Curriculum Vitae

Elly van Gelderen

Regents’ Professor of English
Arizona State University

Contact Information English Department

ellyvangelderen@asu.edu Arizona State University
http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/elly.htm Tempe, AZ 85287-0302, USA
480-965-3535

Education
PhD (12 June 1986) in Linguistics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
BA "Kandidaats" (29 June1979) and MA "Doktoraal" (25 September 1981) in English Language
and Literature, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Academic Positions
August 2002 - present: Professor, Arizona State University, Department of English/Linguistics
concentration (courses on grammar, generative syntax, linguistics, historical linguistics,
typology, and the history of the English language). Since 2008: Regents’ Professor.
August 2002 - 2008: Director, Programs in Linguistics and TESOL (curriculum, advising,
admissions, internship supervision).
August 1998 - May 2002: Associate Professor; July 1995 - May 1998: Assistant Professor at
Arizona State University (see above).
September 1990 - August 1995: "Universitair docent" (roughly equivalent to Assistant Professor,
with tenure) at the University of Groningen, Department of English (courses on generative
syntax, descriptive grammar, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, ESL).
September 1989 - June 1990: Visiting Assistant Professor at Queen's University, Department of
English, Kingston, Ont., Canada (courses on linguistics and syntax).
January 1989 - June 1989: Faculty Lecturer at McGill University, Department of Linguistics,
Montréal, Canada (syntax).
January 1986 - June 1986; January 1988 - June 1990: Instructor at John Abbott College,
Humanities Department, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Québec, Canada (courses on human and
civil rights).
September 1981 - 1985: Teaching Assistant in Linguistics at McGill University.

Publications
Books
An Introduction to the Grammar of English, completely revised edition of the 2002 textbook.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2010: xxi, 232 pp
A History of the English Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2006: xviii and 334 pages,
with a website at www.historyofenglish.net.
(Reviews on LinguistList 18.867; in the Journal of Germanic Linguistcs 19.3: 255-260;
Diachronica 26.1; English Language and Linguistics 13.1: 141-147; Language 85.4: 893-907; and
eLanguage May 2010)
Grammaticalization as Economy. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Linguistik
Aktuell 71). 2004: xv and 320 pages.
(Reviews on LinguistList 16.1218; and in English Language and Linguistics 10.1; Journal of
Comparative Germanic Linguistics 10: 69-80; Journal of Germanic Linguistcs 18.1; Journal of
Linguistics 42; Diachronica 23.2; and Studies in Language to appear).
Introduction to the Grammar of English: Syntactic Arguments with some Socio-historical
Background. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2002: xxiv and 200 pages.
(Reviews on LinguistList 14.456; and in Language 80.1, Anglia 122.4, and Studies in Language
28.2).
A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, Self, and Interpretability. Amsterdam and
Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Linguistik Aktuell 39). 2000: xiv and 277 pages.
(Reviews on LinguistList 12.1341; and in Language 78.3; Studies in Language 26.2 and 27.2;
WORD 54.3, and Canadian Journal of Linguistics 48).
Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its `Breakdown': Minimalist Feature Checking.
Tübingen: Niemeyer. (Linguistische Arbeiten Series #364). 1997: xiv and 222 pages.
(Reviews in Language 75.2, Studies in Language 22.3, WORD 52.3, and Anglistik 12).
The Rise of Functional Categories. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Linguistik
Aktuell 9). 1993: x and 224 pages.
(Reviewed in GLOT 1.1, Linguistische Berichte 159; Leuvense Bijdragen 84.2).

Edited volumes
Cyclical Change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Linguistik Aktuell 146). 2009: viii, 329 pp.
(Reviews in Journal of Linguistics 46, 2010; and Linguistic Typology 14: 299-304, 2010)
Western Conference on Linguistics 1998 Proceedings, co-edited with Vida Samiian, Fresno
University. 1999: 552 pages.
German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic Syntax, co-edited with Werner Abraham. Tübingen:
Niemeyer. (Linguistische Arbeiten #374). 1997: vi and 323 pages.
(Reviews in Language 76.3 and Zeitschrift fur Sprachwissenschaft 17.2)

Books forthcoming
The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty, manuscript (450 pages), in
press with Oxford University Press.
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/SyntaxMorphology/?view=usa
&ci=9780199756049

Books/editions in progress
The Minimalist Clause.
Variation and Change in Argument Realization, volumes to be co-edited with Michela Cennamo
and Jóhanna Barðdal.

