Teaching Interests

Historical linguistics, syntax & discourse, English grammar, English linguistics

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

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).

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).

1976 The voice of the infinitive in the Rig-Veda, II. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Tucson

1977 Indeterminacy in Indo-European non-finite complementation, Linguistics Dept, University of California, Berkeley

1978 The development of Indo-European infinitives, Linguistics Dept, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill On the spread of dative infinitives in Indo-European, LSA Annual Meeting, Boston

1979 Syntactic universals of infinitives, Linguistics Program, University of California, Davis Clause union in Old Irish, LSA Annual Meeting, Los Angeles

1980 Towards a syntactic definition of infinitives, Linguistics Colloquium, University of South Carolina

1981 Irish complementation: a case study in two types of syntactic change, International Conference on Historical Syntax, Poznan, Poland Remarks on subject raising in Old and Middle Irish, V. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, Ireland

1984 The Táin Bó Cúailnge: an Indo-European rite of royal consecration, Sixth Annual Celtic Studies Conference, University of California, Los Angeles On the relationship of linguistics and philology, Indo-European Studies Colloquium, University of California, Los Angeles On the diachrony of consecutives, Linguistics Colloquium, University of South Carolina The structure of consecutives and serials, LSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore

1985 The diachronic relationship of syntax and morphology, VII. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Pavia Diachronic syntax, synchronic morphology, LSA Annual Meeting, Seattle

1986-7 Early Irish diachronic syntax, 12 lectures delivered to the Early Irish Seminar, University College Dublin, on research produced under auspices of Fulbright Research/Lecturing Award

1987 Sentential subjects and objects in Early Irish, University College, Galway Abduction, teleology, and the Transparency Principle, VIII. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille Explaining language change, Linguistics Colloquium, University of South Carolina

1988 Syntactic innovation and syntactic history, Georgetown University Roundtable on Linguistics, Washington, D.C. The morphology and syntax of Early Irish infinitival complements, Symposium on Typology and Universals, Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Memphis More verbal characteristics of the verbal noun, Celtic Studies Association of North America annual meeting, Los Angeles Gaining transitivity: a major mechanism of syntactic change, Linguistics Colloquium, University of South Carolina Panel: Getting tenure, for annual meeting of the Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics, LSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans (organizer and moderator of panel)

1989 Where we stand today, Conference on the Status of Women in Linguistics, Cornell University Changing transitivity, IX. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Rutgers University The transition problem, catastrophic change, and adaptive rules, LSA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

1990 On the non-disruptive nature of language change, 19th Annual Linguistics Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Word order change in Celtic, Celtic Studies Assn. of North America, UCLA Adaptive rules, Linguistics Colloquium, University of South Carolina

1991 Parameter resetting, X. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam 1994 Is there exaptation in syntax?, Linguistics Seminar, University of Manchester

1997 Celtic typological change as transitivity shift, XIII. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf. Presented as part of Workshop on Typological Change: Causes and Consequences, organized by Raymond Hickey and Dorothy Disterheft

1998 Why language change looks gradual, linguistics colloquium, University of Florida Celtic consonants, Historical linguistics research group, University of South Carolina

Review: Jared S. Klein, The particle u in the Rigveda: a synchronic and diachronic study (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1978), Language 56.222-3 (1980).

Review: H.S. Ananthanarayana, A syntactic study of Old Aryan (Hyderabad: Osmania University, 1979), Language 57.491-492 (1981).

Review: M. Deshpande, Evolution of syntactic theory in Sanskrit grammar (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Karoma Press, 1980), Language 57.492-3 (1981).

Consecutives and serials in Indo-European, Linguistics across historical and geographical boundaries. In honour of Jacek Fisiak, ed. by A.Szwedek and D. Kastovsky, 293-300. Berlin: Mouton (1986).

Review: W. Lehmann and Y. Malkiel, eds. Perspectives on historical linguistics (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1982), Romance philology 41.179-86 (1987).

Women in linguistics: recent trends, The Cornell lectures: women in the linguistics profession, ed. by Alice Davison and Penelope Eckert, 89-110. Washington, D.C.: The Linguistic Society of America (1990).

Review: René Appel and Pieter Muysken, Language contact and bilingualism (London: Edward Arnold, 1987), Journal of pidgin and creole languages 6.306-10 (1991).

Syntactic innovation in Early Irish. Dán do oide. Essays in memory of Conn R. Ó Cléirigh 1927-1995, ed. by Anders Ahlqvist and Véra Çapková, p. 123-33. Dublin: Institiúid Teangeolaíchta Éireann (1997).

The evolution of Indo-European infinitives. Studies in honor of Jaan Puhvel, Part I: Ancient languages and philology, ed.by Dorothy Disterheft and Martin Huld, 101-22. Washington D.C: Institute for the Study of Man. (Indo-European Studies Monograph, volume 20) (1997).

Irish evidence for Indo-European royal consecration. Studies in honor of Jaan Puhvel, Part II: Comparative religion and mythology, ed. by Edgar Polomé and John Greppin, 105-20 Washington D.C: Institute for the Study of Man. (Indo-European Studies Monograph, vol. 21) (1997).

 

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