Joseph Salmons is Professor
of German and of Linguistics, and Director of the Max Kade Institute.
He holds a B.A. in Philosophy (UNC-Charlotte, 1978) and a Ph.D.
in Germanic linguistics (University of Texas at Austin, 1984).
He serves as associate editor of the Journal of Germanic
Linguistics and review editor of Diachronica ,
and on various editorial boards, and has just stepped down after
two terms as president of the Society for Germanic Linguistics.
His primary research tests theories of phonology and language
change against historical and contemporary data, especially
from Germanic languages. He also works on German dialects spoken
in the United States , dealing with language contact and change,
as well as language shift. In addition to a book in progress, Language
Shift and Community Structure: How and why German speakers in Wisconsin have
become monolingual English speakers , his recent publications
include: "The Evolution of Bilingual Discourse Marking:
Modal particles and English markers in 19th-century German-American
dialects" with Emily Goss in the International Journal
of Bilingualism . 4:4.469-494 (2000), "Glottal Spreading
Bias in Germanic" with Gregory K. Iverson in Linguistische
Berichte 178:135-151 (1999), and Nostratic: Sifting
the Evidence . Amsterdam : Benjamins, co-edited by Brian
D. Joseph (Benjamins, 1998). |