Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. Her research and teaching interests include syntactic theory, language typology and universals, the syntax/morphology interface, and the form and function of grammatical categories. She is currently engaged in SSHRC-funded research on Halkomelem, a First Nations language of British Columbia, focusing on verb classes, grammatical categories, and the discourse use of morphosyntax.

Donna is a founding editor of Northwest Journal of Linguistics. She has served as associate editor of Language, board member of the Jacobs Research Fund and the Whatcom Museum, BC, and president of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the America. Her graduate students have written theses on a variety of languages, including Arabic, ASL, Breton, Hausa, Kashmiri, Koine Greek, Korean, Kunuz Nubian, Okanagan, and Shuswap.

Some recent publications:

• with K. Kiyosawa. 2010. Salish Applicatives. Brill, Leiden
• 2010. Ditransitive Constructions in Halkomelem Salish: A Direct Object/Oblique Object Language, in A. Malchukov, M. Haspelmath, and B. Comrie, eds. Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter, 563–610.
• 2010. Three Doubling Constructions in Halkomelem, in D. Gerdts, J. Moore, and M. Polinsky, eds. HypothesisA/Hypothesis B: Linguistic Explorations in  Honor of David M. Perlmutter, The MIT Press, 183–202.
• with T. Hukari. 2008. The Expression of Noun Phrases in Halkomelem Texts, Anthropological Linguistics 50.3–4:1–41, 2008.
• with S. Marlett. 2008. Introduction: The Form and Function of Denominal Verb Constructions, Special Issue Denominal Verbs in Languages of the Americas, International Journal of American Linguistics 74.4: 409–422.
• with T. Hukari. 2008. Halkomelem Denominal Verbs, International Journal of American Linguistics 74.4: 489–510.

Professor, received her Ph.D from Simon Fraser University in 1998. Her primary research interests are Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Applied and Computational Linguistics. Current projects include the design as well as the evaluation of pedagogical aspects of Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems - computer learning environments for second language learning that make use of Natural Language Processing and techniques of Artificial Intelligence. Her work has been extensively funded by SSHRC (2003-2006, 2007-2010, 2010-2013) and has appeared in journals such as Modern Language Journal, Language Learning & Technology, System, Computer Assisted Language Learning, ReCALL and CALICO. Together with her colleague M. Schulze (University of Waterloo), she also published a monograph entitled Errors and Intelligence in Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Parsers and Pedagogues (Routledge, ISBN 0415361915, 2007). In 2007, she received the Dean's Medal for academic excellence in research, teaching, and service.

Professor, completed his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Terrance Nearey. He was also a SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellow in James Flege’s speech lab at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. His chief area of interest is Applied Phonetics, with a focus on the perception and production of speech by second language learners. Together with his colleague Tracey Derwing (University of Alberta), he carries out research on speech intelligibility, fluency, foreign accent, and oral language development in Canadian immigrants. Their work has been extensively supported by SSHRC and has appeared in such journals as Applied Linguistics, Journal of Phonetics, Language and Speech, Language Learning, Speech Communication, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with a dissertation on the morphological influences on stress and pitch accent systems. He was an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of British Columbia and NIH Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science, where he developed expertise in formal learning theory and primary linguistic description of Athabaskan languages. His main areas of research are phonology, morphology, and their interaction, as well as computational learning algorithms, Optimality Theory, and linguistic documentation of Tahltan, a critically endangered language of Northwestern British Columbia.

Selected publications include:

• 2003. Structural Disparities in Navajo Word Domains: A Case for Lex-Cat Faithfulness. The Linguistic Review 20: 111-158.
• 2001. Morphologically Governed Accent in Optimality Theory. Routledge Publishing Series, Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, New York: Routledge.
• 2001. Dominance Effects as Transderivational Anti-Faithfulness. Phonology 18: 201-253.
• 2001. Root-Controlled Accent in Cupe¿o. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19: 455-501.
• 1999. Reduplication with Fixed Segmentism. Linguistic Inquiry 30: 327-364. [With Jill Beckman, Laura Benua, Amalia Gnanadesikan, John McCarthy, & Suzanne Urbanczyk]
• 1999. Head Dependence in Stress-Epenthesis Interaction. In Ben Hermans & Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 29-50. [Reprinted in Optimality Theory in Phonology: Selected Readings, Blackwell]
• 1997. Dissimilation as Local Conjunction. In Kiyomi Kusumoto (ed.), Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society 27, Amherst: Graduate Linguistic Student Association, pp. 17-31. [Reprinted in Optimality Theory in Phonology: Selected Readings, Blackwell]

Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation is a cross-linguistic investigation into the structure and interpretation of imperatives (2000, Garland Publishing, New York). Her main areas of research are syntax, semantics and their interface, syntax and semantics of Korean, and linguistic applications of Tree Adjoining Grammars. She is also interested in computational applications of linguistic theories, and has worked on Korean-English machine translation, developed and implemented a Korean morphological tagger and a Tree Adjoining Grammar for Korean. Her current projects include: quantifier scope and negation in head-final languages and its implications for clause structure, binding properties of long-distance anaphors, syntax and semantics of relative clauses, and using Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammars to model compositional semantics.

Selected publications include:

• Han, Chung-hye and Nancy Hedberg. 2008. Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts: a Tree Adjoining Grammar Analysis. Journal of Semantics, 25:4, 345-380.
• Han, Chung-hye, Jeffrey Lidz and Julien Musolino. 2007. Verb-raising and Grammar Competition in Korean: Evidence from Negation and Quantifier Scope. Linguistic Inquiry, 38:1, 1-47.
• Han, Chung-hye. 2006. Variation in Form-Meaning Mapping between Korean and English Counterfactuals. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 15:2, 167-193.
• Han, Chung-hye and Maribel Romero. 2004. Syntax of Whether/Q...Or Questions: Ellipsis Combined with Movement. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 22:3, 527-564.
• Han, Chung-hye and Jong-Bok Kim. 2004. Are There "Double Relative Clauses" in Korean? Linguistic Inquiry, 35:2, 315-337.
• Han, Chung-hye. 2001. Force, Negation and Imperatives. The Linguistic Review, 12:4, 289-325.
• Han, Chung-hye. 2000. The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives: Mood and Force in Universal Grammar. Series in Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, Garland Publishing/Routledge, New York.

Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1990, with a dissertation on Discourse Pragmatics and Cleft Sentences in English. She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. She is interested generally in interactions between syntax, semantics, pragmatics and cognitive science. More specifically, her current research interests include (1) the relationship between prosody and meaning in various sentence types (question vs. statement), polarity types (negative vs. positive sentences), and information structures (topic, focus, givenness). She holds a SSHRC Standard Research Grant on this topic with Juan M. Sosa (2007-2010).  (2) the syntax, semantics and discourse pragmatics of topic and focus marking constructions cross-linguistically, especially cleft sentences (e.g. work on clefts in Tree-Adjoining Grammar with Chung-hye Han).  (3) cognitive and discourse pragmatic constraints on the form of referring expression cross-linguistically (with Jeanette K. Gundel and Ron Zacharski). Future directions include work on the syntax/semantics/pragmatics/phonology interfaces (e.g. work on optimality theoretic approaches to focus) and on eye-tracking and EEG experimental research on reference.

Some recent publications and presentations include:

• "The Referential Status of Clefts," Language 76, 891-920, 2000; Chung-hye Han and Nancy Hedberg, "A Tree-Adjoining Grammar Analysis of the Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts," Proceedings of Tag+8, Sydney, Australia, 33-40, 2006
• Nancy Hedberg and Lorna Fadden, "The Discourse Function of It-Clefts, Wh-Clefts and Reverse Wh-Clefts in English," in Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski (eds.), The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface: Essays in Honor of Jeanette K. Gundel, John Benjamins, 49-76, 2007.
• Nancy Hedberg, Jeanette K. Gundel and Ron Zacharski, "Directly and Indirectly Anaphoric Demonstrative and Personal Pronouns in Newspaper Articles", Proceedings of the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium, Lisbon, Portugal, 31-36, 2007
• "Centering and Zero Pronouns in Kaqchikel Mayan, 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, July 2007.
• Nancy Hedberg, Juan M. Sosa and Emrah Görgülü, "Early and Late Nuclei in Yes-No Questions: Tails or High Rises," Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil, May, 2008.

Her most cited article is "Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse," Language 69. 274-307, 1993 (with Jeanette K. Gundel and Ron Zacharski).

