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Dr. Dorian Roehrs

Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Linguistics

(940) 565-2404

Email: roehrs@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Indiana University, 2006
    Major: Germanic Studies/ Linguistics
  • MA, University of Connecticut, 1999
    Major: German
  • BA, University of Potsdam, Germany, 1997
    Major: English, Physical Education, German

Professional Positions

  • Adjunct, University of Connecticut. University of Connecticut. (2002 - 2003).
  • Visiting Scholar, University of Connecticut. University of Connecticut. (2002 - 2003).

    • Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Professor, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2017 - Present).
  • Associate Chair, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2015 - Present).
  • Associate Professor, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2011 - 2017).
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2015 - 2017).
  • Language coordinator for German, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2006 - 2012).
  • Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2006 - 2011).

Professional Memberships

  • Society for Germanic Linguistics. (2012 - Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • GERM 1010 - Elementary German, 62 courses.
  • GERM 1020 - Elementary German, 49 courses.
  • GERM 2040 - Intermediate German, 3 courses.
  • GERM 2050 - Intermediate German, 1 course.
  • GERM 3020 - Topics in German Studies, 12 courses.
  • GERM 3032 - German Phonetics, 2 courses.
  • GERM 3034 - Advanced German Grammar, 3 courses.
  • GERM 3040 - Topics in German Culture, 6 courses.
  • GERM 3042 - German History, 1 course.
  • GERM 3060 - Advanced German Composition and Oral Practice, 5 courses.
  • GERM 4310 - Topics in Advanced German Culture, 2 courses.
  • GERM 4330 - Topics in Advanced German Language, 6 courses.
  • GERM 4900 - Special Problems, 13 courses.
  • GERM 5017 - German for Graduate Research, 4 courses.
  • GERM 5027 - German for Graduate Research, 4 courses.
  • GERM 5900 - Special Problems, 5 courses.
  • LANG 5900 - Special Problems, 3 courses.
  • LING 2980 - Experimental Course, 1 course.
  • LING 5040 - Principles of Linguistics, 1 course.
  • LING 5305 - Morphology, 1 course.
  • LING 5310 - Syntax I, 4 courses.
  • LING 5350 - Language Typology and Universals, 5 courses.
  • LING 5530 - Semantics and Pragmatics I, 8 courses.
  • LING 6020 - Syntax II, 1 course.
  • LING 6800 - Topics in Linguistics, 1 course.

Directed Student Learning

  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Linguistics. (January 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "THE PHONOLOGICAL NATIVIZATION OF LEXICAL BORROWINGS IN MANKIYALI," Linguistics. (November 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Sound & Sensation: Phonosemantics in Automobiles," Linguistics. (2021 - June 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Use of Iconic Gestures by Individuals with Broca's Aphasia," Linguistics. (March 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, ""Do you know Spanish?" Spanish Heritage Language Loss, Linguistic Shame and Language Transmission," Linguistics. (March 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "An Exploration of the Ethical Concerns of Language Documentation and Fieldwork," Linguistics. (March 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "The Shape of Zauzou Noun Phrase.," Linguistics. (2021 - March 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Multimodality in English Writing: A Literature Review," Linguistics. (June 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Georgian Preverbs: Lexeme creation intuitions," Linguistics. (March 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Uptalkers’ Characteristics: An Analysis of Speakers’ Perceived Characteristics Based on their Use of Uptalk," Linguistics. (March 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Reciprocals in Mitla Zapotec," Linguistics. (2021 - March 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "A FIRST LOOK AT MANKIYALI MORPHOLOGY," Linguistics. (2021 - March 2022).
  • Supervised Research, "Perception of Vowel Length in German," Psychology. (January 2019 - May 2019).
  • Other (Honors Contract Thesis), "German Vowel Length Identification," Psychology. (September 2018 - December 2018).
  • Other (Honors Contract Thesis), "Berlin Alexanderplatz, Die Dreigroschenoper, the personification of cities in the representation of the underworld and the politics that drive them," World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (January 2016 - May 2016).
  • Other (Honors Contract Thesis), "The Nibelungenlied and its impact on German culture and politics," World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (September 2015 - December 2015).

