CURRICULUM VITAE
2012
Joan L. Bybee
Addresses: HC 66 Box 118 Department of Linguistics
Mountainair, NM 87036 Humanities 526
505-847-0137 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1196
E-mail:
Education:
Ph. D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1973. Linguistics.
Thesis: Aspects of natural generative phonology.
M. A., San Diego State University, 1970. Linguistics.
B. A., University of Texas at Austin, 1966. Spanish and English.
Professional Appointments:
Distinguished Professor, University of New Mexico, 2005.
Regents’ Professor, Linguistics, University of New Mexico, 1996 to present.
Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, 1998-2001.
Professor of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1989 to present.
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of New Mexico, 1992-1993.
Professor of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985 to 1989.
Associate professor of Linguistics, SUNY at Buffalo, 1978 - 1985.
Assistant professor of Linguistics, SUNY at Buffalo, 1973 - 1978.
Other Teaching:
Teaching assistant, San Diego State University, 1969 - 1970.
Research associate, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971 - 1973.
Assistant professor of Linguistics, State University College at Oswego, during the Linguistic Society of America Institute, summer 1976.
Associate professor of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque during the Linguistic Society of America Institute, summer 1980.
Visiting Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Psycho-Linguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August - September 1981.
Australian Linguistic Society, Melbourne, two-week course on Functional Phonology, July 1994.
Professor of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque during the Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, summer 1995.
Nordic Summer School on Tense and Aspect, Vatnahalsen, Norway, June 24-30, 1996.
Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara during the Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, summer 2001.
Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, two-week course on Language Use and Linguistic Theory, July 2002.
Grants:
SUNY Research Foundation. Summer 1975. A cross-linguistic study: syntactic correlates of assertion.
National Science Foundation. $10,000. A symposium on segment organization and the syllable. October 21-23, 1977, Boulder, Colorado. With Alan Bell.
National Science Foundation. Travel grant. To attend the XII International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, Austria, 1977.
Biomedical Research Support Grant from NIH. Language variation in normal and language-impaired children. $2400. 1980-1981. With David Zubin and Judith Duchan.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1981. $2500. Cognitive categories and linguistic expression.
National Science Foundation. A cross-linguistic study of grammatical categories, $80,000. September 1984 - August 1986; Supplemental grant, $12,000, September 1986 - March 1987.
Smithsonian Institute, US-Yugoslav Joint Board. Tense and aspect in Serbo-Croatian. With Svenka Savic.
Research Allocation Committee Grant UNM, June-August 1992, Phonological Typology.
New Methods in Comparative Aphasiology, with Lise Menn, Loraine K. Obler, Gonia Jarema. National Institutes of Health, $30,000.
Workshop on the Interaction of Morphosyntax and Lexicon in the Acquisition of Narrative Discourse, with Dan Slobin, Lise Menn and Ruth Berman. National Science Foundation, $32,279.
Conference on Specific Language Impairment and Williams Syndrome, with Lise Menn, Lawrence Leonard and Janet Patterson. National Science Foundation. $21,247.
Linguistics Training for Signed Language Interpreters, with Phyllis Wilcox and Sherman Wilcox. National Science Foundation. $123,453.
Research Allocation Committee Grant with Sherman Wilcox, Tense, aspect and modality in signed languages.
Fellowships:
Social Science Research Council Post Doctoral Research Training Fellowship. To study child language development at the University of California, Berkeley, September 1979 - June 1980. Sponsor: Dan I. Slobin.
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences Fellowship, 1983 - 1984 academic year.
Guggenheim Fellowship. Mood and modality in the languages of the world. September 1987 - September 1988.
Visiting Distinguished Fellow, La Trobe University, Melbourne. Department of Linguistics, May - June 1990.
Editorial work:
Linguistics, Consulting Editor.
Studies in Language, Board of Editors, 1988-2000.
Studies in Language Companion Series, Board of Editors.
Morphology Yearbook, Consulting Editor.
Lingüística, Board of Editors.
Monographs for the Society for Research in Child Development, Editorial board, 1992.
Languages of the World, Scientific advisory board.
Faits de langue, Advisory Committee.
Constructions, Board of Editors.
Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing, Board of Editors.
Linguistic Typology, Associate Editor.
Honors:
Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Arts and Letters of San Diego State University, 1976.
Astor Visiting Lecturer, University of Oxford, June, 1997.
Annual Research Lecturer, University of New Mexico, 2004.
Outstanding Conservation Rancher Award, 2004, Claunch-Pinto Water and Soil Conservation Area.
Honorary Doctorate, University of Oslo, September 2005.
Professional service:
Coordinator of the Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistics at the 1976 Linguistic Institute.
Coordinator of a workshop on Aspect and Discourse, Department of Linguistics, May 1977.
Coordinator (with Alan Bell) of a Symposium on Segment Organization and the Syllable, held at the University of Colorado, October 1977.
Coordinator (with Wolfgang Wölck) of a Symposium on Synchrony and Diachrony in Linguistics. A Conference in the Disciplines. August 1978, SUNY at Buffalo.
