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CURRICULUMVITAE

MICHAEL T. PUTNAM Associate Professor of German and Linguistics

The Pennsylvania State University Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures

Program in Linguistics N.239 Burrowes Building

University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814) 863-2138

Fax: (814) 863-8882 Email: [email protected]

Homepage: http://psumikeputnam.weebly.com/ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & APPOINTMENTS 2018-present Vice President, Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL) 2014-present Associate Professor, Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures, The

Pennsylvania State University 2010-2016, Director, Lower-division Language Program, Department of Germanic & Slavic 2018-2019 Languages & Literatures, The Pennsylvania State University 2011-present Core faculty member NSF PIRE (Partnership for International Research and Education)

at Penn State, Bilingualism, mind, and brain: An interdisciplinary program in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience: http://www.psu.edu/dept/cls/pire/)

2011-present Faculty member, Center for Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University (http://cls.psu.edu/)

2010-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures, The Pennsylvania State University 2008-2010 Chair of Linguistics Program, Carson-Newman College 2007-2010 Chair of German Program, Carson-Newman College 2007-2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Carson-Newman College 2006-2007 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics & Languages, Michigan State University 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan AFFILIATIONS & VISITING APPOINTMENTS 2019-2020 Visiting Professor, AcqVA Research Group, Norwegian University of Science and

Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway 2019-present External Member, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, University of

Wisconsin-Madison 2019-present Affiliate Member, Centre for Research and Enterprise in Language (CREL), University

of Greenwich, United Kingdom 2019-present Affiliate Member, Heritage Linguistics Lab, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands 2017-present Affiliate Member, Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition Lab, Rutgers University 2017-present Associate Member, Swiss Islands in America, Université de Lausanne 2017-present Affiliate Member, Corpus Linguistics Lab, University of Florida 2016-2017 Visiting Scholar, University of Buffalo, Department of Linguistics 2016-present Member, Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition, The Pennsylvania State University 2015-present Collaborator, Applied Cognitive Science Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University 2015-present Associate Member, Zentrum Sprache, Variation, und Migration, Univeristät Potsdam 2014-present Affiliate Member, Bilingualism Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago

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2014-present Affiliate Member, Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism, University of Reading, United Kingdom

2014-present Research Affiliate, Center for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, Norway

2012 Visiting Scholar, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University 2012 Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University 2009 Visiting Scholar, Department of English Linguistics, Universität Stuttgart (DAAD) EDUCATION Ph.D. 2006 University of Kansas (German/Linguistics) Thesis Title: Scrambling as XP-adjunction: A critical analysis of prolific domains M.A. 2002 University of Kansas (German) Thesis Title: Case morphology erosion in Ohio Pennsylvania German: internal development or external influence? B.A. 1999 College of Wooster (German Studies/History) Thesis Title: Ist die geographische Grenzen zwischen Ohio und Pennsylvania auch eine sprachliche Grenze: eine vergleichende Studie des Pennsylvania Deutschen. (Departmental Honors) GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2020-23 Collaborator, Research Council of Norway: Norwegian across the Americas: New perspectives on

heritage languages. (PI: Prof. Kari Kinn): $300,000. 2018-21 Collaborator, German Research Foundation (DFG): Emerging grammars: A cross-linguistic

corpus of comparative data in heritage and majority language use (CO-PIs Prof. Anke Lüdeling & Heike Wiese): $3,3710,000 (2,800,000 €)

2016-17 Social Science Research Institute, Penn State University. Collaborative Fellowship: Competition, conflict, and optimization: Toward a dynamic model of multilingualism (CO-PIs Matthew Carlson, Michael T. Putnam, David Reitter) - $22,500

2015-20 National Science Foundation Grant, OISE-1545900: PIRE (Partnerships in International Research and Education): Translating cognitive and brain science in the laboratory and field to language learning environments (CO-PIs Judith Kroll, John Lipski, Janet van Hell, & Paola Dussias) - $5,000,000

2015-17 Principal Investigator, Humanities Without Walls (Mellon Foundation): The importance of the last generation: Midwest heritage German speakers - $50,000

2014-15 Principal Investigator, Penn State University Institute for Arts and Humanities – Humanities Without Boards Global Midwest Initiative (Mellon Foundation): German heritage languages in the Midwest - $7,000

2013-15 Collaborator, The Icelandic Research Council: Heritage language, linguistic change and cultural identity (CO-PIs Profs. Höskuldur Thráinsson and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir)- $157,500

2012 Max Kade Foundation Research Grant - $800 2012 Collaborator, CFYC Grant – Level 1, Prof. John Lipski, Principle Investigator, Prof.

Carrie Jackson, Co-Collaborator - $5000 2011 Max Kade Foundation Research Grant - $1,500 2010-15 National Science Foundation Grant, OISE-0968369: PIRE (Partnerships in International

Research and Education): Bilingualism, mind, and brain: An interdisciplinary program in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience (CO-PIs Paola Dussias, Ping Li, Janet van Hell, & Judith Kroll) - $2,800,000

2009 DAAD Re-Invitation Grant Recipient – $5,500 2008-11 Consultant, NSF Career Grant, Prof. John Hale (Cornell), Principle Investigator, Automaton Theories of Human Sentence Comprehension – $498,370 2008 Pew Grant for Faculty Development (Carson-Newman College) - $500 2007 College of Arts & Letters Initiative Fund Grant (Michigan State University) - $2000


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2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (University of Michigan) - $33,000 2005 Max Kade Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship - $12,000 2004 Departmental Summer Research Fellowship (University of Kansas) - $2000 2002 Departmental Summer Research Fellowship (University of Kansas) - $2000 2000-01 DAAD Full-Year Research Fellowship (Philipps-Universität Marburg) - $16,000 2000 ASHHS Research Grant - $1,000 1998 J&W Small Fellowship (College of Wooster) - $5,000 AWARDS, HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS 2019-20 Visiting Professor, AcqVA Research Group, Norwegian University of Science and

Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway (individual stipend: $9,000 in connection with HUMEVAL grant (2018-21); total grant: $295,000).

2015 Outstanding New Associate Professor of the Liberal Arts, Penn State University 2007 AATG – Best Article of the Year in Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German for the Calendar Year 2006. (Honorarium provided by Austrian Air). 2002 German Department Book Prize (University of Kansas) 1998 Departmental Honors, German Department, College of Wooster PUBLICATIONS BOOKS: AUTHORED AND CO-AUTHORED Under contract The linguistic diversity of German: Sociolinguistic and structural variation in Europe and the diaspora.

(with Joshua Bousquette, Joshua Brown, & Joseph Salmons). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

In production Unbounded dependency constructions: Theoretical and experimental perspectives. [Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology 10]. (with Rui Chaves). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [publication date: Winter 2020].

2020 Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian: Microvariation through exponency. [Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 338]. (with Antonio Fábregas). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2013 The Structural Design of Language. (with Tom Stroik). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007 Scrambling and the Survive Principle. [Linguistik Aktuell 115]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. BOOKS: EDITED In process (edited volume) Defining construction: Insights into the emergence and generation of

linguistic representations. Frontiers in Psychology. (with Matt Carlson, Antonio Fábregas, & Eva Wittenberg).

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10707/defining-construction-insights-into-the-emergence-and-generation-of-linguistic-representations#overview

2020 (edited volume) The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics. (with Richard Page). 2016 (edited volume) Optimality-theoretical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics: From uni- to bidirectional

optimization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Géraldine Legendre, Henriette de Swart, & Erin Zaroukian).

2015 (edited volume) Contemporary linguistic parameters. London: Bloomsbury. (with Antonio Fábregas & Jaume Mateu).

2015 (edited volume) Moribund Germanic heritage languages in North America: Theoretical perspectives and empirical findings. London: Brill. (with Richard Page)

2013 (edited volume) Rammstein on fire: New perspectives on music and performance. Jefferson City, NC: MacFarland Publishing. (with John Littlejohn)


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2011 (edited volume) Studies on German-language Islands, [Studies in Language Companion Series 123] Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2010 (edited volume) Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, [Language Faculty and Beyond 3] Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

2009 (edited volume) Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism, [Linguistik Aktuell 144] Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

PUBLICATIONS-EDITED JOURNAL VOLUMES To appear (edited volume) Special volume on representations in receptive bilingual grammars in

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. (with Bonnie Holmes). [publication date: Summer 2020].

2020 (edited volume) Special volume on different perspectives on critical factors in heritage language development in Language Learning Volume 70(S1) (with Ayşe Gürel & Cristina Flores).

2014 (edited volume) Special volume on German complementizers in contact in Sprachtypologie und Unversalienforschung (STuF), Volume 67(4) (with Gildo Bidese).

2011 (edited volume) Special Volume on the Syntax and Semantics of German(ic) Particle Verbs in Leuvense Bijdragen, Volume 97.

2011 (edited volume) Special Volume on “Sharpening the Edges” in Linguistic Analysis, Volume 37.3-4 (with Tom Stroik).

2009 (edited volume) Special Volume on Krautrock in Popular Music and Society, Volume 32 No. 5 (with John T. Littlejohn).

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES To appear Mental representations in receptive multilingual grammars. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.

