Settling in at OU

Hi All,

It has been far too long since I've posted here.  I've been in Norman for a bit under two weeks now and am starting to feel settled in.  Classes start next week and I am raring to go on those! I'm teaching some courses outside of my usual area and I think it is going to be a challenging but very rewarding term.  I'll be teaching Psycholinguistics, Phonology and Intro (all undergraduate).  It's going to be a really fun term.

I get back to the comforts of morpho-syntax in the Spring with Syntax II and Morphology (along with another Intro).  All in all, I think it will be a great year.

The campus is absolutely gorgeous-- though, I'm still trying to get my bearings.  My attempts at exploration have been a bit stymied by the heat.  You'd think that a Tucson boy would no how to handle it....

Now that I'm getting settled, I'll be updating the site and posting a bit more often.  I've got some new research to post and a few teaching posts that have been bouncing around my head.

Check back soon, there's definitely some new exciting stuff coming!

Jeff

New Job

I've been holding off on announcing this very publicly; though, I'm sure anyone that reads this is likely to already know....

I have accepted a temporary position at the University of Oklahoma for the coming academic year.  I am very excited about this opportunity.  I think it is going to be an excellent place for me to be.  So if you are coming through Norman next year... give me a ring.

Thanks to the organizers

The Joint Meeting was great fun yesterday!  The talks were very interesting and the setting was pitch perfect.  And it is always a treat when you get to hear about Elly's research.  Andy's talk on phoneme merger was also a fantastic talk that confirmed some gut feelings but left a lot of huh-moments as well.

Overall, it was a fantastic experience!  Thanks to everyone who participated!

A humorous response to my talk today

‎"English loves -ing; heck, it loves it so much, you might as well call it -inglish."

                              --Ethan Dickinson???

UA/ASU Joint Meeting Program

Remember the ASU/UA Joint Linguistics Meeting this Saturday. I will be the last speaker. This is generally a really fun, informal but informative event. If you are linguist or a linguistics oriented person in Arizona, you should try to be here.

1:00 Alvaro Cerrón-Palomino: "Resumption in Spanish Relative Clauses:
Why Subjects are Different"
1:45 Elly van Gelderen: "Psych-verbs in the history of English"
2:10 Patsy Hansel: "Code Choice in the Spanish as a Foreign Language
Classroom"
2:35 Claire Renaud: "A processing investigation of the gender feature
in second language acquisition: Evidence from Spanish and French"
3:05 Jing Xia: “Rhetorical Invention in the Understanding of Research
Topic Selection: Prospects and Problems”
3:30 Coffee Break
3:50 Robert LaBarge: “vP-Shell, θ-Structure, and UG Implications in
Kannaḍa”
4:15 James Berry: “Cyclical Renewal of Adverbs and Adpositions”
4:40 Dave Medeiros: TBA
5:05 Jeff Punske: "What nominalization can tell us about regularity"

Immediately following: Potluck/Department party at Andy and Adam’s house

Officially Filed!

I filed the dissertation today. Formatting revisions appear to be done too. There are a few forms that need to be tracked down, but other than that, it is done.

:-)

Dissertation

I just sent Simin Karimi what I hope will be the final draft of my dissertation. I will probably read over it one last time for typographic errors this week. Hopefully, it will be filed some time within the next week or so.

Since it has been so close to done for so very long (if you haven't kept up with me that closely, I defended back in June), I thought it would feel less strange-- especially since the bulk of at least the last month has been proof reading, formatting and the ilk. Turns out, it doesn't :-)

I've got plenty to keep me busy coming up though. I have revisions for a paper that are near complete. Another new(ish) paper nearing submission quality and a talk to give next week! I won't be wont for linguistics now....

I've posted this version of the dissertation. It has not been filed yet. If you've just been dying to get your hands on it and notice any errors, please let me know!