Academic Vita: Thomas L. Markey
VITA
Thomas Lloyd Markey
Current Address:
2466 North Camino Valle Verde
Tucson, Arizona 85715
Phone: (520)-733-1194 FAX: (520)-733-5720
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EDUCATION AND DEGREES
1958-60: Hamilton College
1960-61: University College London (Commonwealth Fellow)
1961-62: Hamilton College (B.A. (Classics and English) 1962)
1962-63: Yale University (graduate studies: Linguistics)
1963-66: University of Chicago (M.A. (Scandinavian and German) 1966)
1966: Linguistic Society of America, Summer Linguistic Institute (UCLA)
1966-67: Uppsala University (fil. dr. = Ph.D. (nordiska språk / Scandinavian linguistics) 1969)
1967-68: Research Fellow, Peterhouse College, Cambridge University
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
1968-69: Research Associate, Scandinavian Languages Project, Harvard University
1969-73: Assistant Professor (German and Linguistics), Harvard University
1972-73: Visiting Professor (Linguistics), University of Vienna
1973-74: Visiting Assistant Professor (German and Linguistics), University of Michigan
1974-75: Assistant Professor (German and Linguistics), University of Michigan
1975-78: Associate Professor (German and Linguistics), University of Michigan
1978-87: Full Professor (German and Linguistics), University of Michigan (Retired)
1987-98: President, Karoma Publishers, Inc.
Visiting Professorships
University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria (Winter Term, 1983)
University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany (Spring Term, 1985)
Professional Honors/Scholarships/Grants (A Selection)
1964-66: National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship (Norwegian, Icelandic), University of Chicago
1964 : Icelandic Ministry of Education (Halldor Kiljan Laxness) Fellowship
1966-67: Fulbright and Swedish-American Foundation Fellowships (Uppsala University)
1967- : Elected Life Member, Old Swedish Text Society
1970 : Canaday Research Fellowship, Harvard University (Frisian Academy, Leuuwarden, The Netherlands, June-September)
1972 : Language Review Committee, Linguistic Society of America
1975 : Horace H. Rackham Faculty Research Grant, University of Michigan
1975-85: Editor and Founder, Michigan Germanic Studies
1975 : Elected Life Member, Linguistic Society of Innsbruck, Austria
1975 : Medieval Academy of America Fellowship (Summer, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC)
1976-78: National Endowment for the Humanities (RO-23627-827), Two year funding:
Comparative Germanic Grammar Project ($68,500.00)
1980-81: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Fellow, Technische Universität Berlin
1981 : Guest Lecturer, Royal Academy of Sciences, The Netherlands (March 5, 1981)
1981 : Dottorato di ricerca, University of Florence (March 25th, 1981)
1981 : Congress Director/Organizer, International Congress of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS), University of Michigan (August)
1983 : Guest Lecturer, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (September-October)
1984 : Corresponding Member, Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien (Swedish Academy)
1984 : Guest Lecturer, Human Sciences Research Council, Republic of South Africa (Universities of Cape Town, Pretoria, Stellenbosch)
1984-87: Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), Titles IV and VII, Fox-English Bilingual Education Project, Sauk and Fox Reservation, Tama, Iowa ($500,000.00); preparation of K through 8 bilingual teaching materials
1986 : Guest Lecture Tour, Polish Academy of Sciences (May 5th-26th)
1988 : Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Lake Como, Italy, February 8-13: International Symposium Director: When Worlds Collide: The Indo-Europeans and The Pre-Indo-Europeans
EDITORSHIPS
1981-: The Mankind Quarterly
1981-: North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE
1984-: Quaderni di Semantica
GUEST LECTURES (BY INVITATION): Listed by University/Academy and Date Only (A Selection) (Does not include guest lecture tours, see above.)
Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften (DDR), Arbeitstelle Strukturelle Grammatik, Berlin (East) 1967; University of Zürich 1972, 1981; Cambridge University 1973; Collège de France (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) 1973; University of Umeå 1973; University of Leuven 1973; University of Chicago 1974; Princeton University 1978, 1984 (lecture series); University of Texas 1980, 1984, 1986; Göttingen 1980; Marburg 1980; Giessen 1980; Kiel 1980; Vienna 1980, 1983; Florence 1980; Klagenfurt 1981; University of the West Indies, Barbados 1983; University of Galway (Medieval Academy of Ireland) 1983, Plenary Speaker 1986; Columbia University 1984; Swedish Academy 1985; Bochum 1985; Messina 1985; Debrecen - Budapest 1985; Univerza Edvarda Kardelja (Ljubljana) 1985; Bonn 1985; University of North Carolina 1986; National University of Singapore 1986.
