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AUGUST 5, 2021 CURRICULUM VITAE BRIDGET DRINKA , PROFESSOR Department of English bridget.drinka@utsa.edu University of Texas at San Antonio Dept phone: (210) 458-4374 One UTSA Circle San Antonio, Texas 78249 ACADEMIC TRAINING Ph.D 1990 University of Texas at Austin Specialization in Indo-European historical linguistics; support areas in sociolinguistics and morphology Dissertation: The sigmatic aorist in Indo-European: Evidence for the Space-Time Hypothesis Nominated for award as Outstanding Dissertation M.S 1977 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C Applied linguistics Certificate in Teaching of English as a Second Language B.A magna cum laude 1973 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Art History Phi Beta Kappa; James Scholar Honor Student Semester in Florence, Italy (Syracuse University) Fall 1972 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Professor of Linguistics, September 2012 to present Associate Professor of Linguistics 1998 2012 Assistant Professor 1991-1998 Responsible for many of the linguistics courses taught in the department, both at the undergraduate and graduate level Developed a number of senior seminars and graduate courses (Languages in Contact; Research Methods in Historical Linguistics; Historical and Sociolinguistics; Linguistics and Literature; Indo-European Language and Culture; Language and Gender; Grammatical Analysis of Literature) Co-supervisor of Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Linguistics Co-Director, COLFA Semester in Urbino 2011 to present Designing and supervising all aspects of the COLFA Semester Abroad Program in Urbino, Italy Instructor in Program in Spring, 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2018, Spring 2022 Faculty Research Fellow, Office of the Vice President for Research, Economic Development, and Knowledge Enterprise Fall 2019 to Spring 2020 Served as a primary point of contact and host for Academy Fellows Speaker Series Organizer of VPREDKE Awards for the Arts and Humanities Ph.D Graduate Advisor of Record, Department of English August 2005 to August 2007; August 2019 to August 2020 Responsible for overseeing the Ph.D program in English, advising doctoral students, recruitment and retention, and organizing events and seminars in connection with the Ph.D program M.A Graduate Advisor of Record, Department of English August 2014 to August 2017 Responsible for overseeing the M.A program in English, advising master’s students, recruitment and retention, program review, revision of reading lists, and oversight of the comprehensive examination for the M.A program Chair, Department of English August 2007 to August 2013 Responsible for the supervision of all operations and activities of the Department: hiring, scheduling, budgeting, supervising committees, strategic planning, etc University of Missouri-Kansas City Assistant Professor of Linguistics Fall 1990-Spring 1991 Responsible for most linguistics courses taught in the department, both at the undergraduate and graduate level Developed a new emphasis in the department (Language) alongside Literature University of Texas at Austin Lecturer Historical Linguistics Spring, 1989 Assistant Instructor Introductory linguistics (4 semesters).1982-3 University of Texas at Austin Research Assistant for W.P Lehmann Summer 1980 American University, Washington, D.C Teacher of English as a Second Language 1977-79 Italian Embassy, Washington, D.C Office of the Naval Attaché Secretary-translator 1975-76 L'Istituto Americano, Florence, Italy Teacher of English as a Second Language 1973-74 VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS University of Leiden, Netherlands Professor, LOT School June 2020 Taught an intensive advanced graduate course online on “New Perspectives on Language Contact and Areal Linguistics.” University of Naples Federico II Visiting Professor English Spring 2019 Taught a short graduate class on the History of English Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, September, 2008, as a recipient of a fully funded JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan I took part in a series of events organized by my colleague, Mariko Higuchi Goto of Kyushu Institute of Technology: lectures at the Kumamoto Prefectural University, at the Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Conference, and at Kyoto University, and a workshop presented at the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference held at Nagoya University, Japan, Sept 13, 2008 University of Osnabrück, Germany Visiting Professor Anglistik Winter 2006-7 Taught a Hauptseminar on Languages in Contact Lecture at the University of Bonn Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany Anglistik III: Englische Sprachwissenschaft Visiting professor, Spring-Summer 2002, on faculty exchange with Prof Dr Tania Kuteva Team-taught two Hauptseminars on the Evolution of Grammar and Languages in Contact, and a Proseminar on Morphosyntax Organized an ongoing internet seminar as well as a videoconference between our HHU students and UTSA students to discuss theoretical issues being studied in the courses at both campuses Gave additional lectures at the Universities of Bonn and Köln Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Fulbright Senior Lecturer Fall 1998 Taught three large classes on Linguistics, History of English, and American Culture Organized a special internet discussion group between my MSU students and UTSA students Gave several additional lectures at linguistic research seminars and took part in an international conference organized by MSU Led an American film class and translation class in addition to organized classes INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS “Excavating Language: Linguistic Connections across Latin, Greek and Modern European Languages.” Colloquium of 12 internationally recognized historical linguists, collaboratively administered by UTSA and the University of Urbino, Italy, April 2022 Co-organizers: Bridget Drinka (Professor of Linguistics, UTSA, Co-Director of the COLFA Semester in Urbino) and Claus Ehrhardt (Professor of