Associate Professor, completed her Ph.D. in German Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition & Teacher Education (SLATE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, writing her dissertation under the direction of Braj B. Kachru. She was an assistant professor of German at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA from 2000 to 2007, where she was the Coordinator of the Basic German Language Program and a faculty member for the interdepartmental Master of Arts in Language Learning. Her primary interests are in sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, and the use of technology in instruction. Currently her research focuses on issues concerning the international spread of English and the language's impact in non-native contexts, especially in Germany and Europe. She has received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award from Wayne State University (2004-05) and the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999). She is the Reviews Editor for the journal World Englishes, and is the Vice President/President Elect (2011-2012) for the International Association for World Englishes.

Selected publications include:

• "English and the Global Market: The Language's Impact in the German Business Domain" Language and the Market, ed. by Helen Kelly-Holmes and Gerlinde Mautner (2010) Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan. Pp. 68-80.
• guest editor, symposium journal issue on the "Englishes of Europe in the New Millennium" World Englishes (2007) 26.2. Pp. 107-257.
• "English in Germany: Contact, Spread, and Attitudes" World Englishes (2007) 26.2. Pp. 131-148.
• (with Elizabeth J. Erling) "Language Policies in the Context of German Higher Education" Language Policy (2006) 5.3. Pp. 267-293.
• "'Brain Gain statt (instead of) Brain Drain': The Role of English in German Education" World Englishes (2005) 24.1. Pp. 53-67.

Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in computational linguistics. He is the co-director of the Natural Language Laboratory of the Centre for Systems Science. His research interests include machine translation, computer-assisted language instruction and natural language applications in information processing. His research has been supported by Rogers Cable Labs, IRIS•PRECARN, NSERC and the Advanced Systems Institute of British Columbia.

Associate Professor, completed his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia and has taught at the University of South Carolina and Northern Arizona University. He studies both the second language acquisition of English and the first language acquisition of Anihshininiimowin (spoken in northern Ontario). Dr. Mellow studies language from linguistic, cognitive, cultural (i.e., non-colonial), and pedagogical perspectives. His studies of the effects of instruction on second language acquisition have led him to explore diverse approaches to measurement and research design. His work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Lingua, Second Language Research, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Associate Professor, received his PhD from The Ohio State University. His dissertation research examined the placement of weak object pronouns in the popular texts of Later Medieval Greek. Dr Pappas' research interests are mainly in the areas of historical linguistics, language variation and change, but he is also interested in issues of language contact, Balkan linguistics and the teaching of Modern Greek. He is currently working on language variation in BC English, clitic placement in Cypriot Greek, the effect of frequency on lexical change in Greek, and the pronunciation of palatal laterals in Cypriot Greek.

Recent publications include:

• 2010. Object clitic placement in the history of Cypriot Greek. In Heselwood, Bary and Clive Upton (eds.), Proceedings of Methods XIII: Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology 2008. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp.260-269.
• Stereotypes, variation and change: understanding the change of coronal sonorants in a rural variety of Modern Greek. 2008. Language Variation and Change, 20.3: 493-526.

Associate Professor and Chair, received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He held previous appointments at the University of Vienna (1973-74) and the Technical University of Berlin (1974-78). His areas of research are formal models of phonological systems, syllable parsing, timing patterns in speech, and language policy as it relates to endangered minority languages.

Associate Professor. Dr. Taboada holds a MA in English Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), an MSc in Computational Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD in Linguistics from the U. Complutense.

Maite works in the areas of discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and computational linguistics. Her dissertation is a cross-linguistic study of coherence and cohesion in spoken language, where she examines the strategies that speakers use to build a conversation. She has done research on coherence and cohesion, information structure and turn-taking. She has also participated in research projects in natural language generation, machine translation and software agents. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Alberta, and has also worked in industry, leading the development of a natural language processing system. Some of her current research projects are: cohesion and referring expressions in Spanish and English, combining cohesion and Centering Theory; discourse markers in relation to turn-taking in conversation; Rhetorical Structure Theory; evaluation and appraisal in text (and how to implement a system to perform automatic appraisal).

Selected publications include:

• Taboada, M. and L. Hadic Zabala (2008) Deciding on units of analysis within Centering Theory. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 4 (1): 63-108.
  
