Babble

Beginning with this issue of Babble, our Program newsletter will begin appearing in the fall. It is hoped the information describing the past year’s activities will be valuable to incoming students. This fall we welcome 14 new students to the program and last year we welcomed 12.

Last summer saw the departure of Prof. Hyeson Park, our SLA specialist, after her acceptance of a position in her native South Korea. She will certainly be missed by colleagues and students. This summer we also lost Steve McCartney, our visiting assistant professor in Phonology. With the budget difficulties of the College, he was not renewed. In addition, two tenure-track searches in second language acquisition and sociolinguistics were suspended by the College. The SLA search has been reopened this year. On the brighter side, we welcomed Jennifer Reynolds to core faculty in Linguistics last fall. This fall, Lara Lomicka, formerly consulting faculty in Linguistics, has become a core faculty member. In addition, we welcome three new consulting faculty members to the Program, Stella de Bode, Assistant Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Public Health, and Susi Long, Associate Professor, and Mariana Souto-Manning, Assistant Professor, both in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education in the College of Education. Due to the staffing situation in the English Department and sabbaticals in the fall semester, Prof. Emerita Carol Myers-Scotton, Ann Marrano (Ph.D., Georgetown) and Mila Tasseva (ABD) are teaching graduate courses for us this year.

An initiative of Stan Dubinsky, who ended his term as director in 2004, came to fruition this year. Revisions to the TEFL Certificate Program were passed by the Graduate Council, the Commission on Higher Education and the Board of Trustees. The new name of the Program is Certificate in Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). It has two tracks, the old EFL post-secondary track and the new ESOL K-12 track. The new track prepares students for add-on certification in South Carolina Public schools.

Last year marked a new phase in the undergraduate program marked by increased cooperation with the Honors College, which offers opportunities for research-based learning for its students. During fall ‘04 Stan Dubinsky taught an honors section of LING 300 with visits from various linguistics faculty members introducing their area of specialization and research. The goal is to get undergraduates involved in faculty research projects. Stan will teach another honors section of LING 300 this spring semester. With the renumbering of LING 710 and 720 to LING 610 and 620, these courses will also be available to advanced undergraduates.

Of concern to graduate students are the revisions to the Ph.D. requirements. The Ph.D. qualifying exam now consists of three sections: phonology, syntax and special field and the Ph.D. comprehensive now has two sections: primary and secondary field, each of which may be replaced by a research paper. Also, students my now use either a methods class or a third Indo-European language for the third (non-Indo-European) language requirement.

I hope this year has gotten off to a productive start!

—Kurt Goblirsch

Colloquium Series:

• Susan Gass, Michigan State University, "Attention: When, Where, and For Whom?"
• Eusebio V. Llácer Llorca, Universitat de València, Spain, "On Translation: Traditional Ideas and Contemporary Theories"
• Lara Ducate, University of South Carolina, "Taking the Blah out of Blogs: Using Web Logs in the Foreign Language Classroom"
• Leslie Arnovick, University of British Columbia, “The Discourse of Spirit Language: Gibberish and Silence in Anglo-Saxon Magic Charms”
• Dennis R. Preston, Michigan State University, “Belle’s Body Just Caught the Fit Gnat: The Comprehension of Northern Cities Shifted Vowels by Local Speakers”
• Anne Charity, University of Pennsylvania, “System and Region in the English of Low-SES African-American Schoolchildren”
• Heejeong Ko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Indefinites: Parallels between L1 and L2 Acquisition of English Articles”
• Mónica Cabrera, University of Southern California, “Overgeneralized Causatives in L2 English and L2 Spanish: The Role of the L1”
• Alison Gabriele, The City University of New York, “Native Language Influence on the Acquisition of L2 Semantics: Acquiring Aspect in English and Japanese”
• Robert Fulk, Indiana University, “Textual Criticism and Frederick Klaeber’s Beowulf”
• Robert Fulk, Indiana University, “Linguistics, Probability, and the Dating of Old English Verse Texts”

