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Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D., 1968, NYU, (German Linguistics); M.A., 1966, NYU, (Germanic Linguistics); B.A., 1964, Wagner, (German Literature).
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Research Interests: Historical linguistics; diachronic syntax; first and second language acquisition; languages in contact.
Affiliations: International Linguistic Association;
Linguistics Society of America;
Society for Germanic Philology.
Fellowships/Honors: President of Beta of New York Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa;
Editor of WORD, Journal of the International Linguistic Association.
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Selected Publications
(1996) "Remarks on Linguistic Convergence, Lexical Syncretism, and Cognition: The Merger of 'bitte' and 'fraage' in the Pennsylvania German of Anabaptists in Lancaster County." Language and Lives. Essays in Honor if Werner Enninger, ed. by James R. Dow and Michele Wolff. New York: Peter Lang.
(1995) "Theory and Data in Phonological Reconstruction: Whence and Whither?" WORD, Vol. 46, 9-12.
(1993a) "Modal Auxiliaries in Proto-Indo-European," Comparative-Historical Linguistics, Indo-European and Finno-Ugric, Papers in Honor of Oswald Szemerenyi III, ed. by Bela Brogyanyi and Rainer Lipp. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 73-90.
(1993b) "The Periphrastic 'duh-Construction in Anabaptist and Nonsectarian Pennsylvania German: Syncronic and Diachronic Perspectives." Diachronic studies on the Language of the Anabaptists, ed. by Kate Burridge and Werner Enniger. Bochum:Universitaetsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer. Pp. 242-263.
(1989) "Innovations Increasing Syntactic Complexity in the Native Language of Bilingual Children from 5 to 10: The Case for Pennslyvania German." Studies on the Languages and Verbal Behavior of the Pennsylvania Germans II, ed. by Werner Enninger et al. Stuttgart:Franz Steiner Verlag. Pp 3-16.
(1986a) Relative Clauses in Proto-Indo-European: A Syntagmemic Reconstruction." Language in Global Perspective: Papers in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Pp. 233-249.
(1986b) "Diglossia at Twilight: German and Pennsylvania 'Dutch' in the Mid-Nineteenth Century." Studies on the Language and Verbal Behavior of the Pennsylvania Germans I, ed. by Werner Enninger. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. Pp. 1-24.
(1984) "The Periphrastic Passive Construction in Proto-Indo-European." WORD, Vol. 35, 125-161.
Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction. Dallas:Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington.
(1982) "The Absolute Construction in Indo-European: A Syntagmemic Reconstruction." The Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 10, 235-252.
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