Curriculum Vitae
Donna Jo Napoli
tel. (610) 328-8422
Dept of Linguistics fax no. (610) 690-6846
Swarthmore College/ Swarthmore, PA 19081 dnapoli1@swarthmore.edu
http://www.donnajonapoli.com
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/dnapoli1/djnlinguist.html
Education
Visiting Scientist, Fall 1973-Summer
1974. Linguistics. MIT
Ph.D., June 1973. General and Romance Linguistics. (through the Dept. of Romance
Lgs. and Lits. program A). Harvard Univ.
M.A., June 1971. Italian Literature. Harvard Univ.
B.A., June 1970. Mathematics. Harvard Univ.
Employment and Professional Experience
comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of
American Sign Language, poetics, poetry workshops, dialogue, fiction
writing
workshops, writing for ESL students, mathematical and linguistic analysis
of
folk dance.
Fall 1987-present. Professor, Linguistics, Swarthmore College
(chair 1987-2002).
Summer teaching since 1987:
1997. Capital Normal University in Beijing, China.
1995. U. of the
Stellenbosch,
1994. San Francisco State University,
1993.
1992. First Australian
1992. S.W. Brooks Visiting Lecturer, U. of
Term-time teaching prior to 1987:
1980-1987. Prof. of Linguistics, U. of Michigan,
Ann
(promoted to Associate Prof. as of Fall 1982; promoted to Prof. as
of Fall 1984; sabbatical: Spring 1987).
1975-1980
Assistant prof. of
summer 1976. lectures at U. van Groningen,
U. van Amsterdam,
1974-1975. Lecturer Dept. of Mathematics and Dept.
of
and Literatures. U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
1973-1974. Lecturer Dept. of Philosophy and Dept.
of
and Literatures. Smith College, Northampton, MA. Also,
Lecturer in Italian, Harvard U. Committee on Extension Courses.
1971-1972. Linguistics Consultant for ETS, Princeton,
NJ.
1970- 1973. Graduate student Teaching Fellow in the
depts. of
Mathematics, and RomanceLanguages and Literatures. Harvard U.
Fall 1970. Instructor of Italian.
Concord Public Schools, Concord, MA.
Summer 1970. Instructor of Italian. Berlitz, Seattle, WA.
Grants and Fellowships
National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowships: 1979-80 and 1990-91.
National Science Foundation Grant: 1981-83.
NSF Instrumentation
Judy Kegl): 1989-91
Mellon Foundation grants: 1995
Leeway Foundation Grant: 1995
Other Scholarly Experience
Organizer of three conferences
at Georgetown U:
Organizer of:
Conference: "Signs and Voices: Language, Arts, and Identity from
Deaf to Hearing,"
Associate Editor of Journal of Italian Linguistics
1981-1983;
Dec. 1987-present; Sign Language & Linguistics 1998-2006.
Referee for articles submitted to Canadian
Journal of Linguistics, ERIC, Journal of Linguistics,
Language,
Language & Linguistics, Sign Language Studies
Referee for manuscripts
submitted to
Arnold Publishers, Ltd., Hodder Headline PLC, Indiana University Linguistics
Club, MIT Press,
Oxford Univ. Press, Univ. of Chicago Press.
Grant/Fellowship Reviewer
for:
Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Referee of abstracts
for many national conferences, including Eastern States Conference On
Linguistics, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
Penn Colloquium in Linguistics, Texas Linguistic Society, West Coast Conference
on Foreign
Language
Extra-mural reviewer
for promotion committees to full professor at Portland State University,
Purdue U., U. of Illinois at Urbana, U.. of Massachusetts at Boston, U. of
Missouri at Columbia
Head of external evaluation
committee for the Dept. of Linguistics at Macalester
College, St. Paul, MN, April 1998.
Member of external evaluation committee for the Dept. of Linguistics at Emory Univesity
Atlanta, GA, March 2009.
