FacultyResearch
Interests
Germanic
Linguistics, Cognitive Grammar
Education Ph.D.
University of Michigan, 1995M.A.
University of California, Berkeley, 1991B.A.
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 1987Academic
Positions Assistant Professor
(visiting), Ohio State University, 1997-1998Assistant
Professor, University of Arizona, 1998-2000 Faculty
member, Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
Director
of Basic Languages, Department of German
Major Publications
2004. with Susannah Martin. Auxiliary Selection in the Present Perfect by L2 Students of German. Unterrichtspraxis 37.2.
2004. A Cognitive Approach to the Semantics of the
German Passive. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
2004. McConnell, Winder and Carlee Arnett. "Marriage in Robinson Jeffers's 'At the Birth of an Age': Gudrun/Kriemhild and Attila/Etzel in
the Twentieth Century". Festschrift for Werner Wunderlich, ed. By Ulrich Mueller and Margarete Springeth. Stuttgart: Hans-Dieter-Heinz
Verlag.
2004. with Masuda, Kyoko. "On German and Japanese Dative Constructions." High Desert Linguistics Society.
2000. "A Cognitive Approach to the Old Saxon Processual Passive."
American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 12.1, 81-99.
2000. with Janet K. VanValkenburg.
"The Professionalization of Teaching Assistants: Can it be accomplished?"
Die Unterrichtspraxis/ Teaching German 33:1, 1-6.
1997. "Perfect Auxiliary Selection in the Old Saxon Heliand." American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 9:1, 23-72.
1997. "A Functional Approach towards the Subject Category in German." 1996 Mid-American Linguistics Conference Papers, The University of Kansas, 17-23.
1997. "German Impersonal Passives." Lexical and syntactic constructions and the construction of meaning, ed. By Keedong Lee, Eve Sweetser and Marjolijn Verspoor, in Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 399-415. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1995. with Irmengard Rauch, Julie Belz et al. "BAG
[Bay Area German Project] IV: Phonological Interference." Insights in Germanic Linguistics I: Methodology in Transition, ed. By Irmengard Rauch and Gerald F. Carr, 2275-292.
Teaching Fields/Courses Taught Intermediate
Literature and CultureGerman 105:
The Modern German LanguageGerman
143: Language and the MediaFRS 001:
Germanic Myth and Linguistic Wisdom in Tolkien's
FictionGerman 206: Cognitive Grammar
for Applied Linguistics
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