Awards and Honors

  • Excellence in Service, CAS. (2014).
  • Thank a Teacher (Spring, Fall), University of North Texas. (2012).
  • Certificate of Appreciation, undergraduate student (German major) at UNT. (2009).
  • Honors Day Convocation, University of North Texas. (2008).
  • Nomination for the J.H. Shelton Excellence in Teaching Award, University of North Texas. (2008).
  • Salaroglio Modern Foreign Language Scholarship & Russell A. Havens Scholarship in Foreign Languages, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University. (2004).
  • Oskar Seidlin Fellowship, Department of Germanic Studies, Indiana University. (2003).
  • E. O. Wooley Award, Department of Germanic Studies, Indiana University. (2002).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • Dorian Roehrs. (2007). Split-NPs as an Instance of Sideward Movement..
  • Roehrs, Dorian & Christopher D. Sapp. (2006). Different Word Orders in the Early North Germanic DP: The Rise of the Suffixal Article..
  • Kitagawa, Yoshihisa, Dorian Roehrs & Satoshi Tomioka. (2004). Multiple wh-interpretations..

    • Book

  • Roehrs, Dorian, Ock-Hwan Kim & Yoshihisa Kitagawa. (2005). Syntax and Beyond. Indiana University Working Papers in Linguistics 5..

    • Book Chapter

  • Roehrs, D. (2020). Structure of Noun (NP) and Determiner Phrases (DP). Cambridge Handbook on Germanic Linguistics. 537-563 (= 27 pages). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Roehrs, D. Adjectives are in Phrasal Positions. Festschrift for Steve Franks. 27 pages. Bloomington, IN, Slavica Publishers.
  • Dorian Roehrs & Marit Julien. (2014). Adjectives in German and Norwegian: Differences in Weak and Strong Inflections.. Linguistics Today Series 212 245-261 (17 pages). Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2013). Possessives as Extended Projections. Working Papers in Scandinavian Linguistics. 91 37-112 (76 pages).
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2011). Split NPs.
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2006). Pronominal Noun Phrases, Number Specifications, and Null Nouns..
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2005). Icelandic Case Fluctuation and Movement into Theta-Positions..
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2005). Possessives Consists of Heads and Complements: Some Notes..
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2005). Pronouns are Determiners After All..
  • Roehrs, Dorian & Marie Labelle. (2003). The Left Periphery in Child French. Evidence for a Simply-split CP..
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2002). Toward Eliminating Case as a Driving Force for Movement: 'Licensing' of Case and Default Case..

    • Book Review

  • Dorian Roehrs. (2003). Review of Giorgio Graffi's (2001) "200 Years of Syntax. A critical survey".

