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CURRICULUM VITAE
John E. McLaughlin Department of English 3200 Old Main Hill Utah State University Logan, UT 84322-3200
BACKGROUND
EDUCATION
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1978-1987 Ph.D., 1987, Linguistics Additional Fields of Study: Anthropology, Greek Dissertation Title: A Phonology and Morphology of Panamint Dissertation Committee: Akira Yamamoto (chair), Wick Miller, Kenneth Miner, Robert Rankin
Defense Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, California, 1985 Diploma with Honors, 1985, Hungarian
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976-1978 M.A., 1978, Linguistics Additional Fields of Study: French
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina, 1975-1976 General Theological and Biblical Studies, Greek
Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 1973-1975 B.A. cum laude, 1975, Geography Additional Fields of Study: History, Latin, English
RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT
Department of English, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Associate Professor. September 1993-present Teach undergraduate Linguistics and Technical Communication courses and graduate Technical Communication courses, including both classroom and on-line instruction
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Department of Romance and Germanic Languages, Rivne State Humanities University, Rivne, Ukraine. Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor. September 2007-June 2008 Taught undergraduate and graduate English linguistics courses
Department of Linguistics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Adjunct Professor. 1996-1998 Taught Language and Culture course during Spring quarters
Rockwell International, Canoga Park, California. Proposal Specialist. July 1990-August 1993 Developed and wrote proposals for high-technology aerospace company
Thiokol Corporation, Brigham City, Utah. Technical Editor. December 1986-February 1990 Wrote and edited technical and marketing materials for high-technology aerospace company
A.R.C. Technical Services, Salt Lake City, Utah. Technical Writer. April 1986-December 1986 As a subcontractor to Unisys, wrote documentation for computer hardware and software as part of Air Force inventory control project
Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Assistant Instructor. August 1980-May 1983 Taught undergraduate introductory Linguistics courses
ADJUNCT AND HONORARY PROFESSORSHIPS
Honorary Professor, Rivne State Humanities University, Rivne, Ukraine, 2008
Adjunct Professor, University of Utah, 1987-1993, 1996-1998
Adjunct Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991-1992
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RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
McLaughlin, John E. 2012. Shoshoni Grammar. Languages of the World/Materials Volume 488. Munich, Germany: LinCom Europa.
McLaughlin, John E. 2006. Timbisha (Panamint). Languages of the World/Materials Volume 453. Munich, Germany: LinCom Europa.
McLaughlin, John E., ed. 1983. Studies in Native American Languages II. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 8/2.
McLaughlin, John E., and J. Liessmann Vantine, eds. 1982. Studies in Native American Languages. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 7. Founded the series Studies in Native American Languages, which has been regularly a subset of the Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics series since 1982.
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES
McLaughlin, John E. 2018. "Expanding to the Edges: Dual Number in Central Numic," International Journal of American Linguistics 84:359-381.
McLaughlin, John E. 2013. "Causative Development in Numic," Aktuelle Tendenzen der Sprachwissenschaft, Ausgewählte Beiträge zu den GeSuS-Linguistiktagen an der Metropolitan Universität Prag, 26.-28. Mai 2011. Ed. Martin Lachout. Hamburg, Germany: Verlag Dr. Kovač. Pages 399-408.
Miller, Wick, Dirk Elzinga, and John E. McLaughlin. 2005. “Preaspiration and Gemination in Central Numic,” International Journal of American Linguistics. 71:413-444. Wrote approximately 75% of the text.
Bright, William. 2004. Native American Placenames of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. I was a contributing editor for this work, responsible for developing etymologies for Native American place names from Eastern California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Northern Arizona, Southern Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado
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2000. “Language Boundaries and Phonological Borrowing in the Central Numic Languages.” Uto-Aztecan: Temporal and Geographical Perspectives. Ed. Gene Casad and Thomas Willett. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Pp. 293-304.
Bright, William, and John E. McLaughlin. 2000. “Inyo Redux.” Names. 48:147-150. Wrote approximately 25% of the text.
McLaughlin, John E. 1999. “Genetic Relationships and Chance: A Nonmathematician’s Approach.” Proceedings of the 1998 Mid-America Linguistics Conference. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
Armagost, James L., and John E. McLaughlin. 1993. “Numic [r] Is Not a Spirant.” Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics. 18:131-142.
Armagost, James L., and John E. McLaughlin. 1992. “Taps and Spirants in Numic Languages.” Anthropological Linguistics. 34:277-292.