Member of the Program Committee of the Linguistic Society of America, 1981-1983, Chair, 1983.
Member of the Steering Committee, Niagara Linguistic Society, 1982 -1983.
Organizer of Niagara Linguistic Society Workshop on Historical Linguistics, February, 1982, and Workshop on American Sign Language, February, 1983.
Member of the Graduate Group in Cognitive Science (SUNY at Buffalo), 1980 - 1990.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of American 1989 - 1991.
Organizer of the Symposium on Mood and Modality, UNM, May 10-12, 1992.
Director of the 1995 Linguistics Institute, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America.
Organizer of the Symposium on Frequency Effects and Emergent Grammar, Carnegie-
Mellon University, May 1999, with Paul Hopper.
Organizer of the Symposium on the rise of language out of pre-language, University of Oregon, Eugene, May 2001, with T. Givon.
Nominating Committee, Association for Linguistic Typology, 2000-2002.
Vice-President / President Elect, Linguistic Society of America, 2003.
President, Linguistic Society of America, 2004; member of Executive Committee, 2003-2006
University committees:
SUNY at Buffalo:
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1974 - 1978.
Chancellor's Advisory Committee (an ad hoc committee for the review of a personnel decision), 1987.
Faculty / college committees:
SUNY at Buffalo:
Policy Committee, 1977, 1980 - 1981.
Personnel Committee, 1981 - 1983, 1988 - 1989.
University of New Mexico:
Promotion and tenure committee. 1989-91, 1996-1997
Search committee for the Chair of Communications and Journalism, 1992.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Chair, 1992-1993.
Faculty Senate, 1992-1995.
Recreational Services Advisory Board, 1997.
Screening Committee, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 2000.
Chair, Ad hoc Committee on Joint Appointments, 2001
Department committees:
SUNY at Buffalo
Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1977 - 1979, 1980 - 1983;
Financial Aid Committee, 1973 - 1986;
Admissions Committee, 1984 - 1986, Chair, 1985 - 1986.
Director of Graduate Studies, 1986-1987.
University of New Mexico
Executive committee, 1989-1992.
Colloquium committee (chair) 1989-1992.
PhD Proposal committee, 1989-1991.
Personnel committee, 1992-1993, 1994-1995
Search Committee, Assistant Professor in Phonology and Phonetics, 1997.
MA Comprehensive Exam Committee, 1996-1998, 2000
Doctoral Dissertations directed:
Ruth Dudley, 1974. The affricate and related problems in Seneca. SUNY at Buffalo Doctoral Dissertation.
Blair A. Rudes, 1976. Historical phonology and the development of the Tuscarora sound
system. SUNY at Buffalo Doctoral Dissertation.
Bernadette Abaurre-Gnerre, 1977. The phonology of casual speech in Brazilian Portuguese. SUNY at Buffalo Doctoral Dissertation.
Yoshio Enomoto, 1978. Focus and contrast in the use of Japanese wa and ga. SUNY at Buffalo Doctoral Dissertation.
Edith Bavin, 1980. On the grammatical notion, Subject. SUNY at Buffalo Doctoral
Dissertation.
David Zager. 1980. A Real Time Process Model of Morphological Change. SUNY at
Buffalo: Department of Linguistics Dissertation.
Betsy McDonald, 1982. Aspect of the American Sign Language Predicate System. SUNY
at Buffalo Doctoral Dissertation
William Pagliuca. 1982. Prolegomena to a Theory of Articulatory Evolution. Dissertation, SUNY at Buffalo.
Joseph Tsonope, 1987. The acquisition of Setswana noun class and agreement morphology—with special reference to demonstratives and possessives. SUNY at Buffalo Doctoral Dissertation.
Soteria Svorou, 1988. The experiential basis of the grammar of space: Evidence from the languages of the world. SUNY at Buffalo Dissertation. Published in 1993 as The grammar of space. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Thomas Willett, 1988. A reference grammar of Southeastern Tepehuan. SUNY at
Buffalo Doctoral Dissertation.
Ahmed S. Abdel-Hafiz, 1988. A reference grammar of Kunuz Nubian. SUNY at Buffalo
Doctoral Dissertation.
Zi-Yu Lin, 1991. The development of grammatical markers in Archaic Chinese and Han Chinese. SUNY at Buffalo Dissertation.
Nancy Woodworth, 1991. From noun to verb and verb to noun: a cross-linguistic study of class-changing morphology. SUNY at Buffalo Doctoral Dissertation.
Carol Lynn Moder. 1992. Productivity and categorization in morphological classes.
SUNY at Buffalo Dissertation.
Felicia Guerra, 1994. Gramaticalización del auxiliar haber en El cantar del mío Cid.
University of New Mexico Doctoral Dissertation.
Terry Janzen, 1998. Topicality in ASL: Information ordering, constituent structure and the function of topic marking. University of New Mexico Doctoral Dissertation.
Dagmar Jung, 1999. The dynamics of polysynthetic morphology. University of New Mexico Doctoral Dissertation
Joanne Scheibman, 2000. Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation. University of New Mexico Doctoral Dissertation. Published in 2002 as Point of view and grammar: Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Jacqueline Trademan, 2001. The acquisition of the English article system by native speakers of Spanish and Japanese: A cross-linguistic comparison. University of New Mexico Doctoral Dissertation.
