Andrea Tyler

Professor of LinguisticsGeorgetown University

I. EDUCATION

Ph.D., Linguistics August 1986University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Master of Art, Linguistics 　 May 1982University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Master of Art, Library Science December 1974University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Bachelor of Art, Social Studies Education 　　　 December 1972University 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 to1994Coordinator of Academic Spoken English

Visiting Assistant Professor 1986 to1990Coordinator of Academic Spoken English Head of Academic Division of English Language Institute

University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 1984 to1986Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Reading

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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.

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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.

1995 Tyler, 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 Second Language 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.

1992 Tyler, 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.

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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 structuring devices 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 articles and 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

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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.

1989 Davies, 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

2000 Tyler, 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.

1988 Tyler, A. Recursion in the lexicon. In D. Bouchard & K. Leffel (Eds.), FOCAL (pp. 81-106). Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Program in Linguistics.

1984 Tyler, 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

2003 Davies, 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

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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. My first 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).

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1996 Tyler, 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).

1995 Tyler, 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)

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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 perceptions of 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 (December 1986).

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).

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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

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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 ITA Symposium, San Francisco, CA (March 1990).

VI. INVITED TALKS2004 A cognitive linguistic approach to IN. Department of Linguistics. University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy (June 2004)

2003 Semantic 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 discourse Institute of Intensive English. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (February 1999).

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1999 My ex-husband was Italian: Examining some “exceptional” use of English past tense. Department of Linguistics Forum, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. (February 1999).

1998 What 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.

1995 Colloquium 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).

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Program development

English for Lawyers. (Summer 2003-present) Developed curriculum for program whose aim is to provide 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 TeachersLinguistics and ReadingSecond Language WritingPedagogical GrammarSecond Language Teaching MethodsMetaphor and the MindIntroduction to LinguisticsSeminar: Topics in Advances in Language Methods: Discourse PerspectivesSeminar: Applying Cognitive Linguistics Seminar: Pedagogical GrammarSeminar: Professional DiscourseIntroduction to Cross-cultural CommunicationIntroduction to Sociolinguistics

Thesis and dissertation direction or reading:

Ph.D. thesis mentoring(8 doctoral degrees completed; 5 dissertations in progress)

Budsaba Kanoksilapatham. 2003. A Corpus-based Investigation of Scientific Research Articles: Linking Move Analysis With Multidimensional Analysis.

Yuko Nakahama. 2003. Cross-linguistic Influence on Topic Continuity in L2 Japanese Oral Narratives.

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Sarah Jung. 2001. The Effect of Meta-linguistic Discourse Cues on Listening Comprehension of Academic Lectures.

Jo Mackiewicz. 2001.Politeness and Gender in Peer-tutoring Writing Conferences.

Mohammed Alhawary. 2000. The Processability Model of Second Language Acquisition and Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Language Instruction: The Case of Arabic as a Foreign/Second Language.

Carole Cloutiere. 2000. Variation in Language Production in Task-Based Communicative Tasks.

Vyvyan Evans. 2000. The Conceptualization of Time in English: A Cognitive Linguistic Examination.

Allison Edwards. 1996. Readability Revisited: Evaluation of a Functional Approach.

Boris Fridman-Mintz. In progress. The Verbal Morphology of Mexican Sign Language: A Cognitive Approach.

Mari Takada. In progress. Metaphors of the Senses.

Suzanne Matula. In progress. Temporal Extensions of Spatial Particles: An Experimental Investigation.

Douglas Demo. In progress. Gatekeeping in the Job Interview.

Jindaporn Sangganjanavanish. In progress. L2 Prosodics: An Instrumental Investigation of the Acquisition of English Prosodics by Native Speakers of Thai.

Thesis reading

Masters research papers(30 completed)

Darya Shakhova. 2003. Principled Polysemy in the Semantics of the Russian Preposition "Za": A Cognitive Approach.

Dainora Kupscinski. 2001. English Metaphor Structure in Lithuanian Speech of Lithuaniuan-AmericanEnglish Bilinguals

Kumiko Inutsuka. 1999. Does Unfamiliar Rhetorical Organization Affect Reading Comprehension?

Mitsuyo Sato. 1999. On the Use of Japanese A-series from Different Perspectives.

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Midori Yokota. 1999. Does Unfamiliar Rhetorical Organization Affect Reading Comprehension?

Chikako Mori. 1998. The Japanese Spatial Marker –ni.

Viphavee Vongpumivitch. 1998. Interpreting English Phrasal Verbs Ending With Particles OFF and OUT”.

X. ACADEMIC HONORS

Recipient of the 1994 Newbury House - TESOL Research Section Distinguished Research Award

Recipient of 1994 University of Florida Outstanding Service Award

Listed among the Outstanding Teachers at the University of Illinois, 1985-6

LSA Scholarship to Linguistics Society of America 1983 Summer Institute

Phi Beta Kappa

Grants

Summer Academic Grant, Georgetown University Graduate School, 2004. Applying Cognitive Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom. Supported experimental research on the efficacy of teaching English prepositions from a cognitive linguistics perspective.

International Collaborative Research Grant, Georgetown University, 2003. Cross-linguistic investigation of the semantic extension of spatial particles. Supported research carried out with Silvia Luraghi at the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.

International Collaborative Research Grant, Georgetown University, 2003. Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Learning and Teacher: A New Paradigm for Language Teachers. Supported research carried out while I was a visiting fellow in the Cognitive Science and Linguistics Program at the University of Sussex.

International Collaborative Research Grant, Georgetown University, 2002. Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning. Supported research carried out while I was a visiting fellow in the Cognitive Science and Linguistics Program at the University of Sussex.

Department of Education, 1998, Title VII, Bilingual Education: Teachers and Personnel Grants, for the Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program in English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education at Georgetown University. (Co-authored with J. Alatis)

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Summer Academic Grant, Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics, 1996, “Prosodic Patterns in Spoken Academic Discourse: An Instrumental Analysis.”

Office of Georgetown University Executive Vice-President Teaching-Research Nexus Grant, 1997, “Profiling the Georgetown University Advanced Learner” (on behalf of the GU- Foreign Language Initiative in Research and Teaching and in conjunction with Prof. Heidi Byrnes, Prof. Catherine Doughty, Prof. Jeff Connor-Linton)

Summer Academic Grant, Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics, 1995. "Cross-cultural Perceptions of Sexual Harassment."

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