Extra-mural reviewer for tenure committees and promotion to assoc.
prof.:Georgetown U.,
Haverford College (Head of Committee), IndianaU., Michigan State U. SUNY Albany,
SUNY
Stony Brook, U. of Arizona, U. of California at San Diego, U. of Chicago,
U. of Florida, U. of
Missouri at Columbia, U. of Texas at Austin, U. of Washington, York University
(Canada),
Pomona College
Member of (at various points):GLOW, Linguistic Society of
America,
LSA Language in the School Curriculum Committee,LSA Linguistics, Language,
and the Public
Interest Award Committee (chair), LSA Membership Committee, LSA Nominating
Committee,
LSA Status of Women in Linguistics Committee (chaired), LSA Undergraduate
Program Advisory
Committee, Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana,
Società Linguistica Italiana
Presentations in Linguistics:
at meetings of these societies: Center for Bioethics of the University of Pennsylvania,
Chicago Linguistic Society, Delaware Linguistics Colloquium, Eastern States Conference on Linguistics,
Haverford College Linguistics Colloquium, International Linguistic Association,
Linguistic Society of America, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages,
Michigan Linguistics Colloquium, Milwaukee
Linguistics Symposium on Historical Linguistics, MIT
Linguistics Speaker Series, MIT Workshop on External Arguments, New Ways of
Analyzing
Variation in English, New York Academy of Sciences, North Eastern Linguistic
Society,
Princeton U. Linguistics Speaker Series, Romance Philology Convocation, Società
Linguistica
Italiana,
Research Symposium for the Cognitive Sciences,
U. of Delaware Linguistics and Cognitive Studies Colloquium,
Conference, U. of Pennsylvania Cognitive Science Women's Group Series and
NSF Visiting
Professorships for Women
Stellenbosch Linguistics Speaker Series,
Witwatersrand Linguistics Speaker Series,Washington Linguistics Club
Literatures
N. Texas Languaging
at the Siena School for the Liberal Arts, Siena, Italy, November, 2007
the first woman in history to receive a
The Italian Cultural Society of Washington and The American Italian
Bicentennial Commission.
Participant in radio
documentary "Voiceprint",
Teaching Recognition
Nominated as best teaching fellow in
Italian, Harvard, l971-72.
Faculty Honor Roll, U. of Michigan, 1983,
1984, 1985
Dissertations Chaired
Georgetown U.: James Roberts, 1978; Alexa
McCray, 1980.
U. of Michigan: Noriko Ue, 1982.
Noriko Nagai, 1985; Hitomi Oishi, 1986; Kingkarn Thepkanjana, 1986.; Hala
Talaat, 1987;
Barry Miller, 1988; Mutsuko Simon, 1989.
Publications in Linguistics: Books
1. The
two si's of Italian: an analysis of reflexive, inchoative, and indefinite
subject
sentences in modern standard Italian. (Bloomington, In.: Indiana
Univ.
Linguistic Club,1976--a printing of the 1973 dissertation).
2. (editor)
Elements of tone, stress, and intonation.(Washington, DC: Georgetown
Univ. Press, 1978).
3. (with
Emily Rando) Syntactic argumentation. (Washington, DC: Georgetown
Univ. Press, 1979) with Teacher's guide.
4. (coeditor
with William Cressey) Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages:
9. (Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press, 1981).
5. Predication
theory: a case study for indexing theory, (Cambridge Univ Press,
1989).
6. (coeditor
with Judy Kegl) Bridges between psychology and linguistics: A
Swarthmore festschrift for Lila Gleitman. (Hillsdale, N.J.:
Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, 1991).
7. Syntax:
Theory and Problems (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993).
8.
(with Stuart Davis) A prosodic template in Historical Change: The
Passage of the
Latin Second Conjugation into Romance (Torino: Rosenberg and
Sellier, 1994).
9. Linguistics:
Theory and Problems (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996).
10. Language Matters (Oxford: Oxford
Univ. Press, 2003, to appear in Korean with
Thaehaksa Publishing Co. ).
11. (with Marina
Nespor) L'animale parlante (Roma: Casa Editrice Carocci, 2004).
12. (coeditor with Doreen DeLuca and Kristin Lindgren) Signs and Voices: Deaf Matters
in Language, Arts, and Identity. . (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press,
2008)
Avenues for Deaf People. (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press,
2008)
14. (with Rachel Sutton-Spence) Sign Language Humour (Dublin: Trinity College, forthcoming).
Language . (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Publications in Linguistics: Articles
and Review Articles
1. Article:
"The no-crossing filter",
Papers from the Tenth Regional Meeting:
Chicago Linguistic Society, ed. by Michael W. La Galy et al.
(Chicago: Chicago
Linguistic Society, 1974). 482-91.
2. Article:
"In chaos or inchoative?:
an analysis of inchoatives in modern standard
Italian", Linguistic Studies in Romance Languages, ed. by Joe Campbell et al.
(Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1974). 219-36.
3. Article:
"Una breve analisi dei verbi modali
potere e dovere", Fenomeni
morfologici e sintattici nell'italiano contemporaneo,
ed. by Mario Medici and
Antonella Sangregorio. (Rome: Bulzoni, 1974). 233-40.
