Jerzy Rubach

Professor

Phone: 319-335-0210
Office: 568 EPB

Office Hours

MW 1:00-2:15, and by appointment.

Fall 2009 Courses

Course #	Title	Location	Time
103:011:AAA	Language and Society	Shambaugh, LIB	MW 3:30-4:20
103:011:SCA		102 EPB	M 4:30-5:30
103:115	Topics in Linguistics: Historical Linguistics	402 EPB	MW 11:30-12:45
103:131:SCA	History of the English Language	106 EPB	W 6:00-8:30

Education

MA (English), University of Warsaw, 1971
Ph.D. (Linguistics), University of Warsaw, 1975

Areas of Specialization

phonology
Slavic languages
Germanic languages
historical linguistics
TESOL

Current Research Projects

palatalization in Optimality Theory
syllable structure in Optimality Theory
glides

Recent Publications

"Palatal Nasal Decomposition in Slovene, Upper Sorbian and Polish," Journal of Linguistics 44 (2008), 169-204.

“Lexical Phonology,” Language and Linguistics Compass 2 (2008), 456-477.

“Feature Geometry from the Perspective of Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian,” Linguistic Inquiry 38 (2007), 85-138.

“A Conspiracy of Gliding Processes in Polish,” Journal of Slavic Linguistics 15 (2007), 325-357.

“Perspectives on Polish Palatalization,” Poznan´ Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 42 (2006), 239-268.

"The Phonology of Polish," in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition (2006), Oxford: Elsevier, 671-676.

"Rule Ordering and Derivation in Phonology," in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition (2006), Oxford: Elsevier, 676-679.

"Mid Vowel Fronting in Ukrainian," Phonology 22 (2005), 1-36.

"Derivation in Optimality Theory: A Reply to Burzio," Linguistic Inquiry 35 (2004), 656-670.

“Posterior Stridents in Korean and Russian”, Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 10
(2004),145-167.

“Duke-of-York Derivations in Polish”, Linguistic Inquiry 34 (2003), 601-629.

“Polish Palatalization in Derivational Optimality Theory”, Lingua 113 (2003), 197-237.

"Against Subsegmental Glides", Linguistic Inquiry 33 (2002), 672-687.

"An Overview of Palatalization-i", Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 8 (2002), 169-186.

(with Geert E. Booij) “Allomorphy in Optimality Theory: Polish Iotation.” Language 77 (2001), 26-60.

“Glide and Glottal Stop Insertion in Slavic Languages: A DOT Analysis.” Linguistic Inquiry 31 (2000), 271-317.

“Backness Switch in Russian.” Phonology 17 (2000), 39-64.

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