(with Bonnie Holmes). 2020 Lexicalizing exponents in multilingual grammars. Second Language Research 36(2): 187-192.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658319885407 2020 The good, the bad, and the gradient – The role of ‘losers’ in code-switching. Linguistic Approaches to

Bilingualism 10(1): 5-34. (with Robert Klosinski). https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.16008.put

2020 Different perspectives on critical factors in heritage language development and maintenance. Language Learning. (with Cristina Flores & Ayşe Gürel). 70(S1): 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12367

2020 Redefining language death: Evidence from moribund grammars. Language Learning. (with Joshua Bousquette). 70(S1): 185-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12362

2020 Separating vs. Shrinking. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 23(1): 41-3. 2019 Differential access: Asymmetries in accessing features and building representations in heritage language

grammars. Languages 4(4), 81: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4040081 (with Silvia Perez-Cortes & Liliana Sánchez).

2019 The (in)stability of grammars. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 41(2): 275-8. 2019 Language membership as a gradient emergent feature. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

22(4): 701-2. (with Michael Johns). 2019 Derivational complexity vs. transfer effects: Long-distance wh-movement in heritage and L2 grammars. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9(3): 341-375. (with Holger Hopp & Nora

Vosburg). 2018 When bilingualism is the common factor: Switch reference at the junction of competence and performance in

both Second Language and Heritage Language performance. Journal of Language Contact 11(3): 592-618. (with Tiffany Judy & Jason Rothman).


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2018 Integrated, not isolated: Defining typological proximity in an integrated multilingual architecture. Frontiers in Psychology: 8: 2212. (with Matthew Carlson & David Reitter).

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02212/full 2017 Feature reassembly as constraint satisfaction. The Linguistic Review 34(3): 533-567. 2016 How constrained is language mixing in bi- and uni-modal production? Linguistic Approaches to

Bilingualism 6(6): 812-816. (with Géraldine Legendre & Paul Smolensky). 2016 Keynote response, The future of code mixing research: Integrating psycholinguistics and formal

grammatical theories. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19(5): 903-906. (with Matt Goldrick & Lara Schwarz).

2016 Keynote article, Co-activation in bilingual grammars: A computational account of code mixing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19(5): 857-876. (with Matt Goldrick & Lara Schwarz).

2016 Parasitic gapping in bilingual grammar: evidence from Wisconsin Heritage German. Heritage Language Journal 13(1): 1-28. (with Joshua Bousquette, Ben Frey, Daniel Nützel & Joseph Salmons).

2016 Null arguments in transitional trilingual grammars: Field observations from Misionero German. Multilingua 35(1): 85-104. (with John Lipski).

2015 New structural patterns in moribund grammar: Case marking in heritage German. Frontiers in Psychology 6: 1716 (with Lisa Yager, Nora Hellmold, Hyoun-A Joo, Eleonora Rossi, Catherine Stafford, & Joe Salmons): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01716/full

2015 Restructuring in heritage grammar: word order variation in heritage German. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5(2): 180-203. (with Holger Hopp).

2015 Multilingualism in the Midwest: How German has shaped (and still shapes) the Midwest. Middle West Review 1(2): 29-52. (with Joseph Salmons).

2014 Are all phases created equal? – An investigation of Feature Inheritance in connection with Icelandic Quantifier Movement. Linguistic Analysis 39(3-4): 267-307. (with Gema Chocano).

2014 The vulnerability of the C-layer: Introductory notes on German complementizers in contact. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STuF) 67(4): 437-443. (with Gildo Bidese).

2014 How interrogative pronouns can become relative pronouns: The case of ‘was’ in Misionero German. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STuF) 67(4): 613-625. (with Lara Schwarz).

2014 The emergence of middle voice structures with and without agents. The Linguistic Review 31(2): 193-240. (with Antonio Fábregas).

2014 Straight outta Marzahn: (Re)Constructing collective memory in East Berlin. Popular Music and Society 37.1: 85-100. (with Juliane Schicker).

2013 What’s so incomplete about incomplete acquisition? – A prolegomenon to modeling heritage language grammars. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3(4): 478-508. (with Liliana Sánchez).

2013 Losing their (passive) voice: Syntactic neutralization in heritage German. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3(2): 233-252 (with Joseph Salmons).

2012 Catenae: Introducing a novel unit of syntactic analysis. Syntax 15(4): 354-396. (with Tim Osborne & Thomas Gross).

2012 Dative case maintenance via restructuring in Moundridge Schweitzer German. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 1(79): 41-67.

2012 One P with Two Spell-Outs: The Ent-/Aus-alternation in German. Linguistic Analysis 38(1-2): 69-109 (with Petr Biskup).

2011 German prefix and particle verbs at the syntax-phonology interface. Leuvense Bijdragen 97: 106-135 (with Petr Biskup & Laura Catherine Smith).

2011 Sometimes it’s ok to ‘overeat yourself’: Scalar over-predicates in Germanic languages that require an overt reflexive. Leuvense Bijdragen 97: 203-229.

2011 Living on “the edge” in derivational syntax. Linguistic Analysis 37(3-4): 317-320 (with Tom Stroik).


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2011 Syntax at ground zero. Linguistic Analysis 37(3-4): 389-404 (with Tom Stroik). 2011 Bare Phrase Structure, Label-less Trees, and Specifier-less Syntax: Is Minimalism Becoming a

Dependency Grammar? The Linguistic Review 28(3): 315-364. (with Tim Osborne & Thomas Gross).

2011 Alls there is to know about the alls-construction. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 14(2): 81-109. (with Marjo van Koppen).

2010 Rammstein and Ostalgie: longing for yesteryear. In Popular Music and Society 33(1): 35- 44. (with John Littlejohn).

2009 Music as a weapon: Reactions and responses to RAF terrorism in the music of Ton Steine Scherben and their successors in post-9/11 music. Popular Music and Society 32(5): 595-606.

2007 Dynamic Stress Assignment. In Linguistic Analysis: Dynamic Interfaces, 33(3-4)., 337-374. (with Kleanthes K. Grohmann) 2007 National Socialism with Fler? – German hip-hop from the right. In Popular Music and Society/Special Issue on Hate Rock. 30(4): 453-468. (with John Littlejohn). 2006 Those there demonstratives: demonstrative reinforcer constructions in Pennsylvania German. Leuvense Bijdragen 95: 159-177. 2006 Teaching Culture through Hip Hop. In Unterrichtspraxis 39.1-2:69-79. 2005 An Anti-Local Account of Why Scrambled Dative Objects Can’t Bind Anaphors in German. SKY Journal of Linguistics: 287-309. 2004 An Investigation of Consonant Inventory Development in East Frisian Low German Utilizing Optimality Theory (OT). Society of German-American Studies Yearbook. 39: 135-49. (with Bradley G. Weiss). 2003 The Prepositional Case in German-American Dialects. Focus on German Studies 10: 207-24. BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER-REVIEWED) To appear Morphology. In Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages. eds. Maria Polinsky &

Silvina Montrul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with Lara Schwarz & Andrew Hoffman).

To appear Moundridge Schweitzer German. In Varieties of German worldwide. eds. Hans Boas, Anna Deumert, Mark L. Louden, & Péter Maitz. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Hyoun-A Joo, B. Richard Page, Lara Schwarz, & Nora Vosburg).

2020 Agree probes down: Anaphoric feature valuation and phase references. In Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme. eds. Peter Smith, Johannes Mursell & Katarina Hartmann. Berlin: Open Generative Syntax/Language Science Press. (with Michael Diercks & Marjo van Koppen). 347-389.

2020 One Feature – One Head: Features as functional heads in language acquisition and attrition. In New Trends in Language Acquisition within the Generative Perspective. eds. Pedro Guijarro Fuentes & Cristina Suárez-Gómez. Dordrecht: Springer. 1-23.

2020 Introduction. In The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics. eds. B. Richard Page & Michael T. Putnam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with B. Richard Page). 1-8.

2020 Germanic heritage languages. In The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics. eds. B. Richard Page & Michael T. Putnam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with Janne Bondi Johannessen). 783-806.

2019 Language attrition and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis. In Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition. eds. M. Schmid & B. Köpke. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Silvia Perez-Cortes & Liliana Sánchez). 18-24.

2018 Different situations, similar outcomes: Heritage grammars across the lifespan. In Bilingual cognition and language: The state of the science across its subfields. eds. F. Bayram, N. Denhovska, D. Miller, J. Rothman, & L. Serratrice. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (with Tanja Kupisch & Diego Pascual y Cabo). 251-279.


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2016 Introduction. In Optimality-theoretical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics: From uni- to bidirectional optimization. eds. Géraldine Legendre, Michael Putnam, Henriette de Swart, & Erin Zaroukian. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Géraldine Legendre, Henriette de Swart, & Erin Zaroukian). 1-31.

2016 Multilingual grammars, dominance, and optimization. In Optimality-theoretical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics: From uni- to bidirectional optimization. eds. Géraldine Legendre, Michael Putnam, Henriette de Swart, & Erin Zaroukian. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Joshua Bousquette, Ben Frey, Daniel Nützel, & Joseph Salmons). 158-176.

2016 Intersecting constraints – Why certain constraint types overlap while others don’t. In Optimality-theoretical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics: From uni- to bidirectional optimization. eds. Géraldine Legendre, Michael Putnam, Henriette de Swart, & Erin Zaroukian. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Marc van Oostendorp & Laura Catharine Smith). 35-54.

2015 ‘Parameters’ in linguistic theory: What, where and how. In Contemporary linguistic parameters. eds. Antonio Fábregas, Jaume Mateu & Michael Putnam. London: Bloomsbury. (with Antonio Fábregas, Jaume Mateau). 3-24.

2015 Parameter theory in language acquisition and language contact. In Contemporary linguistic parameters. eds. Antonio Fábregas, Jaume Mateu & Michael Putnam. London: Bloomsbury. (with Nina Hyams, Victoria Mateu, Robyn Ortfitelli, Jason Rothman & Liliana Sánchez). 353-373.