German, University of Urbino) “Language contact in a contact-free language.” Co-applicant for a grant from the Icelandic Research Fund (IRF) for a three-year research project (2021-24) on the role of contact in Icelandic from 1550-1850 PI: ịúrhallur Eyỵúrsson, University of Iceland (Not funded Reapplication process underway.) “Contact in the History of Dutch: The Role of Latin influence on the syntax of Early and Late Modern Dutch.” Advisory Board member for project proposal by PI Gijsbert Rutten, University of Leiden, Netherlands “Christianity, Christian translation, and language change.” Interdisciplinary Research Project, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INalCO), Paris, France PI: Maria Khachaturian, University of Helsinki AWARDS AND HONORS Academy of Distinguished Researchers, UTSA, inducted 2021 COLFA Researcher of the Year 2021 One of six COLFA faculty members awarded for research Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, 2019, from the Linguistic Society of America for Language Contact in Europe: The Periphrastic Perfect through History (2017) Cambridge University Press, Richard S Howe Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Spring 2016 University of Texas Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award, Spring 1999 Faculty Advisor for Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Beta Omega Chapter, which won national recognition as Outstanding Chapter, March 1998 (1992-98) Awarded the Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies Award for Excellence for the outstanding paper presented by a junior scholar at the Fourth Annual UCLA IndoEuropean Conference, May 1992 REFEREED PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Spanish Socio-historical linguistics: Isolation and Contact Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka (eds) 2021 Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series Amsterdam: John Benjamins Historical Linguistics 2017 Selected Papers from the International Conference on Historical Linguistics 23 Bridget Drinka (ed.) 2020 Amsterdam: John Benjamins Exploring Universals of Tense and Aspect Vit Bubenik, Bridget Drinka, John Hewson, Ondřej Šefčík (eds.) 2020 Hamburg: Baar Verlag Latin Influence on the Syntax of the Languages of Europe Bert Cornillie and Bridget Drinka (eds.) 2019 Special Issue of Belgian Journal of Linguistics Amsterdam: John Benjamins Language Contact in Europe: The Periphrastic Perfect through History Bridget Drinka 2017 Cambridge University Press Awarded the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 2019 by the Linguistic Society of America Studies in memory of Edgar C Polomé (Vol I of a three-volume memorial collection) Bridget Drinka (ed.) 2000 Special issue of the American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 12.2 African language and culture in historical perspective: Essays in memory of Edgar C Polomé (Vol II of three-volume memorial collection.) Bridget Drinka and Derek Nurse (eds.) 2001 Special issue of General Linguistics 38 Indo-European language and culture in historical perspective: Essays in memory of Edgar C Polomé (Vol III of three-volume memorial collection; Part 1) Joseph Salmons & Bridget Drinka (eds) 2003 Special issue of General Linguistics 40 Indo-European language and culture in historical perspective: Essays in memory of Edgar C Polomé (Vol III of three-volume memorial collection; Part 2) Bridget Drinka (ed.) 2004 Special issue of General Linguistics 41 The sigmatic aorist in Indo-European: evidence for the Space-Time Hypothesis Bridget Drinka 1995 Monograph 13 in the Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS “The Deep History of English: Using Cognacy and Contact to Enhance Language Learning.” (In preparation) In: Chiara Cappellaro, Martin Maiden, and Ton Dijkstra (eds.) Cognateness: Theory and Application Multilingual Matters “Expansion of the Perfect in Late Middle and Early Modern English: Motivations and Explanations” with Joseph Roy (In preparation) “Macro- and Micro-Analysis in Corpus Linguistics: The Family as a Network in Early Modern English” with Joseph Roy (In preparation) “Populations in contact: Linguistic, archaeological, and genomic evidence for Indo-European diffusion” (In press, to appear in 2021) In: Salikoko Mufwene and Anna Maria Escobar (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact Vol Cambridge: Cambridge University Press “New perspectives on Spanish socio-historical linguistics.” Bridget Drinka and Whitney Chappell 2021 In: Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka (eds.) Spanish Sociohistorical linguistics: Isolation and contact Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series Amsterdam: John Benjamins 1-14 “Contact and Early Indo-European in Europe.” 2020 In: Raymond Hickey (ed.) The Handbook of Language Contact (2nd ed.) Malden, MA / Oxford: Wiley Blackwell 301-321 “Questioning the Universality of the Perfect.” 2020 In: Vit Bubenik, Bridget Drinka, John Hewson, and Ondřej Šefčík (eds.) Exploring Universals of Tense and Aspect Hamburg: Baar Verlag 31-57 “Calquing a quirk: The Perfect in the languages of Europe.” 2020 In: Thomas Jügel and Robert Crellin (eds.) Perfects in Indo-European Languages and beyond (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) Amsterdam: Benjamins 591-613 “Motivating the North-South Continuum: Evidence from the Perfects of Gallo-Romance.” 2020 In: Sam Wolfe and Martin Maiden (eds.) Variation and Change in GalloRomance Grammar Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Oxford: Oxford University Press 161- 190 “The Role of Roofing: Latin influence on the development of the perfects in Europe.” 2019 In: Bert Cornillie and Bridget Drinka (eds.) Latin Influence on the Syntax of the Languages of Europe Special Issue of Belgian Journal of Linguistics Amsterdam: John Benjamins 125-149 “The Perfects of Eastern ‘Standard Average European’: Byzantine Greek, Old Church Slavonic, and the role of roofing.” 2019 In: Andrii Danylenko and Motoki Nomachi (eds.) Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 333) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton 145-185 “Perfecting the Notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and Resultatives in the ‘Stratified Convergence Zones’ of Europe.” 