Education & Training
- DPhil in Linguistics, University of Oxford
- MPhil in Linguistics, University of Oxford
- BA in English, Grinnell College
Representative Publications
Karen Park (in preparation). ‘The Selective Properties of Verbs in Reflexive Constructions.’
Karen Park (2013). 'Reflexive Marking in Fijian.' Studies in Language 37(4): 764-809.
Karen Park (2012). 'Dialect Choice in Fiji: A variationist approach to language change in the South Pacific' in Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler (eds.) The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Karen Park (2008). 'Evidence of a Fijian Reflexive and its Implications in Anaphoric Binding Theory' University of Wisconsin LSO Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 8: Proceedings of WIGL 6.
Research Interest Summary
Syntax, Lexical Functional Grammar, Austronesian languages, sociolinguistics, language change, language loss, and ethnobiology.