Andrea Tyler
Professor of Linguistics
Georgetown University
I. EDUCATION
Ph.D., Linguistics August 1986
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Master of Art, Linguistics May 1982
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Master of Art, Library Science December 1974
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Bachelor of Art, Social Studies Education December 1972
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
II. UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Georgetown University, Washington, D. C.
Professor, Department of Linguistics 2004 to present
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics 1996 to 2004
Associate Faculty, GU Law Center-International Lawyers Program 2003 to present
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics 1994 to 1996
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Assistant Professor in the Program in Linguistics 1990 to1994
Coordinator of Academic Spoken English
Visiting Assistant Professor 1986 to1990
Coordinator of Academic Spoken English
Head of Academic Division of English Language Institute
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 1984 to1986
Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Reading
II. PUBLICATIONS
Books, authored
Tyler, A., & Evans, V. (2003). The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes,
Cognition, and the Experiential Basis of Meaning.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Evans, V. and Tyler, A. (forthcoming).Language and Space. Solicited work for John Benjamins.
Projected publication date 2005 [Cognitive Linguistics in Practice series]
Tyler, A., & Evans, V. (forthcoming).Applying Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction for
Language Teachers. Cambridge University Press.
Books, edited
Tyler, A., Takada, M., Kim, Y., Marinara, D. (Eds.). (2005).Language In Use: Cognitive and Discourse Approaches to Language and Language Learning: Select Proceeding from Georgetown Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics 2003. Georgetown University Press.
Tyler, A.(Ed.). (in press).Language In the Context of Use: Usage Based Approaches to Language and Language Learning. [projected publication date 2005] Mouton de Gruyter.
Refereed articles and book chapters, sole and first authored
Tyler, A. Perceptions of coherence in parallel native speaker/non-native speaker discourse. (accepted for publication, pending revisions).Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics.
2003 Tyler, A., Evans, V. (in press). Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Pedagogical Grammar. In M. Achard & S. Neimeier (Eds.),Cognitive linguistics, second language learning, and second language teaching. Berlin: Mouton.
Tyler, A.,Evans, V.Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: The case of
over. In B. Nerlich, Z. Todd, V. Herman, D. Clarke (Eds.),Polysemy: Flexible patterns
of meanings in mind and language (pp. 95-160). Reprinted from Language, 77(4),724-
765. Berlin:Mouton de Gruyter.
2001 Tyler, A., & Evans, V.Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: The case of over.
Language, 77(4), 724-765.
Tyler, A., & Evans, V. The relationship between experience, conceptual structure and meaning: Non-temporal uses of tense and language teaching. In M. Putz, S. Niemeier & R. Dirven (Eds.),Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Language Pedagogy (pp. 63-105). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1996 Tyler, A., & Boxer. D. Sexual Harassment? Cross-cultural/cross-linguistic differences in
interpretation.Discourse and Society, 7, 131-157.
1995Tyler, A. Co-constructing miscommunication: The role of participant frame and schema in cross-cultural miscommunication. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 17, 129-152.
Tyler, A., &Bro, J. Discourse processing effort and perceptions of comprehensibility in nonnative discourse: The effect of ordering and interpretive cues revisited. Studies in SecondLanguage Acquisition, 15, 507-522.
1994 Tyler, A. Sexual harassment and the ITA curriculum. Journal of Graduate Teaching
Assistant Development, 2(1), 31-41.
Tyler, A. The role of syntactic structure in discourse structure.Applied Linguistics, 15, 215-235.
Tyler, A. The role of repetition in perceptions of discourse coherence.Journal of Pragmatics, 21, 671-688.
Tyler, A. Effective role-play situations and focused feedback: A case for pragmatic analysis in the classroom. In C. Madden and C. Meyers (Eds.),Discourse and Performance of International Teaching Assistants (pp. 116-131). Alexandria, VA: TESOL
Tyler, A. Discourse cohesion. In A. Purvis (Ed.),Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts. Champaign, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
1992Tyler, A. Discourse structure and specification of relationships: A cross-linguistic analysis. Text,12, 1-18.
Tyler, A. Discourse structure and the perception of incoherence in international teaching assistants' spoken discourse. TESOL Quarterly, 26, 713-730.
Tyler, A., &Bro, J. Discourse structure in nonnative English discourse: The effect of ordering and interpretive cues on perceptions of comprehensibility.Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 14, 71-86.