2019 In: Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.) Historical Linguistics 2015 Selected Papers from the International Conference on Historical Linguistics 22 Amsterdam: John Benjamins 319- 342 “Romance Perfects, Aorists, and the role of ‘Aoristic Drift’” 2017 In: Marc Fryd and Pierre Gianncarli (eds.) Aorists and Perfects: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives Leiden: Brill 5-24 “Perfects in Contact on the Iberian Peninsula: Ibero-Romance, Arabic, and the Charlemagne Sprachbund” 2016 In: Alvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta and Carlota de Benito Moreno (eds.) En torno a haber: construcciones, usos y variación desde el latín hasta la actualidad, Studia Romanica et Linguistica Series Frankfurt: Peter Lang 281-326 “Phylogenetic and areal models of Indo-European relatedness: The role of contact in reconstruction.” 2013 In: Patience Epps, John Huehnergard, and Na’ama Pat-El (eds.) Contact among genetically related languages Special issue of Journal of Language Contact 6: 379-410 “Sources of Auxiliation in the Perfects of Europe.” 2013 In Freek Van de Velde, Hendrik De Smet, and Lobke Ghesquière (eds.) On multiple source constructions in language change Special issue of Studies in Language 37.3: 599- 644 Republished in 2015 in Benjamins Current Topics Vol 79: 129-174 “The Balkan Perfects: Grammaticalization and Contact.” 2012 in Björn Wiemer, Bernhard Wälchli, and Björn Hansen (eds.) Grammatical replication and borrowability in language contact The Hague: Mouton 511 - 558 “The Sacral Stamp of Greek: Periphrastic constructions in New Testament translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic.” 2011 In: Eirik Welo (ed.) Indo-European syntax and pragmatics: Contrastive approaches Oslo Studies in Language 3(3): 41-73 “Language Contact.” 2010 In: Silvia Luraghi and Vit Bubenik (eds.) The Continuum Companion to Historcal Linguistics London / New York: Continuum Press 325-45 “The *-to- / –no- construction of Indo-European: Verbal adjective or past passive participle?” 2009 In: Vit Bubenik, John Hewson, and Sarah Rose (eds.) Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages Amsterdam / Phildelphia: John Benjamins 141-58 “Stratified reconstruction and a new view of the family tree model.” 2009 In: Angela Marcantonio (ed.) The IE language family: Questions about its status Journal of IndoEuropean Studies Monograph Series, No 55 7-1 – 7-39 “The Periphrastic Perfect in Early English: Evidence from the Peterborough Chronicle.” 2007 In: Alex Bergs & Janne Skaffari (eds.) The language of the Peterborough Chronicle Frankfurt/M, New York: Peter Lang (Studies in Medieval Language and Literature Series, ed by Jacek Fisiak) 135-162 “The development of the HAVE Perfect: mutual influences of Greek and Latin.” 2007 In: Raúl Aranovich (ed.) Split auxiliary systems: a cross-linguistic perspective (Typological Studies in Language 69.) Amsterdam: Benjamins 101-21 “Präteritumschwund: Evidence for areal diffusion.” 2004 In: Werner Abraham (ed.) Focus on Germanic typology [Studia Typologica 6] Berlin: Akademie Verlag 211-40 “Areal factors in the development of the European periphrastic perfect.” 2003 Word 54.1: 1-38 “The development of the perfect in Indo-European: Stratigraphic evidence for prehistoric areal influence.” 2003 In: Henning Andersen (ed.), Language contacts in prehistory: Studies in Stratigraphy Amsterdam: Benjamins 77-105 “The formation of periphrastic perfects and passives in Europe: An areal approach.” 2003 In: Barry Blake & Kate Burridge, eds Historical Linguistics 2001 Ed by Barry Blake Amsterdam / Philadelphia: Benjamins 105-28 “Alignment in Early Proto-Indo-European.” 1999 Language Change and Typological Variation: Papers in Honor of Winfred P Lehmann on the Occasion of his 82 nd Birthday Vol II: Grammatical Universals and Typology Ed by Carol F Justus and Edgar C Polomé Monograph 31, Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series 462-98 “The evolution of grammar: Evidence from Indo-European perfects.” 1998 In Historical Linguistics 1997 Ed by Monika S Schmid, Jennifer R Austin, and Dieter Stein Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins 117-133 “Thoughts on reconstructing prehistoric languages.” 1998 Modes of Inquiry: Voices of Scholars Across the Fields of Study Ed by Marian Martinello, Gillian Cook, and Linda Woodson Carrollton, TX: Alliance Press 113-116 “Areal linguistics in prehistory: Evidence from Indo-European aspect.” 1995 Historical Linguistics 1993 Ed by Henning Andersen Amsterdam: Benjamins 143-158 “The dispersion of Indo-European dialects: Clues from morphology.” 1993 Word 44: 413-29 “Lachmann's Law: A phonological solution.”1991 Indogermanische Forschungen 96: 52-74 “Chronological stratification and the origin of the lengthened grade in the Sanskrit s-aorist.” 1991 In Proceedings of the Mid-America Linguistics Conference, University of Kansas, Oct 1990 ed by Frances Ingemann 71-76 “The chronology of phonological change.” 1990 Research guide on language change Ed by Edgar Polomé Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter 107-136 “Evidence for the space-time hypothesis: The s-aorist.” 1988 Journal of Indo-European Studies 16: 235-65 “The interaction of morphophonemic and syntactic processes in casual American English.” 