McLaughlin, John E. 1992. “A Counter-Intuitive Solution in Central Numic Phonology.” International Journal of American Linguistics. 58:158-81.
McLaughlin, John E. 1989. “A Note on the Change of Strident to Nonstrident in Gosiute Shoshoni.” International Journal of American Linguistics. 55:240-7.
McLaughlin, John E. 1984. “Jenny: An Interactive Program in BASIC for Analyzing Comanche (and Other) Texts [With Sample Text].” Studies in Native American Languages III. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 9. Pages 81-93.
McLaughlin, John E. 1984. “A Revised Approach to Southern Paiute Phonology.” Studies in Native American Languages III. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 9. Pages 47-79.
McLaughlin, John E. 1984. “The Development of a Northern Uto-Aztecan Quotative.” 1983 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado. Pages 282-290.
McLaughlin, John E. 1983. “Shoshoni Deictic Roots and the Interface of Real and Narrative Worlds.” North American Indians: Humanistic Perspectives. University of Oklahoma Papers in Anthropology Volume 24/2. Pages 263-266.
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McLaughlin, John E. 1983. “A Working Bibliography of the Languages of (Roughly) the Western United States ([-Athapaskan], [+Haida, Tsimshian, Wakashan]).” Studies in Native American Languages II. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 8/2. Pages 247-367.
McLaughlin, John E. 1983. “From Aspect to Tense, Or, What's -nuh in Comanche.” 1982 Mid- America Linguistics Conference Papers. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas. Pages 412-426.
McLaughlin, John E. 1982. “Two or Three (or Four) Points about Adverbs and Aspect in Central Numic (Uto-Aztecan).” Studies in Native American Languages. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 7. Pages 64-89.
McLaughlin, John E. 1981. “Discourse Considerations in Genesis 1:1-2:4a.” Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 6. Pages 81-97.
McLaughlin, John E. 1979. “Coordinate Deletion and Juncture Proximity.” Papers of the 1978 Mid-America Linguistics Conference at Oklahoma. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma. Pages 261-270.
PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS
McLaughlin, John E. 2015. "Review of A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan languages, by David Leedom Shaul," Anthropological Linguistics, 57:218- 220.
McLaughlin, John E. 2012. "Review of The Northern Paiute-Bannock dictionary, with an English-Northern Paiute-Bannock finder list, and a Northern Paiute-Bannock-English finder list, compiled by Sven Liljeblad, Catherine S. Fowler, & Glenda Powell," Studies in Language 36:915-920.
McLaughlin, John E. 1999. “Review of Hopi Dictionary/Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi- English Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and Sketch of Hopi Grammar, compiled by The Hopi Dictionary Project.” Anthropological Linguistics 41:252-253.
McLaughlin, John E. 1994. “Review of A Grammar of Comanche, by Jean Ormsbee Charney.” Anthropological Linguistics. 36:536-537.
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McLaughlin, John E. 1994. “Review of Kawaiisu. A Grammar and Dictionary with Texts, by Maurice Zigmond, Curtis Booth, and Pamela Munro.” Anthropological Linguistics. 36:111-113.
ON-LINE MANUSCRIPTS
McLaughlin, John E. 2015. "Brief Comanche Etymological Dictionary," http://www.academia.edu/33657318/Brief_Comanche_Etymological_Dictionary_v2, accessed 17 July 2017.
McLaughlin, John E. 2011. "Causative Development in Numic," https://www.academia.edu/1399299/Causative_Development_in_Numic, accessed 17 July 2017.
McLaughlin, John E. 2008. "The Glorious Power of Дякую," http://www.academia.edu/9476501/The_Glorious_Power_of_%D0%94%D1%8F%D0% BA%D1%83%D1%8E, accessed 17 July 2017.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Comanche texts. Edited and translated texts from the middle of the 20th century recorded by Elliott Canonge from Emily Riddles, one of the last speakers to have lived in a community where Comanche was the only language used.
Comanche grammar. A typological grammar of Comanche in the same series as the Timbisha and Shoshoni grammars previously published.
Etymological dictionary of the Central Numic languages. An etymological dictionary of the three Central Numic languages—Timbisha, Shoshoni, and Comanche
PAPERS READ
McLaughlin, John E. 2017. "Negotiating Social Media in Shoshoni: Multiple Dialects, Multiple Orthographies, One Language," Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho.
McLaughlin, John E. 2015. “Northern Uto-Aztecan: Sprachbund, Diffusion, or Inheritance,” Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon.