2015 Functional convergence and extension in contact: Syntactic and semantic attributes of the progressive aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch. In Germanic heritage languages in North America: Acquisition and change. eds. Joseph Salmons & Janne Johannessen. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (with Joshua Brown). 135-160.

2015 Researching moribund (Germanic) heritage languages: Theoretical and empirical challenges (and rewards). Moribund Germanic heritage languages in North America: Theoretical perspectives and empirical findings. eds. Richard Page & Michael Putnam. London: Brill (with Richard Page), 1-11.

2015 Minimizing (interface) domains: The loss of long-distance binding in North American Icelandic. Moribund Germanic heritage languages in North America: Theoretical perspectives and empirical rewards. eds. Richard Page & Michael Putnam. London: Brill (with Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir), 203-223.

2014 The need for formal features in narrow syntax. In Minimalism and beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces. eds. Peter Kosta, Stephen Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork, & Lilia Schürcks. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Antonio Fábregas), 56-77.

2013 Discipleship in the Church of Rammstein. In Rammstein on fire: New perspectives on music and performance. eds. John T. Littlejohn & Michael T. Putnam. Jefferson City, NC: McFarland, 250-267.

2013 Filling in the gaps: PF-optimalization in parasitic gap constructions in Dutch and German. In Filtering the Derivation. eds. Ralf Vogel & Hans Broekhuis. London: Equinox (with Gema Chocano), 54-75.

2011 Why study Sprachinseln from generative or structural perspectives?: Introductory remarks. In Studies on German-language Islands, ed. Michael T. Putnam. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-10.

2011 Anaphors in contact: The distribution of intensifiers and reflexives in Amana German. In Studies on German-language islands, ed. Michael T. Putnam. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 111-128.

2010 Empowerment through taboo: Probing the sociolinguistic parameters of German gangsta rap lyrics. In The language(s) of global hip-hop [Advances in Sociolinguistics Series], ed. Marina Terkourafi. London: Continuum. (with John Littlejohn), 120-138.


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2010 Exploring Crash-Proof grammars: An introduction. In Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, ed. M Putnam. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-12. 2010 Syntactic relations in Survive-minimalism. In Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, ed. M. Putnam. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (with Thomas Stroik), 143-166. 2009 When grammars collide: contact linguistics from a Survive-perspective. In Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism, ed. M. Putnam, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (with Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto), 139-176. 2009 Traveling without moving: The conceptual necessity Survive-minimalism. In Towards a Derivational

Syntax: Survive-minimalism, ed. M. Putnam, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (with Thomas Stroik), 1-20.

2009 C-agreement or something close to it: the alls-construction, In Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax [Linguistics Today 141], eds. Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (with Marjo van Koppen), 41-58. 2009 Surviving reconstruction. In Phases at the Interface [Interface Explorations 17]. Kleanthes K. Grohmann, ed. Berlin: de Gruyter. (with Thomas S. Stroik), 161-181. 2008 Deriving pairedness in vP-structure: minimalist yet optimal. In Optimality Theory and Minimalism: Interface Theories [Linguistics in Potsdam 28], eds., Rolf Vogel and Hans Broekhuis. (with Kyle Grove), 187-210. 2006 How Far Have We Come and Where Do We Still Need to Go?: The Evolving Dialect Atlas. In Sprachinselwelten: Entwicklung und Beschreibung der deutschen Sprachinseln am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts. Mit Beiträgen zum 1. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen, Marburg. (Reihe VarioLingua: Nonstandard - Standard - Substandard, Bd. 30), Nina Berend and Elisabeth Knipf-Komlósi, eds. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. (with D. Chris Johnson), 175-89. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND WORKING PAPERS (PEER-REVIEWED) 2019 Aspectualizers and complementation in Pennsylvania Dutch: The case of ‘schtaerte’. In J. Brown & K.

Byers (eds.), Proceedings of WILA 9. (pp. 20-27). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (with Maike Rocker).

http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wila/9/paper3484.pdf 2018 Expanding the pipeline: A prolegomenon to modeling multilingual grammars in LFG. In M. Butt & T.

Holloway King (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG’17 Conference, University of Konstanz (pp. 368-386). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. (with Lara Schwarz).

http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/LFG/2017 2016 Heritage German in the United States. Heritage Language Profiles – National Heritage

Language Research Center, University of California-Los Angeles. http://nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/category/profile/150269 (with Joseph C. Salmons & Christopher Tabisz).

2015 Scope marking in the Pennsylvania Dutch progressive construction. Florida Linguistics Papers Vol 2: http://journals.fcla.edu/floridalinguisticspapers/article/view/85088/82086

(with Solveig Bosse). 2013 Parasitic semantics (or why Swedish can’t lexicalize middle voice constructions). Proceedings from

Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) 36. 19.1: 51-58 (with Antonio Fábregas). 2013 How deep is your syntax? – Filler-gap dependencies in heritage language grammar. Proceedings from

Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) 36. 19.1: 21-30 (with Joshua Bousquette, Benjamin Frey, Nicholas Henry, Daniel Nützel, Joseph Salmons, and Alyson Sewell).

2012 The syntax and semantics of excess: OVER-predicates in Germanic. Proceedings from WCCFL 29, J. Choi, E.A. Hogue, J. Punske, D. Tat, J. Schertz, and A. Trueman, eds., Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 223-231. (with Volker Gast).

2008 Explicating generative grammar. Carson-Newman Studies 11.3: 81-97.


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2004 The German Dialects of Kansas. In Germany and the Americas: Culture Politics and History (Vol. 3), Thomas Adam, ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 597-99. 2004 German Dialects in Iowa. In Germany and the Americas: Culture Politics and History (Vol. 3), Thomas Adam, ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 566-70. WORK UNDER REVIEW & MANUSCRIPTS Under review Excessive events: the syntax and semantics of OVER-modification in Icelandic, pp. 52.

(with Volker Gast & Kristín Jóhannsdóttir). Under review Abstract transfer: Hyper-V2 in Gottscheerisch imperatives, pp. 35. (with Andrew

Hoffman). Under review Individual grammars need not share population parameters. [tentative title], pp. 34. (with Clara Cohen & Lara Schwarz). In progress The domain-general nature of hierarchical representations and their construction in the

absence of Merge, pp. 38. (with Thomas Stroik). BOOK REVIEWS To appear A contrastive grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian. Author: Gertjan Postma. Journal of Germanic

Linguistics. To appear Dependency and directionality. Author: Marcel den Dikken. LinguistList. To appear German pioneers of Montgomery County, Ohio: Early pioneer life in Dayton, Miamisburg, Germantown

(by H.A. Ratterman). Translated and edited: Elfe Vallaster Dona. Yearbook of German American Studies.

To appear Images of America: German Marietta and Washington County. Author: Jann Kuehn Adams. Yearbook of German American Studies.

To appear The beginner’s cow: Memories of a Volga German from Kansas. Author: Loren Schmidtberger. Yearbook of German American Studies.

2020 Heritage languages and their speakers. Author: Maria Polinsky. Language 96(1): 216-220. 2019 Babel of the Atlantic. Editor: Bethany Wiggin. H-Net. https://networks.h-net.org/node/8590/discussions/5696077/review-putnam-wiggin-

babel-atlantic 2019 Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism. Editors: John McCarthy & Joe Pater. Norsk

Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 37(1): 145-150. 2017 Grammatical Theory, Vols. 1 & 2. Author: Stefan Müller. Glossa: a journal of general

linguistics 2.1: 73. 1-4. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.414 2017 Asymmetries between language production and comprehension. Author: Petra Hendriks. Journal of

Germanic Linguistics 29.2: 199-203. 2016 The acquisition of heritage languages. Author: Silvia Montrul. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift

34.2: 259-261. 2016 Structures in the mind: Essays on language, music, and cognition in honor of Ray Jackendoff. Editors: I.

Toivonen, P. Csúri, & E. Van der Zee. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 34.2: 256-258. 2016 Pennsylvania Dutch: The story of an American Language. Author: Mark Louden. H-Net.

https://networks.h-net.org/node/11761/reviews/154424/putnam-louden-pennsylvania-dutch-story-american-language

2016 Evolutionary syntax. Author: Liliana Progovac. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 34.1: 83-86. 2016 Syntactic variation and verb second: A German dialect in Northern Italy. Author: Federica Cognola.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 28.1: 84-88. 2015 In search of universal grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque. Editor: Terje Lohndal. Amsterdam:

John Benjamins. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 33.1: 100-104. 2013 Derivations and Evaluations: Object Shift in the Germanic Languages. Author: Hans Broekhuis. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 25.1: 81-94. 2012 Modeling ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory. Editors: Curt Rice and Sylvia Blaho.