Hard Data Café (Psychology Department) talks:

• Stanley Dubinsky, University of South Carolina, and William D. Davies, University of Iowa, "Factors Governing the Existence and Distribution of Sentential Subjects in English"
• Dorit Bar-On, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, "Expression and Self-Knowledge"
• Daniel Haun, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, "Lost for Words: Language Impact on Spatial Cognition"
• Mandy Simons, Carnegie Mellon University, “Convention, Conversation and Presupposition”

Keynote address for the 3rd Annual South Carolina Anthropology Student Conference:

• Charles Briggs, University of California – San Diego, "Creating Violent Domesticities and Obedient Publics: Media Tales of Infanticide and the Demise of Nation-state Projects in Latin America"

The 2005-2006 Colloquium Series is already off to a great start. For more details, visit the 2005-06 Colloquia webpage.

• Stella de Bode, University of South Carolina, "Cortical Plasticity and One Hemisphere: Language and Motor Functions Reorganized after Hemispherectomy"
• Jennifer Reynolds, University of South Carolina, “Buenos días: The natural history of coined ritual insults and verbal duels in Antonero Maya households”
• William Leap, American University, “Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring, and the (Changing) Language(s) of Gay Geography in Washington, DC“

GSLING is now holding regular monthly meetings to discuss the needs of the graduate students in the Linguistics Program. All students in the program are invited and encouraged to attend these meetings, which are held the first Friday of every month at 3:30PM in the Gambrell third floor lounge (just off the elevator).

We started the 2005-06 year by naming new officers:

President: Stephen L. Mann
Treasurer: Michael Messersmith
Professional Development Workshop Coordinator: Jeremy Graves
Social Activities Coordinator: Stacy Warnick
Research Group Activity Coordinator: Henry Yum

The officer list includes one new position: Research Group Activity Coordinator. In the past, the individual reading groups have been managed individually. This year, we decided to consolidate the coordination of the groups. We are also pleased to welcome two first-year students, Jeremy Graves and Stacy Warnick, as GSLING officers.

We have also decided to start a graduate student conference, which will be held in the spring. The idea was proposed by Cintia Widmann, and Cintia has agreed to serve as conference organizer. The conference, which will be open to graduate students in linguistics and affiliated departments, will provide students with an early opportunity to present their research in a supportive, welcoming environment.

Reading groups and professional development workshops are an important aspect of GSLING. The reading groups give students the opportunity to practice conference presentations, solicit peer feedback, and brainstorm ideas. The workshops provide students with practical knowledge necessary for successful academic careers. There were several activities in 2004-05:

Reading Groups

• Dubinsky, Stanley (with Shoko Hamano, George Washington University). “Control into Adverbial Predicate PPs.” (Syntax Reading Group – SynRG)
• Mikhaylova, Anna. “Markers of Ethnic Identity and the Role of Language.” (Language and Culture Reading Group – LangCult)
• Syntactic Theory Workshop (Syntax Reading Group – SynRG)
• Zhu, Fan. “Interlanguage Pragmatics: Invitation Responses by Advanced Chinese Learners of English.” (Second Language Acquisition Research Group – SLARG)
  Professional Development Workshops
• Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol – presented by Tommy Coggins from the IRB office.

Of course, we also needed to make time for some fun. GSLING hosted several receptions last year following colloquia. We also continued the First Friday tradition – the first Friday of every month students and faculty meet at a local establishment to eat, drink, and be merry. GSING meetings are now being held on the first Friday of the month, so students can proceed from the meeting to First Friday. Another successful social event last year was the first annual GSLING Thanksgiving potluck.

—Stephen L. Mann

Anne Bezuidenhout

Papers:

• Bezuidenhout, A. (2006). 'VP-ellipsis and the case for representationalism in semantics', ProtoSociology, vol. 22.
• Bezuidenhout, A. (2005). 'Indexicals and Perspectivals', Facta Philosophica, 7: 3-18.
• Bezuidenhout, A. (2004). 'Procedural Meaning and the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface' in C. Bianchi (ed.) The Semantics/ Pragmatics Distinction, CSLI Publications, 101-131.
• Bezuidenhout, A. & Morris, R. (2004). 'Implicature, Relevance and Default Inferences', in D. Sperber & I. Noveck (eds.), Experimental Pragmatics. Palgrave Press, 2004, 257-282.