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McLaughlin, John E. 2013. “Expanding to the Edges: Central Numic Dual Number,” Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho.
McLaughlin, John E. 2013. “Secondary Verbs in Central Numic: Serial Verbs, Compound Verbs, or Both?” Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
McLaughlin, John E. 2013. “Central Numic Innovations in Dual Number Marking,” Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
McLaughlin, John E. 2012. “Innovation in Dual Number Marking in Central Numic (Uto- Aztecan),” Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
McLaughlin, John E. 2012. “Layers of Accretion in Dual Number Marking in Central Numic (Uto-Aztecan),” Workshop in General Linguistics 10, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
McLaughlin, John E. 2011. “Causative Development in Numic,” 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Language and Languages, Metropolitní Univerzita Praha, Prague, Czech Republic.
McLaughlin, John E. 2011. “Causative Confusion in Numic,” Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
McLaughlin, John E. 2007. “The Glorious Power of Дякую,” Першої Міжнародної Науково- Практичної Конференції (First International Applied Science Conference), Рівненський Державний Гуманітарний Університет (Rivne State Humanities University), Rivne, Ukraine. Invited keynote panel paper at conference describing personal sociolinguistic issues of Ukrainian and Russian language use in modern Ukraine
McLaughlin, John E. 2003. “The Importance of Part of Speech in Numic,” Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia.
McLaughlin, John E. 2001. "Revisting Medial Gemination in Numic," Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference, Santa Barbara, California.
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McLaughlin, John E. 1998. “Genetic Relationships and Chance: A Nonmathematician’s Approach,” Mid-America Linguistic Conference, Edwardsville, Illinois.
McLaughlin, John E. 1997. “Momentaneous Aspect and Durative Aspect in Numic,” Mid- America Linguistics Conference, Columbia, Missouri.
McLaughlin, John E. 1996. “Directionals in Numic,” Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.
McLaughlin, John E. 1995. “Historical Changes in the Comanche Tense and Aspect System,” XXXIV Conference on American Indian Languages, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
McLaughlin, John E. 1994. “Language Boundaries and Phonological Borrowing in the Great Basin,” XXXIII Conference on American Indian Languages, American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
McLaughlin, John E. 1994. “After Wick Miller: The Current State of Central Numic Studies,” Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference, Reno, Nevada.
McLaughlin, John E. 1993. “Rule Addition, Deletion, and Reordering in Numic Historical Phonology,” Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference, Long Beach, California.
Armagost, James L., and John E. McLaughlin. 1992. “Numic [r] Is Not a Spirant”, XXXI Conference on American Indian Languages, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California.
McLaughlin, John E. 1987. “A Counter-Intuitive Solution in Central Numic Phonology,” Friends of Uto-Aztecan and Hokan-Penutian Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.
McLaughlin, John E. 1985. “/š/ és /z/: Két magyar képző fejlődése és története,” (/š/ and /z/: The History and Development of Two Hungarian Derivational Suffixes) Lecture, Hungarian Department, Defense Language Institute, Monterey, California.
McLaughlin, John E. 1984. “Panamint Phonology,” Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference, San Diego, California.
McLaughlin, John E. 1983. “Gemination and Morphologization in Central Numic,” XXII Conference on American Indian Languages, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
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McLaughlin, John E. 1983. “The Development of a Northern Uto-Aztecan Quotative,” 18th Annual Midamerica Linguistics Conference, Boulder, Colorado.
McLaughlin, John E. 1983. “Shoshoni Locative Roots and the Interface of Real and Narrative Worlds,” First Annual Conference of Native American Studies, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
McLaughlin, John E. 1983. “'Say' and -hse': The Formal Structure of Comanche Oral Narrative,” American Culture Association, Wichita, Kansas.
McLaughlin, John E. 1982. “Directionals in Comanche,” XXI Conference on American Indian Languages, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
McLaughlin, John E. 1982. “From Aspect to Tense, Or, What's -nuh in Comanche,” Mid- America Linguistics Conference, Lawrence, Kansas.
McLaughlin, John E. 1982. “Switch Reference and the Strange Case of Directional Movement in Comanche,” Missouri Philological Association, Fulton, Missouri.
McLaughlin, John E. 1978. “Coordinate Deletion and Juncture Proximity,” Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Norman, Oklahoma.
