Curriculum Vitae

JOSEPH C. SALMONS

EDUCATION and APPOINTMENTS

• 2008— Adjunct, Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL), University of Maryland.
• 2007— Adjunct Professor in Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University.
• 2000—2010 Co-director, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. (Since Fall 2006, Director.)
• 1999—2002 Professor of Linguistics (affiliated faculty), University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• 1997— Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• 1997—2002 Director, Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies.
• 1995—1997 Associate Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• 1993 (Fall) Visiting Associate Professor, German, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• 1991—1995 Associate Professor, German and Linguistics, Purdue University.
• 1985—1991 Assistant Professor, German and Linguistics, Purdue University.
• 1978—1984 PhD, University of Texas, Austin. German (Germanic Linguistics).
• 1980—1981 Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel. DAAD Fellowship.
• 1974—1978 BA, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Philosophy.

MAJOR SERVICE

• 2010—2013 Steering Committee member, Linguistics and Language Sciences (Section Z). American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• 2010—2 Consulting editor, Journal of Historical Linguistics.
• 2010—2013 Editorial Board, Transactions of the Philological Society.
• 2009— with Monica Macaulay, Eric Raimy & Anja Wanner, review editor, The LINGUIST List (www.linguistlist.org).
• 2009— President, PROFS, Inc. (Public Representation Organization of the Faculty Senate).
• 2009—2011 Editorial Board, American Speech.
• 2008—2009 Co-chair, with Linda Brindeau, Coalition for Affordable Public Education (CAPE).
• 2007— Co-editor, with David Willis, Edinburgh Historical Linguistics, monograph series, Edinburgh University Press.
• 2005— Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
• 2003—2005 Co-president, International Society for Historical Linguistics.
• 2003— Editorial Board, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, John Benjamins Publishing.
• 2002— Executive Editor, Diachronica: International Journal of Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing.
• 2001—2003 Executive Committee, International Society for Historical Linguistics.
• 2001— Advisory Board, The LINGUIST List (www.linguistlist.org).
• 2000— Executive Committee, Society for Germanic Linguistics.
• 2000— Series editors, Jürgen Macha & Joseph Salmons. Quellen und Studien zur Sprachgeschichte des Deutschen in Nordamerika. (Monograph series; Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.)
• 1998—2001 Review Editor, Diachronica: International Journal of Historical Linguistics.
• 1998— Editorial Advisory Board, Yearbook of the Society for German-American Studies.
• 1998—2002, 2004- Steering Committee, PROFS, Inc.
• 1998— Editor, H-GAGCS (German-American & German-Canadian Studies email list), H-NET, Michigan State University.
• 1997—2001 Series editor, Max Kade Institute Monograph Series.
• 1995— Editorial Advisory Board, Monatshefte.
• 1995—2005 Associate Editor, Journal of Germanic Linguistic, Cambridge University Press.
• 1994—2000 President, Society for Germanic Philology/Society for Germanic Linguistics, two terms.
• 1994—1998 Editorial Advisory Board, Diachronica.
• 1993—2000 Organizing committee, Workshop on Comparative Linguistics.

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

In progress Robert B. Howell, Paul T. Roberge & Joseph C. Salmons, eds. and princ. authors. The Cambridge History of the Germanic Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Accepted for publication. 2 vols., ca. 1800 pp.]

1993 The Glottalic Theory: Survey and synthesis. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man. Journal of Indo-European Studies monograph series, no. 10.

1992 Accentual Change and Language Contact: Comparative survey and case study of early northern Europe. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press and London: Routledge.

Edited Volumes

In preparation Patrick Honeybone & Joseph C. Salmons, eds. The Handbook of Historical Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2007 Joseph Salmons & Shannon Dubenion-Smith, eds. Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, 31 July — 5 August 2005. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.)

2003 Christof Mauch & Joseph Salmons, eds. German-Jewish Identities in America. Madison: Max Kade Institute.

2003 Joseph Salmons & Bridget Drinka, eds. Indo-European Language & Culture in Historical Perspective: Essays in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé. Special issue of General Linguistics, vol. 40.

2001 A Word Atlas of Pennsylvania German, by Lester W. J. Seifert†, ed. by Mark L. Louden, Howard Martin & Joseph C. Salmons. Madison: Max Kade Institute.

1998 Brian D. Joseph & Joseph C. Salmons, Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 142.)

1996 Rosina Lippi-Green & Joseph C. Salmons, Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and Diachronic. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 137.)

1993 The German Language in America: 1683-1991. Madison: Max Kade Institute.

1988 Studies in Indiana German-Americana. Vol. 1. W. Lafayette/Indianapolis: Indiana German Heritage Society.

Articles in Refereed Journals

2009 Ewa Jacewicz, Robert Allen Fox & Joseph Salmons. Articulation rate across dialect, gender and age. Language Variation & Change 21.233-256.

2009 Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joseph Salmons. Defining dialect, perceiving dialect and new dialect formation: Sarah Palin's speech. Journal of English Linguistics 37.331-355.

2009 Kathryn Remlinger, Luanne von Schneidemesser & Joseph Salmons. Revised Perceptions: Changing dialect awareness in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula. American Speech 84.177-191. (Special issue on Enregisterment.)

2008 Laura Catharine Smith & Joseph Salmons. Historical phonology and evolutionary phonology. Diachronica 25.411-430.

2008 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph Salmons. Germanic Aspiration: Phonetic enhancement and language contact. Sprachwissenschaft 33:3.257-278.

2008 Miranda Wilkerson & Joseph Salmons. 'Good old immigrants of yesteryear' who didn't learn English: Germans in Wisconsin. American Speech 83:3.259-283.