Book reviews:

• Bezuidenhout, A. (2005). Review of Carston, R. (2002). Thoughts and Utterances, Oxford: Blackwell, for Mind, forthcoming.
• Bezuidenhout, A. (2005). Review of Searle, J. (2002). Language and Consciousness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, for Language, forthcoming.

Encyclopedia entries:

• Bezuidenhout, A. (2005). 'The Semantics/Pragmatics boundary'; 'Expression meaning vs. utterance/speaker meaning' and 'Non standard language use', The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, editor-in-chief K. Brown, Elsevier Publishers.

Conference presentations:

• Bezuidenhout, A., Morris, R. & Bousman, E. 'Parentheticals and the re-ranking of forward-looking centers', paper delivered as part of the panel on the semantics-pragmatics boundary, organized by Rob Stainton, at the 9th International Pragmatics Association meeting in Riva del Garda, Italy, July 10-15, 2005.
• Bezuidenhout, A. 'Presupposition failure and the topic/focus structure of utterances', invited talk given at a conference in honor of Jay Atlas, Pomona College, April 1, 2005.
• Bezuidenhout, A., 'Reply to Yablo on non-catastrophic presupposition failure', invited response delivered at 38th Chapel Hill Colloquium, October 1-3, 2004.
  • Bezuidenhout, A. 'Reply to Jackson on holism, context and content', invited response presented at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology meetings, New Orleans, April 8-10, 2004.

Book:

• Lautverschiebungen in den germanischen Sprachen. Germanistische Bibliothek 23. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2005.

Article:

• “The Voicing of Fricatives in West Germanic and the Partial Consonant Shift.” Folia Linguistica Historica 24 (2003): 111-152.

Reviews:

• “Language.” The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 1999. With Kathleen D. Turner. Ed. Peter S. Baker and Robert D. Fulk. Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute of America. 14-24.
• “Language: Syntax, Phonology, Other Aspects.” The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2000. With Haruko Moma. Ed. Daniel G. Donoghue and Roy Liuzza. Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute of America. 32-47.
• “Language: Syntax, Phonology, Other Aspects.” The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2001. With Haruko Moma. Ed. Daniel G. Donoghue and Roy Liuzza. Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute of America. 36-48.

Presentations:

• "Ausbreitung oder Entfaltung? The Spread and Gradation of the High German Consonant Shift Reconsidered." Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004.
• "Lenition and Vowel Lengthening in Germanic." 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, WI, 2005.

D. Eric Holt

Under review:

• Optimality Theory and Language Change in Spanish." Optimality-Theoretic Advances in Spanish Phonology. Fernando Martínez-Gil and Sonia Colina, eds.

In preparation:

• Book: Spanish translation of Patterns in the mind: Language and human nature, by Ray Jackendoff, BasicBooks, 1994. (Currently developing proposal to submit to publishers, and elaborating the translation, building on work begun by Cintia Widmann last year.)
• Book: Spanish-themed volume of essays dedicated to debunking various myths about the Spanish language, and language more broadly. (Similar to Language Myths, ed. by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill, Penguin Books, 1998. (Currently developing proposal to submit to publishers, and to commission chapters by leading Spanish linguists. Spanish- and English-language editions planned.)

Lara Lomicka

Publications:

• Lomicka, L., & Cooke-Plagwitz, J. (2004). Teaching with Technology (Volume 1). Heinle Professional Series in Language Instruction. Robert Terry, Series Editor. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.
• Arnold, N., Ducate, L., Lomicka, L., and Lord, G. (2005). Using Computer-mediated Communication to Establish Social and Supportive Environments in Teacher Education. CALICO Journal 22(3), Special Issue on Computer-Mediated Communication, pp. 537-566.
• Lomicka, L., & Lord, G. (2004). Using Collaborative Cyber communities to prepare tomorrow’s teachers. Foreign Language Annals 37(3), 401-416.

