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Curriculum Vitae Sali A. Tagliamonte March 17Th, 2021 Curriculum Vitae Sali A. Tagliamonte March 17th, 2021 A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 1. PROFESSIONAL CONTACT Sali A. Tagliamonte Department of Linguistics University of Toronto 100 St George St Toronto, Ontario, CDA, M5S 3G3 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/tagliamonte/ Twitter: @SaliTagliamonte 2. DEGREES Bachelors Degree Honours in Linguistics 1981 York University. Toronto. Canada Masters Degree in Linguistics 1983 University of Ottawa. Ottawa. Canada Ph.D. in Linguistics 1991 University of Ottawa. Ottawa. Canada Title of graduate thesis and supervisor’s name: A Matter of Time: Past temporal reference structures in Samaná English and the Ex-slave Recordings. Supervisor: Professor Shana Poplack 3. EMPLOYMENT University of Ottawa, Department of Linguistics Adjunct Professor 1995-2002 University of York, UK Department of Language and Linguistic Science Lecturer B Sept.1995 Senior Lecturer July 1, 2000 Honorary Visiting Professor Aug. 1, 2001 University of Toronto Department of Linguistics Associate Professor Aug. 1, 2001 Tenured July 1, 2004 Full Professor July 1, 2007 Canada Research Chair April, 2017 Chair of Linguistics July 1, 2018 2 4. HONOURS Dean’s Excellence Award. University of Toronto. July 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 [these awards were discontinued after 2011] Merit and Excellence/Small Group Award, University of Toronto, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. Killam Research Fellowship, 2013–2015 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2013– Vice President, American Dialect Society, 2015–2017 President, American Dialect Society, 2017–2019 Past President, American Dialect Society, January 7th 2019 à LSA Fellow, 2017– Canada Research Chair, Tier 1, Language Variation and Change, 2017– One of “39 women doing amazing research in computational social science” October 3, 2018. Methods Innovation Blog. Daniela Duca, Product Manager, SAGE Ocean. https://ocean.sagepub.com/blog/2018/9/28/39-women-doing-amazing-research-in- computational-social-science 5. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: American Dialect Society, 1986– Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, 1989– Linguistic Society of America, 1985– Canadian Linguistic Association, 1985–1995, 2001– Linguistic Association of Great Britain, 1997–2001 Linguistic Atlas Advisory Board, 2004– MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY COMMITTEES: Associate Editor, Language, January 2007–December 31, 2010. Editorial Board, Journals Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 1997–2005 World Englishes, 2000–2006 3 Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 2004– Journal of Linguistics, 2006–2018 American Speech, 2007– Diachronica, 2008– Language Variation and Change, 2011– English World-Wide, 2013– Editor, Book Series Cambridge University Press, “Studies in Language Variation and Change”, 2015– Editorial Board, Book Series John Benjamins, “Studies in Language Variation”. Peter Auer, Frans Hinskens, and Paul Kerswill (eds.), 2006– John Benjamins, “Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics”. Terttu Nevalainen, and Marijike van der Wal (eds.), 2013– Editorial Advisory Board Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 1994–1997 Cambridge Elements – Word Englishes, July 2019— American Dialect Society [ADS] Executive Chair, ADS Committee Roger Shuy Best Paper in American Speech Award 2018, 2019 Chair, ADS Committee Taking Stock: American Speech 2018 Member Economic and Social Research Council of the UK (ESRC) Steering Committee, UK-LVC, 1997–2001 Psychology, Linguistics and Education Research College (MPLE), 1999–2002 Program Committee, Canadian Linguistic Association, 2003–2006 Scientific Committee, Sociolinguistics Symposium 15, 2004, 2019 Steering Committee, Change and Variation in Canada (CVC), 2004– Program Committee, Linguistic Society of America, 2008– Advisory Board, Linguistic Atlas, Kurath Fund (Bill Kretczhmar, chair) 2008– Executive Board, International Computer Archive of Medieval/Modern English (ICAME), 2010– Nominating Committee, American Dialect Society, 2010– Scientific Committee, Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, June 2020 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Member, SSHRCC Standard Research Grants, National Committee, 2008 Chair, SSHRCC Standard Research Grants, National Committee, 2009 Member, International Team, External Evaluation of the University of Zurich, English Department, 2012 Member, SSHRCC Insight Research Grants, National Committee, 2014 Expert Independent Assessment, British Academy, November 25, 2016 Member, Selection Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 2017 4 Referee, Academic Journals Cahiers Linguistiques d’Ottawa, Diachronica, English Language and Linguistics, English World-Wide, Journal of English Linguistics, Journal