1990 Tyler, A., & Davies, C. Cross-cultural communication missteps. Text,10, 285-310.
Tyler, A., & Nagy, W. Use of English derivational morphology during reading. Cognition, 36, 17-34.
1989 Tyler, A., & Nagy, W. The acquisition of English derivational morphology.Memory and
1989. Language,28, 649-667.
1988 Tyler, A., Jefferies, A., & Davies, C. The effect of discourse structuringdevices on listener perception of coherence in non-native university teachers' spoken discourse.World Englishes, 7, 101-110.
1987 Tyler, A., & Nagy, W. The acquisition of English derivational morphology. Technical Report Series #406, Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 1987, 69 pages.
1986 Tyler, A., & Nagy, W. Syntactic, semantic and distributional properties of derivational suffixes: Differing orders of acquisition. In Papers in ESCOL/86. 1986, Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University.
Tyler, A., & Nagy, W. The role of derivational morphology during sentence production. Technical Report Series # 357, Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 1986, 36 pages.
Refereed articlesand book chapters, co-authored
Forthcoming. Schiffrin, D., & Tyler, A. Functional approaches to grammar and linguistic
approaches to discourse analysis. In L. Waugh and J. Joseph (Eds.),Cambridge History of Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2003 Evans, V., Tyler, A. (in press). Rethinking English ‘prepositions of movement’: The
case of to and through. Belgium Journal of Linguistics.
Evans , V., & Tyler, A. Spatial experience, lexical structure and motivation: The case of in. In G. Radden & K. Uwe-Panther (Eds.),Motivation in Grammar [In the Cognitive Linguistics Research Series]. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Boxer, D., & Tyler, A. Cross-cultural issues in perceptions of sexual harassment. In B. Norton & A. Pavlenko (Eds.),Gender and TESOL.. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
2001 Nakahama, Y., Tyler, A., van Lier, L. Negotiating meaning in conversational and
information-gap activities: A comparative discourse analysis. TESOL Quarterly. 35(3),
377-405.
1998 Johnson, M., & Tyler, A. Re-analyzing the OPI: How much does it look like natural
conversation? In R. Young & A. W. He (Eds.),Talking and Testing: Discourse
Approaches to the Assessment of Oral Proficiency(pp. 27-51). Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
1997 Boxer, D., & Tyler A. Cross-cultural perspectives on sexual harassment, In The Proceedings of the 5th Annual Berkeley Conference on Women and Language (pp. 85-95). Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
1994 Davies, C., & Tyler. A. Discourse analysis as an effective teaching tool. In C. Madden & C. Meyers (Eds.), Discourse and Performance of International Teaching Assistants(pp. 201-220). Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
1989Davies, C., Tyler, A., Koran, J. Face-to-face with English speakers: An advanced training class for international teaching assistants. English for Specific Purposes, 8, 139-153.
Book chapters and proceedings, sole or first authored
2000Tyler, A, & Evans, V. My first husband was Italian: Examining “exceptional” uses of English tense. Linguistic Agency of University of Duisburg (L.A.U.D.) Series A: General and Theoretical Papers.
1997 Tyler, A., & Lardiere, D. Beyond consciousness raising: Re-examining the role of linguistics in language teacher education. In J. Alatis, C. Straehle, B. Gallenburger, M. Ronkin (Eds.),Proceedings of the 1996 Georgetown Roundtable (pp. 270-287). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
1996 Tyler, A. Patterns of lexis: How much can lexical repetition tell us about text coherence? In J. Alatis, C. Straehle, B. Gallenberger, & M. Ronkin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1995 Georgetown Roundtable (pp. 268-280). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
1988Tyler, A. Recursion in the lexicon. In D. Bouchard & K. Leffel (Eds.),FOCAL(pp. 81-106). Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Program in Linguistics.
1984Tyler, A. Swahili relative clauses: A generalized phrase structure approach. In R. Schuh (Ed.),Précis from the 15th Conference on African Linguistics, UCLA, March 29-31, Studies in African Linguistics (pp. 298-304). Los Angeles: UCLA.
Book chapters and proceedings, co-authored
2003Davies, C., & Tyler, A. Discourse strategies in the context of cross-cultural institutional talk: Uncovering cross-linguistic pragmatics. In K. Bardovi-Harlig & B. Hartford (Eds.), Institutional Talk and Interlanguage Pragmatics. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Iverson, G., & Tyler, A. Natural productivity and levels in the lexicon. In J. Armagost
(Ed.),Proceedings from the 1985 Mid-America Linguistics Conference (pp. 101-11).