SYMPOSIA AND COLLOQUIA
McLaughlin, John E. 2013. “Comanche Old, Comanche New,” English Department Speaker Series, Utah State University. Invited lecture
McLaughlin, John E. 2010. “Linguistics, Practical Applications of an Impractical Science,” Senior University, Utah State University Invited lecture
McLaughlin, John E. 2005. “From Phonology to Morphophonology and the Importance of Part of Speech in the Numic Languages,” Instytut Językoznawstwa (Linguistics Institute), Adama Mickiewicza University, Poznań, Poland. Invited lecture
McLaughlin, John E. 1993. "Problems in Numic Historical Phonology," Linguistics Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara. Invited lecture
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McLaughlin, John E. 1986. "Borrowed Affixes and Vowel Harmony in Hungarian," Bag Lunch Lecture, Linguistics Program, University of Utah.
McLaughlin, John E. 1984. "Panamint Ethnozoology," Lecture, Anthropology Club and Linguistics Colloquium, University of Nevada-Reno.
McLaughlin, John E. 1984. "Storing and recalling texts, From Apple to Zenith: A microcomputer workshop for linguists," Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas.
McLaughlin, John E. 1982. "Numic Directionals and Space Grammar: Moving through the Mind," Colloquy, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas.
McLaughlin, John E. 1980. "Discourse Considerations in the Priestly Account of Creation: Genesis 1:1-2:4a," Colloquy, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas.
McLaughlin, John E. 1978. "Coordinate Deletion and Juncture Proximity," Colloquy, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas.
RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED
1998. “Numic Comparative Lexicon,” National Science Foundation, SBR-9631333, $95,843, 24 months.
1996. “Numic Comparative Lexicon,” National Science Foundation, SBR-9631333, $119,901, 24 months.
1996. “Numic Comparative Lexicon,” National Endowment for the Humanities, PA-22837-96, $79,995, 24 months.
1994. “Numic Comparative Lexicon,” National Endowment for the Humanities, RT-21595-94, $193,594, 24 months.
1983. “Panamint Language Fieldwork,” Whatcom Museum Foundation Melville and Elizabeth Jacobs Research Fund, $600.
1983. “Panamint Language Fieldwork,” American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund Grant, $1000.
1983. “Panamint Language Fieldwork,” Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, #4436, $3000.
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1983. “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Linguistics,” National Science Foundation, BNS- 8306307, $7250, 29 months.
TEACHING
STUDENT MENTORING
Katherine Matsumoto-Gray, University of Utah, PhD dissertation, “Recent language change in Shoshone: Structural consequences of language loss,” 2016
Cecylia Maslowska, University of Innsbruck, Masters thesis, “The History of Utah and the Deseret Alphabet,” 2002
David Mortensen, Utah State University, Honors thesis, “Sinitic Loanwords in Western Hmong,” 2000
Dirk Elzinga, University of Arizona, PhD thesis, “The Consonants of Gosiute,” 1999
HONORS AND AWARDS
Department Faculty Diversity Award, 2014 Fulbright Fellowship for Scholars, 2007-2008 Utah State University FACT Wall of Fame, 1998 Utah State University FACT Associate, 1997 Utah State University Honors Professor, 1996 6 Reserve Forces Intelligence School Col. Leo H. Croteau Most Distinguished Instructor Award, 1994 International Association of Business Communicators Award of Merit, 1989
SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Peer Reviewer Fulbright Association—Ukraine National Science Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities International Journal of American Linguistics
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Anthropological Linguistics University of Utah Press Oxford University Press Utah State University Press Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Member, Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
NATIONAL SERVICE
2000. Discussant, “Ancient Peoples of the Rocky Mountain Front Range and Eastern Plains of Colorado: A Symposium” Linguistic member of an interdisciplinary committee to establish protocols for identifying prehistoric remains as part of the NAGPRA (Native American Graves Preservation and Repatriation Act) process
2016. Expert Witness, United States Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Expert witness for the government in a case involving the Indian Arts and Crafts Act. During the pre-trial motions phase of the case, I prepared several detailed documents on the history, archeology, culture, and linguistics of southern California tribes. The case was dismissed during the pretrial motions phase
COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE
2012-present. Ombudsperson, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
2012-2014. Technical Communication and Rhetoric Hiring Committee, English Department
Continuing English Department committees: Technical Communication and Rhetoric program committee Honors Committee Scholarship Committee Diversity Committee
TENURE COMMITTEES
Joshua Thoms, Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Department, Utah State University, 2015-2017
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John Gamber, English Department, Utah State University, 2017-present
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