GRADUATE STUDENTS (Doctoral Dissertations Directed) (Selection)
John Lindow (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1972), Professor and Past Chairman, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Paul T. Roberge (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1980), Professor, German Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PUBLICATIONS
Note: This is a reconstruction. Items listed are complete. However, some 20 items after about 1984 are missing.
(1) 1963 Patterns in Meaning, Methodos 15.25-32 (1963).
(2) 1965 Hárrulur á steinöld, Tímarit máls og menningar 26.159-65 (1965).
(3) 1967 Sjálfstaett fólk, Hamsun and Rousseau: A Note, Edda 67.346-55 (l967)
(4) 1968 H. C. Branner: An Encomium, Scandinavica 7.39-52 (1968).
(5) Aspects of Generative Dialectology, Svenska Landsmål och Svenskt Folkliv 1.128-39 (1968).
(6) 1969 The verbs varda and bliva in Scandinavian with Special Emphasis on Swedish. (Studia philologiae Scandinavicae Upsaliensia, 7.). Uppsala: Almqvist och Wiksell, 1969.
(Doctoral dissertation, Uppsala University. Describes and accounts for replacement of native varda 'become' (future and passive auxiliary) by borrowed (Low German) blîben (bleiben) 'remain', which, after semantactic alteration as an early loan within Scandinavian, replaced the native form in most of Continental Scandinavian, a rare instance of AUX borrowing. Reviews (selection): Kim Nilsson, Scandinavian Studies 42.83-5 (1970); Bengt Pamp, Arkiv for nordisk filologi 85.259-60 (1970).)
(7) 1970 Scandinavian bliva: Syntactic and Semantic Change, Actes du Xe congrès international des linguistes 2.183-8 (1970).
(8) The Dialect Geography of Norwegian melk : mjølk, Maal og Minne 62.189-98 (1970).
(9) A Note on Germanic Directional and Place Adverbs, Studia Linguistica 24.73-86 (1970).
(10) 1971 The Germanic -e/-a Period, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 72.1-5 (1971).
(11) 1972 West Germanic he/er --- hiu/siu and English 'she', Journal of English and Germanic Philology 71.390-405 (1971).
(12) Gothic Imperatives in -au, Studia Linguistica 26.42-7 (1972).
(13) Germanic Terms for Temple and Cult. In: Studies for Einar Haugen. Ed. Nils Hasselmo, Evelyn Firchow-Coleman, and Kaaren Grimstad. The Hague - Paris: Mouton, 1972. Pp. 365-78.
(14) The Place-Name Element -hurst (-horst), Naamkunde 4.26-35 (1972).
(15) Nordic níðvísur: An Instance of Ritual Inversion?, Mediaeval Scandinavia 5.7-18 (1972).
(16) Salka Valka: A Study in Social Realism, Scandinavica (Festskrift for Halldór Kiljan Laxness) 11.63-9 (1972).
(17) Old High German (Alemannian-Bavarian) dei, (Kuhns) Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 86.193-206 (1972).
(18) Review of Kurzer Grundriss der Germanischen Philologie bis 1500. 1. Sprachgeschichte, 2. Literaturgeschichte. Ed. L. E. Schmitt. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1970-71. Speculum 47.799-803 (1972).
(19) Review of Sven-Bertil Jansson, Medeltidens rimkrönikor. Studier i funktion, stoff, form. Stockholm: Läromedelsförlagen, 1971. Scandinavica 11.62-3 (1972).
(20) Review of Claes Åneman, Om utvecklingen av gammalt kort i i ord av typen vidja i nordiska språk med särskild hänsyn till svenskan. 1. Text. 2. Kartor. Uppsala: Almqvist och Wiksell, 1970. Scandinavian Studies 44.552-5 (1972).
(21) and Einar Haugen, The Scandinavian Languages: Fifty Years of Linguistic Research (1918-1968). The Hague - Paris: Mouton, 1972. Also: Current Trends in Linguistics. Ed. Thomas A. Sebeok. The Hague - Paris: Mouton, 1972. Vol. 9.2.1461-1625.
(22) 1973 H. C. Branner. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1973. (Review: M. Brøndsted, Scandinavica 14.67-9 (1975)).
(23) Introduction. The Story of Børge. Translated by Kristi Planck from the Original Danish of H. C. Branner. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1973. Pp. 7-17.
(24) Comparability, Graduality and Simplification in Dialectology, Orbis 22.305-30 (1973).
(25) Review of Frank Rainer Jacoby, Van den Vos Reinaerde: Legal Elements in a Netherlandic Epic of the Thirteenth Century. Munich: Fink, 1970. Speculum 48.153-4 (1973).
