Allison Burkette is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Mississippi. Her publications include a number of case studies that employ Linguistic Atlas Project data, including 'The Story of Chester Drawers' (2001), 'Stamped Indian: Localism and Lexical Variation in Terms for American 'Cornbread'' (2011), and 'Parlor Talk: Complexity from a Historical Perspective' (2013). She is author of Language and Material Culture (2015).
1. A new science
2. Complex systems in nature and human behavior
3. Complex systems in language
4. Language basics: sounds
5. Sounds: IPA and acoustic phonetics
6. Sounds: atlas evidence
7. Language basics: morphology
8. Morphemes: empirical data
9. Parts of speech
10. Language basics: grammar and discourse
11. Grammar: sentences and construction grammar
12. Cognitive linguistics
13. Language acquisition
14. Language evolution
15. Text type
16. Style
17. Sociolinguistics
18. Big data: using a corpus
19. Historical linguistics
20. Conclusion: the future of interaction and emergence.