K. Aaron Smith, 2003. The dilemma of the English progressive: Evaluating its historical sources in a universal context. University of New Mexico Doctoral Dissertation.
Li-Hsiang Chang, 2003. Subjectivity and the Mandarin morpheme le. University of New Mexico Doctoral Dissertation.
Dawn Nordquist, 2006. Corpus patterns and elicited language: Implications for language storage and processing. University of New Mexico Doctoral Dissertation.
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books
Hooper, Joan B. 1976. An introduction to natural generative phonology. New York: Academic Press.
Bybee, Joan L. 1985. Morphology: a study of the relation between meaning and form. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Korean translation by Seongha Rhee and Hyun Jung Koo. Soeul: Hankook Publishing Company. 2000.
Bybee, Joan, Revere Perkins and William Pagliuca. 1994. The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bybee, Joan. 2001. Phonology and language use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bybee, Joan. 2007. Frequency of use and the organization of language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bybee, Joan. 2010. Language, usage and cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Co-Edited Books
Bell, Alan and Joan B. Hooper (eds.). 1978. Syllables and segments. Amsterdam: North Holland.
Bybee, Joan and Suzanne Fleischman (eds). 1995. Modality in grammar and discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bybee, Joan, John Haiman and Sandra Thompson (eds.). 1997. Essays on Language Function and Language Type. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bybee, Joan and Paul Hopper (eds.). 2001. Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bybee, Joan and Michael Noonan (eds.). 2001. Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Studies in Honor of Sandra A. Thompson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Articles in refereed journals
Hooper, Joan B. 1972. The syllable in phonological theory. Language 48.525-540.
Hooper, Joan B. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1973. On the applicability of root transformations. Linguistic Inquiry 4.465-497. Reprinted in Minori Uasui (ed.) Trends in Foreign Linguistics. Tokyo: Eichosha. 1975.
Terrell, Tracy and Joan B. Hooper. 1974. A semantically based analysis of mood in Spanish. Hispania 57.484-494.
Hooper, Joan B. 1975. The archi-segment in natural generative phonology. Language 51.536-560.
Hooper, Joan B. and Tracy Terrell. 1976. Stress assignment in Spanish: a natural generative analysis. Glossa 10.64-110.
Hooper, Joan B. and Blair A. Rudes. 1977. Archi-segments: reply to Bolozky. Glossa 11.106-114.
Hooper, Joan Bybee. 1979. Child morphology and morphophonemic change. Linguistics 17.21-50.
Hooper, Joan Bybee. 1980. Formal and substantive approaches to phonology. Language and speech 23, part I.125-133.
Hooper, Joan Bybee. 1980. A note on reconstruction as evidence for linguistic theory. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 25.21-24.
Bybee, Joan. 1980. Morphophonemic change from inside and outside the paradigm. Lingua 50.45-59.
Bybee, Joan L. and Mary Alexandra Brewer. 1980. Explanation in morphophonemics: changes in Provencal and Spanish preterite forms. Lingua 52.201-242.
Bybee, Joan L. and Elly Pardo. 1981. Morphological and lexical conditioning of rules: experimental evidence from Spanish. Linguistics 19.937-968.
Bybee, Joan L. and Dan I. Slobin. l982. Rules and schemas in the development and use of the English past tense. Language 58.265-289.
Bybee, Joan L. and Carol Lynn Moder. 1983. Morphological classes as natural categories. Language 59.25l-270.
Bybee, Joan L. and Östen Dahl. 1989. The creation of tense and aspect systems in the languages of the world. Studies in Language 13.1. 51-103.
Bybee, Joan. 1994. A view of phonology from a cognitive and functional perspective. Cognitive Linguistics 5-44, 285-305.
Bybee, Joan and Jean Newman. 1995. Are affixes more natural than stem changes? Linguistics 33.633-654.
Bybee, Joan. 1995. Regular morphology and the lexicon. Language and Cognitive Processes 10.425-455.
Bybee, Joan. 1998. ‘Irrealis’ as a grammatical category. Anthropological Linguistics 40.257-271.
Bybee, Joan, Paromita Chakraborti, Dagmar Jung and Joanne Scheibman. 1998. Prosody and segmental effect: some paths of evolution for word stress. Studies in Language 22.267-314.
Bybee, Joan. 1998. A functionalist approach to grammar and its evolution. Evolution of Communication 2.2.249-278.
Bybee, Joan and Joanne Scheibman. 1999. The effect of usage on degrees of constituency: the reduction of don’t in English. Linguistics 37-4.575-596.
Bybee, Joan. 1999. Use impacts morphological representation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22.6.1016-1017. (Commentary on Clahsen: Rules of language.)
Bybee, Joan. 2001. Phonological evidence for exemplar storage of multiword sequences. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 24.215-221.
Bybee, Joan. 2002. Word frequency and context of use in the lexical diffusion of phonetically-conditioned sound change. Language variation and change 14.261-290.