Donna Gerdts
Professor
- Email: donna_gerdts@sfu.ca
- Office: RCB 8120
- Personal site: http://www.sfu.ca/~gerdts/
- Interests: Language Documentation, Typology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Indigenous Languages
Education
- PhD, Linguistics, University of California at San Diego
Biography
Dr. Gerdts' research and teaching interests include syntactic theory, language typology and universals, the syntax/morphology interface, and the form and function of grammatical categories. She is currently engaged in SSHRC-funded research on Halkomelem, an Indigenous language of British Columbia, focusing on verb classes, grammatical categories, and the discourse use of morphosyntax.
Dr. Gerdts is editor of the International Journal of American Linguistics, and has served as a founding editor of Northwest Journal of Linguistics, associate editor of Language, board member of the Jacobs Research Fund and the Whatcom Museum, BC, and president of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the America. Her graduate students have written theses on a variety of languages, including Arabic, ASL, Azeri, Breton, Hausa, Kashmiri, Koine Greek, Korean, Kunuz Nubian, Okanagan, and Shuswap.
Research Publications
See profile page on ResearchGate.
Courses
Spring 2025
- INLG 234 A320 Description and Analysis of an Indigenous Language II
- INLG 258 A320 Indigenous Language Immersion II
- INLG 334 A320 Indigenous Language Intermediate Level Proficiency II
- INLG 335 A325 Topics in Indigenous Language I
- INLG 433 A320 Indigenous Language Mentoring I
- INLG 434 A320 Indigenous Language Mentoring II
- INLG 435 A320 Topics in Indigenous Language II
- INLG 458 A320 Indigenous Language Immersion IV
- LING 893 G320 Linguistics MA Project
Summer 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.