1982 Texas Linguistic Forum Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin 21: 239-49 NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS REVIEWS AND REVIEW ARTICLES Review 2008 Björn Wiemer and Markus Giger Resultativa in den nordslavischen und baltischen Sprachen (areale und grammatikalisierungstheoretische Gesichtspunkte) In: Studies in Language 32: 476-82 Review article 2006 Karlene Jones-Bly, Martin E Huld, Angela Della Volpe, Miriam Robbins Dexter (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference Journal of Indo-European Monograph Series, No 50 In: Journal of Indo-European Studies 34: 236-46 Review article 2006 Thomas Cravens, ed 2005 Variation and Reconstruction In: Journal of Indo-European Studies 34: 246-55 Review article 2005 Jay Jasanoff Hittite and the Indo-European Verb 2003 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press In: Journal of Indo-European Studies 33: 169-80 Review 2004 Olga Fischer, Ans van Kemenade, Willem Koopman, Wim van der Wurff 2000 The Syntax of Early English Cambridge: Cambridge University Press In: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 14: 294-5 Review 2003 Mark Southern, ed 2002 Indo-European Perspectives (Journal of IndoEuropean Studies Monograph 43) In: Journal of Indo-European Studies 31: 246- 52 Review 2002 Philip Baldi 1999 The Foundations of Latin (1999) Journal of Indo-European Studies 30: 188-95 Review article 2002 Östen Dahl, ed 2000 Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter In: Journal of Indo-European Studies 29: 2940 Review 2002 Ernst Håkon Jahr, ed 1998 Language Change: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter In: Journal of Indo-European Studies Vol 29: 40 – 45 Review 2002 Georgios K Giannakis 1997 Studies in the Syntax and Semantics of the Reduplicated Presents of Homeric Greek and Indo-European Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft Bd 90) In: Journal of Indo-European Studies Vol 29: 45-48 SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS INVITED PRESENTATIONS “Perfecting the Notion of Sprachbund: Periphrastic Perfects in the ‘Stratified Convergence Zones’ of Europe.” Paper to be presented at Indiana University, October 15, 2021 “Perfects and Resultatives in the Circum-Baltic ‘Stratified Convergence Zone’: The Role of the Hansa.” Paper to be presented online at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan, Oct 8, 2021 “Language as Legacy: The Linguistic Roots of African American Memory.” Paper which was to be presented at the Symposium “African American Memory” at the University of Toulouse, March 12-13, 2020 (Not presented due to COVID travel ban) “The Deep History of English: Using Cognacy and Contact to Enhance Language Learning.” Paper presented at the workshop “‘Not so Foreign’: Creating Bridges across Languages.” Somerville College, Oxford January 11-12, 2020 “Perfects in Contact on the Iberian Peninsula.” Paper presented at the panel “Latinization Tendencies in Spanish.” KU-Leuven, Leuven, Belgium June 15, 2019 “Sprachbünde and Stratified Convergence Zones: Mapping Perfects East and West.” Invited paper presented at the Historical Linguistics Roundtable, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas April 5, 2019 “Romance Perfects and the Charlemagne Sprachbund.” Lecture presented at the University of Naples Federico II, Naples May 4, 2018 “Perfects Old and New: The Development of the Perfects in Early and Modern Indo-European Languages.” Lecture presented at the Workshop on Conceptual Representations and Grammatical Categories University of Pisa May 2-3, 2018 “The Sacral Stamp of Greek: Periphrastic Constructions in New Testament Translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic.” Panel presentation as part of the Interdisciplinary Research Project on “Christianity, Christian translation, and language change.” Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INalCO), Paris, April 13, 2018 “The Roofing Effect of Religion: The Development of Perfects, East and West” Lecture presented at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, April 12, 2018 “Romance Perfects in the Charlemagne Sprachbund.” Lecture presented at the University of Pisa, December 16, 2016 “Alignment, Diathesis & Aspect: The Development of the Perfects & Middles in Early IndoEuropean.” Lecture presented at the University of Pisa, December 15, 2016 “Calquing a Quirk: The Perfect in the Languages of Europe.” Paper presented at the symposium “The Perfect in Indo-European languages.” Uppsala, Sweden September 29-October 1, 2016 “Questioning the Universality of the Perfect.” Paper presented at the colloquium “Towards Universals in Tense and Aspect.” Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2224, 2016 “Chronologizing the European Perfects: HAVE and BE in the Charlemagne Sprachbund.” Paper presented at the “Symposium on Perfect Auxiliaries in the Languages of Europe.” Copenhagen, June 9-10, 2016 “Perfecting the Notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and Resultatives in the ‘Stratified Convergence Zones’ of Europe.” Plenary lecture presented at the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Naples, Italy July 2015 “Alignment, Diathesis, and Aspect in Early Indo-European: Contributions of Romano Lazzeroni.” Paper presented at the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Naples, Italy July 2015 “Oblique Possessors as Subjects in the Perfects of the Circum-Baltic ‘Stratified Convergence Zone’" Paper presented at Workshop on “Case, Argument Structure and Syntactic Reconstruction.” Sognefjord, Norway, June 11-13, 2015 “The Roofing Effects of Greek and Latin on the Perfects of Eastern and Western Europe” Invited lecture presented at the University of Heidelberg May 6, 2014 “Romance Perfects and the Charlemagne Sprachbund.” Invited lecture presented at Oxford University, May 1, 2014 “The Role of Latin and Greek in the Development of European Verb Morphology.” Invited lecture presented at the University of Leuven, April 29, 2014 “Mapping Perfects, East and West.” Invited lecture presented at the University of Ghent, April 26, 2014 “The Periphrastic Perfect: East and West.” Invited lecture presented at the Università per Stranieri di Siena, April 23, 2014 “Standard Average European East and West: The Role of Greek and Latin as Roof Languages” Invited lecture given at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, October 18, 2013 “The Charlemagne Sprachbund: Evidence from the Romance & Germanic Perfects.” Invited lecture given at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, October 18, 2013 “Evolutionary Models and Language Contact in Indo-European.” Invited lecture given at the Second Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics Pavia, Italy September 9-14, 2013 "The Role of Contact in Language Change: The Puzzle of the Periphrastic Perfects" Invited plenary lecture at the Conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, York