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London: Equinox. SKY Journal of Linguistics 25: 293-297. 2012 Extraction asymmetries: Experimental evidence from Germanic. Author: Tania Kiziak.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins. The Journal of Germanic Linguistics 24.4: 373-376. 2012 The Oxford handbook of compositionality. Editors: Markus Werning, Wolfram Hinzen,

Edouard Machery. Oxford University: OUP. LinguistList. http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-5344.html 2012 Argument structure and syntactic relations. Editors: Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro, and

Nerea Madariaga. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. LinguistList. http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID=4546209

2011 Provocative syntax. Author: Phil Branigan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Language 87.4: 87-90.

2011 The Syntax of Icelandic. Author: Höskuldur Thráinsson. Cambridge: CUP. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 23: 83-89. 2010 Literature in Second Language Education: Enhancing the Role of Texts in Learning. Author: Piera Carroli. London: Continuum. Studies in Second Language Studies 32.3: 506-7. 2010 The Emergence of Order in Syntax. Author: Jordi Fortuny. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Language 86.1: 223-6. 2010 Language attrition: Theoretical perspectives. Editors: B. Köpke, M. Schmid, M. Keijzer, &

S. Dostert. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Leuvense Bijdragen 96: 197-9. 2010 German ver-verbs: Internal word structure and lexical processing. Author: Matthais K. Schirmeier. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Leuvense Bijdragen 96: 195-6. 2009 Verbal prepositions and argument structure. Author: Mai Ellin Tungseth. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. LinguistList. http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-2343.html 2008 Variation im heutigen Deutsch: Perspektiven für den Sprachunterricht. Editor: Eva Neuland. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Unterrichtspraxis 41.1: 102-103. 2008 Scrambling, remnant movement, and restructuring in West Germanic. Author: Roland Hinterhölzl. Oxford: OUP. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 20.4: 257-366. 2008 Noun Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective. Author: Marit Julien. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Linguist List. http://ww.linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-2563.html 2008 The Germanic Languages. Author: Wayne Harbert. Cambridge: CUP. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 30(4): 556. 2008 Datives and Other Cases: Between argument structure and event structure. Editors: Daniel Hole, Andre Meinunger and Werner Abraham. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 19.4: 349-356. 2008 Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form. Author: Gema Chocano. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID=172221 2008 Norwegian Modals. Author: Kristin Melum Eide. Berlin: de Gruyter. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 19.3: 260-273. 2008 First language attrition, use and maintenance: The case of German Jews in Anglophone

countries. Author: Monika Schmid. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Yearbook of German American Studies 43: 204-7.

2008 The Catholic Bohemian German of Ellis County, Kansas: A unique Bavarian dialect. Author: Gabriele Lunte. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Yearbook for German American Studies 43: 187-8.

2008 Dialect emergence in Waumandee English. Author: David N. Ehrat. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Yearbook of German American Studies 43: 183-4.

2007 The decay of a language: the case of a German dialect in the Italian Alps. Author: Silvia Del Negro. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Yearbook of German American Studies 42: 154-7. 2007 Linguistic interference and first-language attrition: German and Hungarian in the San


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Francisco Bay Area. Author: Gergely Tóth. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Yearbook of Germanic American Studies 42: 142-3.

2007 Deriving Coordinate Symmetries: A phase-based approach integrating Select, Merge, Copy and Match. Author: John te Velde. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-2941.html 2006 Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology. Editors: Werner Abraham and C. Jan-Wouter Zwart. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 18.4: 17-22. 2006 The Composition of Meaning: From Lexeme to Discourse. Editors: Alice te Meulen and Werner Abraham. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 18.2: 157-168. 2006 Quantifer Scope in German. Author: Jürgen Pafel. Amsterdam: John Benjmains. Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2099.html 2005 Old Norse Syntax. Author: Jan Terje Faarlund. Oxford: OUP. Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-3576.html 2003 Pennsylvania German Words in Context Volume II Author: C. Richard Beam. Millersville, PA: Society for Pennsylvania German Studies. Society of German-American Studies Yearbook 38: 323-325 PAPERS PRESENTED, POSTERS, AND INVITED COLLOQUIA 2020 Invited plenary speaker, TBA. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 35).

University of Trento, Trento, Italy. October. 2020 Invited plenary speaker, Can grammars count? Micro-variation in multilingualism.

University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway. September 17-18. 2020 Invited institute faculty, Retaining morphological and syntactic complexity in heritage grammars. 12th

Heritage Language Research Institute (NHLRC). Penn State University, University Park, PA. June 8-12. (with Terje Lohndal).

2020 Plural formation in Misionero Hunsrik German: Consequences of allomorphic restructuring. GLAC 26, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. April 2-4. (with Robert Klosinski & Richard Page).

2020 Lexicalizing modality: Voice exponency in the Eigersund (Norwegian) dialect. GLAC 26, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. April 2-4. (with Charlotte Sant).

2020 Invited speaker, How strong are strong islands? Linguistics Colloquium. University of Georgia, Athens, GA. April 2.

2019 Variation in infinitive markers in American Norwegian. WILA 10. Høgskloen i Østfold, Halden, Norway. October 10-12. (with Arnstein Hjelde & Åshild Søfteland).

2019 Competition at the left-edge: Left-dislocation vs. V2 in heritage varieties of Germanic. WILA 10. Høgskloen i Østfold, Halden, Norway. October 10-12. (with Joshua Bousquette, Kristin Eide, & Arnstein Hjelde).

2019 Invited speaker, Abstract transfer: Phantom V2 effects in Gottscheerisch imperatives. Forum for Theoretical Linguistics. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway October 9.

2019 Invited speaker, Explaining microvariation through exponency: Middles and passives in Mainland Scandinavian. AcqVA Colloquium Series, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. September 9.

2019 Invited institute faculty, Understudied heritage languages. 11th Heritage Language Research Institute (NHLRC). University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. June 10-13. (with Greg Scontras).

2019 Cluster creepers and phantom V2: The case of Gottscheerisch. GLAC 25. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. May 3-4. (with Andrew Hoffman).

2019 Syntactic theory – Quo Vadis? CLS Speaker Series, Penn State University, University Park, PA. February 1.

2018 English-origin aspectual verbs in Pennsylvania Dutch: The case of start(e). WILA 9. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI. October 25-27 (with Maike Rocker).

2018 Invited colloquium speaker, Aspects of the syntax of aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch. AcqVA


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Colloquium Series, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. September 6. 2018 Individual differences in bilingual grammars. 2nd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2

Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC). TU-Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. May 24-25. (with Clara Cohen, Catherine Higham, Syed Waqar Nabi, Gerrit Jan Koostra, & Janet van Hell).

2018 The morphosyntax of progressive aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch (PD). GLAC-24. Penn State University, University Part, PA. May 11-12. (with Maike Rocker).

2018 Decomposing event structure in syntax and semantics: Predicates of excess in Icelandic and other Germanic languages. GLAC-24. Penn State University, University Part, PA. May 11-12. (with Volker Gast & Kristín Johannsdóttir).

2018 Invited presentation, Global varieties of German: maintenance and change. Frontiers in Science Lecture Series, Penn State University, University Park, PA. April 7. (with Richard Page).

2017 Invited presentation, Derivational complexity vs. transfer effects in heritage and L2 grammars. CLS Speaker Series, Penn State University, University Park, PA. November 17.

2017 Invited presentation, Is there really a such thing as ‘language attrition’? - A critical overview from the perspective of heritage grammars. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. November 13.

2017 Resisting change: get-passives in Pennsylvania Dutch. WILA 8. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. October 12-14. (with Richard Page, Robert Klosinski, & Andrew Hoffman).

2017 Resisting contact-induced sound change in Heritage Swiss German. WILA 8. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. October 12-14. (with Robert Klosinski, Andrew Hoffman, & Richard Page).

2017 Invited plenary speaker, Gradient representations: Consequences for acquisition and maintenance. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA). University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. September 8.

2017 Poster, The variable and the constant in bilingual grammars: Evidence from Gradient Symbolic Computation. AmLaP 2017, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK. September 8. (with Clara Cohen & Lara Schwarz).

2017 A bidirectional study on complex wh-movement in heritage speakers and L2 learners: Transfer vs. derivational complexity. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA). University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. September 7. (with Nora Vosburg & Holger Hopp).

2017 Invited colloquium participant, Incomplete language acquisition and attrition: Input-related challenges for early and late immigrants and returnees, EUROSLA 2017, University of Reading, Reading, UK. August 30-September 2.

2017 Shared syntax: Bilingual blends and mixes in LFG-GSC. LFG17. Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany. July 24-27. (with Lara Schwarz).

2017 Transfer and derivational complexity in the wh-movement of heritage speakers and L2 learners: A bidirectional study. Bilingualism vs. monolingualism: A new perspective on limitations to L2 acquisition. University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France. June 19-20. (with Nora Vosburg & Holger Hopp).

2017 Language attitudes and language use of recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas. ISB-11, University of Limerick. Limerick, Ireland. June 13-15. (with Richard Page, Nora Vosburg, Hyoun-A Joo, & Samantha Litty).

2017 Invited speaker, Why heritage languages matter. Høgskolen i Østfold. Halden, Norway. June 1.

2017 Invited speaker, Squishy grammars. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. May 29.

2017 The role of restructuring and transfer in language contact: Subordinate clause word order in Misionero German. GLAC-23. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. April 21-23. (with Mark Milutinovic & Rob Klosinski).

2017 Bidirectional effect in the wh-movement of Plautdietsch heritage speakers and English L2 learners in


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Southwestern Kansas. GLAC-23. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. April 21-23. (with Holger Hopp & Nora Hellmold).

2017 Invited speaker, Incomplete access. Univesity of Madison-Wisconsin, February 23. 2016 Filler-gap dependencies in language contact. German Abroad 2. University of Texas at Austin,

Austin, TX. November 2-3. (with Nora Vosburg). 2016 Changing patterns of language use among recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas. WILA 7,

University of Georgia, Athens, GA. October 27-29. (with Hyoun-A Joo, Samantha Litty, Richard Page, and Nora Vosburg).

2016 Invited presentation, Filler-gap dependencies in balanced and unbalanced multilinguals. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. September 23.