Articles and Chapters

“Features in Reanalysis and Grammaticalization”. In Elizabeth Traugott & Graeme Trousdale
(eds), Gradience, gradualness and Grammaticalization (2010): 129-147. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
“Reflexive Cartography”. In Jan-Wouter Zwart & Mark de Vries (eds). Structure Preserved
(2010): 141-148. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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“Negative Concord and the Negative Cycle in the history of English’. In: Merja Kytö, John Scahill
& Harumi Tanabe (eds.), Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late
Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto (2010): 35-58. Bern: Peter Lang
Publisher.
“The Biological Nature of Human Language”, multi-authored article (Anna Maria Di Sciullo,
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Kenneth Wexler, Robert C. Berwick, Cedric Boeckx, Lyle
Jenkins, Juan Uriagereka, Karin Stromswold, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Heidi Harley, Andrew
Wedel, James McGilvray, Elly van Gelderen & Thomas G. Bever). Biolinguistics 4.1
(2010): 4–34. (http://www.biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/110)
“Renewal in the Left Periphery: Economy and the Complementizer Layer”, Transactions of the
Philological Society 107.2 (2009): 131-195.
“Cyclical Change: an introduction”. In Elly van Gelderen (ed.), Cyclical Change (2009):1-12.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
“Language Change and Survive: Feature economy in the numeration”. In Michael Putnam (ed.),
Towards a derivational syntax: Survive-Minimalism (2009): 257-266. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
“Grammaticalization from a Biolinguistic Perspective”. In Rudie Botha and Chris Knight (eds),
The Prehistory of Language, Volume I (2009): 225-243. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“Feature Economy in the Linguistic Cycle”. In Paola Crisma and Pino Longobardi (eds), Historical
Syntax and Linguistic Theory (2009): 93-109. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
"Where did Late Merge go? Grammaticalization as Feature Economy", Studia Linguistica (2008):
287-300.
“The Negative Cycle”, Linguistic Typology 12.2 (2008): 195-243.
“The position of adjectives and double definiteness”, co-authored with Terje Lohndal, Working
Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 82 (2008): 1-22. http://project.sol.lu.se/grimm/wp/2008-
dec/vanGelderen_Londahl.pdf.
“Language Design, Feature Economy, and Language Change”. In Young-Sun Kim (ed.),
Minimalist Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface (2008): 1-14. Seoul: The Korean
Generative Grammar Circle.
“Cycles of Negation in Athabaskan”. Working Papers in Athabaskan Languages 7 (2008): 49-64.
"Interface Conditions and Code Switching: Pronouns, lexical DPs, and Checking Theory", co-
authored with Jeff MacSwan, Lingua 118 (2008): 765-776.
"Linguistic Cycles and Economy principles: The Role of Universal Grammar in Language
Change". In Thorhallur Eythorsson (ed.), The Rosendal Papers. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins (2008): 245-264.
"Economy of Merge and Grammaticalization: two steps in the evolution of language". In Regine
Eckhardt, Gerhard Jäger and Tonjes Veenstra (eds), Variation, Selection, Development:
Probing the evolutionary model of language change. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (2008):
179-197.
“The Definiteness Cycle in Germanic”, Journal of Germanic Linguistics 19.4. (2007): 275-305.
"Accelerated Grammaticalization in the Peterborough Chronicle". In Alex Bergs and Janne
Skaffari (eds), The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle. Frankfurt am Main: Peter
Lang (2007): 93-110.
"Economy against Prescriptivism: Internal and External Factors of Language Change", LASSO
Presidential address, SWJL 25.1 (2006): 1-14.
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"The CP and split CP cross-linguistically", WORD 55.3 (2004, appeared in 2005): 369-403.
"Economy and prescriptivism". In: Willy Östreng (ed.), Convergence. Oslo: Centre for Advanced
Study. (2005): 71-3.
(http://www.cas.uio.no/Publications/Seminar/Convergence_vanGelderen.pdf)
"Principles and Parameters in Change". In: Leonie Cornips and Karen Corrigan (eds), Syntax and
Variation: Reconciling the Biological and Social. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (2005):
179-198.
"Evidentials and Aspect", in The Composition of meaning: from lexeme to discourse, Alice ter
Meulen et al. (eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2004): 39-68.
"Specifiers, Heads, Grammaticalization,and Economy", Journal of Comparative Germanic
Linguistics 7 (2004): 59-98.
"Grammaticalization as Economy", Proceedings of the 32nd Western Conference on Linguistics.
(2004): 283-292.
"ASP(ect) in English Modal Complements", Studia Linguistica 57.1 (2003): 27-44.
"The Syntax of Mood Particles in the History of English", Folio Linguistica Historica 22.1/2
(2002): 301-331.
"The Force of ForceP in English", South West Journal of Linguistics 20.2 (2001): 107-120.
"Towards personal subjects in English: Variation in feature interpretability". Grammatical
Relations, Jan Terje Faarlund (ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2001): 137-157.
"Evidentials and Aspect", Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 44 (2001): 54-74.
"The Absence of Verb-movement and the Role of C: Some negative constructions in Shakespeare",
Studia Linguistica 54.3 (2000): 412-423.
"The Role of Person in the Loss of Verbal Agreement and of Pro-drop". Pathways of Change:
Grammaticalization Processes in older English, Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach & Dieter
Stein (eds). Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter (2000): 187-206.
"Interpretable and Non-Interpretable Features Cross-linguistically", Journal of Formal,
Computational & Cognitive Linguistics (2000). Web Journal (http://fccl.ksu.ru) and CD-
Rom.
"Bound Pronouns and Non-Local Anaphors". Reflexives, edited by Zygmunt Frazyngier and Traci
Curl. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (2000): 187-225.
"Binding Theory and Minimalist Features", West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
(WCCFL) 18 Proceedings (1999): 558-569. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
"Structures of Tense and Aspect", Linguistic Analysis 27.3-4 (1997): 138-165, appeared in 1999.
"For to in the History of English", American Journal of Germanic Language and Literature 10.1
(1998): 45-72.
"Inflection and movement in Old English". German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic Syntax,
Werner Abraham and Elly van Gelderen (eds). Tübingen: Niemeyer. (1997): 71-82.
"The Minimalist Program". German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic Syntax, Werner Abraham
and Elly van Gelderen (eds). Tübingen: Niemeyer. (1997): 137-142.
"Universals and Minimalist Features: Checking in AGRo". Studies on Universal Grammar and
Typological Variation, Artemis Alexiadou & Tracy Hall (eds). Amsterdam: John
Benjamins. (1997): 181-196.
"The Emphatic Origin of Reflexives". Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the 1996
Berkeley Linguistic Society (1997): 106-115.
"Parametrizing Agreement Features". Linguistics 34.4 (1996): 753-767.
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"Historical Binding Domains", paper presented to the First On-line Linguistics Conference, 27 Oct
1996 (www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/linconf/vangelderen)
"The Reanalysis of Grammaticalized Prepositions in Middle English". Studia Linguistica 50.2
(1996): 106-124.
"The Case of the Object in the History of English". Linguistic Analysis 26 (1996): 117-133.
"Restraining Functional Projections". WCCFL 1995 Proceedings J. Camacho et al. (eds). Stanford:
CSLI (1996): 111-122.
"`Breakdown' in Coordination: How agrees the devil and thee about thy soul?", Proceedings of the
22nd LACUS Forum (1996): 205-216.
"FOCUS and Multiple CPs in English and Bulgarian", with Lily Grozeva. 1994 MALC
Proceedings F. Ingemann (ed). University of Kansas (1996): 70-77.
"V-features". 1994 MALC Proceedings F. Ingemann (ed). University of Kansas (1996): 62-9.
"Features and Functional Categories". Proceedings of the 20th LACUS Forum V. Makkai (ed).
Chapel Hill (1995): 391-7.
"Verbal Agreement and Nominative in Urdu". Indian Linguistics 54.1-4 (1994): 37-52.
"Minimalism and Expletives". Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 37 (1994): 107-
113.
"Agreement Features". WECOL Proceedings 1992 J. A. Nevis & V. Samiian (eds). CSU (1994):
79-88.
"'Romantic' Ideas about the gerund". Proceedings of the XVth (1992) International Congress of
Linguists A. Crochetière, J-C. Boulanger and C. Ouellon (eds). Ste Foy: Les Presses de
l'Université Laval (1994): 369-372.
"Infinitives in early Middle English". Proceedings of the XVth (1992) International Congress of
Linguists A. Crochetière, J-C. Boulanger and C. Ouellon (eds). Ste Foy: Les Presses de
l'Université Laval (1994): 47-50.
"Gerunds in the early twentieth century". Language and Cognition 3 A. de Boer et al. (eds).
Groningen (1993): 39-48.
"Tense and to in Layamon". Folia Linguistica Historica 13/1-2 (1992-3): 133-142.
"Reanalysis as a Response to Grammaticalization". Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen
Linguistik 36 (1993): 169-183.
"Categories and Features". Language and Cognition 2 D. Gilbers and S. Looyenga (eds)
Groningen (1992): 65-76.
"Arguments without number". Linguistics 30.2 (1992): 381-387
"To be and indices". Issues in Germanic Syntax W. Abraham, W. Kosmeijer and E. Reuland (eds)
Berlin: Mouton (1990): 307-325.
"Visibility and Clausal Arguments". Journal of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association 12
(1990): 53-79.
"The historical rationale behind split infinitives and kindred constructions". Archiv für das Studium
der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 141.1 (1989): 1-18.
"Infinitives and the INFL-position in English and Dutch". Leuvense Bijdragen 77 (1988): 403-410.
"To be in English and Swedish". Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 37 (1988): 3-7.
"Extrapositie en VP". De Nieuwe Taalgids 81.1. (1988): 72-74.
"Adjunction and (i)t". The Linguistic Review 5.2. (1985-1986): 137-152.
"The distribution of empty category and it". Linguistic Analysis 13.4. (1984): 317-327.
"(I)t". McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 1.1. (1983): 33-46.
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Articles in preparation, in press, or under review
“Generative Grammar and Grammaticalization”, chapter for the Handbook on Grammaticalization,
edited by Heiko Narogg and Bernd Heine.
“Grammaticalization of Agreement”, chapter for the Handbook on Grammaticalization, edited by
Heiko Narogg and Bernd Heine.
“Language Change as Cyclical”, to appear Studies in Modern English 27.
“The Characteristics of English Vocabulary: a diachronic approach”, for the Handbook of English
as a Foreign Language, edited by Konrad Schreuder.
“Aspectual Cycles: the history of English Inception”, co-authored with Lynn Sims.
"Aspectual Prefixes in English and Dutch".
“Valency changes in the history of English”, submitted to the Journal of Historical Linguistics.
“The Diachrony of Pronouns and Demonstratives”, for an edited volume.

Reviews/Review Articles/Book Notices/Encyclopedia Articles

“Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, edited by Norbert Cyffer et al.”,
LINGUIST List: Vol-21-2481. Sat Jun 05 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.
“Degrammaticalization, by Muriel Norde”, Journal of Linguistics 46.1 (2010): 249-254.
“Review of Auxiliary Verb Constructions, by Gregory Anderson”, Studies in Language 34.1
(2010): 234-238.
“A Grammar of Lamaholot, Eastern Indonesia: The Morphology and Syntax of the Lewoingu
Dialect, by Kunio Nishiyama & Herman Kelen”, book notice for eLanguage 2010
(http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=1063)
“A Grammar of River Warihío, by Rolando Félix Armendáriz”, e-book notice for eLanguage
2010 (http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=1059).
“A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Surinamese Dutch, by Christa de Kleine”, book notice for
eLanguage 2010 (http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=1167)
“Rajbanshi Grammar and Interlinearized Text, by Tikaram Poudel”, book notice for eLanguage
2010 (http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=798)
“A Grammar of Dolakha Newar, by Carol Genetti”, book notice for eLanguage 2010
(http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=1061)
"Review of Aspects of English Negation, by Yoko Iyeiri", Studies in Language 32.4 (2008): 1001-
1003.
“The Blackwell handbooks of English linguistics and history of English”. Review article,
English Language and Linguistics 12.1 (2008): 193-209.
"Review of Possible and Probable Languages, by Frederick Newmeyer", Folia Linguistica 41.1/2
(2007): 194-200..
"Review of The History of English, by Ishtla Singh", Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
9 (2006): 161-163.
"Review of Das Ostjiddische im Sprachkontakt, by Steffen Krogh", WORD 56.2 (2006): 340-1.
"Review of Reflexives and reflexivization in Kiswahili, by Assibi Amidu", WORD 56.3 (2005):
497-498. (appeared in 2008)
"Function Words", Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 2005, I: 362-364. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
"Auxiliaries", Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 2005, I: 111-112. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
"Review of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language by Huddleston & Pullum", WORD
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"Review of Wasow's Postverbal Behavior", Studies in Language 28.2 (2004): 471-474.
"Review of The Minimalist Parameter by Galine Alexandrova and Olga Arnaudova, eds", Studies
in Language 28.1 (2004): 261-266.
"Review of Non-Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects, by Alexandra Aikenvald et al (eds)",
WORD 54.2 (2003): 309-312.
"Review of The Navajo Verb by Leonard Faltz", Australian Journal of Linguistics 23.1 (2003): 99-
100.
"Review of Where your treasure is, there is your heart, by Aune Österman", Studies in Language"
27.3 (2003): 659-661.
"Review of Old English Constructions with Multiple Predicates by Masayuki Ohkado", Journal of
Germanic Linguistics 15.1 (2003): 75-77.
"Review of Thesaurus of Old English by Jane Roberts & Christian Kay", Studies in Language 27.1
(2003): 200-203.
"Review of Diachronic Syntax by Susan Pintzuk et al", in Language 78.4 (2002): 791.
"Review of Historical English Syntax, by Javier Perez-Guerra", Diachronica 19.2 (2002): 417-419.
"Review of Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories by Keith Brown & Jim Miller",
WORD 53.3 (2002): 442-446.
"Review of The Syntax of Early English Syntax by Olga Fischer et al", Language 78.3 (2002): 578-
581.
"Review of Emerging English Modals, by Manfred Krug", Studies in Language 26:3 (2002): 728-
731.
"Review of Coordination, by Janne Johannessen", WORD 53.2 (2002): 287-292.
"Review of English and the discourse of Colonialism, by Alastair Pennycook", WORD 53.1
(2002): 145-148.
"Review of Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish, by Ritva
Laury", WORD 51.2 (2000): 302-304.
"Review of The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars, edited by Myrna Gopnik", WORD 51.2
(2000): 298-301.
"Review of Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation, edited by James Black and Virginia
Motapanyane", WORD 51.1 (2000): 129-134.
"Review of Tense and Aspect: From Semantics to Morphosyntax, by Alessandra Giorgi & Fabio
Pianesi", Studies in Language 24.1 (2000): 199-204.
"Review of Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change, edited by Ans van Kemenade & Nigel
Vincent", Studies in Language 23.1 (1999): 173-183.
"Review of The French Influence on Middle-English Morphology, Christiane Dalton-Puffer",
WORD 49.3 (1998): 477-480.
"Review of Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, A. Harris & L. Campbell", English
Studies 79.1 (1998): 95-96.
"Review of Clause Structure and Language Change, A. Battye and I. Roberts (eds)", Studies in
Language 21.3 (1997): 655-667.
"Review of The Minimalist Program by N. Chomsky", English Studies 78.4 (1997): 397-399.
"Review of English Historical Linguistics 1994, D. Britton (ed)", Language 73.3 (1997): 151-152.
"Review of Early Modern English, D. Kastovsky (ed)", Studies in Language 21.1 (1997): 174-178.
"Review of The Indirect Object in Present-Day English by J. Herriman", English Studies 78.1
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"Review of The Language Instinct by S. Pinker", English Studies 78.1 (1997): 100-101.
"Review of Case and Other Functional Categories in Finnish Syntax, by A. Holmberg & U.
Nikanne (eds)", WORD 47.3 (1996): 442-8.
"Review of Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Language, S. Chiba et al. (eds)", Studies in
Language 20.3 (1996): 701-704.
"Review of The English Language: A Historical Introduction, by C. Barber", Studies in Language
20.3 (1996): 699-700.
"Review of Focus on Canada, ed. by S. Clarke", WORD 47.1 (1996): 91-96.
"Review of Who Climbs the Grammar Tree, ed. by R. Tracy", English Studies 76.3 (1995): 187-8.
"Review of English Historical Syntax, by D. Denison", Studies in Language 19.2 (1995): 575-7.
"Review of The Linguistic Wars by R. A. Harris", WORD 46.2 (1995): 237-9.
"Review of Diachrony within Synchrony", WORD 46.1 (1995): 164-7.
"Review of Language Contact in the British Isles: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium
on Language Contact in Europe, ed. by P. Sture Ureland et al.", English Studies 74.2
(1993): 193-4.
"Review of Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph Greenberg on his 75th
birthday, ed. by W. Croft et al.", Studies in Language 16.1 (1992): 183-192.
"Review of Syntactic Case and Morphological Case in the History of English, by A. van
Kemenade, Dordrecht: Foris (1987)", Studies in Language 15:2 (1991): 487-493.
"Review of Women of Pakistan", South Asia Bulletin IX.2 (1989): 76-8, also published in
AICS(ES) Bulletin (May 1990) in a short form.
"Review of West Papua: the genocide of a people", Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 16.4.
(1984): 66-7.
"Review of Religion as a social vision", Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 16.1. (1984): 65-6.