4. Article:
"Consistency", Language
51, 4. (12/1975) 831-44.
5. Article:
"A global agreement
phenomenon", Linguistic Inquiry VI, 3.
(Summer
1975). 413-35.
6. Article"A
note on synalepha and stress maxima", Poetics (1975). 401-10.
7. Article:
(with Marina Nespor) "Negatives in comparatives", Language 52, 4
(12/1976) 811-38. An earlier version appears as "Superfically illogical 'non':
negatives in comparatives", in Studies in Romance Linguistics,
ed. by M. P.
Hagiwara. (Rowley, Ma.: Newbury House, 1977). 61-95. A translation of the
later version appears as "Negazioni nelle comparative", in
La grammatica:
aspetti teorici e didattici, ed. by Federico Albano Leoni and
M. Rosaria Pigliasco.
(Rome: Bulzoni, 1979). 367-400.
8. Article:
"Infinitival relatives in Italian",
Current studies in Romance linguistics,
ed. by Marta Lujan and Fritz Hensey. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University
Press, 1976). 300-29.
9. Article:
"At least two si's", Italian
Linguistics 2. (1976).123-48.
10. Article: "Variations
on relative clauses in Italian", Studies in language variation,
ed. by Ralph W. Fasold and Roger W. Shuy.(Washington, DC: Georgetown
Univ. Press, 1977). 37-50.
11. Article: "A
look at some adverbs and prepositions in Italian:evidence for
syntactic analogy", Montreal working papers in linguistics
10. (Montreal:
McGill Univ., 11/1978) 191-218.
12. Article: (with
Emily Rando) "Definites in 'there' sentences",
Language 54, 2.
(6/1978) 300-13.
13. Article: "The metrics of Italian nursery rhymes",
Language and Style XI, l.
(Winter 1978). 40-58.
14. Article: "On
the progress of women in linguistics", National Council of
Administrative Women in Education News. (Arlington, Va.: NCAWE,
6/1978).
15. Article: "Reflexivization across clause boundaries
in Italian", Journal of
Linguistics
15, l. (1979). 1-28.
16 Article:
(with Vincenzo Lo Cascio) "Modal da with avere", Journal of Italian
Linguistics l. (1979). 203-28.
17. Article: (with
Marina Nespor) "The
syntax of word-initial consonant geminationin Italian" ,
Language
55,4. (12/1979). 812-41.
18. Article: "Subject pronouns: the pronominal system
of Italian versus French",
Papers from the Seventeenth Regional Meeting: Chicago Linguistic
Society. ed.
by A. Hendrick et al.(Chicago: CLS, 1981). 249-76.
19. Article: "Semantic interpretation vs. lexical governance: clitic climbing in Italian" ,
Language
57,4. (12/1981) 841-87.
20. Article:"Initial
material deletion in English", Glossa: An International Journal of
Linguistics 16, 1. (1982). 85-111.
21. Article: (with
Thomas Dieterich) "Comparative rather", Journal of Linguistics
18, 1. (1982). 137-65.
22. Review
Article of Binding and Filtering, ed. by Frank Heny. Cambridge, Ma.:
MIT Press, 1981. in Language 59, 2. 6/1983). 360-72.
23. Article:"Missing complement sentences in English: a base analysis of null complement anaphora" ,
Linguistic
Analysis 12,1. (1983). 1-28.
24. Article: "Comparative ellipsis: a phrase structure analysis", Linguistic Inquiry
14, 4. (1983). 675-94.
25. Review
Article ofProceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Symposium on
Romance Linguistics, ed. by Heles Contreras and Jurgen Klausenburger,
published as Papers in Romance, supplement II, vol. 3. Seattle:
Univ. of
Washington, l981. in Romance Philology XXXVIII, 1. (8/1984). 72-83.
26. Article: "Complementation in Italian: phonetically
null vs.totally absent
complements", Language 61, 1. (3/1985). 73-94.
27. Article: "Verb
phrase deletion in English: a base generated analysis", Journal
of Linguistics 21, 2. (9/1985). 281-319.
28. Article: (with
Marina Nespor) "Comparative structures in Italian",
Language 62,3. (9/1986). 622-53.
29. Article: (with
Joel Nevis) "Inflected Prepositions in Italian", in Ellen Kaisse
and
Arnold Zwicky (eds.) Phonology Yearbook, vol. 4 (1987). 195-209.
30. Article: (with
Stuart Davis and Linda Manganaro) "Stress on Second Conjugation
Infinitives in Italian," Italica, 64, 3.(autumn, 1987). 477-98.