• Taboada, M. (2006) Discourse Markers as Signals (or Not) of Rhetorical Relations. Journal of Pragmatics 38(4): 567-592.
  
• Taboada, M. (2006) Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking. Pragmatics 16 (2-3): 329-360.
  
• Taboada, M. and W.C. Mann (2006) Rhetorical Structure Theory: Looking Back and Moving Ahead. Discourse Studies 8(3): 423-459.
  
• Taboada, M. (2005) Anaphoric Terms and Focus of Attention in English and Spanish. In C. Butler, MLA Gómez-González and S. Doval (eds.) The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and Contrastive Perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 195-216.
  
• Taboada, M. (2004) Building Coherence and Cohesion: Task-Oriented Dialogue in English and Spanish. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  
• Taboada, M. (2004) The Genre Structure of Bulletin Board Messages.Text Technology 13 (2): 55-82.
  
• Taboada, M. (2003) Modeling Task-Oriented Dialogue. Computers and the Humanities 37 (4): 431-454.

 

Associate professor, received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, and was a postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Mind, Brain and Learning at the University of Washington. Her main areas of research are phonetics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and cognitive science. Using behavioral and neuro-imaging techniques, she has been studying the processing and acquisition of second-language speech sounds by both children and adults with the goal of learning more about brain plasticity as well as how multisensory brain systems cooperate functionally in cognitive processing. She directs the Language and Brain Lab.

Selected publications include:

• Wang, Y., Behne, D., and Jiang, H. (2009). Influence of native language phonetic system on audio-visual speech perception. Journal of Phonetics, 37, 344-356.
• Wang, Y., Behne, D., and Jiang, H. (2008). Linguistic experience and audio-visual perception of nonnative fricatives. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124 (3), 1716-1726.
• Wang, Y., Lin, L., Kuhl, P., and Hirsch, J. (2007). Mathematical and linguistic processing differs between native and second languages: an fMRI study, Brain Imaging and Behavior 1.3, 68-82.
• Wang, Y. and Behne, D. (2007). Temporal remnants from Mandarin in nonnative English speech. In O. Bohn and M. Munro (eds.), Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning, in Honor of James E. Flege, John Benjamins, pp. 167-184.
• Wang, Y., Jongman, A, and Sereno, J.A. (2006). L2 acquisition and processing of Mandarin Chinese tones. in P. Li, E. Bates, L.H. Tan, and O. Tseng (eds.), The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press, pp.250-256.
• Wang, Y., Behne, D., Jongman, A., and Sereno, J.A. (2004). The role of linguistic experience in the hemispheric processing of lexical tone. Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics 25, 449-466.
• Wang, Sereno, Jongman, and Hirsch (2003). "fMRI evidence for cortical modification during learning of Mandarin lexical tone", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15,7,1-9.

Lecturer, received his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University and also holds an LL.B. from the University of British Columbia. An experienced ESL instructor, his research interests include accent and fluency perception, speaking rate effects, and second language acquisition research design. Current research efforts focus on learner autonomy in the second language classroom.

Senior Lecturer in the English Bridge Program and academic supervisor of the IELTS Test Centre.  Sarah has worked in the areas of instruction, curriculum development and program administration for English language learning for over 25 years.  She received her MA (TESL) degree from Simon Fraser University, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education.

Senior lecturer in the English Bridge Program, received her MA in Applied Linguistics from Concordia University, Montreal. Teaches Academic Writing in the EBP and does curriculum development for various programs under its jurisdiction. Major interests are the cross-cultural aspects of second language writing and the acquisition of academic literacy.

Senior Lecturer in the English Bridge Program, Marti teaches Academic Skills and is Acting Coordinator of the EBP. She received her MA in English from California State University Sacramento and is interested in the use of technology in language learning and curriculum development.

Lecturer, teaches Academic Culture and Communication. Lawrence, who is from Winnipeg, has a BA in History University of Winnipeg) and an M.Ed. in TESL (University of Manitoba). He also has had training and extensive experience in linguistics. In fact, he came into the field of teaching English through the door of linguistics. Lawrence has taught in universities in Indonesia and, most recently, in China (Peking University, Beijing). Besides teaching academic English, Lawrence has been involved in the training of ESL teachers, both here in Canada and in Asia. His special love? Grammar! Besides grammar, Lawrence enjoys all kinds of sports and outdoors activities, music, and photography.

