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Sociolinguistics
Including Variationist Sociolinguistics, Contact Linguistics and Creole
Linguistics
Linguistics Faculty
Elizabeth V. Hume, Professor of Linguistics
Appointed 1992 B.A., (French and Linguistics), Université
Laval, Quebec, 1981 M.A., (French), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
1986 Ph.D., (Linguistics), Cornell University, 1992
Areas of specialization: Phonological theory, phonetics/phonology
interaction, phonological variation
Brian D. Joseph,
Professor of Linguistics (appointed 1979); Kenneth E. Naylor Professor
of Slavic and East European Languages and Literature (appointed 1997)
Chair of the Department of Linguistics, 1987-1997, A.B., (Linguistics),
Yale University, 1973, A.M., (Linguistics), Harvard University, 1976, Ph.D.,
(Linguistics), Harvard University, 1978
Areas of specialization: Historical linguistics (Indo-European),
morphology and morphological change; Relational grammar; syntactic change;
Greek linguistics; Balkan linguistics; Sanskrit linguistics.
Terrence
Odlin, Associate Professor of English (Sociolinguistics) and Adjunct
Associate Professor of Linguistics
B.A. Georgetown, 1972; M.A. Texas El Paso, 1978; Ph.D. Texas
Austin, 1983. Linguistically oriented courses taught: English 271, Introduction
to English Language Study; English 571, Studies in the English Language;
English 772, English Syntax; English 774, History of the English Language;
English 879, Studies in Rhetoric; English 881.03, Teaching of College Composition
in English as a Second Language.
Areas of specialization: Native-language influence in second
language acquisition, syntactic change in the English of Ireland.
Scott Schwenter,
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Adjunct Associate Professor
of Linguistics
(Appointed 1999) M.A., (Linguistics), University of New Mexico, 1993; Ph.D., (Linguistics), Stanford University, 1998.
Areas of specialization:
Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Syntactic Variation, Spanish Dialectology.
Donald Winford,
Professor of Linguistics
(Appointed 1988) B.A., (English), Class I Honours, University
of London, King's College, 1968 Ph.D., (Linguistics), University of York,
U.K., 1972
Areas of specialization: Sociolinguistics; contact linguistics;
variation theory; Pidgin and Creole linguistics; Caribbean Creoles.
Arnold M. Zwicky,
University Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
(Appointed 1969) Professor Emeritus, 1995 B.A., (Mathematics),
Princeton University, 1962 Ph.D., (Linguistics), Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 1965
Areas of specialization: Syntactic, morphological and phonological
theory.
Graduate Courses in Sociolinguistics
Faculty with Related Interests in Other Departments
Alamin Mazrui Associate Professor of Black Studies
Horace E. Newsum Associate Professor of Black Studies and English
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