Manhattan, KS: Kansas State
IV. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Sole or first author
2003 Tyler, A., & Takada, M.Multiple motivations in semantic change: The development of
the honorific marker raru in Old and Middle Japanese. International Cognitive Linguistics
Conference (ICLC). Logrono, Spain (July 2003).
Tyler, A., & Evans, V. Towards a theory of principled polysemy: The case of in. ICLC,
Logrono, Spain (July 2003).
Tyler, A., & Takada, M. The role of lexical semantics, context, and inference in semantic
extension: The case of Japanese rare constructions. Conceptual Structure, Discourse and
Language (CSDL). Houston, TX. (October 2002).
2002 Tyler, A., Fujii, A., Jeon, S., Kupscinki, D., Liamkina, O., MacGregor, D., Mulrooney,K,
& Takada, M. Competing models of over: An experimental investigation. AAAL, Salt
Lake City. (March 2002).
Tyler, A., & Evans, V. Rethinking English ‘prepositions of movement’: The case of to
and through. Leuven conference on prepositions of movement. (April 2002).
.
2001 Tyler, A., & Evans, V. A methodology for modeling prepositional polysemy networks.
ICLC. Santa Barbara, CA. (July 2001).
Tyler, A., & Evans, V. Applying cognitive linguistics to pedagogical grammar: The case
of English prepositions. AAAL. St. Louis, MO. (February 2001).
2000 Tyler, A., & Evans, V. Myfirst husband was Italian (and he still is): A cognitive
linguistic consideration of exceptional uses of English tense. AAAL. Vancouver, B.C.
(February 2000).
Tyler, A., & Evans, V. The spatialization of time: A cognitive approach to English
tense.LAUD 2000. Landau, Germany. (March 2000).
1999 Tyler, A., & Evans, V. The semantics of space: Patterns of lexicalization in English
prepositions. Linguistics Society of America (LSA). (December 1999).
Tyler, A., & Evans, V. Applying cognitive linguistics to pedagogical grammar: The
English prepositions of verticality. AAAL. Camden, NJ (March 1999).
1998 Tyler, A.,Johnson, M. Natural context: Collaboration, conversational involvement,
and the OPI. AAAL, Part of Refereed Colloquium on Talking and Testing. Seattle,
WA (March 1998).
1996Tyler, A., & Pickering, L. Monologue or dialogue: The role of negotiation in lecture discourse. Georgetown Linguistics Society Second Annual Conference. (October 1996).
Tyler, A. Lexical Patterns: Repetition and coherence in discourse. 5th International Pragmatics Conference. Mexico City, Mexico (July 1996).
Tyler, A., & Johnson, M. Reconsidering natural context: The oral proficiency interview. AAAL, Chicago, IL (March 1996).
Tyler, A., & Lardiere, D. Beyond consciousness raising: Reconsidering the role of
linguistics in language teacher education. GURT 1996, Washington, D.C. (March 1996).
1995Tyler, A. Patterns of lexis: How much can lexical repetition tell us about text coherence?
GURT 1995, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (March 1995).
Tyler, A., & Boxer, D. Sexual harassment? Evidence of cross-cultural differences in
Interpretation. AAAL, Long Beach, CA (March 1995).
Tyler, A., & Bro, J. Examining perceptions of text comprehensibility: The effect of order and contextualization cues. Georgetown Linguistics Society. Washington, DC. (Feb 1995).
1994 Tyler, A., & Davies, C. Effects of pragmatic feedback on discourse performance. Second
Language Research Forum (SLRF), Quebec, Canada (October 1994).
Tyler, A., & Boxer, D. Cross-cultural perceptions of sexual harassment. AAAL,
Baltimore, MD (March 1994).
1993 Tyler, A. When politeness strategies collide. AAAL, Atlanta, GA (April 1993).
Tyler, A. Raising ITA’s consciousness on sexual harassment. TESOL, Atlanta, GA (April
1993).
1992 Tyler, A. Discourse structure and coherence. SLRF, East Lansing, MI (April 1992).
Tyler, A. Using the teaching journal in ITA training class. TESOL ’92, Vancouver, B.C.
(March 1992).
Tyler, A. Lexical cohesion and repetition: A re-examination. LSA, Philadelphia, PA
(January 1992).
