Dr. Green specializes in prosodic phonology, tone, the phonology-morphology interface, and field linguistics. His research has focused primarily on African languages, including those in the Mande, Cushitic, Dogon, Jarawan, and Bantu phyla. He is the former Principal Investigator of an NSF collaborative research grant that aims to describe the role of tone at the phonology-syntax interface in Luyia, a cluster of languages spoken in Kenya and Uganda, and he also received an NEH fellowship to begin documenting the Jar cluster of Jarawan. His current research focuses on the moraic and metrical phonology of Cushitic languages and a continuation of his Jarawan documentation project. His published articles appear in both theoretical and area-specific venues and are on topics such as syllable structure, prosodic structure, tone, and wordhood.

• Associate Professor, Linguistics, Syracuse University (2022-present)
• Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Syracuse University (2016-2022)
• Associate Research Scientist, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (2014-2016)
• Assistant Research Scientist, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (2011-2014)

• Christopher R. Green, et al. 2025. Analyzing the construction and use of abbreviations in cardiology and cardiac imaging society guidelines. JACC: Advances 4(2). doi:10.1016/j.jacadv.2024.101561.
• Christopher R. Green & Nicola Lampitelli 2024. Exploring acoustic overlaps in Djibouti Somali nouns: implications for contrast and vowel harmony. Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 16, 5-34. doi:10.1163/18776930-01601001.
• Christopher R. Green. 2022. Jarawan numerals. Implications for history and internal classification. Anthropological Linguistics 64 (1-2), 136-164. doi:10.1353/anl.2022.a942069.
• Christopher R. Green. 2022. Moraic mismatches in Somali phonology: coda consonants reconsidered. Afrika und Übersee 95, 49-75. doi:10.15460/auue.2022.95.1.240.
• Christopher R. Green & Nicola Lampitelli. 2022. Conditions on complex exponence: a case study of the Somali subject marker. Phonological Data & Analysis 4(4), 1-31. doi:10.3765/pda.v4art4.63.
• Christopher R. Green & Maria Konoshenko. 2022. Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers. Mandenkan 67, 3-44. doi:10/4000/mandenkan.2698.
• Christopher R. Green. 2021. On the link between onset clusters and codas in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu). Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 39(1), 97-122. doi:10.1007/s11049-020-09469-9.
• Christopher R. Green. 2020. Harmony and disharmony in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu) verbs. Linguistique et langues africaines. 6, 43-72.
• Christopher R. Green & Abbie E. Hantgan-Sonko. 2019. A feature geometric approach to Bondu-so vowel harmony. Glossa 4(1), 35. doi:10.5334/gjgl.793.
• Christopher R. Green & Michelle E. Morrison. 2018. On the morphophonology of domains in Somali verbs and nouns. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 10(2), 200-237. doi: 10.1163/18776930-01002002.
• Christopher R. Green 2018. A survey of word-level replacive tonal patterns in Western Mande. Mandenkan 59, 67-108.
• Samuel G. Obeng & Christopher R. Green (eds.). 2017. African linguistics in the 21st century: Essays in honor of Paul Newman. Grammatical analyses of African languages, Volume 55. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe.
• Christopher R. Green & Michael C. Dow. 2017. The morphophonology of animate and inanimate nouns in Najamba (Dogon). In Samuel G. Obeng & Christopher R. Green (eds.), African linguistics in the 21st century: Essays in honor of Paul Newman, 57-69. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe.
• Christopher R. Green & Jennifer Hill Boutz. 2016. A prosodic perspective on the assignment of tonal melodies to Arabic loanwords in Bambara. Mandenkan 56, 29-76.
• Christopher R. Green & Michelle E. Morrison. 2016. Somali wordhood and its relationship to prosodic structure. Morphology 26(1), 3-32.
• Christopher R. Green. 2015. The foot domain in Bambara. Language 91(1), e1-e26.