(26) 1974 Germanic *liþ-/laiþ- and Funerary Ritual, Frühmittelalterliche Studien 8.179-94 (1974).
(27) Review of Oswald Szemerényi, Richtungen der modernen Sprachwissenschaft. I. Von Saussure bis Bloomfield (1916-1950). Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitäts Verlag, 1971. Historiographica Linguistica 1.129-36 (1974).
(28) 1975 West Frisian -wV- / -jV- Breaking: A Generative Approach, Folia Linguistica 7.181-208 (1975).
(29) Systemic Self-Optimization and the Swedish AUX-Component. In: The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics. Ed. K.-H. Dahlstedt. Stockholm: Almqvist och Wiksell, 1975. Pp. 562-76.
(30) 1976 A North Sea Germanic Reader. Munich: Fink, 1976.
(31) Germanic Dialect Grouping and the Position of Ingvaeonic. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 15.) Innsbruck: H. Kowatsch, 1976. (Reviews in some ten journals.).
(32) Ed. Studies in European Linguistic Theory: The Dichotomy Precept. (Giessener Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 4) Grossen-Linden: Hoffmann Verlag, 1976.
(33) On the Generativity of Neogrammarian Linguistic Change. In: The Second LACUS Forum 1975. Ed. Peter A. Reich. Columbia, SC: Hornbeam Press, Inc., 1976. Pp.537-43.
(34) Ed., Rasmus Kristian Rask, A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue. Translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent (1843). (Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics 1800-1925, Vol. 2.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1976.
(35) Review of Michael Jacoby, wargus, vargr 'Verbrecher' 'Wolf' --- eine sprach- und rechtsgeschichtliche Untersuchung. Uppsala: Almqvist och Wiksell, 1974. Scandinavica 15.57-9 (1976).
(36) Review of Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk forlag, 1968. Speculum 51.137-40 (1976).
(37) Review of Nordiska namn. Festskrift till Lennart Moberg. 13 december 1974. Ed. Harry Ståhl and Thorsten Andersson. Lund: Carl Blom, 1974. Michigan Germanic Studies 2.1.79-86 (1976).
(38) 1977 Prinzipien der Dialektologie. Einführung in die deutsche Dialektforschung. Mit einer ausführlichen Bibliographie. (Giessener Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 8.) Grossen-Linden: Hoffmann Verlag, 1977.
(39) Malice in Wonderland: The Linguist's Future in the German Department, German Quarterly 50.10-20 (1977).
(40) Linguistic Acculturation: Coalescence vs. Conservation. In: The Third LACUS Forum 1976. Ed. R. J. DiPietra and Edward L. Blansitt, Jr. Columbia, SC: Hornbeam Press, Inc., 1977. Pp. 258-66.
(41) Societal, Phonotactic, and Paradigmatic Factors in Isoglossic Relations: Nordic Medial Affrication. In: Dialectology and Sociolinguistics. Essays in Honor of K.- H. Dahlstedt, 19 April, 1977. Ed. Claes-Christian Elert, Stig Eliasson, Sigurd Fries, and Sture Ureland. (Acta Universitatis Umensis, 12.) Umeå: Centraltryckeriet, 1977. Pp. 92-112.
(42) Review of A. A. Weijnen, Algemene en vergelijkende dialectologie (General and Comparative Dialectology). Michigan Germanic Studies 3.1.90-94 (1977).
(43) Reprint of: Nordic níðvísur: An Instance of Ritual Inversion?. In: Studies in Medieval Culture 10.75-85 (1977).
(44) and R. L. Kyes, Paul T. Roberge, Germanic and Its Dialects: A Grammar of Proto-Germanic. Vol. III. Bibliography and Indices. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1977. (Numerous reviews.).
(45) 1978 Ed. On Dating Phonological Change. A Miscellany of Articles by Lennart Moberg, Axel Kock, and Ernst Wigforss. Edited and Translated with an Introduction by T. L. Markey. (Linguistica Extranea, 1.) Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1978.
(46) Yiddish: Response. In: Jewish Languages. Themes and Variations. Ed. Herbert H. Paper. Cambridge, MA: Association for Jewish Studies, 1978. Pp. 59-63.
(47) The ex lege Rite of Passage in Hartmann's Iwein, Colloquia Germanica 11.97-110 (1978).
(48) Nordic tveit-/tved-Names and Settlement History, Onoma (Kongressberichte Bern 1975) 22.3.47-83 (1978).
(49) Review of Günter Kochendörfer and Bernd Schirok, Maschinelle Textrekonstruktion. Speculum 53.819-21 (1978).