Limited Term Assistant Professor for Spring 2011 Semester, completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2009. Her research focus includes intonation, prosody and developing novel elicitation protocols for fieldwork in endangered languages. She has taught community-based language revitalization courses as well as a variety of courses at UBC, UVic and SFU.

Assistant Professor (2011-2013), received her PhD in Linguistics from Simon Fraser University in 2008. She teaches linguistics for First Nations languages in several communities around British Columbia. Her research is in the area of forensic discourse analysis, particularly investigative interviewing. Her sociolinguistic work focuses on Aboriginal English and intergenerational variation. She has also taught linguistics at UBC, and forensic linguistics at the Justice Institute of British Columbia.

Recent work:

• Fadden, Lorna. (forthcoming). "Forensic Discourse Analysis." The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Chapelle, C.A., Ed.  Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
  
• Fadden, Lorna, and Jenna LaFrance. (2010). Advancing Aboriginal English. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 32, Supplement.
• Fadden, Lorna. (2008). Quantitative and qualitative analyses of police interviews with Canadian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal suspects. In K. Kredens and S. Góźdź- Roszkowski (Eds.) Language and the Law: International Outlooks (pp. 305-322). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH.

Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research/teaching interests are syntax and morphology, especially Government/Binding theory as it pertains to English and Slavic syntax. Current research interests include the semantic and syntactic properties of theta-roles and the relationship of tense and aspect to sentence grammar. He is currently writing an introductory textbook on syntax. Other works in progress include papers on passives, existential sentences, and genitive case in Russian and on empty operators and control. His article on "X-Bar Theory and Complements of Verbs of Perception" will appear in Glossa 17.

CRC Chair in Cognitive Science
Professor of Linguistics
Professor of Philosophy

Jeff Pelletier received his BSc in Math/Education and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Nebraska. He received a PhD in Philosophy from UCLA and MSc's in Linguistics and in Computing Science from the University of Alberta.

Jeff's main areas of interest concern the employment of formal logical methods in the understanding of natural language. To that end he investigates the semantics of phenomena that occur in natural language such as vagueness, generics, mass terms, and so on, with an eye to determining the sort of formal means that are available to give an adequate formal semantics to explain these phenomena. He is also interested in human cognition of these phenomena, and has investigated the ways people employ reasoning tools to deal with them. A related interest is in getting computers to reason in the same way as humans on tasks that are of logical and linguistic interest.

Jeff has been the main editor for Linguistics and Philosophy and The Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Additionally he has been an associate editor for The Journal of Semantics,  Mind and Language,  Dialogue, and Apeiron. He is also a series editor of the Kluwer book series Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. He is currently the President of the Linguistics and Philosophy Associates, the board that oversees the running of the journal Linguistics and Philosophy. He is also a regular referee for SALT, WCCFL, NSERC, and SSHRC, as well as for various journals.

Selected publications include:

• F.J. Pelletier (1990) Parmenides, Plato, and the Semantics of Not-Being. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• G.N. Carlson & F.J. Pelletier (eds.) (1995) The Generic Book. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• F.J. Pelletier & L.K. Schubert (2003) "Mass Expressions". in D. Gabbay & F. Guenthner (eds) (2003) Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Second Edition. (Dordrecht: Reidel) Vol. 10, pp. 265-350.
• F.J. Pelletier (1999) "A Brief History of Natural Deduction" History and Philosophy of Logic v. 20, pp. 1-31.
• F.J. Pelletier (2001) "Did Frege Believe Frege's Principle?" Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, v. 10, pp. 87-114.
• F.J. Pelletier & G.N. Carlson (2002) "The Average American has 2.3 Children" Journal of Semantics, v. 19, pp. 73-104.
• F.J. Pelletier & R. Thomason (2002) "Twenty-Five Years of Linguistics and Philosophy" Linguistics and Philosophy v. 25, pp. 507-529.
• F.J. Pelletier, G. Suttcliffe, C. Suttner (2002) "The IJCAR ATP System Competition" Journal of Automated Reasoning, v.28, pp.79-90.
• F.J. Pelletier (2003) "Context Dependence and Compositionality" Mind and Language v.18, 148-161.
• F.J. Pelletier & A. Urquhart (2003) "Synonymous Logics" Journal of Philosophical Logic v. 32, pp. 259-285.
• F.J. Pelletier & R. Stainton (2003) "On 'The Denial of Bivalence is Absurd'" Australasian Journal of Philosophy v.81, pp. 369-382.
• F.J. Pelletier & R. Elio (2004 forthcoming) "The Case for Psychologism in Default and Inheritance Reasoning" Synthese.
• F.J. Pelletier & R. Elio (2003) "Enumerating the Preconditions of Agent Message Types" in Y. Xiang & C. Brahim (eds.) Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of CSACSI (Springer Verlag) pp. 50-65

