February 2014 JOSEPH CURTIS SALMONS 818 Van Hise Hall [email protected] Department of German tel. 608.262.2192 1220 Linden Dr. 608.262.8180 University of Wisconsin fax 608.262.7949 Madison, WI 53706 www.joseph-salmons.net EDUCATION and APPOINTMENTS 2015 American Dialect Society Professor, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of Chicago. 2006-2010, Fall 2012 Director, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. 2012-2015 Affiliated faculty, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison. 2011-2016 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Named Professorship: Lester W.J. “Smoky” Seifert Professor of Germanic Linguistics. 2008- Adjunct, Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL), University of Maryland. 2007 Adjunct Professor, Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University. 2000-2006 Co-director, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. 1999-2002 Affiliated faculty, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin – Madison. 1997- Professor of German, University of Wisconsin – Madison. 1997-2002 Director, Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. 1995-1997 Associate Professor of German, University of Wisconsin – Madison. 1993 (Fall) Visiting Associate Professor, German, University of Wisconsin – Madison. 1991-1995 Associate Professor, German and Linguistics, Purdue University. 1985-1991 Assistant Professor, German and Linguistics, Purdue University. 1978-1984 PhD, University of Texas, Austin. German (Germanic Linguistics). 1980-1981 Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel. DAAD Fellowship. 1974-1978 BA, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Philosophy. MAJOR SERVICE 2014-2017 Nominating Committee, Linguistic Society of America. 2014- Editorial advisory board, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik. 2012- Co-editor, with Nils Langer, Stephan Elspaß and Wim Vandenbussche. Historical Sociolinguistics: Studies on Language and Society in the Past. Oxford: Peter Lang. 2 2010-2012 Editorial Board, Human Biology. 2010-2013 Elections Nominating Committee member, Linguistics and Language Sciences (Section Z). American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2010- James Leary and Joseph Salmons, co-editors, Languages and Folklore of the Upper Midwest, book series, University of Wisconsin Press. 2010- Consulting editor, Journal of Historical Linguistics. 2010-2013 Editorial Board, Transactions of the Philological Society. 2009- with Monica Macaulay, Rajiv Rao & Anja Wanner, review editor, the LINGUIST list, linguistlist.org. 2009-2011 President, Public Representation Organization of the Faculty Senate (PROFS, Inc.) 2009-2014 Editorial Board, American Speech. 2008-2009 Co-chair, with Linda Brindeau, Coalition for Affordable Public Education (CAPE). 2007- Co-editor, with David Willis, Edinburgh Historical Linguistics, monograph series, Edinburgh University Press. 2005- Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 2003-2005 Co-president, International Society for Historical Linguistics. 2003- Editorial Board, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, John Benjamins Publishing. 2002- Executive Editor, Diachronica: International journal of historical linguistics. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. 2001-2007 Executive Committee, International Society for Historical Linguistics. 2001- Advisory Board, The LINGUIST List (www.linguistlist.org). 2000-2007 Executive Committee, Society for Germanic Linguistics. 2000- Series editors, Jürgen Macha & Joseph Salmons. Sprachgeschichte des Deutschen in Nordamerika. (Monograph series; Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang.) 1998-2001 Review Editor, Diachronica: International journal of historical linguistics. 1998- Editorial Advisory Board, Yearbook of the Society for German-American Studies. 1998-2002, 2004- Steering Committee, PROFS, Inc. 1998-2008 Editor, H-GAGCS (German-American & German-Canadian Studies email list), H- NET, Michigan State University. 1997-2001 Series editor, Max Kade Institute Monograph Series. 1995- Editorial Advisory Board, Monatshefte. 1995-2005 Associate Editor, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Cambridge University Press. 1995-2005 Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Indo-European Studies. 1994-2000 President, Society for Germanic Philology/Society for Germanic Linguistics. 1994-1998 Editorial Advisory Board, Diachronica. 1993-2003 Organizing committee, Workshop on Comparative Linguistics. PUBLICATIONS Monographs 3 In preparation Robert B. Howell, Paul T. Roberge & Joseph C. Salmons. The Cambridge History of the Germanic Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In preparation Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joe Salmons. Modularity in phonology. Cambridge University Press. (Key Topics in Phonology.) 2012 A History of German: What the past reveals about today’s language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (See historyofgerman.net. Second edition in preparation.) 