2008 Robert D. King & Joseph C. Salmons. Obituary for Winfred P. Lehmann. Language 84.613-619.

2008 What Old Frisian can tell us about the history of i-umlaut across West Germanic. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik Special issue: Advances in Frisian Philology, ed. by Rolf H. Bremmer Jr., Stephen Laker, & Oebele Vries. 64.367-377.

2007 Ewa Jacewicz, Joseph Salmons & Robert Allen Fox. Vowel duration across three American dialects. American Speech 82.367-385.

2007 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph Salmons. Domains and Directionality in the Evolution of German Final Fortition. Phonology 24.1-25.

2006 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph Salmons. On the typology of final laryngeal neutralization: Evolutionary phonology and laryngeal realism. Theoretical Linguistics 32:2.205-216.

2006 Ewa Jacewicz, Joseph Salmons, & Robert Fox. Prosodic prominence effects on vowels in chain shifts. Language Variation & Change 18:3.285-316.

2006 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph Salmons. Fundamental Regularities in the Second Consonant Shift. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 18:1.45-70.

2005 Thomas Purnell, Joseph Salmons, Dilara Tepeli & Jennifer Mercer. Structured heterogeneity and change in laryngeal phonetics: Upper Midwestern final obstruents. Journal of English Linguistics 33:4.307-338.

2005 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph Salmons. Filling the Gap: English tense vowel plus final /š/. Journal of English Linguistics 33:3. 207-221.

2005 Joseph Salmons & Laura Catharine Smith. On the status of the Indo-European labiovelar stops. Indogermanische Forschungen 110.86-96.

2005 Thomas Purnell, Dilara Tepeli & Joseph Salmons. German substrate effects in Wisconsin English: Evidence for final fortition. American Speech. 80.135-164.

2004 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph Salmons. The Conundrum of Old Norse Umlaut: Regular sound change versus crisis analogy. Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 16.77-110.

2003 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph Salmons. Laryngeal Enhancement in Early Germanic. Phonology 20.43-72.

2003 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph Salmons. Legacy Specification in the Laryngeal Phonology of Dutch. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 15.1-26.

2000 Emily L. Goss & Joseph C. Salmons. The Evolution of Bilingual Discourse Marking: Modal particles and English markers in 19th century German-American dialects. International Journal of Bilingualism. 4.469-494.

1999 Garry W. Davis, Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Peripherality in the Spread of the High German Consonant Shift. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB). 121.177-200.

1999 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Glottal Spreading Bias in Germanic. Linguistische Berichte 178.135-151.

1997 Robert B. Howell & Joseph C. Salmons. Umlautless Residues in Germanic. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics 9.83-111.

1997 Marlys Macken & Joseph C. Salmons. Prosodic Templates in Sound Change. Diachronica 14.33-66.

1996 Linda Lupton & Joseph Salmons. A Reanalysis of the Creole Status of American Sign Language. Sign Language Studies 90.80-94.

1996 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Mixtec Prenasalization as Hypervoicing. International Journal of American Linguistics 62.165-175.

1996 'Global Etymology' as Pre-Copernican Linguistics. California Linguistic Notes 25.1-6, 15.

1996 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. The Primacy of Primary Umlaut. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB) 118.69-86.

1995 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Aspiration and Laryngeal Representation in Germanic. Phonology 12.369-96.

1995 Monica Macaulay & Joseph C. Salmons. The Phonology of Glottalization in Mixtec. International Journal of American Linguistics 61.38-61.

1994 Gregory K. Iverson, Joseph C. Salmons & Garry W. Davis. Blocking Environments in Old High German Umlaut. Folia Linguistica Historica 15.131-148.

1994 Umlaut and Plurality in Old High German: Some problems with a Natural Morphology account. Diachronica 11.213-29.

1994 Academic/Non-Academic Relations and Filiopietism in German-American Studies. Monatshefte 86.374-377.

1994 Cora Lee Nollendorfs, Brent Peterson & Joseph Salmons. German-American Studies: Definition and Outlook (Conference report). Monatshefte 86.331-334. Originally published in the Newsletter of the Society for German-American Studies.

1993 A Note on Middle High German schulde(n) in the Nibelungenlied. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 5.185-194.

1993 Joseph C. Salmons & Gregory K. Iverson. Gothic þl - ~ fl-Variation as Lexical Diffusion. Diachronica 10.87-96.

1993 The Structure of the Lexicon: Evidence from German gender assignment rules. Studies in Language 17.411-435.

1992 Diachronic Typology and Tone-to-Stress Shift. Journal of Indo-European Studies 20.269-281.

1992 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. The Phonology of the Proto-Indo-European Root Structure Constraints. Lingua 87.293-320.

1992 Gregory Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. The Place of Structure Preservation in German Diminutive Formation. Phonology 9.137-143.

1991 Motivating Grassmann's Law. Historische Sprachforschung/Historical Linguistics (formerly Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung) 104.44-51.

1991 Register in the Formation and Evolution of an Immigrant Language: Evidence from some Indiana German dialects. WORD 42.31-56.

1991 Youth Language in the German Democratic Republic: Its diversity and distinctiveness. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 3.1-31.

1990 Accent and Syllabification in Early Germanic. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 2.137-148.

1990 Bilingual Discourse Marking: Codeswitching, borrowing and convergence in some German-American Dialects. Linguistics 28.453-480.

1989 Joe Salmons & Monica Macaulay. Offensive Rock Band Names: A Linguistic Taxonomy. Maledicta 10.81-99. (Reprinted 1996 in Opus Maledictorum, ed. by Reinhold Aman.)

1988 On the Social Function of Some Southern Indiana German-American Dialect Stories. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 1.159-175.

1987 Another Word on Lexical Data and Genetic Relationships. Journal of Indo-European Studies 15.381-384.

1986 But Hoosiers Do Talk German: An overview of German in Indiana. Yearbook of German-American Studies 21.155-166.

1985 Methods of Prehistorical Dialect Grouping: The role of lexical data in the Germanic Ausgliederung. Journal of Indo-European Studies 13.445-465.