Professor, received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. His research and teaching interests are theoretics and linguistics based on a quantal phonologica view, physiological and acoustic-instrumental phonetics, and prosodic properties of language (especially the evaluation of prosodic phonologies and intonation, rhythm, and "grammar").

Selected publications are:

• "The Consonant-VowelDichotomy: A Re-Examination" (Lingua 30:141-202, 1972)
• "Phonological Theory, Absolute Neutralisationand the Case of Nupe" (Glossa 10:241-287, 1976)
• "Perspectives in Prosodic Phonology I: J.R.Firth"(Linguistics 206:5-46, 1979)
• "Perspectives in Prosodic Phonology II:Eugénie J.A. Henderson" (Lingua48:101-122, 1979)

Lecturer, received MA from SFU in 1997 with thesis on acoustic characteristics of pulmonic and glottalic consonants in a Mayan language, Mam, and her PhD (SFU) in 2009.

Currently Lecturer in Linguistics and First Nations Languages Coordinator in SFU/Kamloops program, Susan delivers SFU's First Nations Language Proficiency Certificate. She works in partnership with about ten aboriginal communities in BC and the Yukon, often carrying SFU in a backpack to, for example, Haida, Northern Tutchone, Nuxalk, Heiltsukv, Tsilhqot'in, three dialects of Secwepemctsín, two dialects of Halq'emeylem/Halkomelem and St'at'imcets. She co-teaches Secwepemctsin and Heiltsukv with native speakers and has developed elementary school and university language curricular materials in Nuxalk, Heiltsukvla and Secwepemctsin. She also develops mentoring partnerships between aboriginal language learners to work directly with fluent elder/speakers.

Her PhD thesis was a conversational analysis of the organization of classroom interaction in an endangered language context and its reflective relationship with differing pedagogical foci.

Associate Professor, received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université du Québec à Montréal working on a Multidimentional Models of Phonological Variation project. His research/teaching interests include prosody and intonation, phonetics and phonology, language variability, Hispanic and Romance linguistics. His research on the intonation of Spanish has led to a number of publications, including a book published in 1999, La entonación del español. Su estructura fónica, variabilidad y dialectología (264 pp, Ediciones Cátedra, Madrid). Recent articles include "Sobre el consonantismo, el vocalismo y la entonación en la delimitación dialectal del español de América". Zeitschfrift für Romanische Philologie, Tübingen, Germany, 116(3):487-509, 2000; "La representación subyacente de la entonación dialectal del "maracucho" (With Bertha Chela-Flores). Oralia. Análisis del discurso oral, Almería, Spain, 2:71-81, 1999; "Nuclear and pre-nuclear tonal inventories and the phonology of Spanish declarative intonation". Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Stockholm, Sweden, 4: 646-649, 1995. Other selected publications include "Interactive Multimedia Applications in Second Language Learning." (With Leslie Pass and L. Reiter). Proceedings of the World Conferences on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and on Education Telecomunications ED-MEDIA/ED-TELECOM 97. Calgary, Alberta, 2336-2338, 1997; "Dialectal variation and the description and teaching of Spanish intonation". L2 and Beyond: Teaching and Learning of Modern Languages. Legas, Ottawa, 307-317, 1993. "La phrase intonative en language spontané: Étude préliminaire" (With F. Poiré, H. Perreault and H. Cedergren). Revue Québecoise de Linguistique, 19(2): 93-109, 1990. He is currently working on the prosody of topic and focus in English and Spanish.

Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. degrees from the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) and the University of Manitoba. Her research interests are experimental phonetics, Finno-Ugric linguistics and sociolinguistics. Current projects include (i) Acoustic Analysis of Contrastive Quantity (in Skolt Saami, a Finno-Ugric language, known for having three contrastive quantity degrees), (ii) Temporal Patterns in Speech Production (acoustic analysis of temporal patterns in relation to the phonological status of duration), (iii) the phonetics of endangered languages (Skolt Saami, Tungusic languages).

Selected recent publications include:

• Quantity in the Skolt Saami (Lappish)language: An acoustic analysis. Uralic and Altaic Series. Bloomington: Indiana University. 1999.255+ xvipp.
• "An acoustical analysis of durational interdependencies in Skolt Saami,"Nyelvtudományi Közlemények94: 137-146, 1996.
• "Contrastive vs. non-contrastive duration in relation to temporal patterns within the paragraph," in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco. 1999.249-252.
• "Language planning, literacy and cultural identity: The Skolt Saami case, "Linguistica. Series A, Studia et Dissertationes 17. A special issue: Zur Frage der uralischen Schriftsprachen, 1995, 31-39.

Fritz Newmeyer received a BA in geology from the University of Rochester in 1965 and an MA in linguistics from that same institution two years later. He was awarded a Ph. D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois in 1969, writing a dissertation entitled English Aspectual Verbs under the direction of Robert B. Lees. Fritz’s only permanent position has been in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington (from 1969 until his retirement in 2006), where he is now an emeritus professor. However, he has held visiting positions at a variety of universities around the world, including the University of Edinburgh, Wayne State University, University of London, Cornell University, University of Maryland, UCLA, Latrobe University, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Universiteit van Tilburg, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, École Normale Supérieure, Institut des Science Cognitives, Max-Planck-Institut for Evolutionary Anthropology, and University of Ljubljana. In 2002, Fritz was President of the Linguistic Society of America, from 2003-2006 Howard and Frances Nostrand Professor of Linguistics at Washington, and in 2006 he was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Linguistic Society of America.

Fritz has published widely in theoretical and English syntax and is best known for his work on the history of generative syntax and for his arguments that linguistic formalism (i.e. generative grammar) and linguistic functionalism are not incompatible, but rather complementary. In the early 1990s he was one of the linguists who helped to renew interest in the evolutionary origin of language. More recently, he has argued that facts about linguistic typology are better explained by parsing constraints than by the principles and parameters model of grammar. Nevertheless, Fritz has continued to defend the basic principles of generative grammar, arguing that Ferdinand de Saussure's langue/parole distinction as well Noam Chomsky's distinction between linguistic competence and linguistic performance are essentially correct.

 BOOKS WRITTEN:

• 2005.  Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  
• 1998. Language Form and Language Function.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.
  
• 1996. Generative Linguistics: A Historical Perspective.  London: Routledge.
  
• 1986. The Politics of Linguistics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Japanese translation
• 1994, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishers. Arabic translation 1997, Abha (Saudi Arabia): The Literary Club. Farsi translation 2002, Ney (Iran).
  
• 1983. Grammatical Theory: Its Limits and Its Possibilities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Malay translation 1996, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
  
• 1980. Linguistic Theory in America: The First Quarter Century of Transformational Generative Grammar. New York: Academic Press. Second edition 1986. First edition translated into Spanish as El Primer Cuarto de Siglo de la Gramática Generativo-Transformatoria (1955-1980).  1982, Madrid: Alianza Editorial. Translations of second edition: Korean 1995, Seoul: Kul Press. Chinese 1998, Taipei: Crane Publishing Co, Ltd.; Japanese translation under contract.
  
• 1975. English Aspectual Verbs. The Hague: Mouton and Company.  

BOOKS EDITED:

• 1998. Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics (with Michael Darnell, Edith Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, and Kathleen Wheatley).
  Volume I: General Papers
  Volume II: Case Studies
  Studies in Language Companion Series, Volume 41. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  
• 1988. Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey.
  Volume I: Linguistic Theory: Foundations.
  Volume II: Linguistic Theory: Extensions and Implications.
  Volume III: Language: Psychological and Biological Aspects.
  Volume IV: Language: The Socio-Cultural Context
  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Spanish translation published 1990-1992 as Panorama de la Lingüística Moderna, Madrid:Visor Distribuciones.
  
• 1986. A Festschrift for Sol Saporta  (with Michael Brame and Heles Contreras).  Linguistic Research Monograph Series Publication. Seattle: Noit Amrofer Press.