    • Journal Article

  • Julien, M., Roehrs, D. (2023). Phrasal Proper Names in German and Norwegian. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. 26 (1) 54. Springer.
  • Roehrs, D. (2022). Prenominal Possessives in Yiddish: mayn khaver vs. mayner a khaver. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences. De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Roehrs, D. (2020). The Left Periphery of the German Noun Phrase. Studia Linguistica. 78 (1) 98-138 (41 pages). Wiley.
  • Roehrs, D. (2020). The Morpho-syntax of Phrasal Proper Names in German. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics. 5 (1) 1-38 (38 pages). Ubiquity Press.
  • Roehrs, D. (2019). Three Typological Differences between the North and the West Germanic DP. Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 31 (4) 363-408 (46 pages). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Roehrs, D., Sapp, C. (2018). Complex Quantifiers with Genitive and Concord in Old English and Beyond.. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. 21 (3) 381-419 (39 pages). Springer.
  • Sapp, C., Roehrs, D. (2016). Head-to-Modifier Reanalysis: The Rise of the Adjectival Quantifier viel and the Loss of Genitive Case Assignment.. Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 28 (2) 89-166 (78 pages). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2015). Inflections on Pre-nominal Adjectives in Germanic: Main Types, Subtypes, and Subset Relations. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. 18 (3) 213-271 (59 pages). Springer.
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2012). Complex Determiners: A Case Study of German ein jeder.. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis. 17 (1) 1-56 (56 pages). Berkeley, University of Berkeley.
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2010). Demonstrative-reinforcer Constructions..
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2009). Inflectional Parallelism with German Adjectives..
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2008). High Floating Quantifiers: Syntactic or "Delayed" V2?.
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2008). Something Inner- and Cross-linguistically Different..
  • Felber, Sarah & Dorian Roehrs. (2004). *So Weird a Baffling Construction..
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2002). The Boundary between Morphology and Syntax: Determiners Move Into the Determiner Phrase..
  • Roehrs, Dorian, Rex A. Sprouse & Joachim Wermter. (2002). The Difference Between desto and umso: Some Mysteries of the German Comparative Correlative.. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis. 7 (1) 15-25. University of California at Berkeley.

    • Monograph

  • Dorian Roehrs. (2016). Quantifying Expressions in the History of German: Syntactic reanalysis and morphological change.. Linguistics Today Series 230 xvii + 299pp. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2013). The Inner Makeup of Definite Determiners: The Case of Germanic.. [book-length article in peer-reviewed journal] Journal of Germanic Linguistics 25(4) 295-411 (117 pages). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Dorian Roehrs. (2009). Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries ..

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Linguistics Circle, Is Yiddish a Typical West Germanic Language? Arguments from the Noun Phrase., University of North Texas, United States of America. (2020).