1983 Issues in Texas German Language Maintenance and Language Shift. Monatshefte 75.186-195.

Book Chapters, Papers in Festschriften and Proceedings, etc.

2010 Joseph Salmons & Thomas Purnell. Language contact and the development of American English. The Handbook of Language Contact, ed. by Raymond Hickey. Oxford: Blackwell, 454-477.

2010 Segmental phonological change. A Companion to Historical Linguistics, ed. by Vit Bubenik & Silvia Luraghi, 89-105. London & New York: Continuum.

2009 Ewa Jacewicz, Joseph Salmons & Robert Fox. Prosodic conditioning, vowel dynamics and sound change. Variation in Phonetics and Phonology, ed. by Caroline Féry, Jörg Mayer, Frank Kügler & Ruben van de Vijver, 100-124. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2009 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Naturalness and the Lifecycle of Sound Change. On Inflection: In Memory of Wolfgang U. Wurzel, ed. by Patrick Steinkrüger & Manfred Krifka, 89-105. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2008 Dilara Tepeli, Joseph Salmons & Thomas Purnell. Was bleibt bestehen? Der deutsche Einfluß auf das Amerikanische. Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA / The German presence in the U.S.A., ed. by Josef Raab & Jan Wirrer, 745-763. Münster: LIT Verlag.

2007 Ewa Jacewicz, Robert A. Fox, & Joseph Salmons. "Vowel space areas across dialects and gender." Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ed. by J. Trouvain & W.J. Barry, pp. 1465-1468. Saarbrücken, Germany.

2006 Cora Lee Kluge & Joseph Salmons. A transcontinental regional perspective on migration: A concluding word. Wisconsin German Land and Life, ed. by Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge & Robert Ostergren, 237-239. Madison: Max Kade Institute.

2006 Joseph Salmons, Dilara Tepeli & Thomas Purnell. Deutsche Spuren im amerikanischen Englischen? Auslautverhärtung in Wisconsin. Sprachinselwelten / The World of Language Islands ed. by Nina Berend & Elisabeth Knipf-Komlósi, 205-225. (= VarioLingua. Nonstandard - Standard - Substandard, 27.) Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.

2006 Immigrant German. The American Midwest: An interpretative encyclopedia, ed. by Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher & Andrew Clayton, 335-337. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2006 Robert A. Fox, Ewa Jacewicz, & Joseph Salmons. Prosodically induced phonetic variations in vowels: A source of language change? The Bill Question, ed. by Howard I. Aronson, Donald L. Dyer, Victor A. Friedman, Daniela S. Hristova & Jerrold M. Sadock, 87-110. Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica.

2006 Steven R. Geiger & Joseph C. Salmons. Reconstructing variation at shallow time depths: The historical phonetics of 19th-century German dialects in the U.S. Variation and Reconstruction, ed. by Thomas Cravens, 37-58. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2005 Joseph Salmons & Felecia A. Lucht.  Standard German in Texas. Studies in Contact Linguistics: Essays in honor of Glenn G. Gilbert, ed. by Linda Thornburg & Janet Fuller, 165-186. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.

2005 Community, Region and Language Shift in German-speaking Wisconsin. Regionalism in the Age of Globalism: Volume 2: Forms of regionalism, ed. by Lothar Hönnighausen, Anke Ortlepp, James Peacock, Niklaus Steiner & Carrie Matthews (consulting editor), 133-144. Madison: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.

2005 The role of community and regional structure in language shift. Regionalism in the Age of Globalism: Volume 1: Concepts of regionalism, ed. by Lothar Hönnighausen, Marc Frey, James Peacock & Niklaus Steiner, 129-138. Madison: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.

2004 How (non-)Indo-European is the Germanic Lexicon? And what does that mean? Etymologie, Entlehnungen und Entwicklungen: Festschrift für Jorma Koivulehto zum 70. Geburtstag ed. by Irma Hyvärinen, Petri Kallio & Jarmo Korhonen. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. 311-321. [Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique, 63.]

2003 "Edgar C. Polomé". Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950. Hrsg. & eingel. von Christoph König. 3 Bde. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter.

2003 Christof Mauch & Joseph Salmons. "Introduction". German-Jewish Identities: From the Civil War to the present , ed. by Christof Mauch & Joseph Salmons. Madison: Max Kade Institute. 1-7.

2003 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. The ingenerate motivation of sound change. Motives for Language Change, ed. by Raymond Hickey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 199-212.

2002 "The Shift from German to English, World War I and the German-language Press in Wisconsin". Menschen zwischen zwei Welten: Auswanderung, Ansiedlung, Akkulturation, ed. by Walter G. Rödel & Helmut Schmahl. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 179-193.

2002 "Sprachkontaktdynamik: Konvergenz und Divergenz in amerikanischen Sprachinseln". "Standardfragen": Soziolinguistische Perspektiven auf Sprachgeschichte, Sprachkontakt und Sprachvariation, ed. by Evelyn Ziegler & Jannis Androutsopoulos. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang. [= VarioLingua, 18.] 109-120.

2001 Introduction. Michael Zimmers Kriegstagebuch, ed. by Jürgen Macha & Andrea Wolf. Bern: Peter Lang. ix-xii.

2000 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Zur historischen Phonetik und Phonologie des Umlauts im Deutschen. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachforschung Papers in Linguistics, Humboldt Universität, Berlin. 15.68-76.

1999 David J. Holsinger & Joseph C. Salmons. Toward "a complete analysis of the residues": On regular vs. morpholexical approaches to Old High German umlaut. The Emergence Of The Modern Language Sciences: Studies On The Transition from Historical-Comparative to Structural Linguistics in Honour of E.F. Konrad Koerner, vol. II, ed. by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 239-253.