(50) Review of Jürgen Eichhoff, Wortatlas der deutschen Umgangssprachen. Bd. I. Michigan Germanic Studies 4.1.115-18 (1978).
(51) Reprint of: Linguistic Acculturation: Coalescence vs. Conservation. In: Aspects of Bilingualism. Ed. Michele Paradis. Columbia, SC: Hornbeam Press, Inc., 1978. Pp. 202-210.
(52) and Stephen Tyma, Studies in European Linguistic Theory II: The Analytic and the Descriptive. (Giessener Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 13.) Grossen-Linden: Hoffmann Verlag, 1978.
(53) 1979 Transl. (under the pseudonym C. W. Williams). The Castrati by Sven Delblanc from the Swedish original, Kastrater, by Albert Bonniers boktryckeri, 1975, Stockholm. Ann Arbor: Karoma 1979.
(54) Ed., Hugo Schuchardt, The Ethnography of Variation. Selected Writings on Pidgins and Creoles. Translated and edited by T. L. Markey. Introduction by Derek Bickerton. (Linguistica Extranea, 3.) Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1979.
(55) NFr. kuch, Engl. 'key', and the Unshifted Consonant Question, Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 46.1.44-55 (1979).
(56) A Case Study in Competition. In: Taalverandering in Nederlandse Dialekten. Honderd jaar dialektvragenlijsten 1879-1979. Ed. Marinel Gerritsen. Muiderberg: Coutinho, 1979. Pp. 100-110.
(57) Reconstitution of a Lost Original via Earliest Distribution: Die sächsische Weltkronik (A-Recension), Neophilologus 63.551-73 (1979).
(58) A Distinction for Schiermonnikoog (-rt > -ts, -rd > -s). In: Scripta Frisica. Foar Arne Spenter (1926-1977). Ed. Nils Århammer and Teake Hoekema. Groningen: Frysk Ynstitút, 1979. Pp. 137-38.
(59) Deixis and the u-Perfect, Journal of Indo-European Studies 7.1-2.65-75 (1979).
(60) Review of Friedrich Kaufmann, Geschichte der schwäbischen Mundart im Mittelalter und der Neuzeit. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1978. (Rpt.). Michigan Gemanic Studies 5.1.138-41 (1979).
(61) Review of Helmut Birkhan, Das "Zipfsche Gesetz", das schwache Präteritum und die germanische Lautverschiebung. Michigan Germanic Studies 5.2.238-45 (1979).
(62) and Paul T. Roberge, Contemporary Linguistic Theory and Foreign Language Teaching, Monatshefte 71.4.417-31 (1979).
(63) and Paul T. Roberge, Eds. Dirk Christiaan Hesseling, On The Origin and Formation of Creoles. A Miscellany of Articles. Edited and translated by T. L. Markey and Paul T. Roberge. Introduction by Pieter Muysken and Guus Meijer. (Linguistica Extranea, 4.) Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1979.
(64) 1980 Delabialization in Germanic. I. Journal of Indo-European Studies 8.199- 211 (1980).
(65) Delabialization in Germanic. II. Folia Linguistica Historica 1.2.285-93 (1980).
(66) An Historical Necessity: Non-Paradogmatic Paradigms. The Indo-European syo- Genitive, Folia Linguistica Historica 1.1.97-108 (1980).
(67) Deixis and Diatheis: The Case of the Greek k-Perfect, Indogermanische Forschungen 85.279-97 (1980).
(68) Review of Howard H. Keller, A German Word Family Dictionary together with English Equivalents. Monatshefte 72.3.338-39 (1980).
(69) Review of Piergiuseppe Scardigli and Teresa Gervasi, Avviamento all' etimologia inglese e tedesca. Florence: Le Monnier, 1978. Colloquia Germanica 13.2.177-79 (1980).
(70) 1981 Frisian. (Trends in Linguistics, 13.) The Hague: Mouton, 1981. (Numerous reviews.).
(71) Semantischer Raum, Kreolisierung und linguistische Universalien, Arbeitspapiere zur Linguistik (TU) 11.1-16 (1981).
(72) Ortsnamenforschung und die historische Sprachwissenschaft, Arbeitspapiere zur Linguistik (TU) 11.17-22 (1981).
(73) Semantic Space, Heuristic Procedures and Naturalness, Acta Neophilologica (Ljubljana) 14.105-07 (1981).
(74) Diffusion, Fusion and Creolization: A Field Guide to Developmental Linguistics, Papiere zur Linguistik 24.3-37 (1981).
(75) Indo-European Theophoric Personal Names and Social Structure, Journal of Indo- European Studies 9.3-4.227-43 (1981).
(76) Rpt. of above in: Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Cracow, 1981. Pp. 107-19.