Book reviews:

• Lomicka, L. (2004). Review of La Chaise Berçante. Language Learning & Technology 8(3), 35-39.

Invited talks:

• “Tubes de Jeunes: Rap, Reggae, Rai.” Paper presented at the Southern Conference on Language Teaching, Mobile, AL, March 2004. (Paper chosen as Best of the South Carolina Foreign Language Teacher Association).

Conference presentations:

• “Exploring Identity and Pop-culture in the Blogosphere.” Paper presented at the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, Madison, WI, July 2005 with Lara Ducate.
• “Blasting into the Blogosphere: Using Reading and Micropublishing as a Window into Language and Culture.” Paper presented at the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Conference, East Lansing, MI, June 2005 with Lara Ducate.
• “An Overview of Technology in Language Teaching: Research, Tools, Practice.” Workshop conducted for the South Carolina Foreign Language Teacher Association at Columbia, SC, 2005 with Lara Ducate.
• “Coup d’oeil DVD for Foreign Language Teaching.” Paper presented at the South Carolina Foreign Language Teacher Association, Columbia, SC, February, 2005.
• “Collaborative and Cross-Institutional Technology-based Teacher Training.” The Reading Matrix Online Conference, September 2004 with Gillian Lord.
• “Reflection of the self and others: Virtual practices in effective reflective teaching.” Paper presented at the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2004 with Gillian Lord.

Carol Myers-Scotton

Recent work:

• May 2005--Carol Myers-Scotton traveled to Rhodes University in South Africa to consult with Dr. Ron Simango, who received his PhD in 1995 from the program. The two of them are working on a study of Xhosa-English bilngualism under an NSF grant which she has.
• June 2005--Carol Myers-Scotton published an article ("Precision tuning of the Matarix Language Frame model of codeswitching") in the annual publication, Sociolinguistica 18, pp. 106-117.
• July 2005--Carol Myers-Scotton's new book, Multiple Voices, An Introduction to Bilingualism was published by Blackwell. She is using this book in a graduate course she is teaching in fall 2005 "Bilingualism and Globalization and the Spread of English."
• August 2005--Carol Myers-Scotton gave a series of lectures at a week-long "summer school" for Linguistics graduate students held at Trondheim, Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).
• August 2005--Carol Myers-Scotton gave a keynote lecture ("As the world turns: bilingualism and globalization") at a conference on "Globalization" held in Trondheim, Norwlay at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
• August 2005--Carol Myers-Scotton gave a keynote lecture ("Steps in grammatical shift") at the second international conference on attrition held at the Frei University in Amsterdam.
• October 2005--Carol Myers-Scotton gave two lectures at Middlebury College in Vermont.
• October 2005--Carol Myers-Scotton gave a paper ("Testing hypotheses about steps in grammatical shift/turnover") at the annual NWAV conference held at New York University in New York City.

Bruce Pearson

• Bruce L. Pearson (prof. emeritus) is in the third year of a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a dictionary and related materials for the Delaware language. He is completing work on a two-volume collection of Wyandotte narratives and an accompanying handbook-dictionary and has written several encyclopedia articles on languages and linguistics.

Jennifer Reynolds

Lectures presented:

• “’Buenos Días:’ The natural life history of coined ritual insults and verbal duels in Antonero Maya households.” Paper presented in a panel organized by Marjorie Goodwin & Amy Kyratzis titled, “Children Socializing Children: Cultural Production, Participation, and Authoritative Discourse in Peer Play Interactions” at the 9th International Pragmatics Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 10-15, 2005.
• “When the subaltern must speak.” Paper presented in the Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series at the University of South Carolina. September 30, 2004.
• I co-organized the 3rd Annual SC Student Anthropology Conference and recruited linguistic anthropologist, Charles L. Briggs to be the keynote speaker.