1991 Tyler, A. Discourse structure and comprehensibility: A comparative analysis.
TESOL ’91,New York, NY (March 1991)
Tyler, A. Discourse structure and specification of relationships. A cross-linguistic
analysis. SLRF, Los Angeles, CA (February 1991)
1990 Tyler, A., & Davies, C. The effects of pragmatic feedback on language production.
TESOL ’90, San Francisco, CA (March 19990).
1989 Tyler, A., & Davies, C. Cross-linguistic miscommunication missteps. 3rd Annual
Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning.
Tyler, A., & Davies, C. De-mystifying cross-cultural miscommunication: Positive results
from negative evidence. TESOL ’89, San Antonio, TX (March 1989).
Tyler, A., Baker, P., Bro, J., Casagrande, J., & Silverman, I. Does order of ideas in non-
native discourse affect comprehensibility? TESOL ’89, San Antonio, TX (March 1989).
1988 Tyler, A., Bro, J., & Silverman, I. The relative contribution of miscue types to
perceptionsof incoherence in non-native discourse. AAAL Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
LA (December, 1988).
Tyler, A. Some questions about variation in rhetorical patterning. Queens College CUNY,
New York, NY (April 1988).
Tyler, A., Koran, J., & Silverman, I. Preparing international teaching assistants for the
undergraduate classroom: Academic spoken English. Symposium on the Training of
International Teaching Assistants, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (April
1988).
Tyler, A. Discourse structure and coherence in foreign TA’s spoken discourse.
TESOL ’88, Chicago, IL (March 1988)
1987 Tyler, A. Sources for the perception of incoherence in nonnative spoken discourse.
American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
(December 1987)
Tyler, A., Davies, C., & Jefferies, A. The effect of discourse miscues on listener
perceptions of coherence in non-native university teachers’ spoken discourse. Conference
on Pragmatics and Language Learning, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL (April 1987).
1986 Tyler, A. Learning how to deal with long words: Ability-related differences in the
acquisition of word-formation rules. National Reading Conference, Austin, TX
(December1986).
Tyler, A. Syntactic, semantic and distributional properties of derivational suffixes:
Differing orders of acquisition. ESCOL ’86, Pittsburgh, PA (October 1986).
Tyler, A., & Nagy, W. The acquisition of English derivational morphology: Implications
for models of lexicon. 15th Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics
Symposium (April 1986).
1985 Tyler, A., & Nagy, W. Use of the syntactic properties of derivational suffixes during
reading. AAAL, Seattle, WA (December 1985).
Tyler, A., & Nagy, W. The contribution of derivational morphology in sentence
comprehension. National Reading Conference, San Diego, CA (December 1985).
Tyler, A., & Iverson, G. Natural productivity and levels in the lexicon. Annual Regional Meeting on Mid-America Conference of Linguistics, Manhattan, KA (October 1985)
Tyler, A., & Nagy, W. Partial accessing of lexical entries. 1985 LSA Summer Institute Meeting, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (July 1985).
Tyler, A. High school readers’ knowledge and use of derivational suffixes. Center for the Study of Reading Colloquium, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL (March 1985).
1984 Tyler, A. Swahili relative clauses: A generalized phrase structure grammar analysis. 15th
Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
1983 Tyler, A. Teaching in an ESL writing lab. 2nd Annual Midwest Writing Centers
Association Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (October 1983).
Tyler, A. Non-prosodic phonological processes in a multi-tiered model. 9th Annual
Minnesota Regional Conference on Language and Linguistics, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN (May 1983).
Tyler, A. Advanced ESL writing: An alternative approach. TESOL ’83, Toronto, Canada
(March 1983).
1982 Tyler, A., & Kelly, L. Advanced ESL writing. Mid-TESOL Annual Conference, Iowa
State University, Ames, IA (October 1982).
Tyler, A. Aspiration in Kimanda and Sukuma Dialects of Kiswahili. 8th Annual
Minnesota Regional Conference on Language and Linguistics, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN (May 1982).
Co-authored
2003 Macgregor, D., Tyler, A., Fujii, A., Jeon, S., Kupscinki, D., Liamkina, O., Takada, M.
Over again: An experimental investigation: Part 2, ICLC Logrono, Spain (July 2003).
1997 Boxer, D. & Tyler, A.Cross-cultural perspectives on sexual harassment. 5th Annual
Berkeley Conference on Women and Language, University of California, Berkeley, CA
(April 1996).
