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Editor-in-Chief

Edwin Battistella, Professor

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

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

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