1999 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Umlaut as Regular Sound Change: The phonetic basis of "ingenerate umlaut". Festschrift for W. P. Lehmann, ed. by Edgar C. Polomé & Carol Justus, 207-224. (JIES monograph.) Washington: Institute for the Study of Man.

1998 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Some implications of Proto-Indo-European coda structure for distant genetic relations. In Search Of Language Origins: Selected Papers from the Seventh Meeting of the Language Origins Society, ed. by Edward Callary. Internet publication: http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~los/.

1998 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. On laryngeal markedness in English. Tokyo: Phonological Studies '97 (On'in Kenkyu '97). 1.203-210. (Published for The Phonological Society of Japan, by Kaitakusha, Kyoto.)

1997 Naturalness Syndromes and PIE 'Voiced Stops'. Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp, volume II, ed. Douglas Q. Adams. (JIES monograph, 24.) Washington: Institute for the Study of Man. 155-63.

1997 Various Indo-European adjectival etymologies, with various co-authors. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, ed. Douglas Q. Adams & James P. Mallory. Chicago: Fitzroy & Dearborn.

1996 Gregory Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Spread Glottis Implementation in Germanic. Current Linguistic Research [Hyundae Munpeop Youngku], Vol. 5 (Commemorative Issue in Honor of Pak Young-soo), ed. by H.-S. Sohn. Taegu, Korea: Society for Current Linguistic Research. (Publication year 1994, appeared 1996.) 331-366.

1994 Naturalness and Morphological Change in Texas German. Deutsche Sprachinselforschung: Eine Gedenkschrift für Hugo Jedig, ed. Nina Berend & Klaus J. Mattheier. Bern: Peter Lang. 59-72.

1994 Sketch of an Interlanguage Rule System: Advanced Nonnative German Gender Assignment. Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Development, ed. by Carol A. Blackshire-Belay. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 187-203.

1993 The Theory and practice of global etymology. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Linguists, ed. Andre Crochetiere et al. Sainte Foy: Laval. 153-155.

1992 The Evolution of gender assignment rules from Old High German to New High German. Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics, ed. Rosina Lippi-Green. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 93.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 81-95.

1992 A look at the data for a Proto-World etymology: *tik 'finger'. Explanation in Historical Linguistics, ed. Garry Davis and Gregory K. Iverson. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 84.) 207-228.

1992 Approaches to English in some Indiana German Newspapers. The German-American Press, ed. Henry Geitz. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute. 183-194.

1992 Northwest Indo-European Vocabulary and Substrate Phonology. Perspectives on Indo-European Language, Culture and Religion: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé, ed. Roger Pearson. Volume 2. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man. (JIES monographs, 9.) 265-279.

1990 From Tone to Stress: Mechanisms and Motivations. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society , ed. Kira Hall et al. 282-291.

1990 The Context of Language Change. Research Guide on Language Change , ed. Edgar C. Polomé. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Trends in Linguistics, 48.) 71-95.

1990 Ethnic Identity in some Indiana German Dialect Stories. WHIM VII, The Seventh National Conference on Humor, eds. Shaun Hughes and Victor Raskin. 108-110.

1988 The Question of a German-American Vocabulary. Germanic Linguistics II , ed. Elmer Antonsen and Hans Henrich Hock. Bloomington: IULC. 102-111.

Reviews

2009 Judy Kaplan & Joseph Salmons. Review of Language Classification: History and method, by Lyle Campbell & William J. Poser. Lingua 120.189-195.

2009 Review of Brian D. Joseph, Dennis Preston & Carol Preston, eds., Language Diversity in Michigan & Ohio. Language 85.211-214.

2007 Review of Kurt Gustav Goblirsch, Lautverschiebungen in den germanischen Sprachen. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 19.161-166.

2006 Review of Oxford Duden German Dictionary (3rd ed.) and Muret-Sanders Langenscheidt Großwörterbuch Deutsch-English / Englisch-Deutsch. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 27.168-178.

2006 Review of Marcus Nicolini, Deutsch in Texas. Münster: Lit Verlag. Monatshefte 98.128-129.

2004 Joseph Salmons & Andrea Menz. Review of Brian D. Joseph & Richard D. Janda, eds., Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. Journal of Linguistics 40.687-695.

2003 Review of Aditi Lahiri, ed., Analogy, Levelling and Markedness. Berlin: Mouton. Language. 79.783-786.

2001 Review of Albert L. Lloyd, Rosemarie Lühr & Otto Springer, unter Mitwirkung von Karen K. Purdy. 1998. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen, Band II, bî-ezzo. Göttingen & Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Journal of Indo-European Studies. 29.224-227.

2001 Review of Wolfgang Kehrein & Richard Wiese, eds. Studies in Germanic Phonology and Morphology. Tübingen: Niemeyer. Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 100.71-74.

2000 Review of D.H. Green, Language and History in the Early Germanic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Diachronica 17.161-165.

1998 Review of Frans van Coetsem. Towards a Typology of Lexical Accent: 'Stress accent' and 'pitch accent' in a renewed perspective. Heidelberg: Winter. Journal of Linguistics. 34.554-556.

1998 Review of Richard Wiese. The Phonology of German. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Monatshefte. 90.373-75.

1997 Review of Robert Beard. Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology. Studies in Language. 21.709-11.

1997 Review of Erich Straßner. Deutsche Sprachkultur: Von Barbarensprache zur Weltsprache. Tübingen: Niemeyer. Monatshefte 89.221-23.

1994 Review of Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr and Robert L. Kyes, eds. On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Monatshefte 86.560-561.

1993 Review of Joseph B. Voyles. Early Germanic Grammar: Pre-, Proto-, and Post-Germanic Languages. New York: Academic Press. Diachronica 10.291-294.