Publications:

• Reynolds, J. F. (forthcoming). “Shaming the shift generation: Ideologies of family and linguistic revitalization in Guatemala.” In Native American Language Ideologies: Language Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country, Margaret Field & Paul V. Kroskrity, (eds.). Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Orellana, M. F., Reynolds, J., Dorner, L., and Meza, M. (2003). “In other words: Translating or “para-phrasing” as a family literacy practice in immigrant households.” Reading Research Quarterly 38(1):12-34.
• Kroskrity, P. V., Bethel, R., and Reynolds, J. F. (2002). TAITADUHAAN: WESTERN MONO WAYS OF SPEAKING. A CD-ROM. Oklahoma University Press.
• Kroskrity, P. V., and Reynolds, J. F. (2001). “Using Multimedia in Language Renewal: Observations from making the CD-ROM TAITADUHAAN: WESTERN MONO WAYS OF SPEAKING.” In Kenneth Hale and Leanne Hinton, eds., Handbook for Language Revitalization. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
• Duranti, A. and Reynolds, J. (2000). “Phonological and cultural innovations in the speech of Samoans in Southern California,” Estudios de Sociolingüística 1(1): 93-110.

Alexandra Rowe

Grants and contracts written and funded:

• Writer/designer for Fulbright English for Graduate Studies Program, Institute of International Education, July 21 – August 11, 2005. Funded at $176,300.
• Writer/designer, coordinator, and instructor for Teacher Training and English Language Enhancement Program for Mexican English Teachers, Secretaría de Educación Pública, Dirección General de Relaciones Internacionales, and Comisión México-Estados Unidos para el Intercambio Educativo y Cultural (COMEXUS) , July 9 – August 6, 2005. Funded at $100,000.

Workshops:

• “Communicative Speaking/Listening Activities in Secondary Taiwanese English Classes: Adapting Current Materials, Developing Activities, and Assessing Students.” Co-presenter. American Language Teacher Training Workshop, American International Education Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, March 18-19, 2005.

Professional service:

• Site Evaluator, English Language Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, February 15-17, 2005.
• Forthcoming: In December 2005 I will be a member of the Site Review Team for the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA), which is recognized by the US Secretary of Education. The site to be reviewed is the English language program at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This is the first international site review for the Commission.

Tracey L. Weldon

Publications:

• To appear. Gullah. In Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Ellen Johnson and Michael Montgomery, eds. University of North Carolina Press.
• To appear. Gullah Gullah Islands. In American Voices: How dialects differ from coast to coast. Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward, eds. Malden and Oxford: Blackwell. 178-182. (Reprint of Weldon, 2002. Gullah Gullah Islands. Language Magazine. February edition. 31, 33-34).
• 2005. Review article on The development of African American English, by Walt Wolfram and Erik Thomas, Oxford and Malden: Blackwell, 2002; and The historical evolution of earlier African American English: An empirical comparison of early sources, by Alexander Kautzsch, Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002. In Language 81.2. 478-494.
• 2004. Gullah: Phonology. A Handbook of Varieties of English 1: 2. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 393-406.
• 2003. Copula variability in Gullah. Language variation and change 15: 1. 37-72.
• 2003. Revisiting the Creolist Hypothesis: Copula variability in Gullah and Southern rural AAVE. American Speech 78: 2. 171-191.

Presentations:

• 2004. “African American English and the Middle Classes: Exploring the other end of the continuum.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (in English) (NWAV(E)), Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• 2003. “Copula variability in Gullah and AAVE.” Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Atlanta Georgia.
• 2003. “African-American English in the College Curriculum: Ideological and Pedagogical Issues.” LSA, Atlanta, Georgia.

Guest lectures:

• 2004. “Gender and communication in engineering student workgroups: A study of initiation devices.” Presented in collaboration with Cynthia R. Haller, Victoria J. Gallagher, and Richard M. Felder. Women’s Studies Lecture Series. The University of South Carolina.

