Editor-in-Chief
Edwin Battistella, Professor
Email address:
battiste@sou.edu
Academic History
Ed Battistella earned his B.A. degree from Rutgers College
in Slavic Languages and Literature and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics
from the City University of New York. He worked his way across the U.S. as a
teacher and administrator at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Wayne
State College in Nebraska, and Southern Oregon University, and served as Dean
of Arts and Letters at Southern from 2000-2006.
Battistella has been a
visiting teacher at the Charles University Vilem Mathesius Workshop on
Linguistics in the Czech Republic in 1993, a visiting scientist at the IBM
Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1989 and 1990, and a visiting Assistant
Professor at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute in 1986.
He served as the book review editor for Language, the journal of the
Linguistic Society of America, from 1995-2002, and on the LSA's Committee on
the Status of Women in Linguistics from 1989 1992, its Leonard Bloomfield Book
Award Committee in 1992-93, and its Language in the School Curriculum
Committee, from 2002-2004. Battistella is also the editor of Blackwell's
Linguistic Abstracts.
Research Interests
Syntax, semiotics, language attitudes and markedness as well as English usage and punctuation.
Selected Publications
Books
Battistella has published three
books, Bad Language (2005) and The Logic of Markedness (1996),
with Oxford University Press, and Markedness: The Evaluative Superstructure
of Language (1990) with the State University of New York Press.
Prizes and Awards
Grants awards include six National Endowment for the Humanities awards, as well as grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, US Department of Education Eisenhower grant program, Nebraska, NEB*SAT education training program and the Network for Alabama Academic Libraries. In 2006, his Bad Language was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award for general non-fiction.
Editor-in-Chief
Rochelle Lieber, Professor
Email address:
rochelle.lieber@unh.edu
Academic History
University of New Hampshire, Professor
(1992-)
University of New Hampshire. Chair, Department of English
(1997-2003)
University of New Hampshire, Associate Professor (1986-1992)
University of New Hampshire, Assistant Professor (1981-1986)
University of Alabama, Birmingham, Assistant Professor
(1980-1981)
Research Interests
Morphology, Lexical Semantics, Linguistic Theory
Selected Publications
Books
Lieber, Rochelle and Pavol
Stekauer. forthcoming. The Oxford Handbook of Compounding. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Lieber, Rochelle. 2005 Handbook of Word
Formation [co-edited with Pavol Stekauer]. Dordrecht: Springer.
Lieber, Rochelle. 2005. Word Formation Processes in English, chapter in
Stekauer and Lieber, eds. The Handbook of English Word Formation. p.
373-425.
Lieber, Rochelle. 2004. Morphology and Lexical Semantics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lieber, Rochelle 1992.
Deconstructing Morphology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Articles
Lieber, Rochelle. forthcoming.The semantics
of derivation. To appear in The Handbook of Semantics, Claudia
Maienborn, et al.eds. Berlin: DeGruyter Publishers.
Lieber, Rochelle.
2007. The category of roots and the roots of categories: what we learn from
selection in derivation. Morphology, March, 2007. DOI:
110.1007/s11525-006-9106-2.
Lieber, Rochelle and Sergio Scalise. 2006.
The Lexical Integrity Hypothesis in a New Theoretical Universe, with Sergio
Scalise. In Rochelle Lieber and Sergio Scalise, eds., Lingue e Linguaggio.
1:7-32.
Lieber, Rochelle. 2005.The Syntax of Words, The
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. pp. 405-408. Booij,
Geert and Rochelle Lieber. 2004.On the paradigmatic nature of affixal semantics
in English and Dutch. Linguistics 42,2, 327-357.
Prizes and Awards
Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of New Hampshire, 1991