2016 Invited plenary presentation, Gradient representations in multilingual grammars. Heritage Language Acquisition: Breaking new ground in methodology and domains of inquiry. University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway. September 19-20.

2016 Fine-tuning event structure: OVER-modification in Icelandic. GLAC-22, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. May 20-22. (with Volker Gast & Kristín Jóhannsdóttir).

2016 Deriving passives without Passive Voice. GLAC-22, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. May 20-22. (with Antonio Fábregas).

2016 Invited presentation, Incomplete acquisition vs. restructuring. Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Spring Semester.

2016 Invited presentation, A gradient foundation: Multilingualism and the future of generative theory. University of Georgia, Athens, GA. February 25.

2015 Invited presentation, Co-activation in bilingual grammars: A Gradient Symbolic Computation account of code-mixing. CLS Speaker Series, Penn State University, University Park, PA. October 30. (with Lara Schwarz).

2015 Tense and agreement in late L2 English: Towards an understanding of the trilingual sociolinguistic dynamics in Southwestern Kansas. WILA 6, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. September 24-26. (with Richard Page).

2015 Panel organizer, Research in heritage Germanic grammars: empirical findings and theoretical challenges. ISB 10, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. May 20-24.

2015 Panel organizer, Empirical methods researching heritage grammars: Challenges and rewards. ISB 10, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. May 20-24.

2015 Panel discussant, Breaking the mold: Code-mixing and formal grammars. ISB 10, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. May 20-24.

2015 New patterns emerging in a heritage variety? Heritage German case. ISB 10, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. May 20-24. (with Lisa Yager, Nora Hellmold, Hyoun-A Joo, Alyson Sewell, and Joseph Salmons).

2015 Restructuring of word order in heritage German: The case of Moundridge Schweitzer German. ISB 10, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. May 20-24. (with Holger Hopp).

2015 Studying moribund heritage grammars: Methodological challenges and solutions. ISB 10, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. May 20-24. (with Holger Hopp).

2015 (Morpho)syntactic and semantic properties of the PD progressive aspect. GLAC-21, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. May 8-10. (with Solveig Bosse).

2015 Invited presentation, A communal playground: Digital humanities, social sciences, and the liberal arts, Vernaculars of the Global Midwest, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. March 19-21.

2015 Scope marking in the Pennsylvania Dutch progressive construction. Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM 2), Eckard College, St. Petersburg, FL. March 7-8. (with Solveig Bosse).

2014 Word order in a moribund variety of heritage German. WILA 5, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. October 16-18. (with Holger Hopp).

2014 Raising and control predicates in heritage German. WILA 5, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. October 16-18. (with Lara Schwarz).


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2014 Poster, Improving adjunct extraction: The role of complex events in adjunct extraction. HPSG-21. SUNY @ Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, August 27-29. (with Stefan Müller & Lara Schwarz).

2014 Mapping the maintenance versus the merger of /a/-/ɔ/ in Moundridge Schweitzer German: The role of word class. GLAC-20, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. May 2-4. (with Hyoun-A Joo, Lara Schwarz & Richard Page).

2014 Invited presentation, Bilingualism and dual activation in HPSG. Cornell Computational Linguistics Seminar, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. March 20.

2013 Invited presentation, Parasitic ellipsis vs. parasitic gapping. Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Illinois-Chicago. Chicago, IL. Nov. 14. (with Tim Osborne)

2013 Subject in Misionero (Argentina) Heritage German: null arguments, unaccusativity, and post-verbal subjects. 4th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, University of Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland. September 19-21. (with John Lipski).

2013 The kriege(n)-passive in Pennsylvania German. 4th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, University of Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland. September 19-21. (with Richard Page).

2013 Cousins growing closer? Variation and change in American German and American English gapping. 25th Scandinavian Conference on Linguistics, University of Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland. May 13-15 (with Joshua Bousquette, Benjamin Frey, Nicholas Henry, Daniel Nützel, Joseph Salmons, and Alyson Sewell).

2013 Particle and prefix verb in Dutch and German: Where syntax and prosody collide. GLAC-19, State University of New York at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. April 27-29. (with Laura Catharine Smith).

2013 Invited presentation (keynote speaker address), Evolution and the architecture of grammar. University of Wisconsin-Madison German Graduate Student Conference (Time: German and Dutch studies in the 4th dimension). University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI. March 1-2.

2012 Invited presentation, Misionero German: Investigating the V2- and OV-parameters in the speech of trilingual German speakers in Misiones, Argentina. CLS Speaker Series. Penn State University. University Park, PA. Dec. 7. (with John Lipski).

2012 Constraints on constraints: towards a unified theory of constraint formation. Advances in OT-syntax and semantics, Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD. Nov. 9-10. (with Marc van Oostendorp).

2012 Two Inputs – One Grammar: Modeling heritage grammars in OT. Advances in OT-syntax and semantics, Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD. Nov. 9-10. (with Joshua Bousquette, Benjamin Frey, Joseph Salmons, and Alyson Sewell).

2012 Incomplete acquisition vs. incomplete maintenance – Long distance anaphoric binding in North American Icelandic. 3rd Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Penn State University. University Park, PA. Sept. 27-29. (with Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir).

2012 Holes where there shouldn’t be (any): Incomplete acquisition and multiple gap constructions. GLAC-18, University of Indiana-Bloomington. Bloomington, IN. April 26-29. (with Joshua Bousquette, Benjamin Frey, Nicholas Henry, Daniel Nützel, Joseph Salmons, and Alyson Sewell).

2012 Constraints on Syntax-Semantic Variance in Language Contact: Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch. GLAC-18, University of Indiana-Bloomington. Bloomington, IN. April 26-29. (with Joshua Brown).

2012 Upward- vs. downward-probing Agree: Defining a single feature valuation operation. WCCFL 30, University of California-Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA. April 13-15. (with Mike Diercks & Marjo van Koppen).

2012 How deep is your syntax? – Filler-gap dependencies in heritage language grammar. Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) 36. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. March 23-25. (with


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Joshua Bousquette, Benjamin Frey, Nicholas Henry, Daniel Nützel, Joseph Salmons, and Alyson Sewell).

2012 Lexicalizing Modality (or why Swedish doesn’t have a middle voice construction). Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) 36. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. March 23-25. (with Antonio Fábregas).

2012 Syntactic and prosodic properties of German prefix and particle verbs. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) 33. Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität. Frankfurt, Germany. March 10-12. (with Petr Biskup & Laura Catherine Smith).

2012 Invited presentation, Filler-gap dependencies in heritage grammars. Sentence ++ Research Group Meeting. Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD. February 29.

2012 Invited presentation, The life cycle of a heritage grammar. Johns Hopkins University. February 28.

2011 Invited presentation, La expresión de la voz media o por qué (y cómo) es fonológica la variación paramétrica. Univerisdad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. October 4. (with Antonio Fábregas).

2011 The directionality of Agree: Can a universal be established? The minimalist program: Quo Vadis? – Newborn, reborn, or stillborn? Universität Potsdam, Germany. October 3-6. (with Mike Diercks & Marjo van Koppen).

2011 Functional convergence and extension in contact: Syntactic and semantics attributes of the progressive aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch. Second Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America. Fefor Høifjellshotell, Norway. September 21-24. (with Joshua Brown).

2011 The syntax and semantics of excessivity: Evidence from Germanic. WCCFL 29, University of Arizona-Tucson. April 22-24. (with Volker Gast).

2011 German particle and prefix verbs at the syntax-phonology interface. GLAC-17, University of Texas-Austin April 16-17. (with Laura Catherine Smith & Petr Biskup).

2011 Invited speaker, Modeling L1 attrition/incomplete acquisition in Optimality Theory. Rutgers Optimality Research Group (RORG), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. April 1.

2011 Invited speaker, What if the grammar consisted of nothing but constraints? Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. March 8th.

2011 The A/A’-fallacy: Revisiting Webelhuth’s Paradox. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. February 23-25. (with Gema Chocano).

2011 Invited speaker, The syntax and semantics of excessivity: Evidence from Germanic. CLS Speaker Series, Penn State University (with Volker Gast). January 21st.

2011 Prefix and particle verb formation in German at the PF-Interface: A unified account. LSA Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. (with Laura Catherine Smith & Petr Biskup). January 6-9.

2010 Invited speaker, What’s in a √root? - Scalar properties of predicates in light of the projectionist vs. constructionist debate and their morpho-syntactic consequences. CLS Speaker Series, Penn State University, November 19th.

2010 Invited speaker, The role of features in a crash-proof syntax. Features Reading Group, University of Tromsø, Norway. Oct 11th.

2010 Invited speaker, The thing that should not be: Eliminating the A/A’-distinction. CASTL Colloquium, University of Tromsø, Norway. Oct. 7th.

2010 Late agreement in Icelandic without Probe-Goal relations. GLAC-16. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. April 30-May 2.

2009 Avoiding the gaps. MALC 2009. University of Missouri-Columbia. (with Tom Stroik). October 10-12.

2009 The causative-inchoative alternation in Henderson, NE Plautdietsch. MALC 2009. University of Missouri-Columbia (with Annemarie Toebosch). October 10-12.


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2009 When grammars collide: Code-switching in survive-minimalism. Workshop on minimalist approaches to code-switching. Utrecht, the Netherlands. (with Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto). July 7-8.