1993 The Glottalic Theory: Survey and synthesis. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man. (= Journal of Indo-European Studies monograph, 10.) 1992 Accentual Change and Language Contact: Comparative survey and case study of early northern Europe. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press / London: Routledge. Edited Volumes In preparation Janne Bondi Johannessen & Joseph Salmons, eds. Germanic heritage languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Studies in Language Variation.) 2013 Patrick Honeybone & Joseph C. Salmons, eds. The Handbook of Historical Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks Online publication underway in 2013, hardcopy spring 2014). 2013 Tom Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joe Salmons, eds. Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic diversity in the Badger state. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2012 Janne Bondi Johannessen & Joseph Salmons, eds. Norsk i Amerika. Special issue of the Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift / Norwegian Linguistics Journal. 2007 Joseph Salmons & Shannon Dubenion-Smith, eds. Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, 31 July–5 August 2005. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 284.) 2003 Christof Mauch & Joseph Salmons, eds. German-Jewish Identities in America. Madison: Max Kade Institute. 2003 Joseph Salmons & Bridget Drinka, eds. Indo-European Language & Culture in Historical Perspective: Essays in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé. Special issue of General Linguistics, vol. 40. 2001 A Word Atlas of Pennsylvania German, by Lester W. J. Seifert†, ed. by Mark L. Louden, Howard Martin & Joseph C. Salmons. Madison: Max Kade Institute. 1998 Brian D. Joseph & Joseph C. Salmons, Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 142.) 1996 Rosina Lippi-Green & Joseph C. Salmons, Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and Diachronic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 137.) 1993 The German Language in America: 1683-1991. Madison: Max Kade Institute. 1988 Studies in Indiana German-Americana. Vol. 1. W. Lafayette/Indianapolis: Indiana German Heritage Society. 4 Articles in Journals In preparation Lucas Annear, Emily Clare, Alicia Groh, Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy, Mary Simonsen & Joseph Salmons. Emerging regional differences in final obstruents. In review Joshua Bousquette, Benjamin Frey, Alyson Sewell, Daniel Nützel, Michael Putnam and Joseph Salmons. Parasitic Gapping in Bilingual Grammar: Evidence from Wisconsin Heritage German. Forthcoming Mark Livengood, Miranda Wilkerson, & Joseph Salmons. The Socio-Historical Context of Imposition in Substrate Effects. Journal of English Linguistics. 2013 Tom Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joe Salmons. Making linguistics matter: Building on the public’s interest in language. Language and Linguistics Compass 7.398-407. 2013 Michael Putnam & Joseph Salmons. Losing their (passive) voice: Syntactic neutralization in heritage German. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3.233–252. 2013 Tyler Luiten, Andrea Menz, Angela Bagwell, Benjamin Frey, John Lindner, Mike Olson, Kristin Speth & Joseph Salmons. Beyond the handbooks: a quantitative approach to analysis of Old High German phonology and morphology. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB). 135.1-18. 2013 Sound Change. Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO): Linguistics, ed. by Mark Aronoff. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013 Comparative-Historical Linguistics. Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO): Linguistics, ed. by Mark Aronoff. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012 Miranda Wilkerson & Joseph Salmons. Linguistic Marginalities: Becoming American without Learning English. Journal of Transnational American Studies 4.2. acgcc_jtas_7115. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5vn092kk . 2012 Ryan Carroll, Ragnar Svare & Joseph Salmons. Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of German verbs. Journal of Historical Linguistics 2.153-172. 2012 Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joseph Salmons. Teaching, researching and doing outreach on Wisconsin Englishes (audio article). American Speech 87.369-370 [plus audio, doi:10.1215/00031283-1958363] 2012 Brent Allen & Joseph Salmons. Obstruenter fonetikk og fonologi i amerikanorsk og norskamerikansk engelsk. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 30.149-169. 2012 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph Salmons. Parasitic rule loss in Norse umlaut. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 24.101-131. 2011 Ewa Jacewicz, Robert Allen Fox & Joseph Salmons. Vowel change across three age groups of speakers in three regional varieties of American English. Journal of Phonetics