Dr. Lisa Green is a linguist specializing in syntax and African American English (AAE).
[4] After completing her Ph.D., Green spent 11 years at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Linguistics,[5] before going on to take up a position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
[5] There she founded and directs the Center for the Study of African American Language,[6][7] a resource for students and educators dedicated to dialect and language-related issues.
An enduring goal of Green's is to dispel notions of AAE as a substandard linguistic variety by demonstrating its systematic nature.
Her research focuses on morphosyntactic systems in African American English like tense and aspect marking and negation,[8] as well as first language acquisition of AAE by child speakers.