Reviews in press
“Speaking Sitimaxa, by Julien Granberry”, book notice for eLanguage.
“A Grammar of Teiwa, by Marian Klamer”, book notice for eLanguage.
“Historical Thesaurus of the OED, by Kay et al.”, review for WORD.
“A Grammar of Classical Japanese, by Noriko Katsuki-Pestemer”, book notice for eLanguage.
“The Handbook of Language Teaching, edited by Michael Long and Catherine Doughty”, book
notice for eLanguage.
“A Grammar of the Kilba language, by Mohammed Aminu Mu’azu”, book notice for
eLanguage.
“Språkhistorie og Språkkontakt, by Ernst Håkon Jahr”, book notice for eLanguage.
“A linguistic geography of Africa, edited by Bernd Heine & Derek Nurse”, book notice for
eLanguage.
“The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, and of The Ancient Languages of Asia
and The Americas, edited by Roger D. Woodard”, book notice for Language.
“Redefining Urdu Politics in India, edited by Ather Farouqui”, book notice for Language.
“The Structure and Function on Yaqui Complementation, by Lilian Guerrero”, book notice for
Language.
“Review of The Changing Languages of Europe, by Bernd Heine & Tania Kuteva”, for WORD.
"Review of Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Altai-Sayan Turkic, by Gregory Anderson", for
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"Review of From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154-1776, by Hans Frede Nielsen", for
WORD.
"Review of Variable Grammars: Verbal Agreement in Northern Dialects of English, by Lukas
Pietsch, for WORD.

Lectures/Conferences 2010
“The Possible Diachrony of Null Objects in Athabascan”, co-authored with Mary Willie, ICHL 20,
Osaka, July 2011.

Lectures/Conferences 2010
Invited, Workshop on Complementation, DGfS, Berlin 23-26 February 2010.
“Minimalism and (Applied) Linguistics”, talk to the Applied Linguistics Colloquium, ASU, 16
April 2010.
“Inceptive aspect in Germanic”, joint paper with Lynn Sims, GLAC 16, Milwaukee 30 April 2010.
“Valency changes in the history of English”, GLAC 16, Milwaukee 1 May 2010.
“An increase in transitivity through ambivalence”, Naples/Capri, May 2010; also closing remarks
at this conference.
Invited, Workshop on Grammaticalization, University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte,
Brazil, 26-27 August 2010.
“Aspectual Cycles: the history of English Inceptives”, joint paper with Lynn Sims, ICEHL, Pécs,
Hungary, September 2010.
“Pronouns vs. demonstratives”, LASSO, Las Cruces, NM, Oct 2010.
Invited, “Pronominal Change”, Regensburg, Germany, 4-6 December 2010.

Lectures/Conferences 2009
“Hierarchies, features, and UG”, Introduction to the Workshop on Parameters and Typology, 27
February 2009, Arizona State University.
Invited, Symposium on Methodology of Morphosyntactic Change: Case Studies and Cross-
linguistic Applications, 5-6 March, Osaka, Japan.
“Linguistic Cycles in language Change”, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 17
April 2009.
“Reflexives in the History of English”, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, 26 May 2009.
“CP Renewal”, Aoyama Gakuin University, 27 May 2009.
Invited, The Modern English Association Conference, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, 29 May
2009.
Cyclical Change in Agreement and Case, LASSO, Provo, UT, 25 September 2009.
Invited participation in Cycles of Grammaticalization seminar, Birmingham, UK, 5 December
2009.

Lectures/Conferences 2008
Invited, Biolinguistics Planning Meeting, Tucson, 22-24 February 2008
(http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/bioling/arizona2008/speakers.htm).
“The Linguistic Cycle”, Linguistic Cycles Workshop, Tempe, AZ 25 April 2008.
"Double definiteness and the position of adjectives", joint paper with Terje Lohndal, GLAC 14,
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“Polysynthesis and Pronominal Arguments in Athabaskan/Dene”, 2008 Dene Languages
Conference, Cold Lake, Alberta, 6 July 2008.
“Feature Economy, and Language Change”, Seoul International Conference on Generative
Grammar, 17 July 2008.
“DPs in Germanic”, ESSE, Aarhus, Denmark, 22-26 August 2008 (http://www.esse2008.dk).
Invited, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo
(http://www.csmn.uio.no/) on "Universal Grammar, acquisition and change", 26- 27 August
2008.
“The Object Cycle”, LASSO 37, Oregon State University, Corvallis, October 2008.

Lectures/Conferences 2007
"The Linguistic Cycle in the Early History of English", GLAC 13, University Park, PA, 14 April
2007.
Invited lecture at the University of Naples, Italy, 16 May 2007.
“Subjects in the Linguistic Cycle: a Formal Account of Grammaticalization”, invited talk, Padova,
18 May 2007.
Invited talk, Linguistic Colloquium Venice, 21 May 2007.
“Negation in Athabaskan”, Athabaskan/Dene Languages Conference, Tsaile, AZ 22 June 2007.
“Two steps in the Evolution of Language”, ICHL Montreal, August 2007.
“Cycles of Negation”, ALT Paris, September 2007.
“Grammaticalization and Evolution”, Tucson 5 October 2007.

Lectures/Conferences 2006 and 2005

Invited talk for the `Linguistisches Kolloquium', Munich, 11 January 2006.
Invited lecture at "Towards a unified framework in developmental linguistics", Tulsa, 14 April
2006.
"The Linguistic Cycle: Grammaticalization as Economy", DIGS 9, June 2006, Trieste, Italy.
“Grammaticalization as Economy", ICEHL, August 2006, Bergamo, Italy.
“The Evolution of Language and Grammaticalization”, Cradle of Language Conference November
2006, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
“The Linguistic Cycle in the History of English”, 7 December 2006, Berlin.
"Grammaticalization from a Minimalist Perspective", invited talk at the University of Arizona, 25
February 2005.
"Lateral grammaticalization or Late Merge?", GLAC, 21-22 April 2005, Davis, CA.
"Linguistic Cycles: A structural account of grammaticalization", 31 May - 4 June 2005. Invited.
Rosendal, Norway.
Invited lecture at the Colloquium on Language Evolution, Berlin, 14-17 July 2005.
"Prepositions and Late Merge", ICHL, 1 August 2005, Madison, WI.
"The English Language: a History", Pedagogy Workshop at SHEL, Flagstaff, 30 Sept-2 Oct 2005.
Commentary on Faarlund's "A mentalist Interpretation of grammaticalization Theory", 3 December
2005, Lysebu, Norway.
Commentary on Rice's "On Incorporation in Athapaskan languages", 4 December 2005, Lysebu,
Norway.