    • Lecture

  • Roehrs, D. (Other), Invited Lecture, Combinations of Nouns and Pronouns., Baylor University, United States of America. (2007 - 2007).
  • Roehrs, D. (Other), Invited Lecture, Some Differences between the Clause and the Noun Phrase., The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States of America. (2007 - 2007).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Evans, E. (Author & Presenter), Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 30, Adjective Inflections in Old Norse DPs., Society for Germanic Linguistics, Indiana University, United States of America. (2024).
  • Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 29, Plural "eine" in German, Society for Germanic Linguistics, University of Calgary (Banff), Canada, Canada. (2023).
  • Köhnlein, B. (Author), Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 29, Towards a Better Understanding of Copulative Compounding in German, Society for Germanic Linguistics, University of Calgary (Banff), Canada, Canada. (2023).
  • Björn Köhnlein (Author & Presenter), Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 28, Complex Personal Names are Copulative Compounds: Evidence from German, Society for Germanic Linguistics, Athens, Georgia, United States of America. (2022).
  • Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Sprouse, R.A. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 27, Possessive -s and the Structure of Proper Names in German., Society for Germanic Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States of America. (2021).
  • Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 26, CANCELLED, Society for Germanic Linguistics, United States of America. (2020).
  • Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 25, Indefinite Prenominal Possessives in Yiddish, Society for Germanic Linguistics, University of Iowa, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 24, Agreement Chains in German, Pennsylvania State University, United States of America. (2018 - 2018).
  • Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 23, Two Differences between the North and the West Germanic DP, University of Texas at Austin, United States of America. (2017 - 2017).
  • Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 22, Adjectives are in Phrasal Positions, University of Iceland, Iceland. (2016 - 2016).
  • Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Sapp, C. (Author & Presenter), 30th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Quantifying Expressions as Heads and Phrases: Explaining the Differences in the Cardinal and Proportional Constructions in OE, OHG, and OI., University of Chicago, United States of America. (2015 - 2015).
  • Roehrs, D. (Author & Presenter), Sapp, C. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 21, Indefinite quantifiers and case in Old English., Brigham Young University, United States of America. (2015 - 2015).
  • Roehrs, D., Forum for Germanic Language Studies XI, Derived Proper Names in German and Norwegian., University of Cambridge, UK, United Kingdom. (2014 - 2014).
  • Roehrs, D., 28th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Agreement in the DP: Dutch vs. Norwegian., University of Leipzig, Germany, Germany. (2013 - 2013).
  • Roehrs, D., Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft 35 [German Society for Linguistics]; Workshop: NP Syntax and Information Structure, The Left Periphery of the German DP: Two Pre-nominal Positions for Possessives., University of Potsdam, Germany, Germany. (2013 - 2013).
  • Roehrs, D., Sapp, C., Diachronic Generative Syntax 15, Dependents of German Indefinite Pronouns: from Genitive to Concord., University of Ottawa, Canada, Canada. (2013 - 2013).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 19, Proper Names in German., University of Buffalo, United States of America. (2013 - 2013).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 19, Split DP in German., University of Buffalo, United States of America. (2013 - 2013).
  • Roehrs, D., 2012 Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, Two Types of Pre-determiner Structures., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America. (2012 - 2012).
  • Roehrs, D., Julien, M., 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Attributive Adjectives in German and Norwegian: Two Types of Weak Endings., Yale University, United States of America. (2012 - 2012).
  • Julien, M., Roehrs, D., Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change, Constructions off the Beaten Track: Revisiting the Inflections on Attributive Adjectives in German and Norwegian., University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Netherlands. (2012 - 2012).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18, Deictic Particles and the Development of Complex Demonstratives and Definite Articles., Indiana University, United States of America. (2012 - 2012).
  • Sapp, C., Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18, German Indefinite Pronouns: Climbing the Tree over Time., Indiana University, United States of America. (2012 - 2012).
  • Roehrs, D., 26th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Possessives: Yiddish vs. Norwegian., University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Netherlands. (2011 - 2011).
  • Roehrs, D., 3rd annual DFW Metroplex Linguistics conference, Indefinite Demonstrative Structures in West Germanic., UNT, United States of America. (2011 - 2011).
  • Roehrs, D., American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Linguistics in the Undergraduate Foreign-language Program: An Exploratory Approach to German Linguistics., Denver, Colorado, United States of America. (2011 - 2011).
  • Roehrs, D., 2010 Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, Different Readings in Nominal and Clausal Combinations of Pronouns and Nouns., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America. (2010 - 2010).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 16, German ein., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States of America. (2010 - 2010).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 16, Syntactic vs. Morphological Decomposition of Demonstrative Stems., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States of America. (2010 - 2010).