31. Article: "A
correspondence rule in Robert Frost's poetry and its significance for
metrical theory", Language and Style, 20, 4 (fall 1987).
371-83.
32. Article:"On
Predication and Identity within NPs" in David Birdsong and Jean-
Pierre Montreuil (eds.), Advances in Romance Linguistics:
Papers of the 16th
Symposium in 1986, (Dordrecht: Foris, 1988). 289-318.
33. Article: "Subjects and external arguments/ clauses
and non- clauses,"Linguistics
and Philosophy 11. (1988) 323-54.
34. Review Article of Italian Syntax
by Luigi Burzio, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1986. In
Language 64, 1 (3/1988) 130-42.
35. Article: "A
metrical grid analysis of Chinese regulated verse", Penn Review
of
Linguistics, vol. 13, Spring 1989. 23-37.
36. Article: (with
Jack Hoeksema)
i", CLS 25, 1989.
37. Article: (with
Stuart Davis)"The destiny of Latin second conjugation
infinitives
in Romance", Probus 2.2. (1990) 125-168.
38. Article: (with
Jack Hoeksema) "A condition on circular chains: a restatement
of
i-within-i," Journal of Linguistics 26 (1990) 403-424.
39. Article: (with
Irene Vogel) "The conjugations of Italian", Italica
67. no. 4 (Winter
1990) 479-502.
40. Extended Syllabus:
"Phonetics and Phonology: An extended syllabus prepared
for the New Liberal Arts" (Nov., 1990). This is a 29 page description
of how we
teach phonetics and phonology at Swarthmore, with explanations of how
and
why one might want to teach both articulatory and acoustic phonetics
and
descriptions of the use of the phonetics lab. It is circulated by the New Liberal
Arts Program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through SUNY at Stony
Brook,
N.Y. as part of their effort to bring technology into courses that
attract
humanities students.
41. Article:"The tonal system of Chinese regulated verse,"
Journal of Chinese
Linguistics, 19 (June, 1991) 243-293.
42. Article: (with
Stuart Davis) "Phonological Factors of Conjugation
Class Shift in
the Romance Languages", Twenty- Fifth Anniversary Volume,
Indiana
University Linguistics Club (1992). 1-12.
43. Article: "Secondary Resultative Predicates in
Italian,"Journal of Linguistics 28, 1
(March, 1992) 53-90.
44. Article:"The Double-Object Construction, Domain
Asymmetries, and Linear
Precedence", Linguistics 30 (1992) 837-871.
45. Article: (with
Jack Hoeksema) "Paratactic and Subordinative So," Journal of
Linguistics 29. (1993) 291-314.
46. Article: "Resultatives,"
R. E Asher and J.M. Simpson (eds.) The Encyclopedia of
Language and Linguistics, Vol. 7. United Kingdom: Pergamon
Press and
Aberdeen Univ. Press. (1994) 3562-3566. reprinted in Concise Encyclopedia
of
Grammatical Categories, United Kingdom: Elsevier Science. (1999)
47. Article: (with
Irene Vogel) "The Verbal Component in Italian Compounds",
in
Jon Amastae, Grant Goodall, Mario Montalbetti, and Marianne Phinney
(eds.)
Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics: Papers from the LSRL
XXII
(Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995) 367-381 .
48. Article: (with
Bill Reynolds) "Evaluative affixes in Italian," Yearbook
of
Morphology 1994, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (1995)
151-178.
49. Article: (with
Stuart Davis)"On root structure and the destiny of the
Latin
second conjugation," Folia Linguistica Historica XVI (1996)
97-113.
50. Article: (with
Naomi Nagy) "An OT Account
of Italian Codas," in Marek
Przezdziecki and Lindsay Whaley (eds.), Proceedings of ESCOL 1995,
, Cornell
University Press (1996) 212-223.
51. Article: (with
Ted Fernald) "Hand en Mond; Tong en Nagel: Een Vergelijking
van de Morfologische Mogelijkheden van ASL en Gesproken Talen",
Taalkundig
2 Bulletin 26, no. 4 (1996) 213-231.
52. Article: (with
Ted Fernald) "Exploitation of Morphological Possibilities
in Signed
Languages: Comparison of American Sign Language with English",
Sign
Language and Linguistics (2000) 3:1, 3-58.
53. Article: (with
Jeff Wu) "Morpheme Structure Constraints on Two-Handed
Signs
in American Sign Language: Notions of Symmetry," Sign Language
and
Linguistics (2003) 6:2, 123-205.
