CURRICULUM VITAE Brian Daniel Joseph August 2012 Department of Linguistics 2341 McCoy Road The Ohio State University Upper Arlington, OH 43220 222 Oxley Hall (614) 451-4828 Columbus, Ohio 43210-1298 (614) 292-4052 / FAX: 614-292-8833 [email protected] Born November 22, 1951; married with two children Education: 9/73 - 6/78: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1978: Ph. D. in Linguistics (dissertation title: Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change: Evidence from Medieval and Modern Greek) 1976-77: Dissertation research in Greece 1976: A.M. in Linguistics 9/69 - 6/73: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1973: A.B. Cum Laude; Major: Linguistics, Minor: Classics 1971-2: Junior Year Abroad in Athens, Greece Current Status: Distinguished University Professor (named May 2003) Professor of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, September 1988 - present; Department Chairman, October 1987-1997 (Assistant Professor, September 1979-85; Associate Professor 1985-88) The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Languages and Linguistics, appointed January 1997 (five-year term, renewed through 2012; thus currently 70% in Department of Linguistics and 30% in Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures) External Grants, Fellowships, and Contracts: The Andrew Mellon Foundation: grant for a Sawyer Seminar study entitled "Language, Politics, and Human Expression in South Asia and the Balkans: Comparative Perspectives", September 2012 - December 2014, with Theodora Dragostinova, Yana Hashamova, Pranav Jani, Jessie Labov, Scott Levi, Andrea Sims, and Mytheli Sreenivas [$175,000 to support 2 RAs, a Post-Doctoral Associate, seminar activities, and a conference] Contract Project: Development of On-line Lessons for Albanian Grammar and Reading; Indo-European Documentation Center, Univ. of Texas, September 2010 – June 2011 [$3750, used towards support of a Post-Doctoral Associate] Grant in support of Herodotos Project on Endangered Languages in Ancient Times, LinguistList, Summer 2010 [$500, used towards support of a Post-Doctoral researcher] Conference Grant, Modern Greek Studies Association Fund for Innovative Initiatives, in support of International Conference on Greek Linguistics 9 (ICGL 2009), May 2009 [$500] Special Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe Univ. (Bundoora, Australia), July 20 – August 10, 2006 [$2280] Conference grant (jointly with Dr. Hope C. Dawson of Ohio State) from Salus Mundi Foundation in support of 25th East Coast Conference on Indo-European Linguistics, June 2006 [$17,040] Research Grant, National Slavic and East European Language Resource Center (SEELRC), Duke Univ./Univ. of North Carolina, in support of a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Costs for project on a Comparative Phonetics of the Balkan languages, March 2005-February 2006 [$16,000] Senior Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, January – June 2002 [$24,000] Visiting Research Fellowship, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe Univ. (Bundoora, Australia), July- August 2001 [$5100 (USD)] 1 Conference grant (jointly with Dennis Preston of Michigan State Univ.) from Center for the Study of Great Lakes Culture (Michigan State) in support of conference on State Linguistic Profiles Program at Ohio State Univ. in April 2001 [$2,500, matched by $5,000 from OSU Institute for Collaborative Research and the Public Humanities] Contract Project: Assisting Machine Translation Unit of CompuServe (serving project in administrative capacity; OSU Research Foundation project #734049), 1997-1999 [$20,000] Erskine Visiting Fellowship, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand, June-August 1997 [$5,000 (USD)] Research Fellowship, Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council (for project on Structure of Verbal Complex in Balkan Languages), 1993-94 [$20,000] Ohio Humanities Council Grant (OHC Q93-098) for “Language and the Law Lecture by Lawrence Solan”, July 1993 ($300) Fulbright Research Award (for project on the Structure of the Verbal Complex in Modern Greek, at Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece), Summer/Fall 1987 [$14,000] MUCIA (Midwest University Consortium for International Activities) Travel Grant (for 5th International Congress of SE European Studies, Belgrade, Yugoslavia), Fall 1984 [$200] American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant (for Fifth International Congress of South East European Studies, Belgrade, Yugoslavia), Spring 1984 [$184] Summer Stipend Grantee, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 1980; project funded: The Loss of the Infinitive in the Balkan Languages [$2,500] Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The University of Alberta, 1978-79 [$17,000 CDN] (Paid) Visiting