2009 Invited speaker, The semantics and pragmatics of particle verbs in Pennsylvania German. IMS Universität Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany. June 19. 2009 Invited speaker, Particle verbs in German from a survive-perspective. Linguistics Research Seminar, Universität Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany. June 16. 2009 One P with two spell-outs: The ent-/aus-alternation in German. Roots Workshop. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, June 10-13. (with Petr Biskup) 2009 Invited speaker, Push-and-pull: A minimalist account of QM in Icelandic. Syntax Research

Seminar, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität. Frankfurt, Germany. June 3. 2009 Invited plenary speaker, When grammars collide: Code-switching in the minimalist program.

Perceptual magnets: Commanding attention in contested time, place and thought. University of Indiana, February 20-22.

2008 Invited speaker, New perspectives on the grammaticalization of demonstrative reinforcer constructions in Pennsylvania German, Penn State University, December 5. 2008 Flavors of Merge. Ways of structure building, Vitoria-Gasateiz, Spain. November 13-14. (with Tom Stroik and Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto). 2008 Demonstrative reinforcers. 23rd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW), University of Edinburgh, Scotland. June 8-9. (with Dorian Roehrs). 2008 Bavarian subject extraction from a minimalist perspective. GLAC-14, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1-4. 2008 Complex demonstratives in Yiddish. GLAC-14, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1-4. (with Dorian Roehrs). 2008 What is crash-proof syntax and is it achievable? Exploring crash-proof grammars, Carson- Newman College, February 29-March 1. 2008 Better late than never: a survive-minimalist analysis of late subjects in Icelandic. Exploring crash- proof grammars, Carson-Newman College, February 29-March 1. 2008 Verbal alternation as an interface property: harmony in S-M and C-I. DEAL II – Interface theories: the filtering of the output of the generator, University of Leiden (Netherlands), February 22-23. (with Kyle Grove and Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto). 2008 Invited speaker, Focus in Q'anjob'al from an OT-perspective. The 5th Annual OSU Martin Luther King Day Linguistics Symposium: Ohio research on indigenous languages of the Americas, Ohio State University, January 21. (with Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto). 2007 Invited speaker, Multi-kulti Nazi? Gangsta rap in Germany. Language and hip-hop culture in a globalizing culture, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana, November 10. (with John T. Littlejohn). 2007 Exploring the focus-morphology interface: morphosyntactic aspects of non-prosodic focus. 2007-MALC. University of Kansas, October 26-28. (with Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto). 2007 Do heads behave like phrases? 2007-MALC. University of Kansas, October 26-28. (with Tom Stroik). 2007 Those there pesky demonstratives: the structure of demonstratives in Pennsylvania German. 31st Annual Conference for the Society of German-American Studies (SGAS), Lawrence, KS, April 26-29. 2007 Invited speaker, minimalistifying Minimalism: Examining the role of the syntax in the Minimalist

Program. University of Michigan Syntax Support Group, April 13. (with Adam Szczegielniak).

2007 Invited speaker, The silent voice in the classroom: Theoretical and pedagogical implementations of the German middle voice in L2 acquisition, Fresno Pacific University, January 26. 2006 Sesam, öffne dich! A minimalist analysis of the L2 acquisition of German middle voice constructions. 36th

Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistics Society. Oakland, MI. Oct. 28.


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2006 Agree and feature transfer. 36th Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistics Society. Oakland, MI. Oct. 28. (with Hamid Ouali). 2006 Focus at the Interface: A generative approach to the morphosyntax of focus markers. 2006-MALC. Edwardsville, IL. Oct. 27-28. (with Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto). 2006 Invited speaker, The L2 Acquisition of the thematic/non-thematic parameter in V2 languages.

Linguistics Colloquy at Kenyon College (Ohio). October 6. 2006 Invited speaker, The road to PF. Michigan State University Linguistics Colloquium, September 28. 2006 Surviving reconstruction. InterPhases-Syntaxfest. Nicosia, Cyprus. May 18-20. (with Tom Stroik). 2006 The Great Binding Conspiracy. GLAC-12. Champaign-Urbana, IL. April 28-30. 2006 C-agreement or something close to it: the alls-construction. 21st Comparative Workshop of

Germanic Syntax (CGSW). University of Santa Cruz, CA. March 31-April 2. (with Marjo Van Koppen).

2006 Invited speaker, Is a Crash-Proof Syntax Possible? University of Michigan Syntax Support Group. January 27. 2005 Inherited features and innovations in historical Germanic verse. Modern Language Association (MLA) Germanic Philology Group. MLA National Conference. Washington, D.C. December 27-30. (with Bradley G. Weiss). 2005 One Step Closer to Crash-Proof Syntax. Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy in Linguistics (DEAL). ZAS Berlin, Germany, December 17-19. (with Tom Stroik). 2005 The Lexicon at the Interfaces. LASSO 35. Lubock, TX, October 7-9. (with Tom Stroik). 2005 Invited speaker, Agree to Disagree. University of Kansas Linguistics Colloquy, August 29. 2005 uff vs. uch: Neutralization of a voiceless fricative in word-final, post-back vowel position in a Kansas Volga German Dialect. 29th Annual Conference for the Society for German-American Studies (SGAS). Grand Rapids, MI. May 5-8. (with William D. Keel and Bradley G. Weiss). 2005 Agreement checking at PF: C-agreement in West Germanic. GLAC-11. Davis, CA, April 22-23. 2005 A Dynamic Approach to Prosodic Stress Assignment in Germanic. GLAC-11. Davis, CA, April 22-23. (with Kleanthes K. Grohmann). 2005 Comparative metrics in Germanic verse. 9th Annual Conference for the Graduate Association of German Students (GAGS) at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, March 11-12. (with Bradley G. Weiss). 2004 Prosodic stress assignment in dynamic computations. 34th Michigan Linguistic Society Annual Meeting. Flint, MI. October 16-17. (with Kleanthes K. Grohmann). 2004 Southern uprising: the introduction of Inner-Southern features into the Midwest. 46th MMLA, St. Louis, MO, November 4-7. 2004 Phasal elasticity. LACUS 31. Chicago, IL, July 27-31. (with Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto). 2004 An investigation of alveo-palatal fricatives in East Frisian Low German utilizing Optimality Theory (OT). 28th Annual Conference for the Society for German-American Studies (SGAS), New Ulm, MN, April 22-24. (with Bradley Weiss). 2004 Non-lexical triggers in West Germanic scrambling. 57th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). Lexington, KY, April 15-17. 2004 The connection between dynamic antisymmetry and prosodic stress assignment in XP-scrambling. 8th Annual Conference for the Graduate Association of German Students (GAGS) at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, February 20-21. 2003 Invited speaker, Difficulties and challenges of researching German-American dialects in the 21st Century. 8th Annual Low German Conference. Manning, IA. October 17-19. 2003 Roman Jakoben’s ‘Regression Hypothesis’ and its Application to Case Syncretism in German-American


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Dialects. 7th Annual Conference for the Graduate Association of German Students (GAGS) at the University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS. February 21-22. 2002 The prepositional case in German-American dialects? 7th Annual German Graduate Student Conference at the University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH. October 25-27. 2002 Case syncretism in Ohio Pennsylvania German: Internal development or external influence? 26th Annual Conference for the Society of German-American Studies (SGAS). Amana, IA. April 18-21. 2002 The monophthongization of /ai/ in non-sectarian Pennsylvania German. 6th Annual Conference for the Graduate Association of German Students (GAGS) at the University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS. April 13-14. 2001 Heutige Aspekte des Pennsylvania-Deutschen in Ohio. Doktoranten Kolloqium: Philipps- Universität. Marburg, Germany. January 18. COURSES TAUGHT German First-year German I (KU, MSU, C-N, PSU) First-year German II (KU, MSU, C-N) Second-year German I (KU, MSU, C-N) Second-year German II (KU, MSU, C-N) German for Reading Knowledge (graduate) (MSU, Summer 2007) GER 083: Rammstein, punks, and turntables (PSU, Fall 2020) GER 100: Germanic Civiliation and Culture (PSU, Spring 2015) GER 157: Pennsylvania German language and culture (PSU, Fall 2018) GER 157: The Amish (PSU, Fall 2019) GER 300: Composition and Conversation (U of Michigan, Fall 2005) GER 301: Rammstein: Ostalgie und gescheiterte Wiedervereinigung (C-N, Fall 2008) GER 352: Business German (KU, Fall 2004) GER 406: Advanced Conversation (U of Michigan, Spring 2006) GER 420: Advanced German Grammar: Deutsches Fernsehen (MSU, Fall 2006) GER 425: moderne deutsche Jugendkultur (advanced undergraduate seminar) (U of Michigan, Fall 2005) GER 426: Advanced Undergraduate Seminar 25 Jahre Hip-hop in Deutschland

(U of Michigan, Spring 2006) GER 430: History of the German Language (PSU, Spring 2020). GER 445: Advanced Undergraduate Seminar Deutscher Hip-hop im 21. Jahrhundert (MSU, Fall 2006) GER 490: Advanced Undergraduate Seminar Ostalgie in aktueller deutscher Musik (MSU, Spring 2007) GER 497: Tendenzen der deutschen Gegenwartssprache (PSU, Fall 2015) GER 4/511: Teaching College German (PSU, Fall 2010-15) GER 514: German(ic) Syntax (PSU, Graduate seminar, Spring 2011, Spring 2014, Fall 2017, Spring

2020) GER 582: Kontaktdeutsch (Fall 2014) Linguistics IST 597: Data-driven Approaches to Computational Theories of Language (graduate; co-taught with Matt Carlson and David Reitter) (PSU, Fall 2016) TESL 566: English Phonology (graduate) (C-N, Summer 2008) TESL 567: Language Acquisition (graduate) (C-N, Spring 2008) TESL 568: English Syntax (graduate) (C-N, Spring 2008) PSY/LING 390: Psycholinguistics (C-N, Spring 2008) LING 205: Syntax I: HPSG (C-N, Spring 2010)


