-year
grant to conduct study of the efficacy of focused classroom discussion on
mathematics learning in middle school. C. O’Connor, PI; S. Chapin, Co-PI. ($733,000) 2003-2006.
Jacob K. Javits Foundation, U.S. Dept. of Education. Three-year grant to continue intervention
research on mathematics learning among Chelsea students with potential talent
in mathematics. "Project Challenge" (co-PI with Prof. Suzanne Chapin, project founder) ($646,000) 2001-2004. [Grant
awarded, not funded, due to changes in DOE allocations with new
administration.]
Lernout & Hauspie
Speech Technologies. One-year research internship for MA student
in Applied Linguistics. "Statistical approaches to natural language processing" ($15,000) 2000-2001.
Spencer Foundation Major Grants Program,
three-year grant: "Teacher discourse in middle school mathematics
classrooms" ($212,507), 1996-1999.
National
Academy
of Education Spencer Postdoctoral
Fellowship, 1989-91.
University Teaching
Sociolinguistics Discourse
Analysis: Theory and Methods
Language
Universals Linguistic
Field Methods
Introduction
to Linguistics Discourse,
Narrative & Literacy
Foundations
of Inquiry Language
and the Deaf Child
Selected Other
Professional Activities
National Science Foundation Member, Organizing Committee: Initiative to establish funding program for
research on endangered languages. 2001-present.
National Science Foundation Member, Senior Review
Panel, Linguistics Program. 2001-2003.
Linguistic
Society of
America
Program Committee, appointed 2004-2006.
Member,
Editorial Board Cognition and Instruction. 2003-2005.
Manuscript, article and
grant proposal review: Cambridge University Press; Natural Language and Linguistic Theory; Cognitive Science, Journal
of Research in Mathematics Education; Journal
of Teacher Education; Spencer Foundation Major Grants Program; Bunting
Institute Fellows Program, National Science Foundation.
Institute for Learning, (PI: Professor Lauren Resnick,
University
of
Pittsburgh Learning Research
and
Development
Center
) With Sarah Michaels, designed and wrote materials for CD-ROM on
the use of discussion in K-12 classrooms. CDs distributed to school districts across the nation who have contracted with the
Institute, an OERI-funded major grant to reform K-12 education.
Chelsea
Public
Schools
,
Chelsea
,
MA
. Professional development associated with
Project Challenge and Moving Forward classrooms at
Clark
Middle School
and Burke Complex. Includes
summer workshops and in-service training. 1999—2003.
Northern
Pomo
Coyote
Valley
Tribe, Creation
of language learning materials (written and video) for the Northern Pomo Coyote Valley Tribe. 1993—1997; 1999-2003. Pinoleville Tribe, 1999.
National Voluntary Tests on
Reading
and Mathematics Development
of item review processes for NAEP-style items to be used in the National
Voluntary Tests proposed by the
Clinton
administration. Consultant to American Institutes for
Research,
Palo
Alto
(Contract from NAGBE). 1997-1998.
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