Canadian Defence Academy

Staff Officer, CFSTG

Exeter College

Thesis Title: The Universality and Demarcation of Lexical Categories Cross-Linguistically

About

Lindsay Morcom (nee Weichel) holds a doctorate in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology from the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford.

Her doctoral research is a typological study of parts of speech categories in Salish and Wakashan languages and Michif, and applies prototype theory to functional data to explore the nature and diversity of lexical categories across languages.  She is interested in language documentation, and has written a grammar of Pokomchi', a Mayan language of Guatemala.  She hopes to continue work on Aboriginal languages of the Americas, both in terms of working toward documentation and language pedagogy, as well as using data from these languages to inform current theory, especially in the areas of typology and morphology. 

Lindsay also has a great passion for education, and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the United Kingdom.  She has experience lecturing in Morphology, General Linguistics, and Aboriginal Languages of the Americas; she has also tutored in a variety of other subjects while at Oxford and has been employed as a Spanish instructor previously.  In her current position, she serves as a member of the Defence Team at CFB Borden.  She works to research and implement modern techniques and technologies for training and education to best prepare members of the CF for the work they do both in Canada and in deployed operations.  She also works in the development of training policy for the Canadian Forces Support Training Group (CFSTG).

Lindsay is originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.  In her spare time, she enjoys volunteer work, painting, camping, cycling, and cooking.

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