Grants

• 2004-2006. Research collaborator, “The evaluative component in linguistic change and variation.” National Science Foundation (NSF). #0426061. $274,000. Principal Investigator: Dr. William Labov, (Linguistics) The University of Pennsylvania. Co-research collaborator: Dr. Naomi Nagy, (English) The University of New Hampshire.

Professional Activities

• Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Chair, Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics, 2004; reappointed, 2005.

Carla Breidenbach

Awards

• Spring 2005. Michael Montgomery Award for Excellence in Teaching.
  Craig Callender

Craig Callender

Publications

• Review of Pronunciation and the Adult Learner: Limitations and Possibilities, ed. Ulrike A. Kaunzner. (With Elizabeth Joiner). Ricochet 1, 1: 80-81. (2004).

Presentations

• ‘Music and L2 Pronunciation.’ Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistics Society. Flint, MI (November 2004).

Awards

• USC Office of Student Disability Services “Two Thumbs Up” Award for teaching (2004-2005).

Lori Donath

Publications

• (Forthcoming October 2005). "Characterizing Interaction Among Undergraduate Researchers in an Inquiry-Based Learning Environment." Journal of Engineering Education (JEE), Vol. 94, No. 4. (With Roxanne Spray, Elisabeth M. Alford, Nadia Craig, Nancy S. Thompson, and Michael A. Matthews).

Presentations and Proceedings

• April 2005. Poster Presentation. "Gendered Discourse? Functions of Discursive Devices in Talk Among Undergraduate Engineering Researchers in the Research Communications Studio". University of South Carolina Graduate Student Day.
• February 2005. Poster Presentation. "Co-construction of Identities Among Undergraduate Engineering Researchers in a Supportive Small Group Setting." Georgetown Linguistics Society. The Language and Identity Tapestry: Linguistic Re/presentations of identities in social interaction. Washington, D.C.
• June 2004. "Linguistic Evidence of Cognitive Distribution: Quantifying Learning Among Undergraduate Researchers in Engineering". 2004. "Linguistic Evidence of Distributed Cognition." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). (With Roxanne Spray, Elisabeth Alford, Theresa McGarry, and Nancy Thompson). Washington, D.C.: ASEE.
• April 2004. "Southern Stereotypology? Language Attitudes Toward South Carolina Varieties." Graduate Student Day, USC. Columbia, SC.

Awards

• August 2005. Rhude Patterson Trustee Fellowship. University of South Carolina, $1,000 award.

Jeremy Graves

Presentations

• I presented last year at the Jacksonville University Faculty and Student Research Symposium. My research paper was on the subject of created languages such as Tolkien's Elvish, Klingon, Esperanto, and Lojban. The paper was entitled Paiodd: A Study in constructed languages. It can be viewed at www.geocities.com/jayrkirk42 under the Paiodd Study link.

Stephen L. Mann

Presentations

• 2005. “The Effects of ‘Gay Age’ on Gay Male Cooperative Discourse.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXXII, Raleigh, NC.
• 2005. “The Effects of ‘Gay Age’ on Gay Male Cooperative Discourse.” University of South Carolina Graduate Student Day, Columbia, SC.

Laurie Sanders

Presentations

• 2005. “'Grammatical Aspects of Codeswitching: Evidence from Xhosa and German.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXXII, Raleigh, NC.
  Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva

Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva

Publications:

Edited proceedings and volumes

• In prep. (with James Lavine, Steven Franks and Hana Filip). Proceedings of FASL 14: The Princeton Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.
• 2005. (with Steven Franks and Frank Gladney). Proceedings of FASL 13: The Columbia Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.

Refereed conference proceedings volume papers

• In prep. The categorical status of quantifiers in Bulgarian: Evidence for QP over DP. In Proceedings of FASL 14: The Princeton Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.
• 2005. Possessives, Theta Roles, and the Internal Structure of Bulgarian DPs. In Proceedings of FASL 12: The Ottawa Meeting, ed. Olga Arnaudova, Wayles Browne, Maria Luisa Rivero, and Danijela Stojanovic. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. pp. 251-269.
• 2005. The possessor that came home. In Possessives and Beyond: Semantics and Syntax. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers (UMOP 29), ed. Ji-yung Kim, Barbara H. Partee, and Yury A. Lander. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. pp. 279-293.