1993 Review of Robert B. Howell. Old English Breaking and its Germanic Analogues. Tübingen: Niemeyer. WORD 44.165-170.

1991 Review of Klaus-Christian Küspert. Vokalsysteme im Westnordischen: Isländisch, Färöisch, Westnorwegisch: Prinzipien der Differenzierung. Scandinavian Studies 63.250-251.

1989 Review of K.-E. Sommerfeldt, ed., Entwicklungstendenzen in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Unterrichtspraxis 22.213.

1987 Review of Tore Nyberg et al, eds. History and Heroic Tale: A Symposium. Scandinavian Studies 58.456.

1984 Review of Thomas L. Markey. Frisian. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie and Linguistik 51.116-118.

1983 Review of Anatoly Liberman. Germanic Accentology. Volume 1: The Scandinavian Languages. Scandinavian Studies 55.265-266.

1982 Heimatkunde and Wissenschaft: A Look at Gilbert Jordan's German Texana. German Texan Heritage Society Newsletter Summer: 23-26.

PAPERS PRESENTED

2010 Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joe Salmons. Bio-cognitive Modularity and Sound Systems. Linguistic Society of America.

2010 Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joe Salmons. WiSCO: Teaching sociophonetics with visualization and simulation. American Dialect Society.

2009 Joseph Salmons, Mark Livengood & Miranda Wilkerson. Mapping Language Shift in German-speaking Wisconsin. University of Waterloo, Ontario. December.

2009 Miranda Wilkerson & Joseph Salmons, with the Wisconsin Social Network Group. 'You had to know English'? Social characteristics and networks of German monolinguals in early 20th century Wisconsin. GLAC, Banff.

2009 Felecia Lucht, Ben Frey & Joseph Salmons. Town and Country: Language Shift in Urban and Rural Southeast Wisconsin. Session on language and immigration, GLAC/SHEL, Banff.

2009 Miranda Wilkerson & Joseph Salmons, with the Wisconsin Social Network Group. "Man musste ja Englisch können" — Sozialnetzwerke deutscher Monolingualen in Wisconsin. In statu nascendi: Abschiedskolloquium for Prof. Dr. Jan Wirrer. Universität Bielefeld. February.

2008 Ryan Carroll, Ragnar Svare, Joseph Salmons. Not so fast there: Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of German verbs. Germanic Linguistics Colloquium, University of Wisconsin. October.

2008 Fox, Robert, Ewa Jacewicz & Joseph Salmons. Speech Rate Differences in Regional Variants of English. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Chicago.

2008 Miranda Wilkerson, Joseph Salmons, Mike Olson, Sarah Thal and Sei-Jeong Chin. Shifting identities, community structures and languages in immigrant Wisconsin. Workshop on Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography, University of Bristol. August.

2008 Language, identity, and migration. HiSon summer school, University of Bristol. August.

2008 Robert Fox, Ewa Jacewicz & Joseph Salmons. Methods of Analysis in Sociophonetic Research. (Weeklong workshop.) Linguistic Society of America Summer Mini-Institute. The Ohio State University. July.

2008 Blake Rodgers, Tom Purnell & Joseph Salmons. Expanding the set of acoustic features of the post-vocalic voicing contrast in English. Acoustical Society of America, Paris. June.

2008 The Indo-European homeland: Criteria and evidence. New Directions in Historical Linguistics, Lyon. May.

2008 Kathryn Remlinger, Joseph Salmons & Luanne Von Schneidemesser. Reshaping Dialect Awareness. American Dialect Society. Chicago, January.

2008 Joseph Salmons, Ewa Jacewicz & Robert Allen Fox. Fast talkers versus slow talkers: Speech rate across dialect, gender, and generation. American Dialect Society. Chicago, January.

2007 Ewa Jacewicz, Robert Allen Fox & Joseph Salmons. Vowel space areas across dialects and gender. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, August.

2007 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. On the evolution of laryngeal final neutralization in German. Workshop on "Theoretical Historical Linguistics". XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 18), Montreal, Quebec, August 2007.

2007 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Germanic Aspiration as Phonetic Enhancement. Workshop on "Origins of Germanic". XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 18), Montreal, Quebec, August 2007.

2007 What immigrant letters can tell us about English in German-American communities. Immigrant Letters: A Balance Sheet. German Historical Institute, Washington, May.

2007 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Restructuring and reversion in Old Norse umlaut. Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 13, Pennsylvania State University.

2007 Joseph Salmons & Miranda Wilkerson. "Good old immigrants of yesteryear" who didn't learn English: Evidence from Germans in Wisconsin. Society for German-American Studies. Kansas University, April. (Also to presented at the German Language & Immigration video conference, Madison-Berlin, January.)

2007 Joseph Salmons & Miranda Wilkerson. Debunking a Myth: How Fast Did German Immigrants Learn English & Why Does it Matter Today? Max Kade Institute lecture, UW&emdash;Madison.

2006 Ewa Jacewicz, Robert Allen Fox, Yolanda Holt & Joseph Salmons. Acoustic characteristics of vowels in three regional dialects of American English. Acoustical Society of America.

2006 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons.Domains and Directionality of Auslautverhärtung. PhonologyFest, Indiana University, June.

2006 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. Evolutionary convergence in German final fortition. Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 12, University of Illinois.

2006 Joseph Salmons, Ewa Jacewicz, & Robert Fox. How chain shifts persevere: Is there a structural solution to the ‘transmission problem’? Linguistics Colloquium, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

2006 Ewa Jacewicz, Robert Fox & Joseph Salmons. Systematic effects of prosodic prominence on vowel quality: A source of sound change? Case Western Reserve. March.

2006 Laura Catharine Smith & Joseph Salmons. Segmental deletion: How prosody trumps Licensing by Cue. Linguistic Society of America.

