Sally Rice

Sally Rice is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Arts. Her research integrates empirical methodologies with cognitive and functional linguistics, focusing on the inseparability of meaning and form in language.

• Education: PhD in Linguistics (University of California, San Diego, 1987)
• Landrex Distinguished Professor (2007-2011)
• McCalla Research Professor (2008-2009)

Key research areas include:

• Language documentation and revitalization for Dene Sųłiné and Tsuut’ina
• Grammaticalization and lexicalization patterns
• Corpus linguistics and psycholinguistic experimentation
• Form-meaning interface across typologically diverse languages

Notable projects:

• Community Linguist Certificate program with CILLDI
• Interactive speech atlas of Dene languages with Joyce McDonough
• Dene migration studies via interdisciplinary collaboration

Scientific awards:

• Landrex Distinguished Professorship
• McCalla Research Professorship
• SSHRC-CURA grants for Daghida Project

Her work bridges theoretical and applied linguistics, with over 20 years of fieldwork on Athapaskan languages and extensive supervision of graduate students in corpus-based and cognitive approaches to language structure.