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Lectures/Conferences 2004 and 2003
"The Peterborough Chronicle and Grammaticalization", GLAC 8 May 2004, Ann Arbor, MI.
"Grammaticalization and Economy", DIGS 23 June 2004, Yale University.
"The Peterborough Chronicle as the start of Middle English", 23 August 2004, Vienna.
Presidential Address "Economy against Prescriptivism", 11 September 2004, LASSO, New
Orleans.
"A Generative View of Grammaticalization", talk at Aarhus University, 29 October 2004.
"Economy against Prescriptivism", talk at CAS, Oslo.
"Cross-clausal Grammaticalization", FGLS and SGL Joint meeting, London, 3-5 January 2003.
"The Introduction of a Split CP", GLAC 9, April 2003.
"Navajo Syntax: `Doubles' in Agreement and Aspect", Navajo Language Academy, 18 July 2003,
Rehoboth, NM.
"Economy and Grammaticalization", WECOL, Tucson, September 2003.

Conferences 2002 and 2001

"Text analysis software, electronic texts, and linguistic change", presented at the SHEL II
Pedagogy Workshop. Seattle, 24 March 2002.
"Grammaticalizing Maximal Projections", presented at New Reflections on Grammaticalization 2,
4-7 April 2002, Amsterdam.
"Cycles of Change", poster presented at GLOW Workshop, Utrecht, 7 April 2002.
"Agreement and Pro-drop in the History of English", talk at Leiden University, 12 April 2002.
"Economy and Prescriptivism", GLAC 8, Indiana University, 25-7 April 2002.
"To not or not to", LASSO, Pasadena, CA, 4-5 October 2002.
"MPs in the History of English", ILA 30 March-1 April 2001, New York.
"Code Switching of Subject Pronouns", co-authored with Jeff MacSwan, presented at ISB 3, April
2001, Bristol.
"Mood Particles", GLAC 7, 23-5 April, Banff, Canada.
"The Role of Specifiers in grammaticalization and reanalysis", ICHL XV August 2001, Melbourne,
Australia.

Lectures/conferences 2000 and 1999

"The Reanalysis of Spec IP", 28-9 January 2000. Amsterdam Workshop on Grammatical Relations
and Change.
"Competition among infinitival markers", Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Marburg,
Germany, March 2000.
"Aspect, Modals, and Infinitival Endings in Germanic", GLAC, 28 April 2000, Milwaukee.
"Being on the Edge: the Force of at and till", SHEL, Los Angeles, 26 May 2000.
"Modals, Aspectuals, and Perception Verbs", LASSO, Puebla, Mexico, 15 Oct 2000.
Invited: "Infinitival endings, modals, and evidentials", Conference "Making Sense: from lexeme to
discourse", Groningen University, The Netherlands, 7 November 2000.
"Binding Theory and Minimalist Features", presented at WCCFL, University of Arizona, 8-11
April 1999.
"Pro-drop and Reflexives", presented during GLAC 5, University of Texas, Austin, 16-8 April
1999.
Invited Lecture: "Syntactic Theory: Functional Categories and Features in a Chomskian
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 framework", Tehran, Iran, 23-7 May 1999.
"The grammaticalization of self", presented during a grammaticalization conference in June 1999,
Potsdam, Germany.
"Pro-drop in Old English", presented during the ICHL, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999.

Lectures/conferences 1998 and 1997

"Demonstratives as Pronouns in Dutch", presented during GLAC 4, Ohio State University, 17-9
April 1998.
"Contraction and Grammaticalization", presented at the 10th International Conference on English
Historical Linguistics, Manchester 21-6 August 1998.
"To have or to be", presented at the International Linguistics Association, Washington, DC, 8
March 1997.
"Ergativity in the History of English", presented at the Linguistic Association of Great Britain,
Edinburgh, Scotland, 8 April 1997.
"Person Hierarchies in Old and Middle English", presented at GLAC III, Los Angeles, CA, 25
April 1997.
"Anaphora in Middle English", presented at the 13th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop,
Ithaca, NY, 19 July 1997.
"Inflection and Movement in Old English", presented at the International Conference on Historical
Linguistics, Düsseldorf, Germany, 12 August 1997.
"When's a pronoun an anaphor?", presented at the International Symposium on Reflexives and
Reciprocals", Boulder, CO, 29-30 August 1997.
"The structure of Aspect", presented at LASSO, Los Angeles, CA, October 1997.
"Interpretable and Non-Interpretable Features Cross-linguistically", presented during the on-line
conference `The 40th Anniversary of Generativism', 1-12 December 1997.

Lectures/conferences 1996 and 1995

"The Emphatic Origin of Reflexives", Berkeley Linguistic Society XXII Meetings, 19 February
1996.
"Early Middle English self", GLAC II, Wisconsin, April 1996.
"Arguments and pseudo-arguments", TABU, Groningen, 14 June 1996.
"Historical Binding Domains", paper prepared for first WWW Linguistics Conference, organized
by the Linguist Net, October 1996.
"The Rise of Functional Categories and of there", paper at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 6
February 1995.
"Restraining Functional Projections: the Case of Auxiliaries and Participles", talk at WCCFL XIV,
USC, Los Angeles, 11 March 1995.
"Minimalist Restrictions on Functional Categories", presented at the University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ, 6 April 1995.
"For to in the History of English", GLAC I, Ann Arbor, MI, 22 April 1995.
"`Breakdown' in Coordination, or How agrees the devil and thee about thy soul", LACUS 22, San
Antonio, TX, August 1995
"Past Participle Agreement in French, Skandinavian and Urdu/Hindi", LASSO, Las Cruces, 8
October 1995.

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Lectures 1994-1993
"Functional Categories", paper at the Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2 February 1994.
"Chomsky and Prescriptivism", paper read at Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan, 9 February
1994.
"Universals and Minimalist Features", Berlin, Inaugural Conference on Universal Grammar and
Typological variation, 19 March 1994.
"Functional Categories and Expletives" Linguistic Association of Great Britain, Salford, UK, 6
April 1994.
"The Mixture of Government and Spec-Head", TABU conference, Groningen, 24 June 1994.
"The Grammaticalization of there", International Conference on English Historical Linguistics,
Edinburgh, 22 September 1994.
"V-features", Mid America Linguistics Conference (MALC), Lawrence, Kansas, 14 October 1994.
"FOCUS and Multiple CPs in English and Bulgarian", with L. Grozeva, MALC, 15 October 1994.
"The Introduction of AGRo", LSA, Los Angeles, January 1993.
"Reanalysis as a Response to Grammaticalization", Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft,
Jena, Germany, March 1993.
"Aspect as a Functional Category", International Linguistic Association (ILA), New York, April
1993.
"Features and Functional Categories", LACUS, Chicago, July 1993.
"Case to the Object in the History of English", International Conference on Historical Linguistics
(ICHL), Los Angeles, August 1993.
"Contemporary Problems in English Syntax", ESSE, Bordeaux, France, September 1993.

Lectures before 1993 are not listed.

Courses taught
ASU 1995-present
Modern Grammar (ENG 314)
History of the English Language (ENG 413, LIN 548, LIN 517)
Linguistics (LIN 510)
Syntax (LIN 514, FRE 598)
Advanced Studies in Syntax (very often as an overload LIN 614 with different readings)
Typology (LIN 591; LIN 610; ENG 414)
Historical Linguistics (LIN 591; LIN 617)
Reading the Renaissance (ENG 414, 494, 497)
Chomsky Reading Group (LIN 590; LIN 790)
Individual courses on various languages/families (Yiddish, Indo-European, Uto-Aztecan)

Outside ASU
May 2011: Historical Linguistics (1 week-3 hours a day), Naples, Italy.
July 2011: Historical Syntax (still in the planning stages), Sao Paolo, Brazil.
November 2006: Historical Linguistics Seminar (2 days), Oslo University, Norway.
July 2004: Topics in Navajo Syntax, a 3-week course for native speakers of Navajo, Navajo
Language Academy, Blanding, Utah.

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Groningen University, The Netherlands (1990-1994)
Comparative grammar and syntax
Varieties of English
Historical Linguistics
Politics and the English Language
Language and Gender team-taught with Marja van Tilburg - History
Lectures on Language in Canada/Quebec (1991-4).

Queen’s University and McGill, Canada

Syntax at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (1989-1990)
Introduction to Linguistics at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (1989-1990)
Advanced Syntax at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1989)

Service to the profession

Editorial
2003 - present: Co-editor of Linguistics Today, a book series on theoretical linguistics with John
Benjamins Publishers (3-4 new manuscripts submitted each month; 18 volumes appeared in
2008; 13 in 2009). http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=LA
2009 – present: Co-editor of Studies in Language Companion Series, a book series with John
Benjamins Publishers (8 volumes in 2009) http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-
bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=SLCS.
2002 - present: Diachronica. Member core editorial board (http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-
bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=dia (close to100 article submissions a year; editorial board
looks at many of these; I comment in depth on about 7 articles). As of January 2008, book
review editor.
1999 - present: Journal of Germanic Linguistics (previous name American Journal of Germanic
Linguistics and Literatures). Member Editorial Board.
http://german.lss.wisc.edu/~sgl/journal.html
2007 – present: Edinburgh Historical Linguistics monograph series. Member of the editorial
advisory board.
2009 – present: Member of the editorial board of Acta Linguistica Hungarica.
2010 – present: Associate editor (and founding member) of Journal of Historical Linguistics
(http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=JHL).
2000 - 2005: Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Member Advisory Board
2000 - 2008: South West Journal of Linguistics. Member Editorial Board.
http://clas.cudenver.edu/lasso/swjl.html.