  • Roehrs, D., 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Adjectival Inflections in German as a Result of Different Mechanisms., Honolulu, HI, United States of America. (2009 - 2009).
  • Roehrs, D., 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Split-NPs Revisited., Honolulu, HI, United States of America. (2009 - 2009).
  • Roehrs, D., 2008 Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, Different Accounts of Nasal Inflections in German., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America. (2008 - 2008).
  • Putnam, M., Roehrs, D., 23rd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Demonstrative Reinforcers., University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom. (2008 - 2008).
  • Putnam, M., Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 14, Complex Demonstratives in Yiddish., University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States of America. (2008 - 2008).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 14, Deriving the Strong and Weak Alternation in German by Fission., University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States of America. (2008 - 2008).
  • Roehrs, D., 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Complex Determiners: A Case Study of German ein jeder., Anaheim, CA, United States of America. (2007 - 2007).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 13, Inflectional Parallelism Within Lexical Categories in German., Pennsylvania State University, United States of America. (2007 - 2007).
  • Roehrs, D., 21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Something Post-pre-nominal in German and Beyond., University of California at Santa Cruz, United States of America. (2006 - 2006).
  • Roehrs, D., 30th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Split-NPs as an Instance of Sideward Movement. (revised version), University of Pennsylvania, United States of America. (2006 - 2006).
  • Roehrs, D., Job Talk, The Principle of Monoinflection Revisited and Practical Implications., UNT, United States of America. (2006 - 2006).
  • Roehrs, D., 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Number "Dis-agreement" in Pronominal Noun Phrases., Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands, Netherlands. (2005 - 2005).
  • Roehrs, D., 14th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Possessives Consists of Heads and Complements., University of Porto, Portugal, Portugal. (2004 - 2004).
  • Roehrs, D., 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Strong Pronouns are Determiners After All., CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, United States of America. (2004 - 2004).
  • Roehrs, D., 2004 Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, German ein jeder as a "Late" Compound., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America. (2004 - 2004).
  • Roehrs, D., Sprouse, R., 2004 Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, The three genitival declensions of proper names in Modern Standard German: Some morphosyntactic nuts., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America. (2004 - 2004).
  • Roehrs, D., 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, A PF Account of the Scandinavian DP., Helsinki, Finland, Finland. (2004 - 2004).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 10, Split NPs as Instances of Sideward Movement., University of Michigan, United States of America. (2004 - 2004).
  • Roehrs, D., Sapp, C., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 10, The Germanic Noun Phrase: Old and New. With Special Reference to Icelandic., University of Michigan, United States of America. (2004 - 2004).
  • Roehrs, D., Sapp, C., Western Conference on Linguistics 2004, Different Word Orders in the Early North Germanic DP: The Rise of the Suffixal Article., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America. (2004 - 2004).
  • Kitagawa, Y., Roehrs, D., Tomioka, S., 4th Meeting of the Society for Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia, Multiple wh-interpretations in Japanese., Seoul National University, South Korea, Korea, South. (2003 - 2003).
  • Roehrs, D., First Joint UMass, UConn, MIT, UMD Syntax Workshop, Icelandic Case Fluctuation and Movement into Theta-Positions., University of Connecticut, United States of America. (2003 - 2003).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 9, Complex Determiners in German., University at Buffalo, United States of America. (2003 - 2003).
  • Roehrs, D., 2002 Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, Case Fluctuation of some Middle-reflexive Predicates in Icelandic., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America. (2002 - 2002).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 8, Do Determiners Move into the Determiner Phrase?, Indiana University, United States of America. (2002 - 2002).
  • Roehrs, D., Sprouse, R., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 7, Argument extension and the syntax of the dative in German., University of Calgary, Canada, Canada. (2001 - 2001).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 7, Object-oriented anaphora in German: a case for a semantic predicate., University of Calgary, Canada, United States of America. (2001 - 2001).
  • Labelle, M., Roehrs, D., Going Romance 2001, The Left Periphery in Child French: Evidence for a Simply-split CP., University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Netherlands. (2001 - 2001).
  • Roehrs, D., Sprouse, R., Wermter, J., 2000 Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, The Difference Between desto and umso: Some Mysteries of the German Comparative Correlative., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America. (2000 - 2000).
  • Roehrs, D., 2000 Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, Toward Eliminating Case as a Driving Force for Movement: 'Licensing' of Case and Default Case., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America. (2000 - 2000).
  • Roehrs, D., Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 6, Toward Eliminating Case as a Driving Force for Movement: 'Licensing' of Case and Default Case . (revised version), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States of America. (2000 - 2000).

