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Dr. William N. Salmon

Chair

University of North Texas

Department of Linguistics

(940) 565-4552

Email: William.Salmon@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Yale University, 2008
    Major: Linguistics
    Dissertation: Dislocations, Context, and Composition: or, Double Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese
  • MA, Yale University, 2007
    Major: Linguistics
  • MPhil, Yale University, 2007
    Major: Linguistics

Professional Memberships

  • American Dialect Society. (2009 - 2070).
  • Linguistic Society of America. (2009 - 2070).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • LING 2980 - Experimental Course, 1 course.
  • LING 4070 - History of the English Language, 4 courses.
  • LING 4090 - Semantics and Pragmatics, 2 courses.
  • LING 4410 - World Englishes, 1 course.
  • LING 4950 - Senior Capstone Field Experience, 1 course.
  • LING 4951 - Honors College Capstone Thesis, 1 course.
  • LING 5900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • LING 6900 - Special Problems, 1 course.

Directed Student Learning

  • Other (MA Qualifying Paper Reader), "Dimasa with use of hierarchical annotation to improve interlinear glossing of texts," Linguistics. (2023 - 2023).
  • Other (MA Qualifying Paper Reader), "Sound & Sensation: Phonosemantics in Automobiles," Linguistics. (2023 - 2023).
  • Other (MA Qualifying Paper Reader), "Phonological Nativization of Lexical Borrowings in Mankiyali: A Descriptive Analytical Study," Linguistics. (2023 - 2023).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Salmon, W.N. (2020). Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature: A Study Across Three Texas Ethnolects. De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Gomez Menjivar, J., Salmon, W.N. (2018). Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Salmon, W.N., Park, C. (2013). Linguistics: Words, Rules, and Information. Kendall Hunt.

    • Book Review

  • Salmon, W.N. (2021). Review of "A Grammar of Southern Pomo". NAIS. Journal of Native American and Indigenous Studies.

    • Conference Proceeding

  • Salmon, W.N. (2020). Negative Inversion and Emphasis in an African American English Home Language. Chicago Linguistic Society.
  • Gomez Menjivar, J., Salmon , W. (2017). Attitudes and Endangerment in a Maya Mopan Community. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society. 52 253-266.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2017). Meaning and Use of Negative Inversions in Texan and African American English. Berkeley Linguistics Society.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2014). Encoding Contrast, Inviting Disapproval. Discourse Markers in Belizean Kriol. Berkeley Linguistics Society.
  • Salmon, W., Gomez Menjivar, J. (2014). Whose Kriol is Moa Beta? Prestige and Dialects of Kriol in Belize. Proceedings of the 40th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 456-479.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2011). Determiners, Parentheticals, and Projectability: An Experimental Approach. Chicago Linguistic Society.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2007). Double-Subject Sentences, Double-Dimension Semantics. Berkeley Linguistics Society.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2006). Compromising Positions and Polarity Items. Berkeley Linguistics Society.

    • Journal Article

  • Salmon, W.N. (2022). Social Markers and Dimensions of Meaning. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2021). Arrangements of Conversational Implicature Diagnostics.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2018). Camouflage and Style across Two Varieties of US English. Style.
  • Gomez Menjivar, J., Salmon, W. (2018). Mopan in Context: Mayan Identity, Belizean Citizenship, and the Future of a Language. NAIS. 5 (2) 50-70.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2018). Negative Auxiliaries and Absent Expletives in Texas Vernacular English. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2017). Language Attitudes, Generations, and Identity in Coastal Belize. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.
  • Salmon, W., Gomez Menjivar, J. (2017). Setting and Language Attitudes in a Creole Context. Applied Linguistics. 40 (2) 248-264.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2016). Irrealis and Emphatic: A Corpus Study of the Bee Copula in Belizean Kriol. English World-Wide.
  • Salmon, W., Gomez Menjivar, J. (2016). Language Attitudes and Varieties of Kriol in Belize City and Punta Gorda. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 31 (2) 316-360.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2015). Conversational Implicatures, Reference Point Constructions, and “That Noun Thing”. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2015). Language Ideology, Gender, and Varieties of Belizean Kriol. Journal of Black Studies.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2014). The Contrastive Discourse Marker Ata in Belizean Kriol. Lingua.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2011). Conventional Implicature, Presupposition, and the Meaning of Must. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2010). Double Subjects and Verbal Demonstrations. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2010). Formal Idioms and Action: Toward a Grammar of Genres. Language and Communication.
  • Salmon, W.N. (2009). Double Subjects and Conventional Implicatures. International Review of Pragmatics.

Presentations Given

    Paper

  • Salmon, W.N. (Author & Presenter), 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Social Meaning and Pragmatic Implicatures, International Pragmatics Association, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Belgium. (2023 - 2023).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Service

  • Gomez Menjivar, J., Salmon, W.N., "Charn Uswachoke International Development Fund Award.," University of North Texas, $2000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).

Service

University Service

  • Member, UNT Chairs Council. (2023 - Present).
  • Program Organizer, North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition. (2023 - 2024).
  • Committee Chair, Search Committee Chair, Learning Technologies Chair Search. (2023 - 2023).

Public Service

  • Guest Speaker, Denton High School. Denton, Texas. (2023 - 2024).
  • Guest Speaker, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNT. Denton, TX. (2023 - 2023).
  • Guest Speaker, Frisco I.S.D. (January 9, 2023).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Linguistic Society of America. (2022).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation. (2022).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ad hoc reviewer for various journals. (2021 - 2022).