Linguists in other departments

• South Coblin
• Sarah Fagan
• Laura Graham
• Yukiko Abe Hatasa
• Kathy Heilenman
• Richard Hurtig
• Chuanren Ke
• Paula Kempchinsky
• Philip Klein
• Judith Liskin-Gasparro
• Mercedes Niño-Murcia
• Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros
• Ikuko Patricia Yuasa

South Coblin

Professor of Asian Languages and Literature
PhD in Asian Languages and Literature-Chinese, University of Washington, 1972

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

• 39:139 Chinese Historical Phonology
• 39:239 Seminar in Chinese Linguistics: Historical Phonology

 

Current research:

• Historical and comparative study of the northwest Chinese dialect, Han and Pre-Han phonology
• History of Mandarin

Sarah Fagan

Associate Professor of German
PhD in Linguistics, Cornell University, 1985

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

Current research: Epistemic modality; middle voice; vocabulary acquisition

http://www.uiowa.edu/~german/Fagan.html

Laura Graham

Associate Professor of Anthropology
PhD in Anthropology, University of Texas, 1990

Linguistically-oriented courses taught:

• Language, Culture and Communication
• Language and Culture
• Ethnography of Communication
• Language and Gender
• Language and Power
• Semiotics (interpreting signs in language and culture)

 

Current research: Discourse and expressive performance among Xavante Indians of central Brazil, focusing on
language practice in the social construction of gender and identity.

 

http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/facpages/graham.htm

Yukiko Abe Hatasa

Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literature
PhD in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1992

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

Theoretical linguistics:

• Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (undergraduate)
• Japanese Linguistics (graduate)

Applied linguistics:

Current research: Japanese language pedagogy; second language acquisition

http://www.uiowa.edu/~japanese/Staff/hatasa.html

Kathy Heilenman

Associate Professor of French and Italian/Foreign and ESL Language Education

Co-Director, Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition
PhD in Foreign Language Education/Applied Linguistics/French language, University of Louisville, 1978

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

• 164:201 Second Language Acquisition Theory and Research I
• 164:221 / 009:236 Topics in SLA: Speaking
• 007E/S/U:196:002 The Cultural Curriculum in Foreign/Second Languages

 

Current research: SLA; SL testing; self-assessment; culture

Richard Hurtig

Professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology
PhD in Psychology, Columbia University, 1974

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

• Psychology of Language (3:117, 103:172)
• Psycholinguistics (3:218, 103:219)
• Seminar: Psycholinguistics (3:533, 103:320)
• Speech Perception (3:230)

 

Current research: Cognitive neuroscience; speech perception; discourse; processing

Chuanren Ke

Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literature
PhD in Applied Linguistics, Indiana University, 1992

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

• Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language I: Theory and Research
• Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language II: Curriculum, Methodolgy, and Assessment
• Second Language Acquisition Theory and Research II

 

Current research: Psycholinguistics; testing; Chinese character recognition and production; Chinese reading;
acquisition order of Mandarin Chinese sentence patterns; curriculum development

 

http://www2.uiowa.edu/~cke

Paula Kempchinsky

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
PhD in Romance Linguistics (focus theoretical syntax), UCLA, 1986

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

• 35:171 Spanish Syntax
• 35:207 Comparative Romance Linguistics
• 35:210 Advanced Spanish Syntax
• 35:300 Seminars, focusing on topics in Spanish/Romance syntax

 

Current research:

• investigation of the interaction of functional projections, Case checking relations and the determination of
  binding domains, focusing on two areas: (i) Mood Phrase and Case checking of nominative subjunctive subjects, and
  (ii) Aspect Phrases (Event Phrases) and Case checking of objects
• related to the above, the projection of Event Phrase(s) in the syntax to represent the eventive structure of predicates
  and the syntactic linking of DP arguments of the predicate to temporal subevents
• the analysis of apparent locative inversion structures in Spanish in contrast with Italian and
  English

http://www.uiowa.edu/~spanport/personal/Kemp/kemp.htm

Philip Klein

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
PhD in Linguistics, University of Washington, 1974

Linguistically-oriented courses taught:

• 35:110 Applied Spanish Linguistics
• 35:111 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
• 35:113 Structure of the Spanish Language

Current research: Instructional computing (design, authoring tools); natural language parsing/processing

http://www.uiowa.edu/~spanport/personal/Klein/klein.htm

Judith Liskin-Gasparro

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Co-Director, Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition
PhD in Foreign Language Education, University of Texas at Austin, 1993

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

• 35:200 FL Teaching Methods
• 164: 201 Second Language Acquisition Research and Theory I
• 164: 202 Second Language Acquisition Research and Theory II
• 164: 227 Second Language Acquisition: Writing FL Teaching Methods

 

Current research: Discourse analysis; acquisition of Spanish syntax/morphology by classroom learners; various
topics on development of oral skills in immersion-type environments

 

http://www.uiowa.edu/~spanport/personal/Liskin/liskin.htm

Mercedes Niño-Murcia

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
PhD in Romance Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1988

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

• History of the Spanish Language
• Language Variation: Spanish American Dialectology
• Social History of the Romance Languages
• Bilingualism
• Foundations in Sociolinguistics

 

Current research: Language contact; language ideology; standardization processes; linguistic planning

 

http://www.uiowa.edu/~spanport/personal/Nino/nino.htm

Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
PhD in Spanish Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 1998

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

• 035:111 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
• 035:112 Spanish Sound Structure
• 035:178 Topics in Spanish Linguistics: Spanish Word Formation
• 035:187 Spanish American Dialectology
• 035:189 Introduction to Spanish Phonology
• 035:204 Introduction to Graduate Spanish Linguistics
• 035:209 Graduate Spanish Phonology

Current research:

http://www.uiowa.edu/~spanport/personal/Pineros/pinerosHm.htm

 

Ikuko Patricia Yuasa

Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literature
PhD,. East Asian Languages and Cultures,University of California, Berkeley, 2001

Linguistically-oriented courses offered:

 

Current research: Sociophonetic studies of politeness, emotion, and gender

 

 

Revised January 20, 2003

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