2005 Jennifer Mercer, Thomas Purnell, Joseph Salmons & Dilara Tepeli. Final obstruent voicing in western Wisconsin. Midwest American Dialect Society, Milwaukee. November.

2005 Fox, Robert Allen, Ewa Jacewicz, Kristin Hatcher, & Joseph Salmons. Perceptual effects of dialectal and prosodic variation in vowels. Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis. October.

2005 Wisconsin English: How our linguistic past shapes our present. Winchester Academy, September.

2005 “Varietäten des Deutschen in Wisconsin: Plattdeutsch, Hochdeutsch und Englisch im Kontakt.” Universität Bielefeld, June.

2005 Zur historischen Sprachinselsoziolinguistik: Deutsche Dialekte, Standardsprache und Englisch im amerikanischen „Upper Midwest.“ Universität Heidelberg. June.

2005 Laura Smith, David Holsinger & Joseph Salmons. “The limits of perceptual distinctness: Evidence from West Germanic.” Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 11, University of California, Davis. April.

2005 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. “Fundamental Regularities in the Second Consonant Shift.” Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 11, University of California, Davis. April.

2005 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. “Filling the Gap: English tense vowel plus final /š/.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, North Carolina State University, April.

2005 Jennifer Mercer, Joseph Salmons, Thomas Purnell & Dilara Tepeli. "Has German influenced how we speak English in Wisconsin?" Friends of the Max Kade Institute.

2005 Thomas Purnell, Dilara Tepeli, Joseph Salmons, & Jennifer Mercer. Upper Midwestern obstruent variation: There'[s] more of it than you might think. American Dialect Society, San Francisco. January.

2004 Joseph Salmons, Ewa Jacewicz, & Robert Fox. Vowel changes underway in Wisconsin English: Prosody and the 'Northern Cities Shift'. Linguistics Student Organization, UW-Madison. December.

2004 Ewa Jacewicz, Joseph Salmons & Robert Fox. "Prosodic conditioning, vowel dynamics and sound change." Variation in Phonetics and Phonology (VarPhon), Universität Potsdam. October.

2004 Thomas Purnell, Dilara Tepeli, Joseph Salmons, & Jennifer Mercer. Regional variation in American English final obstruents: Cross-generational acoustics of 'final devoicing'. NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation), 33. University of Michigan, October.

2004 Joseph Salmons, Dilara Tepeli & Thomas Purnell. "Der deutsche Einfluss auf das Englische." Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA / The German Presence in the U.S.A., Universität Bielefeld.

2004 Ewa Jacewicz, Joseph Salmons, & Robert Fox. "Prosodic domain effects and vocalic chain shifts." Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon) 9, University of Illinois.

2004 Dilara Tepeli, Thomas Purnell & Joseph Salmons. "German substrate effects in Wisconsin English? 'Final devoicing'." Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 10, University of Michigan.

2004 Joseph Salmons & Ewa Jacewicz. "Vocalic chain shifts as an effect of synchronic prosody." Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January.

2003 Linguistic diversity in the Upper Midwest. Regionalism in the Humanities. University of Nebraska, November.

2003 Robert Fox, Ewa Jacewicz & Joseph Salmons. "Prosodic domain-initial effects on the acoustic structure of vowels." Acoustical Society of America, Austin, November.

2003 Joseph Salmons & Monica Macaulay. "The Diachrony of Nonconcatenative Morphology in Algonquian: Reduplication and Initial Change." The Algonquian Conference. October.

2003 Joseph Salmons & Monica Macaulay. "The Prosodic Origins of Algonquian 'Initial Change'." International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Copenhagen, August.

2003 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "The Conundrum of Norse Umlaut." International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Copenhagen, August.

2003 Ewa Jacewicz & Joseph C. Salmons. "The Prosodic Basis of Vocalic Chain Shifts in Germanic." Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Buffalo, April.

2003 "How and why German-speaking communities in the U.S. became monolingual English-speaking." Department of Germanic Languages, Department of Linguistics, Working Group on Minority and Endangered Languages, The Ohio State University. February.

2002 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Privativity and Legacy Specification in Dutch". Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, April.

2002 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Privativity and the Laws of Enhancement". Linguistics Student Organization, University of Wisconsin. March.

2001 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Naturalness and the Lifecycle of Language Change". Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachforschung Conference in Memory of Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel. Berlin, December.

2001 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Phonetic Explanation in Laryngeal Phonology". Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ohio State University. November.

2001 Reconstruction Fundamentals: Summary discussion. Tenth Annual Workshop on Comparative Linguistics. Wayne State University, Detroit, November.

2001 Steven R. Geiger & Joseph C. Salmons." Divergence in Death: Real-time change in a moribund language". NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation), N.C. State, October.

2001 Steven R. Geiger & Joseph C. Salmons. "Real-time phonetic change in a moribund dialect". International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Melbourne, Australia, August.

2001 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Dimensional Theory and Germanic Enhancement". International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Melbourne, Australia, August

2001 Community, Region and Language Shift in German-speaking Wisconsin. New Orientations in the Study of Regionalism. Universität Bonn, July 2001.

2001 Grimm und Verner - neu "dimensioniert". Jacob-Grimm-Vorlesung, Humboldt Universität, Berlin. July 10, 2001.

2001 1. Theoretische Grundlagen: Codeswitching und Sprachwandel . 2. Sprachkontaktdynamik: Konvergenz und Divergenz im Wisconsin-Deutschen. Graduiertenkolleg, Universität Heidelberg/Universität Mannheim, July 2001.

2001 "Sprachkontakt, Konvergenz, Sprachwechsel ". Menschen zwischen zwei Welten: Auswanderung, Ansiedlung, Akkulturation, Rückwanderung, Universität Mainz, May 2001.

