(I went on de facto leave of absence in fall 2022, to attend to ongoing family matters, and will re-enter the MA program in the fall of 2024 on a part-time basis.)

I've listed too many research interests below, partly because my work here at UK incorporates multiple remnants of a previous attempt to complete a PhD in anthropology (sadly cut short by Big Life Things). Nevertheless, these interests cluster into a small number of coherent themes:

*** How linguistic behavior, the social meanings of linguistic behavior, and various "inner" aspects of the mind (both experiential and cognitive) intersect;

*** How such matters play out diachronically through language change.  Here, the areas that interest me the most are morphology and semantics, but the entire continuum between those areas (speaking disciplinarily, since I'm not convinced it's necessarily a "continuum" in reality) is of broad interest;

*** A general interest in typological matters, which certainly remains anthropological in cast;

*** Translation studies, including prospects for improving automated translation, as well as classic literary translation studies.

My master's thesis will center on a particular issue from Indonesian morphophonology.  I am also interested in the ethnohistory of certain aspects of language change among multiple indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest, along with a variety of other potential projects.

While away, I've been working independently on learning Indonesian, Latin, Lushootseed, and Cornish (the language of some of my ancestors), plus brushing up on my long-dormant Russian, and beefing up my computational and programming skills a bit.

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Teaching experience:

Instructor of record (Type I teaching assistant), 2021-2022
University of Kentucky, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
(Technical Writing x2/2 semesters)

Instructor and Tutor, 2004-2007
Princeton Review Northwest (Seattle region)
(LSAT prep, MCAT prep)

Adjunct instructor of anthropology, 1995-1996
Seattle University, Department of Sociology
(Introduction to Cultural Anthropology *4, Culture and Personality, Northwest Coast Peoples)

Co-instructor [with Dr Fredrik Barth and Dr Alexander Hinton], 1993
Emory University, Department of Anthropology
(Southeast Asian Cultures)

Teaching assistant
[with Dr Charles Nuckolls, Dr Michael Harkin, and Dr Euclid O. Smith], 1991-1992, 1994
Emory University, Department of Anthropology
(Introduction to Cultural Anthropology *2, Introduction to Physical Anthropology [lab])

Selected publications and presentations:

Edgewater, I. D. (2022). Toward deep motivation as a factor in language change: Notes on the nasal->stop transition in Lushootseed (Puget Salish).  Paper given at the 10th Annual Central Kentucky Linguistics Conference (CKLiC), April 2022, Lexington, Kentucky.

Edgewater, I. D. (1999).  Music hath charms...: Fragments toward constructionist biocultural theory, with attention to the relationship of "music" and "emotion".  In A. L. Hinton (Ed.), Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (Pp. 153-181).  Cambridge University Press.