University, Toronto, Canada August 8-11, 2012 “The -to/no- Construction in IE: Verbal Adjective or Participle?” Invited lecture given at the Univerisità di Roma “La Sapienza”, May 25, 2011 “Romance Perfects: Centrality and Peripherality.” Invited lecture given at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, May 23, 2011 “Alignment in Early Indo-European.” Invited lecture given at the International Seminar “Sistemi di allineamento in lingue indoeuropee e non indoeuropee dal Vicino Oriente all’India” at the Università degli Studi di Pavia, May 21, 2011 and at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, May 24, 2011 “The Sacral Stamp of Greek” Invited lecture given at the Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy May 16, 2011 “Stratified Reconstruction and a New View of the Family Tree Model.” Invited lecture given at the University of Bergen, March 13, 2009 “Cladistic and Acladistic Reconstruction: Implications for Indo-European.” Invited lecture given at the University of Oslo, March 11, 2009 “The Rise of the Present Perfect in Late Middle and Early Modern English” Invited lecture given at the Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Japan Sept 5, 2008 “Language Contact in Europe: The Present Perfect in Diachronic Perspective” Invited lecture given at Kyoto University, Japan, Sept 12, 2008 “The Role of Stratification in Indo-European Morphological Reconstruction.” Invited lecture given at the University of Bonn, January 8, 2007 “Language Contact in Diachronic Perspective: The European Perfect” Invited lecture given at the Sorbonne, Paris February 22, 2006 “The Development of the Periphrastic Perfect in Europe.” Invited lecture given to the University of Texas Linguistic Circle, Austin, Texas, Nov 4, 2005 “The Development of the Indo-European Perfect: Evidence for Areal Influence” Invited lecture given at the University of Cologne, July 8, 2002 “Periphrastic Perfects and Passives in Europe: An Areal Analysis” Invited lecture given at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, July 1, 2002 “Indo-European Verbal Adjectives: Periphrastic Perfects and Passives in the Proto-language?” Invited lecture given at Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University, Bonn, June 27, 2002 “The Origin and Development of the Present Perfect: An Areal Approach” Invited lecture presented at the University of Alaska—Anchorage, September, 2001 “Alignment in Proto-Indo-European: Arguments from Typology.” Invited lecture presented to the Moscow Typology Seminar at Moscow State University, Department of Linguistics, December 9, 1998 “Proto-Indo-European: Active or Accusative? An Analysis of the Approaches of Klimov, Gamkrelidze & Ivanov, and Lehmann.” Invited lecture presented to the Indo-European Seminar, Moscow State University, November 12, 1998 “On Alignment: Arguments from Typology.” Invited lecture presented at the Institüt für Afrikanistik, University of Cologne, Germany, December 19, 1998, and at the Sprachwissenschaftliches Institüt, University of Bonn, Germany, December 21, 1998 REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “The Sacral Stamp of Greek: Periphrastic Constructions in New Testament Translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic.” Paper to be presented at SLE2021 (online conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea) August, 2021 “Reassessing the Indo-European data: An integrated approach.” Paper presented at SLE2020 (online conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea) August, 2020 “Updating the Notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and Resultatives in the Circum-Baltic ‘Stratified Convergence Zone.’” Paper presented at the 52nd Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea Leipzig, Germany August 21-24, 2019 “Motivating the North-South Continuum: Evidence from the Perfects of Gallo-Romance.” Paper presented at the 24th Meeting of the International Conference on Historical Linguistics Canberra, Australia July 1-5, 2019 “The Roofing Effect of Religion on Perfects, East and West.” Paper presented at “Linguists’ Day” of the Belgian Society of Linguistics Brussels, Belgium June 13, 2019 Motivating the North-South Continuum: Evidence from the Perfects of Franco-Provenỗal, Occitan, and Catalan” Paper presented at the 51 st Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea Tallinn, Estonia, Aug 29-Sept 1, 2018 “Mapping Perfects East and West.” Plenary Lecture presented at the 20th International Congress of Linguists Cape Town, South Africa July 2-6, 2018 “Sprachbünde and Stratified Convergence Zones: Perfects East and West.” Paper presented at the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference Leiden, Netherlands May 30 - June 1, 2018 “Perfects in Contact on the Iberian Peninsula.” Paper presented at the Conference on Language Contact and Translation in Religious Context Comparative Approaches Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INalCO), Paris, May 24-26, 2018 “Contact in Indo-European: Constructing a New Family Tree Model” Paper presented at the Joint Colloquia in Indo-European Linguistics, University of Pisa and University of Oxford, on Variation and Contact in the Ancient Indo-European Languages: Between Linguistics and Philology University of Pisa April 19 th -20th, 2018 “True Universals? Cognitive Processes, Pragmatic Motivations, and Social Triggers in the Perfects of Elizabeth I.” Paper presented at the 49 th meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea Naples, Italy September, 2016 “Realignment, Mutual Influence, and the Role of ‘Stratified Convergence Zones’ in Europe.” Paper presented in the panel “Re-living Language Change” at the Modern Language Association Meeting, January, 2016 “The Role of Roofing: Latin Influence on the Development of the Perfects in Europe.” Paper presented at the panel, “Latin Influence on the Syntax of the Languages of Europe,” organized by Bert Cornillie and Bridget Drinka, at the 48 th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea Leiden, Netherlands September 2-5, 2015 “Calquing a Quirk: The Role of Social Conditioning in the Spread of the HAVE Perfect across