2001 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Laryngeal Enhancement in Germanic". Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Banff, Calgary. April 2001.

2001 Steven R. Geiger & Joseph C. Salmons. "Reconstructing variation at shallow time depths: The historical phonetics of 19th-century German dialects in the U.S". International Symposium on German Settlement Patterns / Sprachinselkonferenz 2001, University of Kansas , April. (Preliminary version presented at the Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, Purdue University , November, 2000.)

2000 "Variation, Change & Shift in Wisconsin German Dialects". John F. Kennedy Institut für nordamerikanische Studien, Freie Universität Berlin. June.

2000 David J. Holsinger, Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Verner's Law as Passive Voicing". Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. Milwaukee. April.

1999 "Variation in the Ancestor(s) of Plattdüütsch". Biennial North American Plattdüütsch Conference, Wausau. October 1999.

1999 Steven R. Geiger & Joseph C. Salmons. "Voices from the Past: Preserving over a half century of Wisconsin Platt recordings". Biennial North American Plattdüütsch Conference, Wausau. October 1999.

1999 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Ingeneracy and Markedness in Sound Change". International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of British Columbia , Vancouver. August 1999.

1999 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Markedness Effects in Coarticulated Sound Change". Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, 5, University of Texas. April 1999.

1999 "Konvergenz und Nicht-Konvergenz in deutschamerikanischen Dialekten". Universität Kiel, Universität Münster. May.

1999 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Distilling Phonology out of Phonetics in Sound Change". Invited plenary talk, Poznan Linguistics Meeting, Poland, April-May 1999.

1999 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Zur historischen Phonetik und Phonologie des Umlauts im Deutschen". Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Humboldt Universität Berlin , May.

1999 "Language Shift and Community Structure: How and why German-speaking communities in Wisconsin became monolingual English-speaking". University of Illinois at Urbana, University of Winnipeg, Max Kade Institute/University of Wisconsin-Madison, March and April; John F. Kennedy Institut für nordamerikanische Studien, Freie Universität Berlin, May.

1998 "Reading Immigrant History by the Books: Wisconsin 's German-language press". Lecture series held around Wisconsin, sponsored by the Max Kade Institute and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, July-October.

1998 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons. "Laryngeal Bias in Germanic". Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Ohio State, April.

1998 Marlys Macken & Joseph C. Salmons. "Iambic versus Trochaic Templates". West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of British Columbia. February.

1997 "Diachronic Tone-Laryngeal Interactions: On Riad's 'Relating stød, tone and accent in Scandinavian'". 6th Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, Wayne State University. November.

1997 Marlys Macken & Joseph C. Salmons. "Prosodic Templates in Otomanguean: The unity of structure and sound change". Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). Ithaca, NY . July.

1997 Gregory K. Iverson and Joseph C. Salmons. "Umlaut as Regular Sound Change". 3rd Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, UCLA.

1996 "Internal and External Factors in Prosodic Change: The peculiar position of accentuation in language contact change". Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, Ohio State University. November.

1996 "Returning Umlaut to the Realm of Regular Sound Change". Pair of talks held at the University of Calgary, Alberta. November.

1996 Garry W. Davis , Gregory K. Iverson and Joseph C. Salmons. Peripherality in the Spread of the High German Consonant Shift. Germanic Linguistics: 2nd Annual Conference (GLAC). Madison. April.

1996 Language Shift in German-speaking Wisconsin: Evidence from the decline of the German-Language press. Society for German American Studies (SGAS). Madison. April.

1995 Robert B. Howell and Joseph C. Salmons. Umlautless Residues in Germanic. Germanic Linguistics: 1st Annual Conference (GLAC). Ann Arbor, MI. April.

1995 Gregory K. Iverson and Joseph C. Salmons. Laryngeal Representation in Germanic. Southeast Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Athens, GA. April.

1994 Zur Theorie der Sprachkontaktforschung in den USA . Graduiertenkolleg "Dynamik von Substandardvarietäten", Universität Heidelberg/Universität Mannheim. (Week-long workshop conducted by Mark Louden and Joseph Salmons.) December.

1994 Beyond the Syllable in Sound Change: Evidence from Mixtec. Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages in the Americas/American Anthropological Association. Atlanta, November 1994.

1993 Joseph C. Salmons and Gregory K. Iverson. Mixtec Prenasalization as Hypervoicing. Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages in the Americas/American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC, Nov. 1993.

1993 Umlaut, Plurality and Naturalness in the History of German. University of Wisconsin-Madison. November, 1993.

1993 Gregory K. Iverson, Joseph C. Salmons and Garry W. Davis . Blocking environments in Old High German Umlaut. International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Los Angeles, August 1993.

1992 Variability and morphological change in the Germanic nominal system. Modern Language Association, New York, December.

1992 Monica Macaulay and Joe Salmons. The phonology of glottalization in Mixtec. American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, December.

1992 The Theory and practice of global etymology. XVth International Congress of Linguists. Québec City, Canada, August.

1991 Naturalness and morphological change in some German American Dialects. The German Language in America, 1683-1991. University of Wisconsin Max Kade Institute. Madison, Wisconsin.

1991 Gregory Iverson and Joe Salmons. Proto-Indo-European root and coda structure. Language Origins Society. Northern Illinois University.

1991 Gregory Iverson and Joe Salmons. The coda license in Proto-Indo-European root structure. International Linguistic Association. New York.

1991 The evolution of German gender assignment rules from OHG to NHG. Berkeley-Michigan Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. Ann Arbor.

1990 Bantu accentual change: A non-Bantuist perspective. Bloomington, IN: Linguistics Department, Indiana University. November.

