报告题目：Chain Shifting in Vowels

报 告 人：JOSEPH SALMONS

国际权威语言学期刊Diachronica（《历时语言学》）主编，美国马里兰大学、威斯康星大学语言学教授

报告地点：舜耕校区国际交流中心601室

报告时间： 6月14日（周四）下午14：15

主办单位：研究生部、社科处、外国语学院

报告人简介：

Joseph Salmons教授是国际权威语言学期刊Diachronica（《历时语言学》）主编，同时兼任世界多家语言类杂志的编委、评委、顾问，在历时语言学、音系学等研究领域享有盛名，曾提出多个在语言学领域产生重大影响的理论假说。他精通英语、德语、法语、西班牙语，在国际跨语言研究领域做出了重大贡献。

Joseph Salmons is Professor of German and of Linguistics, and Director of the Max Kade Institute. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy (UNC-Charlotte, 1978) and a Ph.D. in Germanic linguistics (University of Texas at Austin, 1984). He serves as associate editor of Journal of Germanic Linguistics and executive editor of Diachronica, and on various editorial boards, and has just stepped down after two terms as president of the Society for Germanic Linguistics. His recent publications include: “The Evolution of Bilingual Discourse Marking: Modal particles and English markers in 19th-century German-American dialects” with Emily Goss in the International Journal of Bilingualism. 4: 4.469-494 (2000); “Glottal Spreading Bias in Germanic” with Gregory K. Iverson in Linguistische Berichte 178:135-151 (1999); and Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence. Amsterdam: Benjamins, co-edited by Brian D. Joseph (Benjamins, 1998).