28.1317, Featured Linguist: Meet Rosa Vallejos!

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1317. Fri Mar 17 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1317, Featured Linguist: Meet Rosa Vallejos!

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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:39:53
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Meet Rosa Vallejos!

 
Dear subscribers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist of the 2017 Fund
Drive: Rosa Vallejos! Read her story and more on our blog or on our fund drive
web page:

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

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Linguistics arrived in my life in the most unexpected way. It was 1983 when I
heard about it for the first time. I was about to start high school, and a new
language instructor arrived into Lámud, a little town of about 2000 people in
the foothills of the Peruvian Andes. He came from Lima, the capital of the
country, full of enthusiasm and all these “new” ideas about language. And one
day, he taught as to draw syntactic trees. This is how I first became
fascinated by language structure.

For most high school graduates from the interior of Peru, going to college
means moving to Lima to compete with thousands of others from around the
country to get a spot into a university. At that point, my high school
instructor, who by then became my brother-in-law, suggested that I seriously
consider linguistics. The prospects of getting into a field that almost nobody
had heard of was not very attractive at the time. But given that I had limited
choices, in 1988 I applied to the Linguistics program of the National
University of San Marcos, still the only public university in Peru that offers
a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics.

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