Europe” Paper presented at the Workshop “Grammatical Hybridization and Social Conditioning”, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany October 16-18, 2014 “Updating the Notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and Resultatives in the Circum-Baltic ‘Stratified Convergence Zone’” Paper presented at the Symposium “Language Contact: The State of the Art.” University of Helsinki, Finland August 28-30, 2014 “The Periphrastic Perfects of Old High German and Old Saxon: Evidence for the Charlemagne Sprachbund.” Paper presented at the 49 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 8-11, 2014 “Cladistic and Areal Models of Indo-European: Morphological Layering and the Role of Contact in Reconstruction.” Paper presented at the nd Colloquium on Indo-European in Brno Masaryk University, Brno October 10-11, 2013 “Standard Average European East and West: Clues from the Perfect” Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split, Croatia, September 18-21, 2013 “Roof Languages and the European Perfects” Paper presented at the 21 st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oslo, Norway August 5-9, 2013 “The Interplay of Perfect and Aorist in the Medieval Romance Languages.” Paper presented at the Workshop Aorists & Perfects across languages / Aoristes & Parfaits travers les langues June 20-21, 2013 Université de Poitiers, France “Contact, Genetics, and Typology.” Invited paper at the International Symposium “Contact among Genetically Related Languages.” University of Texas at Austin April 21-22, 2012 “The Perfects of Europe: Evidence for the Charlemagne Sprachbund.” Paper presented at the Workshop on “Drift and Long-term Morphosyntactic Change” at the 20 th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, July 25-30, 2011 “Perfect Verbs in an Imperfect World: Evidence from Gothic.” Paper presented at the19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands, August 2009 “The Sacral Stamp of Greek: Perfects and Participles in New Testament Translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic.” Paper presented at the PROIEL Workshop on Indo-European Syntax and Pragmatics at the University of Georgia, May, 2009 “Sources of Auxiliation in the Perfects of Europe.” Paper presented at the 43 rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea University of Vilnius, Lithuania September 2010 “The Development of Perfects, Passives, and Progressives in Europe.” Lecture presented at the 10th Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, Sept 8, 2008 “Family Networks and the Development of the English Perfect in Early Modern English.” Lecture given as part of a workshop “The Perfect Mix: Cognitive Linguistics Meets Historical Linguistics” with Prof Mariko Higuchi Goto, Kyushu Institute of Technology and Prof Kazuho Mizuno of Hiroshima Shudo University, presented at the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference held at Nagoya University, Japan, Sept 13, 2008 “Periphrasis in Early Modern English: A Family Network Approach” Paper presented with Joseph Roy at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Munich, Germany, August, 2008 “Yif thow haue trewely compased thy circles: Quantitative Socio-historical Evidence for the Growth of the Present Perfect in Middle English” Paper presented with Joseph Roy at the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Québec at Montréal August 2007 “The *-to/no Construction in Indo-European: Evidence for Early Periphrastic Structures?” Paper presented at the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Québec at Montréal August 2007 “Expansion of the Perfect in Late Middle and Early Modern English: Motivations and Explanations.” Paper presented with Joseph Roy at the 14 th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Bergamo, Italy, August 2006 “The Explanatory Value of Areal Influence: The Balkan Perfects.” Paper presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Wisconsin – Madison, July 31 - August “Stratified Chronology and the Indo-European Verb.” Paper presented at the Workshop on Dating Indo-European Dialectal Changes in Grammatical Category at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Wisconsin – Madison, July 31 - August “The Balkan Perfects: Grammaticalization and Contact” Paper presented at the 3rd Conference on New Reflections on Grammaticalization, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 17-20, 2005 “The Stratification of Linguistic and Cultural Influence in the Balkans: Languages and Literacies in Contact” Paper presented on a panel “Dynamics of Borderland Languages, Dialects, and Cultures in Contact” at the 50th Annual Conference of the International Reading Association, San Antonio, TX May 1, 2005 “The Periphrastic Perfect in Early English: Evidence from the Peterborough Chronicle.” Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Vienna, August, 2004 “Languages of the Borderlands: Influences of the “Other” on Linguistic Innovation.” Paper presented at the research symposium, “Voices of the Other in Educational and Civic Discourses,” University of Texas at San Antonio, April 1, 2004 “The Development of the “have” Perfect: Mutual Influences of Greek and Latin.” Paper presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, March 19-21, 2004 in New York, NY “Languages in Contact in Medieval Europe: The Influence of Parisian French on the German Perfect.” Paper presented at the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen August, 2003 “Proto-Indo-European *–to- and *–no-: Verbal Adjectives or Past Participles?” Paper presented at the 13th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Nov 9-10, 2001 “The Development of the Perfect in Indo-European: Stratigraphic Evidence for Prehistoric Areal Influence.” Paper presented at the Workshop on “Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory” at the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, August, 2001 “The Role of Passives and Participles in the Formation of the Periphrastic Perfect in Europe.” Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, August, 2001 “Areal Development in Standard Average European: Evidence from the Perfect” Paper presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, “Language Contact, Language Change”, Washington, D.C., April 7-8, 2000 “The European Perfect: Evidence for Areal Distribution.” Paper presented at the 14 th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Vancouver, August 1999 “Cultural Bridges: Report on Internet Seminar between Moscow State University and University of Texas at San Antonio.” Report presented at Section on Innovative Technologies at The Art of Language Teaching Conference held at Moscow State University Sept 23-25, 1998 “Early PIE: Active or Accusative?” Paper presented at the 10 th Annual UCLA IndoEuropean Conference May, 1998 “The Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from the Indo-European Perfects” Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Düsseldorf, Germany, August 1997 “Sanskrit Injunctives and Aorists: Implications for Indo-European Aspect.” Paper presented at the 8th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference May 1996 “Time Depth and its Geographical Implications: The Development of Aspect in IndoEuropean” Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Manchester, U.K., August 1995 “Areal Linguistics in Prehistory: Evidence from Indo-European Aspect.” Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics UCLA August, 1993 “Morphological Layering and the Origin of the Latin Perfect System.” Paper presented at the 5th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, May 1993 “The Sigmatic Aorist: Archaic or Innovative?” Paper presented at the th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, May 1992 Awarded the Friends and Alumni of IndoEuropean Studies Award for Excellence as the outstanding paper presented at the conference by a junior scholar “Exaptation in Language Change.” Paper presented at the LSA meeting, Philadelphia, January 1992 “A Linguist's Tools for Establishing the Chronology of Sound Change.” Paper presented at the South Central MLA, Houston, 1987 “Diffusion as an Agent of Morphological Change.” Paper presented at the Milwaukee Morphology Meeting, 1986 “Morphological Elaboration in Late Indo-European.” Paper presented at the LSA meeting, Baltimore, 1984 NON-REFEREED PRESENTATIONS “Torques and Britches: Scythian and Celtic contacts” Lecture in the UTSA Scythian Lecture Series, October 20, 1999 “Indo-European Aspect: Time and Space in Reconstruction.” Paper presented at the UTSA Language Research Colloquium, Sept 22, 1995 FUNDED GRANTS EXTERNAL GRANTS National Science Foundation Grant Lead PI with Co-PI Patience Epps of UT-Austin “New vistas: The intersection of endangered languages and language change at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics.” To support the panel on “Endangered Languages and Historical Linguistics” at ICHL23 $20,203 Humanities Texas Grant “The History of Texas German.” To support the panel “The History of Texas German” at ICHL23 $4,000 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Grant To support the panel “Endangered Languages and Historical Linguistics” at ICHL23 $4,000 Staples Foundation Grant To support ICHL23 $3,500 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, September, 2008, as a recipient of a fully funded JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan I took part in a series of events organized by my colleague, Mariko Higuchi Goto of Kyushu Institute of Technology: lectures at the Kumamoto Prefectural University, at the Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Conference, and at Kyoto University, and a workshop presented at the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference held at Nagoya University, Japan, Sept 13, 2008 (Full funding for transportation, lodging, meals, and expenses for two weeks) Fulbright Senior Lecturer Award by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars to teach linguistics and American culture at Moscow State University, Fall semester 1998 (Full funding for transportation, per diem expenses, books, etc.) Fulbright-Hays Group Project in Russia Fully funded 5-week seminar in Moscow, St Petersburg, and Nizhny Novgorod July 1-Aug 5, 1995 Attended lectures at Moscow State University, studied Russian language, and visited many important historical sites (Full funding for transportation, lodging, meals, expenses, etc.) INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS Intra Grant, to support the International Conference on Historical Linguistics 23, July 31August 4, 2017 $5,000 Conference Grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research, to support ICHL23 July 31-August 4, 2017 $14,000 President’s Travel Award, for presentation of a paper at the 13 th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Vienna, August, 2004 College of Fine Arts and Humanities Dean’s Circle Grant and UTSA start up grant to fund two colloquia, “In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Culture, and the Origins of our Diversity” for 200 honors high school students, April 7, 1998 and April 24, 1999 Competitively-awarded faculty research awards, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2006, and faculty research leaves 1997, 2001, 2013-14, University of Texas at San Antonio TEACHING ACTIVITIES GRADUATE COURSES New Perspectives on Language Contact and Areal Linguistics (University of Leiden) The History of English (Naples, UTSA) Excavating Language (Urbino) Language and Religion (Urbino) Research Methods in Historical Linguistics Historical Linguistics and Languages in Contact Languages in Contact (UTSA graduate course and Hauptseminar at Heinrich Heine University) The Evolution of Grammar (Hauptseminar at HHU) Language and Gender Historical and Sociolinguistics Languages of the Borderlands Structural and Rhetorical Analysis The Language of Literature Grammatical Analysis of Literature Principles of Linguistics Indo-European Language and Culture UNDERGRADUATE COURSES Excavating Language (taught in Urbino) Language and Religion (taught in Urbino) Languages in Contact (University of Osnabrück) Morphosyntax (Proseminar at HHU) Historical Linguistics The Structure of English Principles of Linguistics The History of English Historical and