    • Poster

  • Roehrs, D. (Author), Sapp, C. (Author & Presenter), Diachronic Generative Syntax 17, Structural Differences in Quantifying Expressions: The Cardinal and Proportional Constructions in OE, OHG, and OI., University of Iceland, Iceland. (2015 - 2015).

Media Contributions

    Newspaper

  • "Students Practice German on German Day," North Texas Daily. (April 23, 2009).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Chair, Search Committee for a Professor in Comp Ling/Variation. (October 2023 - Present).
  • Member, Personnel Affairs Committee. (September 2023 - Present).
  • Member, Graduate Committee/Graduate Curriculum Committee. (September 2021 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Admissions Committee. (January 2022 - August 2023).
  • Committee Chair, College PAC/RPTC (College of Information). (September 2021 - August 2023).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee for a Professor in Phonetics/Phonology. (October 2022 - March 2023).
  • Faculty Mentor, Host of Visiting Scholar. (September 2022 - December 2022).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee for a Professor in Computational Linguistics. (February 2022 - May 2022).
  • Member, Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee (promotion to full; Dept. of Spanish). (September 2021 - October 2021).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee for Department Chair (LING). (June 2021 - September 2021).
  • Chairperson, Associate Chair of WLLC. (September 2015 - August 2021).
  • Member, Personnel Affairs Committee (LING). (September 2019 - May 2021).
  • Member, Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee (WLLC). (September 2017 - May 2021).
  • Other (Secretary), Personnel Affairs Committee (WLLC). (September 2018 - May 2020).
  • Member, Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee (promotion to full; Dept. of Information Science). (September 2019 - October 2019).
  • Member, Executive Committee (WLLC). (September 2016 - May 2019).
  • Faculty Mentor, Mentoring (WLLC). (September 2014 - January 2019).
  • Member, Ad-hoc SPOT Committee (WLLC). (September 2018 - December 2018).
  • Chairperson, Personnel Affairs Committee (WLLC). (September 2017 - May 2018).
  • Member, Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee (lecturers) (WLLC). (September 2017 - October 2017).
  • Other (Ex Officio Chair), Curriculum Committee (WLLC). (September 2015 - August 2017).
  • Chairperson, Director of Undergraduate Studies (WLLC). (September 2015 - August 2017).
  • Member, Japanese Search Committee (lecturer). (May 2017 - June 2017).
  • Other (Secretary), Personnel Affairs Committee (WLLC). (September 2016 - May 2017).
  • Other (Midterm Advocate for Assistant Professor in Japanese), Special Function (WLLC). (November 2016).
  • Other (Secretary), Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee (WLLC). (September 2016 - October 2016).
  • Other (Co-organizer), German Immersion Day. (April 2016).
  • Other (Co-chair), Japanese Search Committee (lecturer) (WLLC). (September 2015 - February 2016).
  • Member, Awards Committee (WLLC). (January 2015 - May 2015).
  • Member, Committee on Faculty Participation in Governance (standing committee in Faculty Senate). (January 2015 - May 2015).
  • Member, Personnel Affairs Committee (WLLC). (January 2014 - May 2015).
  • Member, Faculty Senate, Group I. (September 2012 - May 2015).
  • Other (Co-organizer), German Immersion Day. (April 2015).
  • Committee Chair, Grade Appeal Committee (WLLC). (September 2014 - December 2014).
  • Other (Co-organizer), German Immersion Day. (April 2014).
  • Member, German Search Committee (lecturer). (June 2013 - August 2013).
  • Member, Ad Hoc Committee (Mission Statement) (WLLC). (January 2013 - May 2013).
  • Member, Executive Committee (WLLC). (September 2012 - May 2013).
  • Committee Chair, Personnel Affairs Committee (WLLC). (September 2012 - May 2013).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Affairs Committee (WLLC). (September 2011 - May 2013).
  • Other (Co-organizer), German Immersion Day. (April 2013).
  • Other (Language Coordinator for German), (September 2006 - June 2012).
  • Other (Secretary), Personnel Affairs Committee (WLLC). (September 2011 - May 2012).
  • Member, Curriculum Committee (WLLC). (September 2009 - May 2012).
  • Other (Co-organizer), German Immersion Day. (April 2012).
  • Member, Department Chair Search Committee (WLLC). (September 2011 - February 2012).
  • Other (secretary), German Search committee (professor). (June 2011 - December 2011).
  • Other (reader), MA Thesis Committee (French). (2011 - 2011).
  • Other (Midterm Advocate for Assistant Professor in German), Special Function. (October 2011).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Affairs Committee (WLLC). (September 2010 - May 2011).
  • Other (co-organizer), German Immersion Day. (April 2011).
  • Other (reader of two theses), Two MA Thesis Committees (French). (2010 - 2010).
  • Chairperson, Ad Hoc (graduate recruitment plan). (January 2010 - May 2010).
  • Committee Chair, Library Committee. (September 2008 - May 2010).
  • Other (co-organizer), German Immersion Day. (April 2010).
  • Committee Chair, Russian Search Committee (lecturer). (June 2009 - August 2009).
  • Other (co-organizer), German Immersion Day. (April 2009).
  • Committee Chair, German Search committee (professor). (September 2008 - February 2009).
  • Member, Ad Hoc (merit grid). (September 2008 - December 2008).
  • Other (reader), MA Thesis Committee (French). (2008 - 2008).
  • Committee Chair, German Search committee (lecturer). (June 2008 - August 2008).
  • Committee Chair, Speaker's Committee. (September 2007 - May 2008).
  • Other (secretary), Library Committee. (September 2006 - May 2008).
  • Other (co-organizer), German Immersion Day. (April 2008).
  • Other (member/interim chair), German Search committee (professor). (September 2006 - February 2007).

