Research Topics

Language Practices and Health Care

Published Articles

• Papadamitriou, C., Lindemann, L., and Meehan, A.J. 2023. Making the visible seen: The interactional competence of a person in a disordered state of consciousness. Social Science & Medicine.
• Workman, E.T., Goulet, J.L, Brandt, C.A., Lindemann, L., Skanderson, M., Warren, A.R., Eleazer, J.R., Kronk, C., Gordan, K.S., Pratt-Chapman, M., Zeng-Treitler, Q. 2022. Temporal and Geographic Patterns of Documentation of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Keywords in Clinical Notes Medical Care.
• Zheng, L., He, Z., Wei, D., Keloth, V., Fan, J., Lindemann, L., Zhu, X., Cimino, J., Perl, Y. 2020. A review of auditing techniques for the Unified Medical Language System. Journal of the Medical Informatics Association.

Presentations

• Lindemann, L. 2025. Communication Barriers and Healthcare Triads in Collaborative Shared Decision Making. [Slides] Presented at the Inaugural Meeting of LEXING: A Symposium for Linguists in Industry, Non-profit, and Government during the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 12, 2025. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Lindemann, L. 2023. Advancing the Science of Shared Decision Making: a role for the linguist. [Poster] Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. June 26, 2023. Seattle, Washington.
• Lindemann, L. 2023. Implicit and Unnoticed Conversational Competencies and the Clinical Assessment of a Person in a Disordered State of Consciousness. [Poster] National Capital Area Traumatic Brain Injury Research Symposium. March 9, 2023. College Park, Maryland.
• Lindemann, L. 2020. Transportation and Access to Covid-19 Testing. [Recording] Lightning Talks at the Yale GISDay Virtual Conference on Mapping Inequity. November 13. New Haven, CT.
• Lindemann, L. 2020. Identifying Minority Language Resource Needs in a Healthcare Crisis. [Slides] Works in Progress at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics (YCMI). March 16. New Haven, CT.
• Workman, T., Goulet, J. and Lindemann, L. 2020. VA LGBT Research: Project in Trends Analysis and Natural Language Processing. The George Washington University and Children's National Joint Informatics Group. Washington, D.C.
• Lindemann, L. 2019. Markedness in Gendered Speech. [Slides] Works in Progress at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics (YCMI). October 14. New Haven, CT.

Project Newsletters

• Mallinson, T. and Papadimitriou C. (Principal Investigators), Lindemann L. (Editor, Team Member Spotlight). 2023. The SPARCSdm Newsletter: Standardized Process Assessment for Relationship-Centered Shared Decision-Making (SPARCSdm) Issue no. 2, July 2023.

Interactive Story Map

• Lindemann, L. 2020. Transportation and Access to COVID-19 Testing. Yale COVID Mapping Initiative.

Mapping Dialect Variation in Texas German and American English

Published Articles

• Lindemann, L. 2019. When Wurst Comes to Wurscht: Variation and Koiné Formation in Texas German. Journal of Linguistic Geography.
• Wood, J., Horn, L. Zanuttini, R., and Lindemann, L. 2015. The Southern Presentative Dative Meets Mechanical Turk. American Speech. 90.3: 291-320.

Presentations

• Lindemann, L., Warmuth, M., Boas, H. 2024. On the Predictability of Koiné and New-dialect Formation: Branching Pathways of Feature Developments in Texas German. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV). November 7. Miami, Florida.
• Lindemann, L. 2019. Sibilant Variation and Koinéization in Texas German. [Slides] Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society. January 4. New York, NY.
• Zanuttini, R., Wood, J., Horn, L., and Lindemann, L. 2015. Here's us a new methodology: The Southern Presentative Dative meets Mechanical Turk. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society. Portland, OR.

Working Papers and Web Articles

• Wood, J., Gahm, K., Neidel, I., Lioutikova, S., Lindemann, L., Holubkov, J., Lee, L. 2020. Mapbook of Syntactic Variation in American English: Survey Results, 2015-2019. Yale Working Papers in Grammatical Diversity
• Lindemann, L. 2018. What all. Yale Grammatical Diversity Project.