Linguistic Organizations
1999 - 2005: Linguistic Association of the South West (abbreviated LASSO). President (2003–
2004), Past President (2004–2005), President-Elect/Vice President (2002-2003), member of
the Executive Committee (1999-2002), program chair for the 2003 meeting, involved in
two search committees, and in selecting best student paper.
1999 - present: Society for Germanic Linguistics. Member of the Board (1999-2000; 2007-2009)
and President of the organization (2000-2003).
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2007 – 2011: Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Historical
Linguistics.
2000 - 2009: Ask-A-Linguist panel. Member (http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling).
2001 - present: Linguist List Advisory Board. Member.

Local Conference organization

2011 WCCFL at University of Arizona (help with abstract vetting and book display).
2009 Workshop on Parameters and Typology, Tempe, AZ, 27 February. Principal organizer.
2008 Linguistic Cycles Workshop, Tempe, AZ, 25-26 April. Principal organizer.
2000 - 2003: Member of the ISB4 organizing board (vetted abstracts and travel grant requests;
organized hikes; 750 participants).
1998 WECOL-LASSO Conference in Tempe, AZ. I was one of two co-organizers (125
participants).

Reviewer (only lists the past 5 years):

Dec 2010 – April 2011-01-18 Member of the Panini Jury (judges the best grammar written as a
PhD for the Panini Prize)
Occasional referee for: Journal of English Linguistics (Jan 2011), NLLT (Dec 2010), SWJL (July
2010); English Language and Linguistics (e.g. Febr 2010; July 2009), Nordic Journal of
Linguistics (Febr 2010), IJAL (Febr 2010), International Journal of Bilingualism (January
2010), Lingua (September 2009), Linguistic Typology (August 2009), Canadian Journal of
Linguistics (July 2009), NWO (Dutch research Organization March 2008); Routledge
(January 2008); Linguistic Analysis (August 2007; March 2008); Language Science (April
2007); NSF; Oxford University Press (September 2007; October 2010); Blackwell's (July
2007); Studia Linguistica (June 2006); Linguistic Inquiry (July 2007); Journal for
Comparative Germanic Linguistics; Constructions.
Occasional External Reviewer on tenure and promotion cases (e.g. June 2005; July 2006; July
2007; September 2008; twice June 2010; September 2010; December 2010).
WCCFL, WECOL, LSA (20 abstracts each year), GGSW, DIGS, and ISB reviewer. Member of the
Scientific Committee of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/).

Administrative Service at Arizona State University

University:
October 2010: Member Regents’ Professor Nomination Committee
November 2010 – present: mentor for an (undergraduate) Obama Scholar
October 2007; 2009: Fulbright selection committee (Europe)
August 2009 – present: Academic Council (meets once/semester)
August 1995 - 2004: Committee on Linguistics. August 1998 - 2001: Chair. Main tasks:
Colloquium Series Chair, Student Symposium co-organizer 1996-2003, Web page 1996-8,
Chair of the LASSO/WECOL 1998 organizing committee, member and de facto chair of
the ASU Working Papers in Language 1-3.
October 2007 – present: Applied Linguistics Oversight Committee (monthly meetings).
May 2005 -2007: member of a working committee to plan a PhD in Applied Linguistics.
January 1999 - May 1999: member of the Human Subjects' Institutional Review Board (fortnightly
meetings).
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September 2000 -2005: member of the Academic Computing Advisory Committee.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:

August 2009 – May 2012, and August 1995 - May 1997: member College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences' Student Grievance Committee; Chair during 1997.
August 1997 - 2000: member Committee on Committees.
August 2000 - 2008: member Dean's Strategic Planning and Academic Resources Advisory
Council (SPARAC).
August 1995 - present: Evaluator for Dutch Proficiency exams (graduate and undergraduate).

English Department:
August 1995 - present: Area committee-Linguistics/TESOL. Director, Programs in Linguistics
and TESL, August 2002 – 2008; 2009-present (admissions chair, advising, organization of
Fall Social; contact with AECP, grants, coordination of scheduling of Ling/TESOL
classes).
August 2010-May 2012 Chair Personnel Committee; Spring 2010; January 2007 – May 2008;
February 2004 - May 2004: Member Personnel Committee.
September 2010 – present: Chair Morphology/Phonology Search Committee.
September 2010 – present: Member Syntax/Indigenous Search Committee.
August 2008 – February 2010: Chair SLA Syntax Search Committee (search was frozen in 2008,
and started again in 2009)
October 2007 – March 2008: Chair Native American/Semantics Search Committee.
November 2006 – March 2007: Medievalist Search Committee. Member.
August 2007 – present: Carlie Fellowship. Advised on setting this up with CLAS and the donor;
chair of the selection committee.
April 2005 – January 2006: Self-Study Committee. Member.
August 1995 - present: Most years I have served on either the MTESOL Admissions Committee or
the MA English, Concentration Linguistics, one. I also review all PhD admissions that have
a linguistics focus.
October 2003 - February 2004: Chair Search Committee for Assistant Professor Information
Technology and Information Literacy.
2002- 2008; 2009-present: Member Graduate Committee.
January 1998 - June 1998; January 2008-June 2008; August 2009-May 2010: Acting Co-Director
Rhet/Comp/Ling PhD Program.
January 1998 - June 1999: member HCF Specialist search committee.
August 1996 - present: WWW Committee (chair for 1996-8); member search committee for staff
position of office specialist; member CLAS ACT.
August 1997 - May 1998: member ad-hoc bridge committee: Curriculum Review.
August 1999 - May 2003: member TEVAL.
August 2000 - June 2001: departmental arbitrator

Administrative Experience at University of Groningen

University: September 1990 - June 1995: Member of the interdisciplinary Canadian Studies; Chair
of the Queens' University - Groningen Exchange program.
September 1994 - September 1995: Member "Universitaire Commissie Emancipatiezaken".
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Letteren Faculteit: September 1990 - June 1995: Member of the interdisciplinary Women's
Studies.
September 1992 - August 1995: Member Faculty "Dienstcommissie", elected committee
determining rights of employees (from legal rights to work conditions).
Department: January 1991 - December 1994: chairperson "Studierichtings/Opleidings
Commissie" (i.e. Curriculum Committee).
September 1992 - August 1994: member "Dagelijks Bestuur" (Departmental Executive Committee
meeting weekly).
May-June 1995: member search committee.

Grants (received/pending) and awards

IHR Seed grant for 2011, with Jeff MacSwan, “Unconstraining Linguistic Research on
Bilingualism: A Pilot Study of Spanish-English and Navajo-English Codeswitching in
Central Arizona”. $12,000 (successful)
NIH Grant for 2011-2012 “A Cross-linguistic Analysis of the Emergence of Verbs and Argument
Structure before the Age of Two”. $ 249,201 (PI) (unsuccessful)
NSF Grant for 2010-2012 “A Cross-linguistic Analysis of the Emergence of Argument Structure
before the Age of Two”. $ 380,472. (PI) (unsuccessful)
ACLS Collaborative Research Grant 2009-2010 “One word Syntax” (with John Ryan) $61,000
(unsuccessful)
Sabbatical leave 2008-2009.
IHR Research Cluster 2007-2008 “Cycles of Linguistic Change”, with Olena Tsurska. $1000
Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Oslo, August 2004-June 2005 (spent August to
December at the Centre).
CLAS Quality of Undergraduate Education Grant, 2005-2006 $3000.
NBSF award January 2005 $815.75.
VISTA Grant (2003-2006); co-PI $54,900
Sabbatical leave, UCLA, spring 2002
Faculty Grant in Aid for 1998, "Pronouns and Verbal Agreement". $5,799
CLAS Travel Grant 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001. $ 4000
CLAS Bridge Course Development Grant 1999 "Language and Literature in the Renaissance".

ASU Professor of the Year Nomination, 2007

Graduate Scholars of English Mentorship Award in Linguistics and TESL, 2006
Distinguished Mentor of Women Award; Faculty Women's Association; 22 April 2004.
Service Partnership Award 2004, College of Extended Education.
Last Lecture Series Nomination 2003, 2005.
Graduate Scholars of English Department-wide Award: Teacher and Mentor of the year 2001.
Graduate Scholars of English Mentorship Award in Linguistics and TESL 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
and 2000.
Outstanding Faculty Recognition 1997, ASU Disability Resources for Students.