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LING 220: Introduction to Linguistics (C-N, Fall 2007, Fall 2009) LING 305: Syntax I (C-N, Fall 2008) LING 390: Phonetics (C-N, Fall 2008) LING 420: Syntax II (C-N, Spring 2009) LING 449: Semantics (PSU, Fall 2012) LING 497: Language Islands – Contact Linguistics (PSU, Undergraduate seminar, Fall 2011) LING 500: Syntax II (Penn State, Fall 2018) LING 593: The secret lives of verbs (PSU, Graduate seminar, Spring 2016) LING 593: Tense-Mood-Aspect (PSU, Graduate seminar, Spring 2018) LING 597A: Learnability and Linguistic Theory (PSU, Spring 2013) LING 597B: Language Attrition (PSU, Spring 2019) LING 597C: Filler-gap Dependencies (PSU, Fall 2019) LING 597D: Morphology: structure, acquisition, & attrition (PSU, Fall 2020) EDUC 434/544: Teaching Modern and Classical Languages/Second Language Acquisition (C-N, Fall 2007) GER 325: History of the German language (advanced undergraduate seminar) (U of Michigan, Fall 2005) GER 326: Introduction to German Syntax (advanced undergraduate seminar) (U of Michigan, Spring 2006) Coordination Experience 2010-2016 & 2018-19 Lower-division language coordinator: first- and second-year German language courses

(Penn State University) 2005 Course co-coordinator for Second-year German I. (KU, spring semester) 2004 Course co-coordinator for First-year German II. (KU, fall semester) SERVICE: UNIVERSITY-LEVEL Penn State University 2017-Present Graduate Council Joint Curricular Committee, Member 2017-Present (Sub)committee on New and Revised Programs and Courses, Member 2015-Present Adele Miccio Travel Award, Committee Chair 2015-2016 Tenure-track faculty search committee member, Program in Linguistics 2014 Volunteer evaluator, PSU Campus Fulbright 2012-13 Adele Miccio Travel Award, Committee Member 2010-Present Center for Language Science Core Faculty Member SERVICE: COLLEGE-LEVEL 2019-present RGSO dissertation research fund review committee member, The College of The Liberal Arts, The

Pennsylvania State University 2017-present Graduate Curricular Coordinator, The College of The Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State

University DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: COMMITTEE WORK & SERVICE 2018-2019 Teaching-faculty search committee member, Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages &

Literatures 2015-present Departmental graduate committee member, Department of Germanic & Slavic

Languages & Literatures


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2010-2015 Departmental undergraduate committee member, Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: ADVISING Penn State University Doctoral students (primary advisor) 2012-2018 Dr. Hyoun-A Joo (Assistant Prof., Furman University 2019 – Present) 2013-2019 Dr. Lara Schwarz (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, TU Dortmund 2019 – Present) Current doctoral students (primary advisor) 2014-present Dr. Nora (Hellmold) Vosburg (co-chair with Prof. Rena Torres-Cacoullos) 2016-present Mr. Robert Klosinski 2017-present Ms. Maike Rocker (co-chair with Prof. Rena Torres-Cacoullos) 2020-present Mr. Andrew Hoffman (co-chair with Prof. Richard Page). 2020-preent Ms. Rose Fisher Masters and Doctoral committee service: Penn State 2020 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Estilita Cassiani Obeso (Spanish & Portuguese) 2020 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Ashley Pahis (Spanish & Portuguese) 2020 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Carlos Echeverría Arriagada (Spanish &

Portuguese) 2020 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Javier López Seoane (Spanish & Portuguese) 2019 Committee member, Isabel Deibel, Ph.D. dissertation, Language representations in the presence of a

lexical-functional split: An experimental approach targeting the Quichua-Media Lengua-Spanish interface (Spanish & Portuguese)

2019 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee chair, Robert Klosinski 2019 Ph.D. Candidacy exam committee member, Anna Piotti 2019 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Priscila López-Beltrán Forcada (Spanish &

Portuguese) 2019 Committee chair, Lara Schwarz, Ph.D. dissertation, Morphological (in)stability in Heritage Germanic:

Examining the role of form and function. 2019 Committee member, Bianca Gavin, Ph.D. dissertation, Learning second language vocabulary through

communicative classroom activities: Does number of encounters make a difference? 2019 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Priscila López-Beltrán Forcada (Spanish &

Portuguese) 2019 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Andrew Hoffman 2018 Ph.D. Candidacy exam committee member, Valerie Keppenne 2018 Ph.D. Candidacy exam committee chair, Maike Rocker 2018 Committee member, Jeremy Cole, Ph.D. dissertation, Incremental planning and buffering in language

production: Modeling large-scale data. (Information Sciences & Technologies) 2018 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Isabel Deibel (Spanish & Portuguese) 2018 Committee chair, Hyoun-A Joo, Ph.D. dissertation, Clausal architecture in naturally acquired German:

the case of Korean immigrants in Germany. 2018 Committee member, Dora LaCasse, Ph.D. dissertation, The subjunctive in New Mexican Spanish:

Maintenance in the face of language contact. (Spanish & Portuguese) 2018 Committee member, Jonathan Steuck, Ph.D. dissertation, The prosodic-syntactic structure of intra-

sentential multi-word code-switching in the New Mexico Spanish-English bilingual community. (Spanish & Portuguese)


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2017 Committee member, Ines Martin, Ph.D. dissertation, Bridging the gap between L2 pronunciation research and teaching: Using iCPRS to improve novice German learners’ pronunciation in online and face-to-face classes.

2017 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Michael Johns (Spanish & Portuguese) 2017 Ph.D. Candidacy exam committee chair, Robert Klosinski 2017 Ph.D. Candidacy exam committee member, Andrew Hoffman 2017 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Jeremy Cole (Information Sciences &

Technology) 2017 Committee member, Patricia L. Schempp, Ph.D. dissertation, L2 learners’ process of grammatical

gender varies according to cognate status and proficiency: An ERP study. 2017 Committee member, Christopher Champi, Ph.D. dissertation, First- and second-person singular subject

pronoun expression in Dominican Spanish: The structure and acquisition of variable forms. (Spanish & Portuguese)

2017 Committee member, Courtney Johnson Fowler, Ph.D. dissertation, Cross-language interaction during language production in L1 German-L2 Italian bilinguals.

2017 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee chair, Nora Hellmold 2016 Committee member, Lieselotte Sippel, Ph.D. dissertation, The effects of peer interaction, form-focused

instruction, and peer corrective feedback on the acquisition of grammar and vocabulary in L2 German. 2016 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Doris LaCasse (Spanish & Portuguese) 2016 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Jonathan Steuck (Spanish & Portuguese) 2016 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee chair, Lara Schwarz 2016 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Bianca Gavin 2016 Committee member, Christine Gardner, Ph.D. dissertation, The production and read and conversational

speech by L1 and L2 speakers of German. 2015 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee chair, Hyoun-A Joo 2015 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Christopher Champi (Spanish & Portuguese) 2015 Adviser, Ph.D. Candidacy exam, Nora Hellmold 2015 Ph.D. Candidacy exam committee member, Bianca Gavin 2015 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Lieselotte Sippel 2015 Committee member, Nick Henry, Ph.D. dissertation, Morphosyntactic processing, cue interaction, and the

effects of instruction: An investigation of processing instruction and the acquisition of case markings in L2 German. 2014 Committee member, Donald Vosburg, Ph.D. dissertation, Language learning in an MMORPG

(Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game): A case-study of L2 learners of German. 2014 Ph.D. Candidacy exam committee chair, Lara Schwarz 2014 Committee member, Marie Y. Quarnstörm, Ph.D. dissertation, The impact of societal changes and

attitudes on the maintenance and shift of Pennsylvania German among the Older Order Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

2014 Committee member, Kristi Ann McAuliffe, Ph.D. dissertation, Exploring “otherness” through Holocaust literature in the undergraduate German curriculum.

2014 Committee member, Alison Eisel Hendricks, Ph.D. dissertation, Inconsistent input and amount of exposure: Child language acquisiton of Fering, a dialect of North Frisian.

2014 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Patricia Schempp 2014 Committee member, Ashley Roccamo, Ph.D. dissertation, Comparing the success of pronunciation

instruction in elementary and intermediate German language classrooms. 2013 Ph.D. Candidacy exam committee chair, Hyoun-A Joo 2013 Adviser, PIRE undergraduate researcher, Molly Lichtenwalner 2012 Adviser, MA student, Stephanie Douglas 2012 Ph.D. Candidacy exam committee chair, Joslyn Johnson. 2012 Ph.D. Candidacy exam committee member, Courtney Johnson-Fowler. 2012 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Nicholas Henry. 2012 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Christine Gardner. 2011 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Ashley Roccamo.


