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.
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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WORD.
"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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Madison, WI, 2 May 2008.
“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.
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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.
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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.
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).
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.
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
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)
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Mentoring of PhD
Jing Xia, August 2008 -2010
Ahmed Zeeshan Gul, January 2009-2010
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 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 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.
January 2011
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