Internships, mainly for MTESL students

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Gateway Community College (2006-2010): Fall 2006: Kim Chamberlain, Steven Dunham, and
Mohammed Al-Rashed. Fall 2007: Kyoko Olsen and Jessica Guyette. Spring 2008: Naomi
Simonds. Spring 2010: Emily Hsu and Alberto Lima; fall 2010: Hyangmi Lee.
The Skill Center (2007): Spring 2007: Contact with the center to see if we can place two interns.
Two interns in summer and fall of 2007.
AECP (2002-2006): Worked with the AECP Director on setting up a variety of clubs
(conversation; literature), and supervised 6 interns: Chris Nielson, Cynthia Beeson, Tina
Jennings, Nancy Hawkes, Linda Graf, Agustini Nolastname.
Service learning (2002-2005): Successful application for a 3-year VISTA (from Americorps).
Supervision of 34 interns from 2002-2005: Fall 2002: Laura Herrero, Luis Vera, Cynthia
Beeson, Jenny Perron; Spring 2003: Kathy Crawford, Melinda Sims; Fall 2003: Brad
McDonnell, Allison Wright, Paul Oxborrow, Ray Villegas; Spring 2004: Yue Ma, Jae
Hwang, Olena Tsurska, Brenda McTighe, Sigrid Nord, Eun Kyung Shin, Cory Fairchild,
Eun-Joung Son; Fall 2004 (on leave but recruited the interns): Huang Jing, Hui-Mei Lee,
Claudia Schroeppel, Yun-Sun Shin, Anela Wenger, Naomi Yamakawa, Yang Ya Chu,
Nathan Belois. Spring 2005: Pei-Yin Li, Wing Leung, Ya-Fen Lin, Su Yune, Ji Koo, Kyun
Noh, Xiaochun Wu.
Scottsdale Community College (2003-2006): Worked with the ESL Coordinator at SCC to set up
an observation of ESL classes internship.
Spring 2003: Xiaohui Cao, Cynthia Beeson, Suzanne Lewenstein, Melanie Freed; Spring
2004: Anela Wenger, Suzi Hobin, Allison Wright, Lisa Genuit, Joan Berry, Tina Jennings.
Spring 2006: Ivy Tang, Kimberly Chamberlain, Chukyung Oh, Rob Girard, Erin Fahring,
Maria Clark-Rivas, and Alecia Hall.

Mentoring
Chair of 10 Current PhD Committees
Chair of James Berry's PhD Committee (2006-ABD fall 2008). “A Formal Account of
Lexicalization”.
Chair of Hui-Ling Yang’s PhD Committee (2007-ABD spring 2010) “Negation in Hakka, Min, and
Mandarin”.
Chair of Victor Parra-Guinaldo’s PhD Committee (2007-present)
Chair of Mohammed Al-Rashed’d PhD Committee (2007-present) “The vP shell in Arabic”.
Chair of Ebru Erdem's PhD Committee (2006-ABD Spring 2008).
Chair of Jane Parkinson’s PhD Committee (2009-present)
Chair of Cynthia Simmons’ PhD (2008-present)
Chair of Anne Walton Ramirez (2009-present)
Chair of Oey Rogers (2009-present)
Chair of Wende Frost (2009-present)

Member of Rita Al-Abdullah's PhD (2002-present).

Member of Lupco Spasovski’s PhD “Diminutives in Macedonian” (2009-present)
Member of Tatyana Slobodchikoff’s PhD `The Morphosyntax of Dual Number in Slavic’ (2009 –
University of Arizona)

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Mentoring of PhD
Jing Xia, August 2008 -2010
Ahmed Zeeshan Gul, January 2009-2010

Chair of Completed PhD Committees 2002-present

Olena Tsurska “Clausal Architecture and Sentential Negation in Slavic” (defended 19 August
2010).
Yi-Ting Chen “A Minimalist Approach to Amis Structure and Complementation” (defended 13
May 2008).
Lynn Sims (“The Grammaticalization of Ingressive Aspect in Early English” defended 25 March
2008).
John Ryan “L1 Acquisition of Argument Structure in Spanish” (defended 21 March 2008).
Chen Chen Sun (defended 7 March 2008) “Variations in the ba Construction and its Relevance to
DP”.
Donatella Melucci “Tense and Aspect in learners of Italian” (defended in October 2007).
Mariana Bahtchevanova “Mood, Modality, and Complementation: A cross-linguistic study of the
syntax and semantics of the left periphery” (defended in April 2007).
Ming Ping Ji “The Left Periphery in Chinese” (defended April 2007).
Johanna Wood "Definiteness and Number: Determiner Phrase and Number Phrase in the History
of English" (defended in April 2003).
Sundos Al-Ajeel "Aspects of the Lexical Relations of Equivalence and Opposition in Kuwaiti
Arabic and American English" (defended in September 2002).

Member of Completed PhD Committees 2000-present

Kara McAlister (defended 19 August 2010).
Carol Smith (defended 19 November 2009)
Stella Hadjistassou “Polyphony, Conflict and Argumentation in Networked and Face-to-Face
Exchanges Among Advanced English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners: A Cultural-
Historical Activity Perspective” (defended June 2009).
Richard Karam “Shaping out perceptions of reality through personal linguistic reframing”
(defended April 2009) .
Nancy Turley “A Corpus-Based Analysis of ‘I’ and ‘Me’ Variation in Coordinate Noun Phrases”
(defended 21 January 2009).
Chiara dal Martello “A Linguistic and Cultural Study of Female Visibility in Two Italian News
Genres” (defended 14 April 2008).
Mei Ching Ho “Academic Discourse Socialization of American and Taiwanese Graduate
Students in TESOL: A Case Study of Small-Group Activities” (defended in April 2007).
Abeer Al-Taweel “Gender representation in twelfth grade English language textbooks in high
schools in Jordan” (defended in April 2005).
Dona Avery "Bending The Hunchback: a Rhetorical Inquiry into Hollywood's Quasi-Medieval
Relationship with Disability" (defended in March 2004).
Muhammad Badarneh "The Rhetorical Question as a Discursive and Stylistic Device in the Quran"
(defended in October 2003).
Amy Ruzycki Shinabarger "Critical Discourse in the University ESL Classroom" (defended May
2003).
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Teresa Wells "Selected Works of Suzette Haden Elgin and Ursula Le Guin: Governing Metaphor
and Linguistic Relativity" (defended May 2000).

Honor's Thesis Committees 2005-2010

Chair of Elizabeth Meadows (2011) `Sound Symbolism’
Chair of Kari Allen’s (2011) `The MMO Dictionary’
Chair of Jessica Cyrell (2011) `Three vignettes’
Chair of Jamie Wernet (2011)
Chair of Hannah Bartle’s (10/2010) “Writing systems as windows into linguistic structure”
Chair of Genevra Vanhoozer’s (10/2010) “The Avene Artificial Language”
Chair of Susan Hick’s (02/2010) `The language of travel blogs’.
Chair of Alyssa Bachman’s “The Linguistics of Dr. Seuss” (02/09)
Chair of Leslie Woolson’s “Taboos in Cosmopolitan” (03/09)
Chair of RaeAnn Dietlin’s “The Hybrid Systems of Egyptian and Japanese” (04/08)
Chair of Ryan Lepic's “Phrasal Verbs in English” (04/08).
Chair of Catricia Miller's “A Grammar of Voyalinthian” (04/07)
Chair of Tim Gades' "Menekh: An Open-Source Hieroglyphic Typesetter" (4/06)
Chair of Sogol Homayoun's "Introducing Farsi at ASU" (11/06).
Chair of Aaron Walker's "Don't be a Tree Hugger: Matrixization of Phasal Derivations" (4/05).
Member of Melissa Williams’ committee `Looking at linguistic taboos’ (10/09)
Member of Julie Bogen’s committee “The Innocents’ Tragedy” (03/09)
Member of Laurie Dermer’s “An Analysis of Emoted Text” (04/08)
Member of Eden Li's committee "Navajo Verb Parser" (Computer Science-11/04).

MA/MTESOL 2011
Chair of 3 MA Committees: Caleb Welsh “Biolinguistics”, Christine Raack, and Amy Moeser
“Linguistics and Publishing”.
Chair of 1 MTESOL Committee: Hyangmi Lee “The role of L1 in the teaching of grammar”.
Member of 1 MA thesis: Sulaaf Asaad.

MA/MTESOL 2008-2010
Chair of 6 MA Committees: Catherine Mackowski “Grammaticalization of Complementizers in
Old English Glosses” (11/2010), Brad McDonnell “The Voice System of Besemah”
(07/2010), Naomi Danton `The Definiteness Cycle in French: A Diachronic Study of
French Determiners’ (04/2010; SILC), Kagnarith Chea `Measural and Sortal Classifiers:
Structural Differences in Khmer’ (04/2010), Robert LaBarge “The DP in Classical
Sanskrit” (03/09), Michael McCliment “Embedding Generative Grammars” (03/09).
Chair of 3 MTESOL Committees: Aehee Nam “A guide to L2 writing in Korean elementary
schools: the role of feedback” (5/2010), Hugo Pelaez (05/2010), and Seungyeon Lee
“International Teaching Assistants in US Classrooms” (5/08).
Member of 3 MA Committees: Sarah-Anne Kielczewski “A Local Community Addresses the
Linguistic Needs of Refugees” (11/2010), Jessica Arnett “Quantifier Float” (Spanish, 5/08),
and Mallory Miracle “A-prefixing in Appalachina English” (3/09).
Member of 15 MTESOL Committees: Yukyung Han Teaching Culture in Business EFL”
(12/2010), Seung-Eun Jung “Team-teaching in Korea” (12/2010), Veronica Gutierrez
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 (11/2010), LuAnn Hardy “Materials for Teaching American English gesture” (05/2010),
Pei-Ju Hsiao “The use of English in the language classroom” (05/2010), Alberto Lima
“Perspectives on voice quality” (05/2010), Crystal Barajas “Borrowing in Chicano
Spanish” (05/2010), Yoshie Kaku “Japanese students’ perceptions and attituted towards
Native English Speaking Teachers and Assistant Language Teachers” (05/2010), Mi Young
Ki “The impact of class size on language instruction” (05/09), Teresa Steimli “The
Language Experience Approach” (05/09), Erica Day “Culture and Student Motivation”
(12/08), Kyoko Olson “Fostering the Development of L2 Speakers’ Academic Reading
Skills” (5/08), Ping Liu “The Effect of Word-final Coda Consonants on the Intelligibility of
Adult Chinese learners of English” (5/08), Scott Kim “An analysis of a Bilingual Child’s
Morphological Development” (5/08), and Aeran Ji “The Effect of Length of Residence on
Foreign Accent in late Korean Learners of English” (5/08).

