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John M. Lawler

*******@*****.*******://www.umich.edu/~jlawler Short Curriculum Vitae

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Education

A.B. cum laude (Mathematics and German) 1964,

St. Benedict s College (now Benedictine College), Atchison, KA

M.A. (Linguistics) 1967, University of Washington, Seattle

Thesis: Some Applications of Computers to Linguistic Field Methods

Ph.D. (Linguistics), 1973, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Co-Chairs: George Lakoff, Robin T. Lakoff

Dissertation: Studies in English Generics

Positions Held

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics,

University of Michigan, 2009-date

Visiting Professor of Linguistics and English, Western Washington University, Bellingham,

2006 -7

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Associate Professor of Linguistics, U of Michigan, 19782009

Associate Professor of Linguistics, Residential College, U of Michigan19862006

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 197378

Instructor of Linguistics, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 197273

Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Director of EFL, Utah State University, 1967 72

Languages: Speak English (native), German, Yiddish, Malay/Indonesian, Spanish,

LushootseedRead Latin, Greek, and most Romance and Germanic languages

Program FORTRAN, ALGOL, SNOBOL, Lisp, Pascal, HyperTalk, C++, Unix, awk, Perl, Python, et

alios

Research Interests

Grammar, including grammatical relations, morphosyntax, and the semantic interface

Semantics, especially metaphor, lexical semantics, and sound symbolism

Cognitive Grammar and Semantics, of mathematical and other embodied concepts

The English Language, its grammar, structure, history, and etymology

Linguistic Education Computational Linguistics Natural Language Processing

Typology and Universals Logic and Mathematics Indonesian Linguistics

Selected Professional Activities and Honors

Director and Advisor, Undergraduate Linguistics Program, UM, 1988 2001

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LS&A) Undergraduate Program Award 1998

Recipient, LS&A Excellence in Education Teaching Award 1991, 92, 93

Member, UM Governing Committee on Pilot Living/Learning Program, 1993 96

Member, Committee on Information and Communication Technology (now Computer Committee),

Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 1989 1993; Chair 1991 92

Organizer, Symposium on Computing in Linguistics, LSA Annual Meeting 1992

Organizer, first annual LSA Software Exhibit, Annual Meeting 1992

Honoree, Unanimous Resolution of Gratitude, voted by LSA Annual Meeting 1992

Member, UM X.500 Design and Implementation TQM Team, 1992-93

Member, LS&A Computer Policy Committee, 1984 1990

Special Consultant on Software Development to LS&A, 1986 1989

Member, Regents Committee on Broadcasting, 1982 84, 1986 87

Consulting Editor, Studies In Language, 1981 1997

Fulbright Lecture/Research Fellowship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1986

Principal Linguistic and Computer Consultant to Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka

for development of the National Linguistic Data Base.

Organizer and Chair, Sloan Conference on

Cognitive Dimensions of Non-Western Languages, UM 1982

Proposal Referee, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities

Member, Ask-A-Linguist Panel of Experts, 1997 date

Member, Editorial Board, Iconicity in Language, 2000 date

Member, LINGUIST List Advisory Board, 2001-date

This document is available online at http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/resume.pdf Online Bio

Underlined links are live. Feb 12, 2012

John M. Lawler *******@*****.*** http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler Short Curriculum Vitae

2832 Victor St, Bellingham, WA 98225 360/ 392-8606 (home) 360/ 244-0458 (Cell)

Selected Publications (all publications available at

http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/LawlerPublications.html)

(with L. Selinker) On Paradoxes, Rules, and Research in Second-Language Learning,

Language Learning 21:1, 1971.

Generic Papers 1972-97.

Acehnese Papers

1975-90

The Eclectic Company; or, Explanatory Power to the People, Georgetown University

Round Table, 1973.

Ample Negatives, CLS 10, 1974.

Quelques ProblEmes de REfErence, Langages 48, Paris, 1976. (English original MS)

Mimicry in Natural Language, The Elements, CLS 15, 1979.

Semantics [review article], Zwicky, Kantor, Lawler, & Keller-Cohen, Language

Development, Grammar, and

Semantics: The Contribution of Linguistics to Bilingual Education. Center for Applied

Linguistics, 1980.

(with Richard Rhodes) Athematic Metaphors, CLS 17, 1981.

Review of Lakoff & Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, Language 59:1, 1983.

Review of Furbee-Losee, The Correct Language: Tojolabal, IJAL 49:4, 1983.

Review of Austerlitz (ed.) The Scope of American Linguistics,. American Anthropologist

81, 1983.

Lexical Semantics in the Commercial Transaction Frame:

Value, worth, price, and cost, Studies in Language 13:2, 1989.

Women, Men, and Bristly Things: The Phonosemantics of the BR- Assonance in English,

Beddor (ed.), Michigan Working Papers in Linguistics I:1, 1990.

Review of Botley, McEnery, & Wilson (eds.), Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and

Research,

Language Learning & Technology 5:3, 2001.

Style Stands Still, Style 37:2, 2003.

Memorial for James D. McCawley, Language 79:3, 2003.

The Data Fetishist s Guide to Rime Coherence, in Poetry and Candy Colored Syntax,

Language Presented to Haj Ross, Haralampos Kalpakidis and William Salmon (eds), 2006.

Making the Point with Metaphors: Not Just for Poets, Complements and Dummies,

Everybody Has Their Own Opinion about Singular They, Editorial Eye, 2005

Encyclopedia articles 2006-2010 Negation, Punctuation, Notation: Logical,

Notation: Mathematical

Book Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide. 1998, Routledge. Co-Editor

(with Helen Aristar Dry),

co-author of the Introduction, and author of S5, The Unix Language Family and its

online appendix.

The Bibliography, Glossary, and Page Index from the book are also online.

Web Site http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/ (ca. 700,000 hits per annum) Selected items:

Frequently Asked Questions about English Grammar and Usage 58 essays on various topics.

(ca 24,000/mo)

Metaphors We Compute By, hyper-lecture, available on my Website (ca 100 hits a day)

and also in Hickey, Figures of Thought: For College Writers, Mayfield 1999

The Lawler-Rhodes Database of English Simplex Words, with source code and Pascal

compiler (Windows/DOS)

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