Project Newsletters

• Lindemann, L. (Author, Featured Alum) 2013. Language Decline in Texas and Nepal The Texas German Times: Newsletter of the Texas German Dialect Project no. 6, July 2013.
• Lindemann, L. (Chief Editor, Featured Team Member) 2012. The Texas German Times: Newsletter of the Texas German Dialect Project no. 5, November 2013.
• Lindemann, L. (Featured Team Member) 2008. The Texas German Times: Newsletter of the Texas German Dialect Project no. 2, December 2008.

Documentary Appearances and Press Mentions

• Honaker, C. (writer and director). 2019. All Güt Things: The Life and Death of Texas German (documentary)
• Vine, K. (author). 2013. Auf Wiedersehen to a Dialect. Texas Monthly, 41(7).

Grammatical Variation in Nepali

Dissertation

• Lindemann, L. 2019. A Jewel Inlaid: Ergativity and Markedness in Nepali. Yale University, PhD dissertation.

Published Articles

• Lindemann, L. 2025. Ergativity, optionality, and markedness in Nepali Nepalese Linguistics, 39(1), 65-72.
• Lindemann, L. 2024. The Syntactic Profile of Nepali Ergativity Nepalese Linguistics, 38(1), 49-59.

Conference Proceedings

• Lindemann, L. 2020. The Nepali Effector Ergative and Variation in Optional Ergativity. Presented at the Nineteenth Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. February 15. Austin, TX.
• Lindemann, L. 2016. Nepali Le as a Marker of Categorical Subjecthood. Presented at the 7th FASAL (Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages) Conference. March 12. Amherst, MA.

Presentations

• Lindemann, L. 2021. The Royal Dialect in Nepali Political Discourse. [Slides] Sociolinguistics Symposium 23. Hong Kong, China.
• Lindemann, L. 2020. The Nepali Effector Ergative and Variation in Optional Ergativity. [Slides] Presented at the Nineteenth Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. February 15. Austin, TX.
• Lindemann, L. 2019. Variable Ergativity in Nepali. [Slides] Yale University PhD Defense. February 28. New Haven, CT.
• Lindemann, L. 2019. Rigidity and Flexibility in the Ergative Splits of Nepali. [Poster] Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 5. New York, NY.
• Lindemann, L. 2017. The Nepali Royal Language. [Slides] Presented at the Fifth Himalayan Studies Conference. September 2. Boulder, CO.
• Lindemann, L. 2016. Le and the Nepali Subject. [Slides] Presented at the Fourth Himalayan Studies Conference. February 27. Austin, TX.
• Lindemann, L. 2016. Nepali Le as a Marker of Categorical Subjecthood. [Slides] Presented at the 7th FASAL (Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages) Conference. March 12. Amherst, MA.
• Deo, Ashwini and Lindemann, L. 2016. Variable ergative marking and agreement patterns in Pawri Bhili. Presented at the 7th FASAL (Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages) Conference. March 12. Amherst, MA.

Book Reviews

• Lindemann, L. 2014. Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area; reviewed by Luke Lindemann. Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. 34.2

Medieval Text Analysis and the Voynich Manuscript

Published Articles

• Bowern, C. and Lindemann, L. 2021. Linguistics of the Voynich Manuscript. Annual Review of Linguistics, 7:285-308.

Working Papers

• Lindemann, L. and Bowern, C. 2020. Character Entropy in Modern and Historical Texts: Comparison Metrics for an Undeciphered Manuscript. Yale Voynich Working Group.

Conference Proceedings

• Lindemann, L. 2022. Crux of the MATTR: Voynichese Morphological Complexity. 1st Annual Conference on the Voynich Manuscript. University of Malta. December 1, 2022. Online.

Presentations

• Lindemann, L. 2022. Crux of the MATTR: Voynichese Morphological Complexity. [Video] 1st Annual Conference on the Voynich Manuscript. University of Malta. December 1, 2022. Online.
• Lindemann, L. 2021. Linguistics and Voynichese. [Website] SIGTYP Lecture Series. Online.
• Lindemann, L. 2018. Entropy and (Mis)transcription in an Undeciphered Medieval Manuscript. [Slides] Presented at the 20th SYNC (Stonybrook, Yale, NYU, CUNY) Graduate Linguistics Conference. 2 December. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.

Documentary Appearances

• Cantor, H., O'Brien, R., Sharp, G., Stepp, J. (writers). 2023. Unbreakable Codes. The UnXplained with William Shatner. Season 6, episode 8. The History Channel.