Emmon W. Bach curriculum vitae 25 March 2008

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born June 12, 1929, Kumamoto, Japan
U.S. citizen

Degrees and postsecondary education:
Ph.D. (1959, University of Chicago), M.A. (1955, U. of Ch.), B.A. (1949, U. of Ch.), Fulbright scholar (University of Tuebingen, 1955-56)

Academic and administrative positions: University of Northern British Columbia, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Hampshire College, City University of New York and Queens College, University of Texas (Austin), School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), Oxford University.

Participation, teaching, lecturing: Summer Linguistics Institutes of the Linguistic Society of America (Arizona, Santa Barbara, Berkeley), Mathesius Institutes in Prague.

Research Grants and Fellowships: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, National Science Foundation, NEH, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Rausing Foundation: Endangered Languages Project.

Memberships, etc. Linguistic Society of America (President, 1995) Landsdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria (1991). Honorary Member: Linguistic Circle of Prague, Philological Society, Linguistic Association of Great Britain.

Other activities:

Editorial boards of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, Linguistic Analysis, Language and Cognition, Synthese Language Library, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Served as reviewer for various journals and publishers and for the National Science Foundation, Canada Council.

Main areas of research and teaching: Syntax and Semantics, Morphology, Wakashan Linguistics, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Western Abenaki.

Primary work on Native Languages of North America:

I have taught field-methods courses with speakers of Cherokee, Lakhota Hidatsa, Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Ahousat (Nuuchahnulth). In Wakashan, besides my work in Kitamaat on Haisla, I have begun to acquaint myself with Southern Wakashan: I worked a short time with the late Dr. George Louie in Victoria on Ahousaht and in the summer of 1999 I cotaught a course on Ahousat with Katie Fraser (a native speaker) at the LSA summer Institute. I worked with Darin Howe (PhD candidate at UBC) and Hilda Smith (his principal consultant) on Ooweky'ala, a Northern Wakashan language closely related to Haisla (I was on Howe's Ph.D. committee). From 1994 - 1999, I taught and cotaught courses primarily for First Nations students of northern British Columbia in New Aiyansh (Nisga'a), Terrace (Nisga'a, Coast Tsimshian), Prince Rupert, and every year in Kitamaat Village (Haisla, see below). These courses were supported by the First Nations Programme of the University of Northern British Columbia, and in New Aiyansh, cosponsored by the Nisga'a Wilp Wilxo'skwhl Nisga'a - (Nisga'a House of Learning). For several years, I worked as language resource for the Haisla Treaty Commision.

Articles and reviews in Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, Glossa, GLOT, Anthropological Linguistics, BC Studies (review). Written or co-edited: 7 books.

Selected recent publications: Bach, Emmon. 1989. Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics. Albany: SUNY Press.

Bach, Emmon. 1991--92. Review of Lincoln, Neville J., John C. Rath, Evelyn Windsor. 1990. Baxwbakwalanusiwa. Un récit Haisla / a Haisla story. raconté par / as told by Gordon Robertson. Amerindia. No. 14. Supplement 3. Pp. xii, 119. BC Studies Nos. 91-92 [Autumn/Winter 1991-- 92], pp. 209--214.

Bach, Emmon. 1993. On the semantics of polysynthesis. BLS 19:361-368. Guenter, Joshua S., Barbara A. Kaiser, and Cheryl C. Zoll, eds. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. February 12-15, 1993.

Bach, Emmon. 1994. The meanings of words. In Mandy Harvey and Lynn Santelmann, eds., Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) IV (Ithaca: Cornell University Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics), 16-34.

Bach, Emmon. 1994. The semantics of syntactic categories: a cross-linguistic perspective. In John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes, eds., The Logical Foundations of Linguistic Theory (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 264--281.

Bach, Emmon. 1995. Word-internal semantic relations in Wakashan. In Clifford S. Burgess, Katarzyna Dziwirek, and Donna B. Gerdts, eds, Grammatical Relations: Theoretical Approaches to Empirical Issues (Cambridge and Stanford: Cambridge University Press and CSLI), pp. 1-13.

Bach, Emmon. 1996. On the grammar of complex words. In Anna-Maria di Sciullo, ed., Configurations: Essays on Structure and Interpretation (Somerville: Cascadilla Press), pp. 1--16.

Bach, Emmon, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, and Barbara H. Partee, eds. 1995. Quantification in Natural Languages. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Bach, Emmon. [2000.] Some more impossible words. BLS 2000. Bach, Emmon. [2001.] Building words in Haisla. UMOP 20:51--73. [Elena Benedicto, ed. Indigenous languages .]

Bach, Emmon. 2002. On the surface verb qʼayʼáiqela. Linguistics and Philosophy 25: 531-544.

Bach, Emmon. 2003. Postcolonial(?) Linguistic Fieldwork. Massachusetts Review XLIV, 12. Pp. 167-181.[Issue title: A Gathering in Honor of Jules Chametzky.].

Bach, Emmon. 2003. Categories and pronominal arguments. In Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and Mary Ann Willie, eds. Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar. In honor of Eloise Jelinek (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins), pp. 45-49.

Bach, Emmon. 2005. Eventualities, grammar, and linguistic diversity. In Henk J. Verkuyl, Henriette de Swart, and Angeliek van Hout, eds., Perspectives on Aspect (Dordrecht: Springer) pp. 167-180.

Bach, Emmon. 2005. Is word-formation compositional? In Gregory N. Carlson and Francis Jeffery Pelletier, eds. Reference and Quantification: The Partee Effect (Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2005), pp. 107-112.

Bach, Emmon and Wynn Chao. 2009. Semantic universals and typology. In Chris Collins, Morten Christiansen and Shimon Edelman, eds., Language Universals (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Pp. 152-173.

Bach, Emmon, and Wynn Chao. In press. Language universals from a semantic perspective. To appear in Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner, eds. Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.