Sociolinguistics (English Senior Seminar) Linguistics and Literature (English Senior Seminar) Language and Gender (English Senior Seminar) Indo-European Language and Culture (Humanities Senior Seminar) Elements of Latin and Greek Phonology Prehistoric Roots of the English Language (continuing education mini-course) American Culture (at Moscow State University) DISSERTATION AND THESIS SUPERVISION AND COMMITTEES DISSERTATION CHAIR Mohammed Shimal “A Corpus- Based Stylistic Analysis of ‘Body Language’ in the Novels of Charles Dickens and Naguib Mahfouz: A Comparative Study” Kandice Diaz “Destruction of an Icon: The Commodification of Frida Kahlo” Robin Johnson Jennifer Scheidt DISSERTATION COMMITTEES Terri Pantuso: “Reading Silence Actively: Recovering the Maternal Narrative in Contemporary Women’s Novels” (completed 2009) Elizabeth Mac Crossan “Discrepant Experiences in the Irish Borderlands: Space, Language and Identity in Free Derry, Northern Ireland” (completed 2010) Stephanie Amsel “Formation of Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: A Study of Italian and English Mystics, Christine de Pizan, Boccaccio, and Chaucer” (completed 2011) Elaine Wong: “Visual Approaches in Poetry: A Dialogue with the Chinese Ideogram” (completed 2012) Andrew Hoag: “Translation as Collaboration: Jorge Luis Borges’s Unfaithful Translation of Literature from the United States” (completed 2014) Laura Ellis-Lai: “Close Confidences: Students’ Experiences of Relational Pleasure, Reflective Competence, and Self-Authorship in FYC Research Writing” (completed 2017) Darrell Stafford: “’When I Have Your Wounded’ Warrior Reification in American Fiction: Interrogating the Heroic Tradition” (completed 2018) Jamie Crosswhite “Contemporary American Regionalism in an Age of Globalism” (completed 2020) Janelle Kitlinski “‘Imaginative Geographies’: The Female Wits and the ‘Orientalizing’ of Spain in Early Modern Drama” Micah Wright John Milam Yvette Chairez Karyn Hixson Abby Mangel Victoria Gentry Jelena Zivojinovic, UIT Norges arktiske universitet/ UIT The Arctic University of Norway (outside reviewer) “The Gerund in Rhaeto-Romance Varieties” MA THESIS SUPERVISION Jeff Miller: “Tracing Changes in the Genre Conventions of Fantasy Literature” (completed 2008) HONORS THESIS SUPERVISION Eddie Campos: “’The Revolution Will Be Complete When the Language is Perfect’: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Dystopian Fiction” (completed 2012) Donna Wright: “South African English Language and Identity in South Africa and the U.S.” (completed 2012) Rebecca Carey: British and American English: Assessing the Flow of Influence (2016) Caroline Williamson: “Vergleich ich dich mit einem Sommertage?: An Exploration of Linguistic Choices in German Translations of Shakespearean Sonnets” (completed 2017) MCNAIR SCHOLAR SUPERVISION Kassandra Bednarz: “Contact: Tracing the Polish Periphrastic Perfect through Time and Space” (completed 2013) Richard Cavazos: “Words as Weapons: A Discourse Analysis on the Weaponization and Mobilization of Language” SERVICE ACTIVITIES ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES Co-Director, COLFA Semester in Urbino Program 2011 to present Design and supervision of the program, administration, recruitment of students and faculty, curriculum, and budget Faculty Research Fellow, Office of the Vice President for Research, Economic Development, and Knowledge Enterprise Fall 2019 to Spring 2020 Served as a primary point of contact and host for Academy Fellows Speaker Series Organizer of VPREDKE Awards for the Arts and Humanities Ph.D Graduate Advisor of Record, Department of English August 2005 to August 2007; August 2019 to August 2020 Responsible for overseeing the Ph.D program in English, advising doctoral students, recruitment and retention, and organizing events and seminars in connection with the Ph.D program M.A Graduate Advisor of Record, Department of English August 2014 to August 2017 Responsible for overseeing the M.A program in English, advising students, recruitment and retention, and organizing exams and events in connection with the M.A program Co-Chair, UTSA 2020 Blueprint Team, Teaching & Learning: Student Transformation 2015–16 Chair, Department of English August 2007 to 2013 Responsible for the supervision of all operations and activities of the Department: hiring, scheduling, budgeting, supervising committees, strategic planning, and other activities Co-Chair, Provost’s Council, 2011-13 Graduation Rate Improvement Plan Advisory Team 2012-13 SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Selection Committee, Linguistic Society of America 2020-22 Editorial Board, Edinburgh Studies in Historical Linguistics Book Series, Spring 2021 to present Editorial Advisory Board, Studi e Saggi Linguistici, Spring 2020 to present Societas Linguistica Europaea Executive Committee August 2019 to present Societas Linguistica Europaea Chair, Awards Committee 2020 to present Fulbright Review Board, Linguistics, for applicants from Russia 1999 to present Editorial Board, Folia Linguistica Historica, Fall 2020 to present Scientific Committee, Historical Sociolingustics Network (HiSoN) Conference 2022, University of Murcia, Spain, Spring 2021 to present Associate Editor, Folia Linguistica Historica, Fall 2015 to Fall 2020 President, International Society for Historical Linguistics, 2015-2017 Responsible for organizing the International Conference on Historical Linguistics, July 31-August 4, 2017, in San Antonio, TX Nominating Committee, International Society for Historical Linguistics, 2005-2015; Chair 2007-2009; 2013-15 Executive Committee 2017 to present Linguistics book review editor, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Fall 2000 to 2010 Reviewer of book manuscripts for Brill and for Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF) (Language Typology and Universals) Reviewer of articles for Journal of Linguistics, Diachronica, and Journal of Greek Linguistics Reviewer for the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of Research and Universities (ANVUR) 2012, 2016 Secretary (1987-88), President (1988-89) of South Central MLA General Linguistics Section