Conference presentations:

• 2005. Grammar at the initial stage of acquisition: Evidence from English L1*Bulgarian L2. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). Washington, DC. December 27-30, 2005.
• 2005. Morphosyntax at the initial stage: Evidence from English L1*Bulgarian L2. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2005. Teachers College, Columbia University, NY. October 7-9, 2005.
• 2005. The categorical status of quantifiers in Bulgarian: Evidence for QP over DP. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 14. Princeton, NJ. May 6-8, 2005

Awards

• 2005. Dean of Graduate School award for excellence in graduate studies, University of South Carolina.
• 2005. Carol Myers-Scotton award for outstanding contributions to the Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina.
  Cintia Widmann

Cintia Widmann

Publications

• Widmann, Cintia. 2004. La entrevista como herramienta para inducir la producción lingüística en niños: análisis de un caso particular (The interview as a tool to elicit linguistic production in children: A case study). In de- Matteis, Lorena y Rígano, Mariela (Coords.), La investigación joven en la Argentina de hoy. Actas de las I Jornadas de Jóvenes Investigadores en Ciencias Humanas. (Research in today’s Argentina. Proceedings of the First Meeting of Young Researchers in Social Sciences) Grupo de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Fundación Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Bahía Blanca, 2004, CD-ROM, ISBN 987-21539-0-6.

Presentations

• Widmann, Cintia. 2004. Factors at play in determining the acceptability of sentential subjects in English: The role of constituent weight. Paper read at the Syntactic Theory Spring Workshop, University of South Carolina. May 2/05.

Awards

• Fulbright Commission, USA. Aug/05 – May/07. Grant to pursue graduate studies in Linguistics at the University of South Carolina.
  Lan Zhang

Lan Zhang

Presentations

• 2005. The Two Orders of Chinese Relative Clauses Re-examined. Paper presented at North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Monterey, California. June.
• 2004. Factors influencing L2’s transfer to a typologically distant L3. Paper presented at Second Language Research Forum. State College, Pennsylvania. October.

The Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXXII was held in Raleigh, NC, on April 7-9, 2005. It was hosted by North Carolina State University and featured a plenary session by Dennis Preston.

Our program was strongly represented at SECOL LXXII by two presentations by current students, two presentations by faculty (core and emeritus), and four presentations by program alumni. USC faculty and alumni also served as session chairs. Laurie Sanders (USC) presented “Grammatical Constraints on Codeswitching: Evidence from Xhosa and German.” Stephen L. Mann (USC) presented “The Effects of ‘Gay Age’ on Gay Male Cooperative Discourse.” Faculty presentations included a presentation by Stanley Dubinsky (USC) on a paper coauthored with Shoko Hamano (George Washington) entitled “A Window into Case Control: Japanese Adverbial Predicate PPs.” Carol Myers-Scotton presented “Grammatical Steps in Language Shift in an In-migrant Population.” Tracey Weldon (USC) chaired a session entitled “The Copula.” Our alumni presenters and chairs were Agnes Bolonyai (PhD 1999), Steven Gross (PhD 2000), Theresa McGarry (PhD 2004), Stephen Nagle (PhD 1986), and Sara Sanders (PhD 1981). Agnes Bolonyai (NC State) chaired the session entitled “Languages in Contact” that featured the presentations by Myers-Scotton, Gross, and Sanders. Steven Gross (East Tennessee) presented “Berbice Dutch: Between Creole and Mixed Language.” Theresa McGarry (East Tennessee) presented “Language Ideology and Second-Language Learning.” Stephen Nagle (Coastal Carolina) presented “Grammaticalizing Double Modals: A Case of Unidirectional Change?” Sara Sanders (Coastal Carolina) presented “From Patient to Person: Maintaining Identity in End-of-Life Care.”

—Stephen L. Mann