Stanford University
Stanford, CA
September 2003 - Present
Ph.D. Program in Linguistics

Linguistics Society of America
Stanford, CA
July 2007
Linguistics Institute

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
Chiapas, Mexico
August 2006
Workshop on Complementation in Meso-American Languages

University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
March 2002 - July 2003
Master of Arts (Distinction) in Linguistics
Thesis: The Historical Reconstruction of Proto-Huastecan

University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
March 1998 - November 2001
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in German and Linguistics

Universität Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
March 2000 - September 2000
Exchange Semester (departments of German Literature and History)

Universität Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
January 2000 - February 2000
DAAD Winterschool in German Language and Literature



2008-2009     Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

2008-2009     Mellon Foundation/Stanford Humanities Dissertation Completion Fellowship (declined)

2003-2008     Stanford University Dissertation Fellowship

2007             Graduate Research Opportunity Award, Stanford University

2002             University of Canterbury Graduates Association Scholarship

2002             New Zealand Federation of University Women Canterbury Branch Masters' Scholarship

2001             New Zealand Federation University Women Sadie Balkind Award

2000             German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship



Jaeger, T. Florian and Elisabeth J. Norcliffe. 2009. "The Cross-linguistic Study of Sentence Production", Language and Linguistics Compass 3

Norcliffe, Elisabeth. 2009. "Revisiting Agent Focus in Yucatec", in New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics, H. Avelino, J. Coon and E. Norcliffe (eds), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 59

Norcliffe, Elisabeth. 2007. "Constructing Spanish Complex Predicates", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, S. Mueller (ed), CSLI, pp 194-213



Avelino, Heriberto, Jessica Coon and Elisabeth Norcliffe (eds). New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 59



Norcliffe, Elisabeth. 2008. ''Filler Gap Dependencies in Yucatec'', Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Annual Meeting, Chicago

Norcliffe, Elisabeth. 2008. ''Variation and Categorical Constraints in Yucatec Maya Relative Clause Constructions'', Linguistics Society of America, 82nd Annual Meeting, Chicago

Norcliffe, Elisabeth. 2007. "Constructing Spanish Complex Predicates", The 14th International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford

Norcliffe, Elisabeth. 2006. "Perceiving Individuals and Events: hearing, seeing and clitic alternations in Spanish", S-Trend, Berkeley

Hall-Lew, Lauren and Elisabeth Norcliffe. 2006. "*A Chinese walks into a bar...English Ethnonym Ideologies", NWAV Annual Meeting, Columbus

Norcliffe, Elisabeth. 2006. "The Focus construction in Jakalteko: A Biclausal Account", LSA, 80th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque

Norcliffe, Elisabeth. 2006. "Agent Focus in Jakalteko", SSILA, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque

Norcliffe, Elisabeth. 2006. "Spanish verbs of perception and the dative", Stanford Annual QP Fest, Stanford

Jaeger, T. Florian and Elisabeth Norcliffe. 2005. "Accent-free prosodic phrases? Accents and phrasing in the post-nuclear domain", LSA, 79th Annual Meeting, Oakland

Jaeger, T. Florian and Elisabeth Norcliffe. 2004. ''Prosodic Phrasing and Intonational Melody: Evidence against a 1:1 mapping''. Hungry Language Club, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Norcliffe, Elisabeth. 2004. "Anaphoric relations in Jakaltek". LFG04 Conference, University of Canterbury



Excerpts, (German-English) in: The Essential Turing (ed. Jack Copeland), Oxford University Press, 2004.

Excerpts, (German-English) in: Jack Copeland. 2004. "The Genesis of Possible Worlds Semantics", The Journal of Philosphical Logic, 31,2



Teaching Assistant. 2007. Introduction to Formal Semantics (Maribel Romero), LSA Summer Institute, Stanford University

Teaching Assistant. 2006. Introduction to Syntax (Tom Wasow), Linguistics Department, Stanford University

Teaching Assistant. 2006. Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Paul Kiparsky), Linguistics Department, Stanford University

Teaching assistant. 2005. Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (Will Leben), Linguistics Department, Stanford University

Teaching assistant. 2003. Introduction to Linguistics (Koenraad Kuiper),Linguistics Department, University of Canterbury

Relieving Lecturer. 2002/2003. Intermediate German Language, German Department, University of Canterbury



Symposium Co-organiser (with Heriberto Avelino). 2007. For the Symposium on Mayan Languages. Special Session of the SSILA Annual Meeting, Chicago

Consulting. 2005-2006. The Mayan Language Database Project (Russell Gray and Quentin Atkinson), Department of Psychology, University of Auckland

Research assistant. 2002-2003. The Origins of New Zealand English Project (Jen Hay), Linguistics Department, University of Canterbury

Translator (German-English). 2001-2002. Philosophy Department, University of Canterbury

Research Assistant. 2001-2002. Turing Project (Jack Copeland), Philosophy Department, University of Canterbury

Translator (German-English). 2001. Linguistics Department, University of Canterbury

Research Assistant. (Lyle Campbell), Linguistics Department, University of Canterbury



2008   Yucatec (Valladolid, Yucatán, Mexico)

2007   Yucatec (with native speakers in the Bay Area, CA)

2007   Yucatec (Chan Chen, Quintana Roo, Mexico)

2006   Chuj (Lagos de Montebello, Chiapas, Mexico)

2006   Mocho' (Motozintla, Chiapas, Mexico)

2005   Nepali (with a native speaker in the Bay Area, CA)



2007             Stanford Graduate Admissions Committee

2004-2007     Stanford Linguistics Syntax Workshop Committee

2004-2007     Stanford Field Linguistics Committee

2006             Stanford Linguistics Department Annual QP Fest Organising Committee

2005             Stanford Linguistics Department Library Committee

2003-2004     Stanford Linguistics Department Social Committee



German
Spanish
French (reading knowledge)
Yucatec (rudimentary)