of Historical Linguistics, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language, Language in Society, Language Variation and Change, Lingua, World Englishes Reviewer, Conference abstracts: New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), 2001– American Dialect Society (ADS), 2001– Canadian Linguistic Association, 2002–2006 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, 2007– Change and Variation in Canada, 2008– UK-LVC, 2009–2015UCL International Congress of Linguists, 2013 LSA Summer Institute Syntax and Variation Workshop, 2013 International Computer Archive of Medieval/Modern English (ICAME), 2014– International Conference on Spoken English (ICSE), 2014 International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLAVE), 2017 International Congress of Linguists (ICL20), 2017 International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), 2018 Reviewer, Publishers: Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Routledge, University of Edinburgh Press, Oxford University Press, Wiley-Blackwell. Endorsements, Books [N=7] Provided dust jacket quotes at publishers’ request for: 1. American English (3rd edition), Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling. (2016). Wiley-Blackwell. 8-26-15 2. Canadian English: A Sociolinguistic Perspective, James A. Walker (2015). Routledge. 4-26-15 3. Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications, Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, and Gerard Van Herk (eds.) (2013). Wiley-Blackwell. 3-18-13 4. Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide, Janet Holmes and Kirk Hazen (eds.) (2013). Wiley-Blackwell. 6-11-13 5. International English (6th edition), Peter Trudgill and Jean Hannah. Routledge. 3-3-17 6. The Handbook of Dialectology, Charles Boberg. Wiley-Blackwell. 3-13-17 7. The life of ‘guy’, Allan Metcalf. Oxford University Press. 2019. 8. Linguistic Communities and Migratory Processes: Newcomers acquiring sociolinguistic variation in Northern Ireland, Karen Corrigan. Mouton de Gruyter. 2020. https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/540248 5 Reviewer, International Funding Agencies Dutch Council for the Humanities Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (UK) British Academy National Science Foundation (USA) Marsden Fund (New Zealand) Finnish Academy The Icelandic Research Fund Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Hungarian Academy of Science Swiss National Science Foundation Media expert, Linguistic Society of America, 2013— Promotion Reviewer: To Associate Professor, 10 To Full Professor, 5 To University Professor/Named Professor, 2 [2019] External examiner, PhD Dissertations [N=5] Mercedes Durham. “English in Switzerland: Inherent variation in a non-native speech community”. University of Fribourg, Switzerland. 2007. Julia Davydova. “The Present Perfect: A corpus-based study of variation across non- native Englishes”. University of Hamburg, Germany. 2009. Karin Kearne. “Explaining register and sociolinguistic variation in the lexicon: Corpus studies on Dutch”. University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. 2012. Soili Nokkonen. “Changes in the field of obligation and necessity in contemporary British English: A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of semi-modal need to”. University of Helsinki, Finland. 2014. Gloria Otchere, “The present perfect-preterite alternation in Chanaian English: A corpus-based study of Variation”. Oslo University, Oslo, Norway. June 2019. External examiner, MA Dissertations [N=2] Mariana Hernández. “A variationist analysis of modifiers in cooking shows”. Memorial University, St John’s, Newfoundland. 2017. Caroline Allen. “The rise of the get-passive: A longitudinal analysis ”. University of Victoria, Victoria. February 14, 2020. Expert Assessment, British Academy, 2016. 6 Conference Organization: [N=4] New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 23, Organizing Committee. Ottawa, October 22-27, 1993. UK-LVC, Organizing Committee. York, England, Spring 2001. Change and Variation in Canada (CVC) 1, Organizing Committee. Toronto, May 2008. Change and Variation in Canada (CVC) 13, Organizing Committee. Toronto, May 2013. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 44, Organizing Committee. Toronto, October 22-27, 2015. Urban and Rural Language Research: Variation, Identity and Innovation. University of Toronto. November 8-9, 2019. Royal Society of Canada, Vote for new fellows, Humanities Division, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. B. ACADEMIC HISTORY 6. RESEARCH A. ENDEAVOURS Fields of specialization: i. Variationist Sociolinguistics ii. Comparative Sociolinguistics iii. Morpho-syntactic variation iv. Historical Linguistics and Grammaticalization v. Internet Language and the New Media B. RESEARCH AWARDS Research grants, external funding: [N=12] 1991–1994: Research Grant. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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