MA/MTESL 2007
Chair of 5 MA Committees: Allie Farnlof, “Effects of Language Contact on the Historical
Development of the Romanian Infinitive” (03/07), Jill Nowlin “Linguistics and Editing”
(04/07), Yoko Matsuzaki “Writing and Being: Japanese translation and Analysis” (04/07,
Sylvia Dahdal “The ChomskySaid Phenomenon” (04/07), Kate Stradling “Parataxis in Old
English: Punctuation and Clausal Conjunctions in Beowulf” (11/07).
Chair of 6 MTESL APs: Neimeh Moussa “Arabic English Code Switching in Bilingual Children”,
Lesley Poteet “An Evaluation of CALL”, Agustini “Explicit and Implicit Grammar
Instruction: Acquisition of the English Passive”, Wendy Finlayson “The Role of L1
Literacy on L2 Acquisition”, Cheri Holdcroft “Multiple Intelligences in ESL”, and Seongju
Hong “Verbal Complementation and its teaching to Korean learners”.
Member of 5 MA Committees: Mohammed Al-Rashed “Ultimate Attainment of Pronunciation
after Puberty in Second Language”, Sharon Ocampo, Sharon Bengoa (Spanish), Cristian
Lopez (Spanish), Chung-Ning Huang “A Correlation Study on Foreign Language Learning
Motivation and Speaking Anxiety in Taiwanese EFL College Students”.
Member of 6 MTESL APs: Kim Chamberlain “The Roles of Identity and Culture in Language
Learning”, Chukyung Oh “Applying Task-based Language Teaching”, Maria Clark-Rivas
“A Needs Analysis Study in an EFL Classroom”, Julie Schlafer “Grammar in Context:
Teaching English through Music”, Laura Herrero “The Use of Image Schema in Teaching
English Phrasal Verbs”, and Steven Dunham “Language learning Strategies, Illiterate
Learners, and Oral Culture Learners”.

MA/MTESL 2006
Chair of 5 MA Committees: Daniela Kostadinovska "Clitics in Macedonian" (4/06), Wende Frost
"The Influence of the Editor on a Linguistic Fingerprint-A Proposal" (4/06), Nickolas da
Carlo "(De)grammaticalization in MHG" (10/06, co-chair, German), Hui-Ling Yang
“Grammaticalization of the Chinese morpheme bei” (11/06), and Hung-Tai Yang “The
Category of gei and Word Order variations in Mandarin Chinese” (11/06).
Member of 4 MA Committees: Fatma Haidari "Language Behaviors and Identity Change:
Dowanya versus Yam'aH", Kelly Murphy "Hawaii Creole English Question Intonation",
Suzanne Lewenstein "The Acquisition of English Vowels by Spanish Speakers", and Mi
Jong Song "Phonological Awareness in Korean Heritage Language Learners".
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Chair of 4 MTESL Committees: Mi-Kyoung Chang "Tense and Aspect in Korean ESL Writers",
Ya-Fen Lin "Dynamic Learning Environments: ESL Writing Instruction with Computer-
Mediated Communication", Erin Fahring ”Auxiliary Acquisition” and Sharon Bengoa.
Member of 5 MTESL Committees: Guofeng Sun "Online EFL Teaching in China", Li-Chu Chen
"Improving reading Comprehension", Kati Vandermark "The Role of Overt Correction in
the L2 Classroom", Laura Herrero "Activities for Teaching English Phrasal Verbs", and Ha
Hoang “Principles of Teaching vocabulary with CALL”.

MA/MTESL Dec 2004- Dec 2005

Chair of 5 MA Committees: Crystal West "On the Typology of Lexical Categories" (12/05), James
Berry (6/05), Olena Tsurska (4/05), Anela Wenger (5/05), and Bryan Moore.
Chair of 14 MTESL Committees: Naomi Yamakawa "Code Mixing in the ESL Classroom" (5/05),
Yue Ma "Phrasal Verbs and ESL" (5/05), Alice Yang "English Literacy to Non-Literate
Spanish Learners" (5/05), Zhengzi Zhou "Null Subjects, Null Objects, and SLA" (5/05),
Michalina Mrugala "Success and Challenge of a Multi-level ESL Classroom" (5/05), Joan
Berry "Second Language Acquisition and Dreams" (2/05), Yun-Sun Shin "The Need of
Teaching Vernacular English" (5/05), Carmen McKinney-Stark "The Place of Phonics
Instruction in the Adult ESL Classroom" (5/05), Hyunjin Kim "A Study of Intrasentential
Code-Switching among Korean/English Bilingual Children" (11/05), Kyung-Seon Lee
“The Acquisition of Relative Clauses” (11/05), Pei-Yin Lin (11/05) "The Acquisition of
English Reflexives", Kyun Young Noh "The Relationship between Syntactic Knowledge
and Reading Comprehension" (11/05), and Deserie Soliz "Aspects of Spanish English Code
Switching" (11/05).
Member of 5 MA Commitees: Milton Ascencio (4/05), Cathleen Waters (4/05), John Hill (4/05),
Mi Jung Song, and Suzie Hobin "Motivating Context: Framing as a tool for social change"
(11/05).
Member of 9 MTESL Committees: Min Jeong Song "Input Processing in Korean EFL/ESL: Tense
and Aspect Acquisition" (12/04), Jang-Eun Lee "Implicit Negative Feedback and
Negotiation of Meaning" (12/04), Elizabeth Hepford "A Cooperative Learning Approach to
Teaching Pronunciation" (5/05), Jae Huang "Using Videos in ESL/EFL Classes" (5/05),
Sigrid Nord-Champie "Pronunciation Pedagogy for Dinka Learners of English" (5/05),
Ginny Seltenright "Focus on Form through Visual Input Enhancement" (5/05), Eun Joung
Son "Changing Teaching Methods of English Classrooms in Korea" (5/05), Shenghua Su
“Internet and Communicative Language Teaching” (12/05), and Ji Hun Koo (11/2005).

MA/MTESL 2003-2004
Chair of 2 MA Committees: Allison Wright "Idioms and Second Language Acquisition"; Susanna
Pastorino "Root Infinitives and Functional Categories in three Bilingual Italian-English
Children".
Member of 1 MA Committee: Marta Wozniak "Comparative Analysis of Polish and American
English Journalistic Discourse".
Chair of 6 MTESL Committees: Cynthia Beeson "Internships and MTESL-programs"; Chris
Nielsson "Literature in the ESL Curriculum"; Charles Adolewski "Peace in the ESL
Curriculum"; Hui Mei Lee "The Usage of Complementizers by Chinese learners of
English"; Brad McDonnell "Clubs for University Intensive English Programs"; Brenda
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 McTighe "Total Physical Response and the ESL Classroom".
Member of 5 MTESL Committees: Melanie Freed; Annette Hornung "An Input Processing
Approach to the Teaching of English Tense and Aspect"; Chia-Yu Lin "The EFL
Classroom interaction in Taiwan"; Kevin Brown "Focus on Scene: Increasing joy in the
writing process"; Jack Kuramashi "Effectiveness of processing Instruction for an EFL Class
in Japan".

MA, etc. 2002-2003

Chair of 5 MTESL Committees: Hye Jong Kim "An Investigation into Korean speakers’
understanding of English resultative constructions"; Pan Hong "Acquisition of Relative
Clauses by Chinese L2 learners"; Michelle Stewart "Using Corpora Analysis Programs in
the EFL/ESL classroom"; Chen Chen Sun "Acquisition of English counterfactual
conditional sentences by Chinese speakers"; Akiko Nii “English Tag questions for Japanese
ESL learners”.
Member of 8 MTESL Committees: Leanne Handy; Eun Kyung Yoon "The Effect of Second
Language Experience on the Acquisition of American English Vowels"; Amanda Berry
"Grice and Humor"; Myung-Su Kim "Effects of L1-dialect on Adult Korean Speakers'
Production of English Intonation"; Linda Waldenberger “Reading in a Foreign Language”;
Xiaohui Cao "Question Intonation in Chinese ESL Speech"; Yong Won Kim "Storytelling
for Korean EFL Focus on Form"; Luis Luis Vera.
Member of 3 MA Committees: William Sprague (German); Serene Santi "A Sociolinguistic
Analysis of Women's Blues"; Michelle Marine "A Comparison of Native/Non-Native
Speaker responses to generic pronouns and sexist language".
Proxy on an MA thesis: Jennifer Michaud "Apocalyptic Poet and Preacher: the Pearl-Poet delivers
a fourteenth-century apocalyptic sermon in Cleanness".
Member of an honor's thesis: Luke Sisak "College Slang at Arizona State University: a Corpus".