Research and Teaching Appointments: Invited Guest Professor, GradEast Graduate School in Linguistics, Univ. of Copenhagen), Copenhagen (May 10-June 20, 2010) Visiting Lecturer, International Summer School in Sociolinguistics (organized by LANCHART (Language Change in Real Time) Project, Univ. of Copenhagen), Copenhagen, June 6-11, 2010 Invited Visiting Lecturer, Collaborative Research Centre on Multilingualism (Sonderforschungbereich Mehrsprachigkeit), Univ. of Hamburg (December 13-20, 2009) Visiting Lecturer, International Summer School in Grammaticalization (organized by GradEast Graduate School in Linguistics, Univ. of Copenhagen), Copenhagen, August 18-21, 2009 Visiting Linguist, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, September 10 – 20, 2006 Visiting faculty member at Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, Summer 1991 (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz – course: Historical Linguistics), Summer 1999 (Univ. of Illinois – course: Historical Linguistics (co-taught with Hans Henrich Hock)), and Summer 2003 (Michigan State Univ. – course: Historical Linguistics (co-taught with Richard Janda)) Invited faculty member (course: Historical Morphology) at LOT (Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap -- Netherlands Graduate School in Linguistics) Summer School, June 11-14, 2007 (Leuven, Belgium) Visiting Professor (in Modern Greek) at International Scholarship Program in Hellenic Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece, Summer 1989 Participation in Externally Funded Projects and Conferences • Member, International Supervisory Committee, project: “From dialect to regiolect: how this change is reflected in the production and perception of the speakers” (PI: Dr. Wilbert Heeringa, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam; funded by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), 2008-11) • Director, Buser Wyandot Collection Project, OSU Libraries & American Indian Studies Program (funded through Touching Leaves Fund, OSU, 2009-2012) • Regional “captain” for languages of Europe, for ELCAT (Endangered Language Catalogue Project; PIs: Lyle Campbell, Anthony Aristar, Helen Dry; funded by National Science Foundation, 2011-2013) • Regional “captain” for languages of Europe, for Planning Workshop for ELLIP (Endangered Language Information and Infrastructure Project; PIs: Lyle Campbell, Anthony Aristar, Helen Dry; funded by National Science Foundation, 2009, at Univ. of Utah) • Invited Commentator, Workshop on Focus in Creole languages, at Univ. of Chicago (PI: Frank Byrne; funded by National Science Foundation, 1990) • Invited Presenter, Workshop on Control, at MIT (PI: Sabine Iatridou; funded by National Science Foundation, 1989) 2 Academic Honors: Outside the University (and see above re Fellowships and Visiting Appointments): Fellow, Linguistic Society of America (named January 8, 2010) LinguistList Linguist of the Day 19 March 2009 (nominated and so named by Evelyn Richter of LinguistList) Honorary Doctorate (“Epitimos Didaktora”)/Honorary Professor in Department of Philology, University of Patras, Patras, Greece (named March 31, 2008) Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (named November 2006; inducted February 2007)) Ph.D. Honoris Causa, La Trobe University (Bundoora, Australia), awarded August 9, 2006 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (named May 1, 2004, inducted October 2004) Ohio Magazine's Excellence in Education award, recognizing Ohio's Top 100 Educators in Higher Education, December 2003 NDFL (NDEA Title VI) Fellowship for Modern Greek, Harvard University, 1977-78, 1976-77 NSF Graduate Fellowship in Linguistics, Honorable Mention, 1973 Within the University (either as Student or Faculty Member): Honorary Inductee, ΦΒΚ, Epsilon Chapter, The Ohio State University, June 8, 2011 Founder’s Award (for fostering excellence in teaching and learning), Ohio State Academy of Teaching, 6 May 2011 Commencement Speaker, 382nd OSU Commencement, December 9, 2007 Distinguished University Professorship, May 2003-present University Distinguished Service Award, 2002 University Distinguished Scholar Award, 2001 College of Humanities Exemplary Faculty Award, 2000 Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship of South Slavic Linguistics, January 1997 - 2001; renewed through 2006 and again through 2011 Provost’s Special Merit Raise for Service, 1999ff. Provost’s Faculty Teaching Mentor, 1995-96; 1997-98 Member, Ohio Teaching Academy, 1995-present; member of Academy’s Executive Council, 1997-2000; Vice-Chair of Council, 1998-1999; Chair of Council 1999-2000 OSU Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, 1995 International Affairs Faculty Research Grant (with Mazeika Sullivan), Office of International Affairs -- Project funded: “Interactions