1988 Koran, J., Tyler, A., Foster, J., & Landers, H. The development, governance and
evaluation of programs for international teaching assistants: A dean’s perspective.
Symposium on the Training of International Teaching Assistants, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (April 1988).
Davies, C., Tyler, A. & Koran, J. Face-to-face with English speakers: An advanced
training class for international teaching assistants. Symposium on the Training of
International Teaching Assistants, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (April
1988).
V. INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
2003 Applying cognitive linguistics to instructed language learning: An experimental
investigation. Speaker at invited colloquium ‘Cognitive Linguistics and SLA’ organized
by Peter Robinson. AAAL. Arlington, VA (March 2003).
1998 The role of overlap and pausing in assessing conversational involvement. Invited
speaker. Parasession on Negotiation and Collaboration in Pedagogical Discourse.
Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Urbana, IL (February 1998).
Lecture discourse as a collaborative event. Invited address for ITA Academic
Session. TESOL, Seattle, WA (March 1998).
1996 Beyond consciousness raising: Reconsidering the role of linguistics in language
teacher education. (with D. Lardiere) GURT 1996, Washington, D.C. (March 1996).
1994 The role of complex syntactic structures in creating discourse organization. Invited
address for the ITA Interest Section Academic Session, TESOL, Baltimore, MD (March
1994)
1990 Tyler, A. Using pragmatics to structure roleplays.Invited speaker, TESOL ’90 pre-
conference ITASymposium, San Francisco, CA (March 1990).
VI. INVITED TALKS
2004A cognitive linguistic approach to IN. Department of Linguistics. University of Pavia,
Pavia, Italy (June 2004)
2003Semantic extension and English prepositions: A cognitive linguistic approach. Gallaudet
University, Washington, DC. (October 2003)
2001 A cognitive linguistic approach to English prepositions.Department of English
Invited Lecture Series. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. (May 2001).
1999 The role of prosodics in the coherence of international teaching assistants’ teaching
discourseInstitute of Intensive English. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI (February 1999).
1999My ex-husband was Italian: Examining some “exceptional” use of English past tense.
Department of Linguistics Forum, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. (February
1999).
1998What can discourse analysis do for language teachers? Workshop series on foreign language pedagogy. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA. (April 1998).
1987 Accent modification for foreign TAs. Forum on academic English for international
graduate students, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (March 1987)
VII. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2003 Organizer, Georgetown Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. Language In Use:
Cognitive and Discourse Approaches to Language and Language Learning.
Visiting Fellow, Cognitive Science and Linguistics Program, University of Sussex
(July-August)
2002 AAAL Strand Coordinator, Cognitive Strand. Organized the review of over 60 abstracts.
Visiting Fellow, Cognitive Science and Linguistics Program, University of Sussex
(July-August)
Organizer. Washington CogLink Symposium. September 2002. Georgetown University. Washington, D.C.
Founding member and organizer. Washington CogLink.
1996 Professor. Georgetown-Kawaijuku Summer ESL Teaching Certificate Program, Tokyo,
Japan. Taught intensive graduate course: Introduction to Sociolinguistics.
1995Colloquium organizer, Speech acts, speech events, and discourse analysis: Interweaving perspectives. AAAL, Long Beach, CA.
Professor. Georgetown-Kawaijuku Summer ESL Teaching Certificate Program, Tokyo,
Japan. Taught intensive graduate course: Cross-cultural Communication.
1994 Organizer, ITA Interest Section preconference institute. Getting Connected. TESOL.
Baltimore, MD (March 1994).
Symposium organizer, Gender and discourse, AAAL, Baltimore, MD (March 1994).
1983 Workshop organizer, Advanced ESL writing: An alternative approach. TESOL,
Toronto, Canada (March 1983).
Program development
English for Lawyers. (Summer 2003-present) Developed curriculum for program whose aim is toprovide language support for international lawyers enrolled in the Georgetown Law School’s International Lawyer Initiative. Trained and supervised 5 assistants.
ITA initiative. (2002-present) In cooperation with Director of the Division of English as a Foreign Language and representatives from the Center for New Designs for Learning, developed a detailed plan for a university-wide training program for international teaching assistants.
IX. TEACHING
Courses taught
English for Lawyers (Law Center)
Advanced English Writing Seminar (Law Center)
Statutory Interpretation and Case Law Analysis (Law Center)
Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers
Linguistics and Reading
Second Language Writing
Pedagogical Grammar
Second Language Teaching Methods
Metaphor and the Mind