Kathleen Sacket, MA

Affiliate Instructor in Linguistics

Kathleen Sackett spent 18 years living and working in Russia, Azerbaijan and the Republic of Georgia. During her time there she was involved in linguistic research, language development as well as establishing responsible work in a number of language communities in the Caucasus.  Her work also included providing training in linguistics, language development and Russian language. She is a linguistics consultant with SIL. 

See: https://www.canil.ca/wordpress/u_member/kathleen-sackett/

  • MA Applied Linguistics (Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, TX; 2013)
  • BS Applied Mathematics - (Milligan College, TN; 1989)

Expertise

Russian, language development, phonology, orthography  

Recent Publications

Publications

  • Community-driven goal centered orthography development: A Tsakhur case study. In Creating orthographies for endangered languages. Cambridge University Press. 2017
  • Developing a linguistically-informed community-based orthography with the Tsakhur in Azerbaijan. Dallas, TX: Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics. (MA thesis.) 2013
  • Resources for the creation of Interactive, Web-based Bilingual Dictionaries.  Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Problems of National-Russian Bilingualism. Makhachkala, Russia. May 27-28. 2009

Conference Presentations

  • Community Participation in Restricted Access Situations. Presented at ORTHO19, Chiang Mai, Thailand, September 12-17. 2019
  • Cross-cultural considerations in consulting and mentoring. Presented at Competent Linguistics Training in Consultant Skills, Chiang Mai, Thailand, September 5-10. 2019
  • Workshop design for developing picture dictionaries in the Caucasus. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Manoa, Hawaii, February 26 – March 1. 2015
  • Committee-driven goal centered orthography development. Presented at the Fourth Cambridge Conference on Endangered Languages, Cambridge, England, July 4. 2014
  • Humnick, Linda and Kathleen Sackett. Evaluating Community-based Language Development Activities with the Sustainable Use Model:  A Tsakhur Case Study. Poster presented at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Manoa, Hawaii, February 28 – March 3. 2013
  • Sustainable community-based orthography development with a view towards the younger generation. Presented at SIL Eurasia Linguistics Forum, Zelham, Netherlands, September 9-11. 2013
  • Resources for the creation of Interactive, Web-based Bilingual Dictionaries.  Presented at the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Problems of National-Russian Bilingualism, Makhachkala, Russia, May 27-28. 2009

  • LING 210 Language and Society
  • LING 480/580 Field Methods
  • LING 468/568 Advanced Phonology