MA etc 2001-2002
Chair of 5 MA theses: Amy Moreno "Relative Clauses in Margery of Kempe"; Heather Wilson
"WH-movement in Marshallese"; Autumn Bolin "Aspectual expression in Middle English";
Eishi Ikeda "Adverb(ial) in English and Japanese"; Krisda Chaemsaithong "Tense and
Aspect in the history of English".
Chair of 3 MTESL Committees: Karen Johnson "ESL and Functional Categories"; Yungjun Yang
"Negative questions"; Yingyuan Liu "Gender Confusion in the use of English third person
singular pronouns by Chinese speakers".
Member of 2 MA Committees: Sharma Martineau (Spanish); Scott Welsh (doing an MTESL as
well).
Member of 8 MTESL Committees: Cynthia Towne "Attitudes of Navajo speakers towards
proposition 203"; Yukari Takahashi “Input Processing: An investigation into the teaching
of English relative clauses to japanese learners of English”; April Lawrence "Japanese
Learners of English and the Production of AE Liquid Consonant clusters"; Ji Eun Kim
”Application of VanPatten’s processing to English Teaching”; Eun Sun Kim, Scott Welsh
“Korean Speakers’ acquisition of English fricatives”(doing an MA as well); Stella
Hadjistassou “Second Language Acquisition from a Vygotskian Perspective”, Khalid Al-
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 Harthi "Humor and the Student of English as a Second Language".

MA etc 2000-2001
Chair of 3 MA theses: Mariana Bahtchevanova (French Department) "Modals in Romance";
Tatyana Slobodchikoff "Possession in Zuni"; Anju Kuriakose "Code Switching in
Malayalam".
Co-Chair of 1 MA: Ivana Busleta Banks "Corpus Linguistics".
Chair of 4 MTESL projects: Chris Bragg "Articles and Japanese ESL Learners"; Chan Youn Park
"Relative Clauses and the Korean ESL learner", Maria Rius "Pro-drop and UG", Abdul Al-
Bargi "Simultaneous Bilingualism".
Chair of an honors' thesis: Allison Johnson "Binary Branching".
Member 6 MTESL Committees: Lenie Trepels; Joe Givens "A study of twelve Japanese speakers'
production of AE liquids /l/ and /r/"; Soo Jin Kil "English Vowel Production by Korean and
Spanish Speakers"; Hui Min "Identity, Investment, and Chinese Speakers' ESL Learning
Experience"; Byeong-Keun You "Whole Language and TESL/TEFL"; David Cleveland.
Member of 4 MA Committees: Dan Mulvey "Theories are Buildings revisited"; Lynn Sims; Ilaria
Keogh "A Study on American Parents' Preferences in Baby Naming"; Abdul Al-Qudairi
"The effect of Language testing Methods on Reading Comprehension".

1999-2000
Chair of 2 MA theses: MingPing Ji `Functional Categories in Mandarin'; Scot Zola `The
Determiner Phrase Hypothesis and the Relationship between Functional and Lexical
Categories'.
Co-chair of an MA thesis: Yoonsoo Kim `A Study of Morphological and Periphrastic Causative
Constructions in Korean'.
Chair of 3 MTESL projects: Ji-Young Choi `The Acquisition of English Reflexive Pronouns by
Adult Korean Speakers'; Li Ting Ho `Reflexives in English and Chinese'; Mei Hua Lan
`Evaluation of Vocabulary Acquisition Methods'.
Reader on 1 MA thesis: Lutfi Hussein.
Reader on 8 MTESL projects: Anna Dolgina "Syntactic Complexity of ESL Writing on a
Computer Network and Its Effects on Writing Quality of EFL students"; Xinya Liu "Using
Humor in Teaching ESL"; Ursula Duncan "The Critical Period Hypothesis and Explicit
Grammar Teaching in Adult Second Language Acquisition"; Jennifer Miller "Gender and
the ESL Classroom"; Patty Thomas "The AECP's Reading Comprehension Test"; Juan Du
"Politeness Strategies in the performance of FTAs"; Wendell Pepperdine "Temporal
Factors in the Oral Fluency of Non-native English Speakers"; Younei Soe "Metaphorical
Inferences in Categorizing Cyberspace Words".

1998-1999
Chair of 4 MTESL Projects: Alexis Chubrich "Determiners in Serbian and English", Paul Eckhart
"The `get-passive'", Ban Phung "The use of Mnemonics in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition",
Yue Chen "Feature Checking and Code-Switching of Chinese-English Bilinguals".
Reader on 4 MA theses: Ferenc Bunta "Acquiring /ε/ and /æ/ by Hungarian ESL Learners",
Carolyn Fritz "Beowulf", Shane Drews "DA in the EFL classroom"; Katja Legner (German
Dept) "Bavarian dialects"
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Reader on an honors' thesis: Walenta Jones "Theoretical Issues in SLI", (Speech and Hearing
Dept).
Reader on 6 MTESL projects: Kyoungho Kang "The categorical perception of English phonemes
by Korean Learners of English"; Kyung-ah Pyun "Syllable based influence on the
interlanguage phonology of Korean ESL learners"; Jane Kleindienst "Testing
Communicative Competence in Listening Comprehension"; Feng Gao "Idioms - Structure,
Acquisition, and Processing"; Kristin Turrill "Assessment of Basic Writing Skills of Adult
ESL Students"; Roland Spears "Observations on Teaching ESL in Brazil".
Graduate college representative during doctoral examination of Jeannette Williams, Dept of
Communication, 20 July 1999.

1997-1998:
Chair of 2 MA theses: Monica von Eggers "Parsing the Swedish DP"; Danielle Robert "French
Syntax".
Chair of 5 MTESL projects: Eunsook Shim "Tense in the Narratives of Korean Leaners of
English"; Jungwoo Kim "English Relative Clauses: Problems for Korean Speakers",
Youngyoo Yi "Articles as a problem for Korean ESL speakers", Yoko Oyama "Cultural
Knowledge", Karin Conrad "Metaphor and the ESL classroom".
Reader on 2 MA theses: Michelle Hudgins "Gender, Language and Cartoons"; Amy Ruzycki-
Shinabarger "Metaphor in Songs".
Reader on 5 MTESL projects: Lauren Falkovsky "Backchannels across Cultures"; Susan Heck
"Relative Clauses for Indonesian Learners of English"; Xiaoyu Li "ESL for Chinese
Speakers", Jung A Seo "L2 Motivation", Gerald Guntle "The Acquisition of l/r by Japanese
Learners of English".

1996-1997:
Chair of 4 MA committees: Anne Winter "Transitivity and Intransitivity in Lushootseed" (1996),
Kristine McCrady "Minimalism, Functional Categories and O'odham", Johanna Wood
"Negation in The Paston Letters: The Neg-Phrase and Negative Concord" and Ikuko
Tsuchiya "Japanese Phrase Structure in the Minimalist Program",
Co-chair of an MTESL project: Terryl Sands "German-American Discourse Behavior and
Perceptions: a Pilot Study" (1997).
Reader and `substitute' reader for 3 MA theses: Teresa Wells "A Survey of the Artificial Language
Tlingan Hol", Karen Baertsch "Initial Voiced Stops in Proto-Dravidian", Chad Nilep
"Beyond the `Waste Basket': an Investigation into the Formal Linguistic Aspects of Verbal
Humor",
Reader on 5 MTESL projects: Sue Cotner "English Only or `Adios Amigos': Issues in Language
Maintenance and the English Only Movement", Jin-Seo Oh "How effective is the L1
Phonological Instrument in the Acquisition of L2 Phonology", Elba Araceli Villasenor
"Testing Communicative Performance", Ayako Takahara "A Study of Sexism in Japanese
EFL Textbooks", So Young Hong "The Acquisition of English Consonant Clusters by
Native Speakers of Korean".

Other (volunteer)
Art Masterpiece volunteer, Kyrene De Las Lomas elementary school, Phoenix. Fall 2010.
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Sierra Club, e.g. Verde River clean-up; borderlands campaign participation, see Rincon Newsletter
photo-essay, January 2010.
November 1982 - present: various coordinating/consulting tasks related to Amnesty International's
concerns in South Asia for Amnesty International, Canadian Section (English Speaking),
hence AICS(ES).
August 1996 - present: various activities with ETAN (East Timor Action Network). ASU Faculty
Advisor of ETAN ASU, 1997-2004.
October 2005 – 2009: Prison Literacy Project; collecting and delivering books to local prisons.
November 2002 – January 2009: Secretary HOA The Casas.
September 1989 - May 1990: Teaching basic literacy to prisoners in Kingston Penitentiary, with
Frontier College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
June 1985 - June 1986: Chairperson of the AICS(ES) National Executive Committee; May 1984 -
June 1985: Member of the AICS(ES) Executive Committee.
August 1985: AICS(ES) delegate to the International Council Meeting in Helsinki.
September 1979 - May 1980: teaching Dutch to speakers of Turkish.

Art Exhibits
Homecoming exhibit, October 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
Phoenix Downtown Arts District, Onyx Collective, May 2005: `Portraits'
Memorial Union, ASU, September 2002 - April 2003: `Reflections in Pastel'.
SALT Art Walk, November 2001 and 2002.
Central Arizona College, Spring 2002.

Languages: Dutch, English, German, French, some Swedish/Norwegian, some Urdu, a little
Spanish, some Yiddish, minimal Navajo.

Professional Organizations
Member of:
Linguistic Society of America, Society for Germanic Linguistics, Association for Linguistic
Typology, Linguistic Association of the South West (LASSO), International Linguistic
Association, Generative Linguists of the Old World, Linguistic Association of Great Britain,
Linguistic Society of India, and Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the
Americas.

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