Anna Łubowicz, Ph.D
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August 4, 2013 Anna Łubowicz, Ph.D. E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~lubow003/ ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2009-present University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus Institute of Linguistics Adjunct Assistant Professor (2011-2013) Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2009, Fall 2010) 2011, 2013 Carleton College Visiting Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department (Spring 2011, Fall 2013) 2003-2011 University of Southern California Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Linguistics Department Courtesy Appointment in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (2007-2011). 2001-2003 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus Visiting Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Academic Program EDUCATION 1996-2003 University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ph.D, 2003. Doctoral Program in Linguistics. Dissertation title: “Contrast Preservation in Phonological Mappings” (Supervisor: Prof. John J. McCarthy). Spring 2000 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Visiting Scholar in the Linguistics Department. Sponsor: Prof. Alan S. Prince. 1995-1996 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. On Exchange Program sponsored by Soros Foundation. 1992-1996 University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. M.A., 1996. Master of Arts Degree with Honors in the Institute of English Studies, Linguistics Major, British Literature and Culture Minor. MA thesis presents an analysis of tone-prominence attraction in the verbal system of a Bantu language, Digo, and relates it to English intonation (Supervisor: Prof. Jerzy Rubach). PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 2012 The Phonology of Contrast. London: Equinox. In a series “Advances in Optimality Theory”. August 4, 2013 (See http://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=332&keyword=) The Phonology of Contrast argues that contrast is one of the central organizing principles of the grammar and provides a formal theory of contrast couched in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004). The study of the role of contrast is a growing area of interest in linguistics and this monograph contributes to the debate on where contrast fits in the grammar. The key finding is that contrast exists as an independent principle in the grammar, which in the framework of Optimality Theory can be formulated as a family of rankable and violable constraints. A formal proposal of contrast is developed called Contrast Preservation Theory. This proposal is illustrated and supported with diverse contrast phenomena in the areas of phonology and at the phonology-morphology interface. Evidence is drawn from a number of languages including Finnish, Arabic, and Polish. Predictions of the proposal are discussed and compared with alternatives. 2003 Contrast Preservation in Phonological Mappings. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. GLSA: Amherst, MA. (Available on Rutgers Optimality Archive) PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS 2011 Chain Shifts. In Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Beth Hume and Keren Rice (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. 5 vols. Malden, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Vol. 3, Ch. 73. 2010 Infixation as Morpheme Absorption. In S. Parker (ed.) Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation. London: Equinox. (In a series “Advances in Optimality Theory”) Ch. 10. 261-284. 2007 Paradigmatic Contrast in Polish. In Journal of Slavic Linguistics 15.2: Special Volume on Phonology. Slavica Publishers: Indiana University. 229-262. 2003 Local Conjunction and Comparative Markedness. In Theoretical Linguistics 29. 101-112. 2002 Derived Environment Effects in Optimality Theory. In Lingua 112, 243- 280. (An expanded version of (1998) WCCFL 17. Reprinted in McCarthy, John (2004) Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Book of Readings.) PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 2007 [Lubowicz, Anna, Nathan Go, Nancy Huang, and Sara McDonald]. Polish Nickname Formation: The Case of Allomorph Selection. Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. 196-209. 2006 Opaque Allomorphy in OT. In D. Baumer, D. Montero, and M. Scanlon (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 261-269. 2005 Locality of Conjunction. In J. Alderete, C. Han, and A. Kochetov (eds.) Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 254-262. 2 August 4, 2013 2003 Counter-Feeding Opacity as a Chain Shift Effect. In G. Garding and M. Tsujimura (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 315-327. 1999 Two Views of Polish Reflexives. In Sonya Bird, Andrew Carnie, Jason D. Haugen, and Peter Norquest (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 337-350. 1998 Derived Environment Effects in OT. In Kimary Shahin, Susan Blake and Eun Sook Kim (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Stanford, CA: CSLI. 451-465. REPRINTS 2004 Derived Environment Effects in Optimality Theory. In John McCarthy (ed.) Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Book of Readings. Blackwell. Ch. 29. 523-532. BOOK REVIEWS 2008 Review of Edmund Gussmann (2007) The Phonology of Polish. Phonology 25.3, Published by Oxford University Press. 554-556. [invited] 2008 Review of Alan C. L. Yu (2007) A Natural History of Infixation. Journal of Linguistics 44.2, Published by Cambridge University Press. 558-562. [invited] OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2013 Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology (Phonetik und Phonologie. Ein Lern- und Konsultationswörterbuch mit einer systematischen Einleitung und englischen Übersetzungen). In a series “Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikations-wissenschaft“, Volume 4, edited by T. A. Hall and Bernd Pompino-Marschall. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (authored 28 entries). WORK IN PROGRESS Truncations in Polish. This is an extension of my work on nickname formation in Polish published in FASL proceedings and further collaborated with students at USC and Carleton. Contrast preservation in Eegimaa (joint work with Mamadou Bassene, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota). In this project we investigate the role of contrast in cases of underapplication of vowel deletion. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2006 Polish nickname formation: The case of allomorph selection. The Fifteenth Conference on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 15), held at the University of Toronto, May 12-14. (with Nathan Go, Nancy Huang, and Sara ,McDonald) 3 August 4, 2013 2006 Opaque Allomorphy in OT. The Twenty Fifth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25), held at the University of Washington, April 28- 30. 2006 Infixation as Morpheme Absorption. The Twenty-ninth Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 29), Main Session, held at UAB-Casa Convalescència, Barcelona, Spain, April 6-8. 2006 Opaque Allomorphy in Polish. The Twenty-ninth Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 29), Phonology Workshop, held at UAB-Casa Convalescència, Barcelona, Spain, April 5. 2005 Locality of Conjunction. The Twenty Fourth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 24), held at Simon Fraser University, March 18-20. (accepted for presentation) 2005 Restricted Local Conjunction. Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP 2), held at the University of Tromso, Norway, January 20-22. 2003 Counter-feeding Opacity as a Chain Shift Effect. The Twenty Second West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 22), held at the University of California San Diego, March 21-23. (accepted for presentation) 2002 Contrast Preservation in Child Phonology. Generative Linguistics in Poland 4, Morpho(phonological) acquisition in the light of current phonological theories, held at the University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, March 2. 2002 Chain Shifts as Contrast Transformation. Eight Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, held at Indiana University, Oct. 25-27. 2001 Opacity, Recoverability, and Constraints on Contrast. Generative Linguistics in Poland 3, (Morpho)phonological meeting, held at the University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, April 7-8. 2001 Contrast Preservation in Finnish. The Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), held in Washington, DC, January 4-7. 2000 Faithfulness as Contrast Preservation. The Thirty-sixth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 36), held at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 29. 1999 Two Views of Polish Reflexives. The Eighteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL XVIII), held at the University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, April 8-11. 1998 The Strict Cycle, Opacity & Derived Environment Effects in OT. The Twenty-first Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 21), Phonology Workshop, held at Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, Tilburg, The Netherlands, April 18. 1998 Derived Environment Effects in OT. The Seventeenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL XVII), held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, February 20–22. 4 August 4, 2013 INVITED TALKS 2013 Allomorphy and Truncation in Polish Nicknames. Colloquium at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, January 25, 2013. 2011 Contrast in Phonology. Carleton College, Northfield, MN, February 8, 2011. 2008 The Phonology of Contrast and Its Applications. UCLA, December 3, 2008. 2008 Paradigmatic Contrast in Polish. Colloquium at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, March 14, 2008. 2005 Morpheme Absorption of Infixes. Colloquium at University of California Santa Cruz.