Public Service

  • Other (Judge), German Winterfest at RL Turner High School. Carrollton, TX. (2015 - 2015).
  • Other (Judge), German Winterfest at RL Turner High School. Carrollton, TX. (2014 - 2014).

Professional Service

  • Other (Elected Member of the executive committee), Society for Germanic Linguistics. (January 2023 - Present).
  • Editorial Review Board Member, The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. (August 2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "De Gruyter". (2023).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 29. (2023).
  • Reviewer, Book, Language Science Press book series "Open Germanic Linguistics". (November 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Glossa". (2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics". (August 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics". (March 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Journal of Germanic Linguistics". (2021).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Language Science Press". (2021).
  • Session Chair, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 27 (University of Wisconsin, Madison). (May 2021).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Glossa". (2020).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Oxford University Press". (2020).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics". (2020).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 26. (2020).
  • Session Chair, International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics 53. (2020).
  • Other (Elected Member of the executive committee), Society for Germanic Linguistics. (2012 - 2020).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Glossa". (2019).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Linguistics in the Netherlands". (2019).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Oxford University Press". (2019).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 34. (2019).
  • Session Chair, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 25 (University of Iowa). (2019).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Diachronica". (2018).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Glossa". (2018).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Glossa" (second paper). (2018).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Generative Linguistics in the Old World 41. (2018).
  • Session Chair, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 24 (Pennsylvania State University). (2018).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Journal of Linguistics". (2017).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, "Slavica". (2017).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 32. (2017).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Diachronic Generative Syntax 19. (2017).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Generative Linguistics in the Old World 40. (2017).
  • Session Chair, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 23 (University of Texas, Austin). (2017).
  • Session Chair, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 22 (University of Iceland). (2016).
  • Session Chair, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 21 (Brigham Young University). (2015 - 2015).
  • Other (Reviewer of Tenure Dossier), other. (2015).
  • Other (Organizer of the panel discussion), Events Celebrating 25 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. (2014 - 2014).
  • Other (Member of the organizing committee of the panel "Variation in the Morphosyntax of Closely Related Languages"), Forum for Germanic Language Studies XI (University of Cambridge, UK). (2014 - 2014).
  • Session Chair, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 19 (University of Buffalo). (2013 - 2013).
  • Session Chair, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18 (Indiana University). (2012 - 2012).
  • Other (lead organizer of invitation), Distinguished Speaker in German. (2011 - 2011).
  • Other (Member of organizing committee and Session Chair), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 17 (University of Texas at Austin). (2011 - 2011).
  • Session Chair, 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. (2009 - 2009).
  • Other (lead organizer of invitation), Distinguished Speaker in German. (2008 - 2008).
  • Session Chair, Workshop on Prosody, Syntax and Information Structure – A Japanese perspective. (2004 - 2004).

Consulting

  • North Lake College, (2011 - 2011).