James MacFarlane's Linguistics Homepage


Doctoral Candidate
University of New Mexico
Linguistics Department
Humanities Bldg. 526
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1196
jmacfarl@unm.edu

Research Interests

• Functional Linguistics:  The idea that linguistic expression is not entirely arbitrary, rather there are correspondences between the meaning of a linguistic unit and the mode of expression it takes.
• Psycholinguistics: I am increasingly interested in the nature of lexical/phonological representation. I am currently involved in psycholinguistic experiments designed to test 1) ASL user's knowledge of phonotactic constraints in their language, 2) The storage of complex words in the mental lexicon & 3) The storage of two-word constructions in the mental lexicon.


• Languages: The majority of my research has been on American Sign Language, with some work on English, Spanish and other sign languages.

 
 

Morford, J.P. and J. MacFarlane (2003)  Frequency characteristics of American Sign Language.

Sign Language Studies

Vogel Sosa, A. and J. MacFarlane (2002)  Evidence for frequency-based constituents in the mental lexicon: Collocations involving the word of.

Brain & Language, 83, 227-236

MacFarlane, J. (1998)  The grammaticization of WRONG in American Sign Language.   Proceedings of the First Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, (Eds.) Catie Berkenfield, Dawn Nordquist, and Angus Grieve-Smith. 1998. Albuquerque, New Mexico: HDLS. 17-23.

MacFarlane, J. (1998) The Grammaticization of Predicative Possession and Existentials in American Sign Language MA THESIS: University of New Mexico

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