The Department of Linguistics welcomes Dr. Ruth Kramer
Dr. Ruth Kramer joins the Georgetown University’s Department of Linguistics in Fall 2009
Ruth Kramer comes to Georgetown from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics. Her research focuses on theoretical syntax and morphology, with particular emphasis on number, gender, and definiteness within noun phrases. She specializes in two languages of Northeastern Africa: Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia) and Ancient Egyptian (the language often written with hieroglyphs). She has conducted fieldwork for three years on Amharic in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is looking forward to working with the large Ethiopian community in Washington, D.C. Her Egyptian research, begun at Brown University where she earned a BA in Egyptology, has most recently focused on how the word order within Egyptian noun phrases deviates from typological generalizations. In the fall semester, she is teaching a graduate course in syntax (Syntax III).