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2011 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Alison Eisel Hendricks. 2011 Ph.D. Comprehensive exam committee member, Don Vosburg. 2011 Committee member, Joshua Brown, Ph.D. dissertation, Ethnoreligious identity and language shift among

the Amish-Mennonites in Kishacoquillas Valley, Pennsylvania. 2011 Ph.D. Candidacy exam member, Nicholas Henry 2010 Ph.D. Candidacy exam member, Christine Gardner Masters and Doctoral committee service outside of host institution 2018 First opponent, Maren Berg Grimstad, Ph.D., English origin verbs in American Norwegian: A

morphosyntactic analysis of mixed verbs (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim)

2018 Habilitation thesis examiner, Jackie Nordström, Ph.D., Language as sound with meaning: A dual model of language (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)

2018 External reader/evaluator, Abdul Hamid, Ph.D. dissertation, The syntax of argument structure in Pashto, University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (Pakistan)

2017 Committee member, Samantha Litty, Ph.D. dissertation, We talk German now yet: The sociolinguistic development of voice onset time and final obstruent neutralization in Wisconsin German and English varieties, 1863-2013 (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: COMMITTEE AFFILIATION Penn State University 2015 – Present Departmental graduate committee, member 2014 – Present Departmental tenure and promotion committee, member 2013 – Present Departmental strategic planning committee, member 2010 – 2015 Departmental undergraduate studies committee, member Carson-Newman College 2008-09 Advisor, Jon Coffee, Carson-Newman College, undergraduate honors research project, What do we do with do-support? 2008-09 Advisor, Charles Stanfill, Carson-Newman College, undergraduate honors research

project, The merger of back vowels in Eastern Tennessee. Michigan State University 2007 Advisor, Annie Jansen, Capstone Project, Michigan State University, OV vs. VO: Investigating word order structure in Frankenmuth German. 2007 Advisor, Christopher Morehead, Capstone Project, Michigan State University, Space and place in German hip-hop. 2007 Advisor, Janelle Schaeffer, Capstone Project, Michigan State University, Maintaining German culture through language: Frankenmuth. 2007 Advisor, Peter Tainsh, Capstone Project, Michigan State University, A third way out? – an alternative to Wiedervereinigung. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES EDITORIAL BOARD AFFILIATION 2019-present Editorial board member, Current Issues in Bilingualism, Language Science Press 2019-present Editorial board member, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Cambridge University Press 2017-present Editorial board member, Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, John Benjamins Publishing Company 2017-present Editor, Proceedings of Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA), Cascadilla


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Press. 2017-present Editorial advisory board member, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, John Benjamins

Publishing Company 2015-present Series editor, Studies in Germanic Linguistics, John Benjmains Publishing Company

(1) Volume 1: Syntactic variation in Insular Scandinavian; eds. H. Thráinsson, C. Heycock, H.P. Petersen, & Z.S. Hansen. (2017)

(2) Volume 2: Norwegian discourse ellipsis; Mari Nygård. (2018) (3) Volume 3: A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages – Phonology and

Inflectional Morphology; Robert Fulk. (2018) 2015-present Editorial board member, Studies in Bilingualism, John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013-2015 Series editor, Studies in Germanic Linguistics, The Ohio State University Press 2014-present Editorial board member, Yearbook of German-American Studies INTERNATIONAL 2019 Invited external panel member, WF – Der Wissenschaftsfonds (Austria Science Foundation),

Linguistics 2018 Reviewer, British Academy of Science 2017 Reviewer, Centre of Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy (Senter for grunnforskning),

Linguistics. 2017 Fellowship reviewer, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRAIS, University of

Freiburg, Germany) 2015 Reviewer, Centre of Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy (Senter for grunnforskning),

Linguistics. 2015 Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF), Linguistics. (x2) CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION AND PEER-REVIEW RESPONSIBILITIES 2020 Conference co-organizer of the 12th NHLRC Institute. 2019 Abstract reviewer, NELS 50. 2019 Abstract reviewer, Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS) 55. 2018 Abstract reviewer, GLOW 42. 2018 Conference organizer of GLAC-24, Penn State University, University Park, PA, May 11-12. 2018 Abstract reviewer for Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 54. 2018 Abstract reviewer for GLOW 41. 2017 Conference organizer of 8th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas,

University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 12-14. 2017 Abstract reviewer for NELS 48. 2017 Abstract reviewer for CGSW 32. 2017 Abstract reviewer for SLRF 2017. 2017 Member, Scientific Committee, International Symposium for Bilingualism (ISB)

11, University of Limerick, Ireland, June 11-15. 2016 Conference organizer of 7th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas,

University of Georgia, Athens, GA, October 27-29. 2016 Abstract Reviewer for GLOW 40. 2016 Abstract reviewer for NELS 47. 2016 Abstract reviewer for CGSW 31. 2016 Abstract reviewer for GLAC-22. 2015 Conference organizer of 6th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas,

Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden, September 23-27. 2015 Organizing committee member, International Symposium for Bilingualism (ISB) 10,


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Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, May 8-10. 2015 Abstract reviewer for GLOW 38. 2014 Abstract reviewer for NELS 45. 2014 Conference organizer of the 5th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas,

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 17-18. 2014 Abstract reviewer for GLOW 37. 2013 Conference organizer of the 4th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas,

University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Sept. 19-21. 2013 Abstract reviewer for NELS 44. 2013 Abstract reviewer for WCCFL 31. 2013 Abstract reviewer for GLOW 36. 2012 Abstract reviewer for NELS 43. 2011 Abstract reviewer for NELS 42. 2012 Conference organizer of Advances in OT-syntax and semantics, Johns Hopkins

University, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 9-10. 2012 Conference organizer of the 3rd Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas,

Penn State University, University Park, PA, Sept. 27-29. 2008 Conference organizer/director of Exploring crash-proof grammars, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City (TN), February 29-March 2. 2008-present Reviewer for Acta Psychologica, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Cambridge University Press,

Continuum Press, Frontiers in Psychology, Glossa, Heritage Language Journal, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, International Journal of Bilingualism, Language Learning, Languages, Language Science Press, Language Under Discussion, Lingua, Linguistic Analysis, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Linguistic Variation and Change, John Benjamins Publishing Company, The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Journal of Language Contact, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Logic, Language and Information, The Linguistic Review, Mouton de Gruyter, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (NLLT), Popular Music and Society, Poznan Journal of Linguistics, Routledge Press, SKY Journal of Linguistics, and Yearbook of German-American Studies.

National 2006-present Reviewer for the Journal Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. External Program Evaluation 2019 Austrian Science Fund, Invited panel reviewer 2018 Montclair State University, Language, Business & Culture (B.A.) Degree Program 2016 Montclair State University, German major & Foreign Language Department Regional 2009 Abstract reviewer (syntax/semantics) – MALC 2009. University of Missouri-Columbia, October 9-11. 2008 Panel organizer for SECOL 75 – The syntax and semantics of Appalachian English. University of Tennessee-Knoxville, April 3-5. 2008 Panel chair (syntax) at GLAC-14, University of Wisconsin-Madison. May 1-4. 2007-2010 ETS test administrator and proctor. 2007 Faculty representative of MSU German Summer Camp 2006 Judge – German Day (U of Michigan) 2001-2005 Schülerkongress Judge (Kansas AATG chapter) University 2008 Guest presenter/speaker for Carson-Newman’s Liberal Arts Emphasis Week, February


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20. 2006 Committee member for departmental graduate student recruitment (MSU) 2003-2005 Departmental representative for the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) (KU) 2003-2005 Invited presenter by CTE for incoming graduate students teaching a foreign language (w/ Prof. Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm (Ohio State University)) 2003-2005 Foreign language advisor (KU) 2003-2004 President of the Graduate Association of German Students (GAGS) (KU) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS MLA – Modern Languages Association SGAS – Society for German-American Studies DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Alumnus SGL – Society of Germanic Linguistics LANGUAGES English – native speaker German – near-native fluency Pennsylvania German – advanced proficiency Mennonite Low German (Plautdietsch) – intermediate proficiency (Heritage) German dialects – intermediate-advanced proficiency Norwegian – intermediate/advanced proficiency Dutch – reading knowledge Afrikaans, Swedish, Icelandic, French – reading knowledge Historical German languages (e.g., Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old English, Middle English, Middle High German, Early New High German) – reading knowledge Technical Skills Psycholinguistic software: PsychoPy2, Praat, ELAN, Open Sesame LaTeX


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REFERENCES PROF. TERJE LOHNDAL Professor of Linguistics NTNU Department of Language & Literature Bygg 5, 5531 Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1 NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway Phone: +47 73596780 Email: [email protected]

PROF. MARIA POLINSKY Professor of Linguistics University of Maryland-College Park 1417A Marie Mount Hall College Park, MD 20742 Phone: (301) 405-7002 Email: [email protected]

PROF. ANTONIO FÁBREGAS Department of Languages & Linguistics University of Tromsø SVHUM E 1019 N-9019 Tromsø (Norway) Phone: (+47) 776-44581 Email: [email protected]

PROF. DR. HOLGER HOPP Technische Universität Braunschweig Englisches Seminar Englische Sprachwissenschaft Bienroder Weg 80 D-38106 Braunschweig (Germany) Phone: +49-(0)531-391 8700 Email: [email protected]

PROF. JOSEPH SALMONS Lester W.J. "Smoky" Seifert Professor of Germanic Linguistics University of Wisconsin Language Sciences 1150 Van Hise Hall 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-8180 Email: [email protected]

PROF. JOHN M. LIPSKI Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Linguistics The Pennsylvania State University 347 Burrowes Building University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814) 865-6583 Email: [email protected]

PROF. LILIANA SÁNCHEZ Rutgers University Professor of Spanish & Portuguese Department of Spanish & Portuguese 206 Carpender Hall 105 George St. New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Phone: (732) 932-9412 Email: [email protected]

PROF. JASON ROTHMAN Professor of Linguistics Department of Language and Culture University of Tromsø Hansine Hansens veg 18 N-9019 Tromsø, Norway Phone: +47 77644000 Email: [email protected]

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