Dorothy Disterheft

Associate Professor

Office: 211 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-6053
disterh@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1977

Specialization Areas

• Historical Linguistics
• Syntax and Discourse

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• LING 530 Language Change
• LING 725 Applied English Syntax
  

Current Research Project(s)

Historical linguistics, esp. theory of change; syntactic and morphological change; Indo-European languages, esp. Old and Middle Irish.

Publications

The syntactic development of the infinitive in Indo-European. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Press. 220 pages (1980).
Studies in honor of Jaan Puhvel, Part I: Ancient languages and philology, edited with Martin Huld. Washington D.C: Institute for the Study of Man. (Indo-European Studies Monograph, vol. 20) 250 pages. (1997)

Phonology Workbook, distributed by Universal Copies. 92 pages (1992).
English Grammar (ENGL 450 Textbook), distributed by Universal Copies. 174 pages (1993).

Articles

The voice of the infinitive in the RigVeda, Proceeding of the Second International Conference Historical Linguistics, ed. by W. Christie, 105-25. Amsterdam: North Holland (1976).
'Subjunctive for indicative' in Avestan, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 93.25-30 (1979).

Remarks on the history of the Indo-European infinitive, Folia linguistica historica 2.3-34 (1981).

The Indo-Iranian predicate infinitive, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 95.110-21 (1981).

Subject raising in Old Irish, Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, ed. by A. Ahlqvist, 44-53. Amsterdam: Benjamins (1982).

Non-final verbs in Hittite, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 97.221-7 (1984).

Irish complementation: a case study in two types of syntactic change, Historical syntax, ed. by J. Fisiak, 89-106. Berlin: Mouton (1984).

Purpose and consecutive in Irish, Ériu 36.107-23 (1985).

The structure and diachrony of consecutives, Diachronica 3.1-14 (1986).

The diachronic relationship of morphology and syntax, Papers from the VIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, ed. by A.Giacalone Ramat, O. Carruba and G. Bernini, 211-20. Amsterdam: Benjamins (1987).

The role of adaptive rules in language change, Diachronica 7:181-98 (1990).

Parameter resetting, Historical linguistics 1991, ed. by Jaap van Marle, 87-97. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins (1993).