1990 Diachronic typology and tone-to-stress shifts. Explanation in Historical Linguistics: Nineteenth Annual Linguistics Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

1989 German-American discourse marking: Codeswitching and borrowing. Society for German-American Studies, Chicago.

1989 Sources of variation in German loanword gender assignment. Third Symposium on Germanic Linguistics, West Lafayette.

1988 Bilingual German-American humor in Indiana. WHIM VII The Seventh National Conference on Humor, West Lafayette.

1987 Approaches to English in some Indiana German newspapers. Max Kade Institute Symposium on the German-American Press. Madison, Wisconsin.

1987 German-American linguistics and teaching German-Americana. Society for German-American Studies, Lawrence, Kansas.

1987 Native and borrowed vocabulary in Dubois County German (Indiana). Society for German-American Studies, Lawrence, Kansas.

1987 Youth language in the German Democratic Republic. New College Conference on Eastern Europe, Sarasota, Florida.

1987 Language and ethnicity. New Braunfels, Texas : Ethnicity as a definition of community in Texas. May.

1986 Lexical variation and (ex-)change in some Indiana German Dialects. Modern Language Association, New York.

1986 What is a German-American dialect? On delineating regional varieties of an immigrant language. German Department, Dartmouth College.

1986 The question of a German-American vocabulary. Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics, Urbana, Illinois.

1986 Der, die oder das Car: German-American loanword gender. Society for German-American Studies, Cincinnati.

1985 Extra-community causes of Texas German language shift. University of Illinois, Chicago; Purdue University; University of Arizona.

1985 The dynamics of accent shift in Celtic and Germanic. Modern Language Association, Chicago.

1985 Case use in Texas German. Society for German-American Studies, Lincoln, NE.

1983 Language choice and language variety among Texas Germans. Modern Language Association, New York.

1983 Scandinavian accent geography. South Central Modern Language Association, Fort Worth, Tx.

1982 Marianna Di Paolo and Joe Salmons. Ethnic identity and American Jewish language maintenance. South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, Tx.

1980 The future of Texas German. Modern Language Association, Houston, Tx.

TEACHING

Graduate Courses and Seminars

German and Germanic Linguistics

• Seminar: German Language & Immigration in International Perspective, with Rob Howell and Mark Louden (and an international team of others), Spring 2006.
• The Sounds of German, Fall 2003.
• Seminar: Language & Immigration (with Robert Howell), Spring 2000.
• Old High German. Spring 2010.
• Old Norse, Fall 1998.
• German Phonetics, Fall 1998.
• Seminar: German Phonology, Spring 1998, Fall 2001.
• Gothic, Fall 1997, Spring 2008.
• Old Saxon, Fall 1996, Fall 2000, Spring 2005.
• German and Germans in America , Fall 1996.
• Seminar: Umlaut in Germanic, Spring 1996.
• Seminar: German Dialectology, Spring 1994; UW-Madison, Fall 1993, with Peter Wagener, Spring 2001.
• The Structure of German/Introduction to German Linguistics, Fall 1987-1990, 1995, 2004.
• History of the German Language, Spring 1987, 1991, Fall 1995, 1999, Fall 2005, Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2010.
• Seminar: German and the Germans in America , Spring 1988.
• Language and Society in the German-speaking Countries, Spring 1989.
• Seminar: Variation in German, Fall 1991.
• Introduction to German Morphology and Syntax, Spring 1992, Fall 1994.
• Introduction to German Phonetics and Phonology, Spring 1993, 1994, 1995.

General Linguistics

• Seminar: Theories of Sound Change, Spring 1995.
• Dialectology, Spring 1994.
• Proto-Indo-European and Linguistic Reconstruction, Spring 1990.
• Historical Linguistics, Fall 1986, 1990.
• Methods of Sociolinguistic Analysis, Spring 1991.
• Sociolinguistics, Fall 1987, 1988, 1991, 1994.

Supervision of doctoral research

SELECTED RECENT GRANTS

2009-2011 Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joseph Salmons. "Language Matters for Wisconsin: A Community-Based Initiative." Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment.

2008-2009 Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joseph Salmons. Kemper Knapp Bequest funding for community documentation of English in Wisconsin.

2007-2008 Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joseph Salmons. "Teaching the Speech Chain." Division of Instructional Technology Engage grant, phase III.

2007-2008 Joseph Salmons & Thomas Purnell. "Wisconsin Englishes." Wisconsin Humanities Council, Major Grant.

2005-2010 Ewa Jacewicz, Robert Fox & Joseph Salmons. "Cross-generational sound change in American English." National Institutes of Health (RO1).

2004-2006 Robert B. Howell & Joseph Salmons. Support for The Cambridge History of the Germanic Languages. UW Graduate School.

2004-2005 Robert B. Howell, Paul T. Roberge & Joseph Salmons. Support for The Cambridge History of the Germanic Languages. Salus Mundi Foundation.

2003-2006 Ruth Olson, James P. Leary & Joseph C. Salmons. "Cluster Hiring Initiative Enhancement Grant". University of Wisconsin.

2001-2004 James P. Leary & Joseph C. Salmons. National Endowment for the Humanities Implementation Grant: "Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures". Challenge grant.

2001-2004 Ruth Olson, James P. Leary & Joseph C. Salmons. "Cultural Maps, Cultural Tours". Wisconsin Idea Initiative grant.

2001 James P. Leary & Joseph C. Salmons. "Cluster hire" (three faculty positions) for "Diversity and Expressive Culture in the Upper Midwest". University of Wisconsin.

Manuscript and grant review (selected):

Journals/volume chapters: Language, Phonology, LabPhon (Laboratory Phonology), American Speech, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, International Journal of Bilingualism, Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, The Linguistic Review, Language in Society, General Linguistics, Historigraphica Linguistica, Southwest Journal of Linguistics.

Presses/volumes: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Blackwell, Brace Harcourt, The Ohio State University Press, Carl Winter: Indogermanische Bibliothek

Grants (federal): National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation.

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