Adjunct Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia with a dissertation on postvelar phonology in Arabic and Salish. Her research and teaching interests are in phonology, phonetics, and phonological acquisition. She works on Salish and Arabic. Kimary is investigator on the ELDP project 'Lower St’át’imcets Documentation' and the QNRF NPRP project 'Baseline Data for Arabic Acquisition with Clinical Applications'. She is also a member of the editorial review board for Glossa: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Recent publications include:

• to appear. Acoustic Testing for Phonologization, Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 
• in press. A phonetic study of guttural laryngeals in Palestinian Arabic using laryngoscopic and acoustic analysis. In B. Heselwood and Z. Hassan (eds.), Instrumental Studies in Arabic Linguistics. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. 
• 2011. Noisy zones of proximal development: Conversation in noisy classrooms. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15/1: 1-29. (co-authored with W. H. McKellin, M. Hodgson, J. Jamieson & M. K. Pichora-Fuller) 
• 2011. Pharyngeals. In M. van Oostendorp, C. Ewen, E. Hume & K. Rice (eds.), Companion to Phonology, 604-627. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 
• 2010. Fostering language development in Arabic, Encyclopedia of Language and Literacy Development, Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (http://literacyencyclopedia.ca/index.php?fa=items.show&topicId=291)

Carlos's current research interests include Frame Semantics, corpus linguistics, and natural language processing. He explores all three as the Principal Investigator of the Spanish FrameNet Project (SFN), which is being developed at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain in cooperation with the Berkeley FrameNet Project. The FrameNet projects are based on Frame Semantics, a theory developed in work by Fillmore (1976, 1977, 1982, 1985) and Fillmore and Baker (2001, 2010). The fundamental insight of Frame Semantics is that the meaning of a word can best be understood in terms of its semantic frame, which is a description of a type of event, relation, or entity and the participants in it. SFN is currently building a lexical database of Spanish that is both human- and machine-readable, grounded in annotating examples that show how the words are used in actual texts. Carlos is also interested in studying the history of linguistics from a variety of angles, from bringing to light the importance of now-forgotten linguistic traditions (Subirats 1994) to analyzing traditional theories through the lens of modern ideas (Subirats 2010, 2006).

 Selected Publications:

• Books:
• 2001. Introducción a la sintaxis léxica del español. Madrid / Frankfurt: Iberoamericana / Vervuert. 
• 1987. Sentential Complementation in Spanish. A lexicogrammatical study of three classes of verbs. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 

• Papers: 
• 2010. La teoría de la metáfora de Gómez Hermosilla. En C. Assunção, G. Fernandes y M. Loureiro, eds. Ideias Linguísticas na Península Ibérica. Münster: Nodus Publikationen, pp. 815-824. 
• 2009. Spanish FrameNet: An on-line lexical resource for Spanish. In Hans Boas, ed. Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography. Methods and Applications. New York/ Berlín: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 135-162. 
• 2007. La lingüística en España. Hispanic Issues on line. Estudios Hispánicos: Perspectivas Internacionales, Fall 2007, Vol. 2: http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/hispanic-issues-online/hiol-2/18-HIOL-2-16.pdf 
• 2006. El concepto de predicado en la tradición gramatical y lexicográfica. Estudios de Lingüística del Español 23: http://elies.rediris.es/elies23/subirats.htm 
• (Subirats, Carlos; Petruck, Miriam R.L). 2003. Surprise: Spanish FrameNet! Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists, Praga:http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/~framenet/papers/SFNsurprise.pdf 
• (Subirats, Carlos; Ortega, Marc). 2000. Tratamiento automático de la información textual en español mediante bases de información lingüística y transductores. Estudios de Lingüística del Español 10. http://elies.rediris.es/elies10/ 
• 1994. Grammar and lexicon in traditional grammar: The work of Matthias Kramer and Johann Joachim Becher. Historiographia Linguistica 21.3:297-350. 
• 1992. Verbal, nominal and adjectival inflection in the Electronic Dictionary of Simple Forms of Spanish. Lingvisticae Investigationes 16.2:345-371. 
• 1989. Verbal morphology in the Electronic Dictionary of Spanish. Lingvisticae Investigationes 13.1:179-201.