54. Article:"Linguistics as a tool in teaching fiction
writing", in Kristin Denham and
Anne Lobeck (eds.) Language in the Schools, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
55. Article: "Do
animals use language?","Do animals use
language?", in Rick Rickerson and Barry Hilton (eds.)
The 5 Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages.London:
Equinox
Publishing Ltd. (2006)
linguistic rights:the case of Deaf children", Journal of Research in Education
57. Article: (with Doreen
DeLuca) "A
bilingual approach to reading,"
in D. DeLuca, K. Lindgren, and D.J. Napoli (eds.) Signs and Voices: Deaf Matters
in
Language, Arts, and Identity.
58. Article: (with Sally
Hess) "Energy and Symmetry in Language and Yoga,"
Leonardo. (2008) 41:4. 333-338.
59. Article: (with
Jack Hoeksema) "Just for the hell of it: A comparison of two taboo
-term constructions", Journal of Linguistics (2008) 44:2, 347-378.
60. Article: (with Jack Hoeksema) "The grammatical versatility of taboo
-terms", Studies in Linguistics (2009) 612-643.
61. Article: (with Rachel Sutton-Spence) " Deaf jokes and sign language humor,"
HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research (forthcoming).
62. Article: (with Rachel Sutton-Spence) " Anthropomorphism in sign languages:
A look at poetry and storytelling with a focus on British Sign Language,"
Sign Language Studies (forthcoming).
63. Article: (with Rachel Sutton-Spence) "Sign language humor, human singularities,
and the origins of language, in G. Mathur and D.J. Napoli (eds.) Deaf around the
world: The impact of language (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
64. Article: (with Poorna Kushalnagar, Gaurav Mathur, Christopher J. Moreland,
Wendy Osterling, Carol Padden, and Christian Rathmann) "Infants and children with
hearing loss need early language access," (Journal of Clinical Ethics, forthcoming).
Publications in
Linguistics: Reviews
and Book Notices
1.
Review of Passive and Impersonal Sentences, ed. by Vincenzo
Lo Cascio,
published as Italian Linguistics l, 1976, in Language
53, 2. (6/1977) 442-45.
2.
Review of Linguistic Theory in America: The First Quarter-Century
of
Transformational Generative Grammar, by Frederick
J. Newmeyer,
NY:
Academic Press, 1980, in Language 57, 2.
(6/1981) 456-59.
3.
Review of Issues in Language: Studies in Honor of
Robert Di Pietro
Presented to
Him by his Students, ed. by Marcel Danesi, Lake Bluff, Ill.:
Jupiter Press, 1981,
in Forum Linguisticum VII, 2 (12/1982)
182-4.
4.
Review of Sul Parlato, by Rosanna Sornicola,
Bologna, Italy: Il Mulino, 1981, in
Romance Philology XXXVI, 3 (2/1983) 449-52.
5.
Review of Issues in Italian Syntax, by Luigi Rizzi,
Dordrecht,
The Netherlands,
and Cinnaminson, N.J.: Foris, 1982, in
Language 54, 3. (9/1983) 663-5.
6.
Book Notice about Linguistics in the Netherlands
1980 and Linguistics
in the
Netherlands 1981, both ed. by Saskia Daalder
and Marinel Gerritsen,
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1980 and 1981, in
Language
59, 1.
(3/1983) 225-6.
7.
Book Notice about Studies in Language Companion Series,
7, Possibilities and
Limitations of Pragmatics, ed. by Herman Parret, Marina Sbis,
and Jef
Verschueren, Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1981, in
Language
59, 2.
(6/1983) 464.
8.
Review of Journal of Italian Linguistics, 5, 1/2, The
Extended
Standard Theory
and Italian Syntax, ed. by Giorgio Graffi, 1980, in
Romance
Philology XXXVII, 1.
(8/1983) 116-9.
9.
Review of Towards an Integrated Analysis of Comparatives, by
Lars Hellan,
Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1981, in Language 60,
1. (3/1984)
148-9.
10.
Book Notice about Theory of markedness in generative
grammar: proceedings
of the 1979 GLOW conference, ed. by Adriana Belletti et al.
(also called Studi di
lettere, storia e filosofia, 33), Pisa: Scuola
Normale Superiore,
1981, in Language
60, 2. (6/1984) 449-50.
11.
Review of Levels of syntactic representation, ed.by
Robert May
and Jan Koster
(also called Studies in generative grammar, 10), Dordrecht,
The Netherlands
and Cinnaminson, N.J.: Foris,1981, in Language 60,
3. (9/1984)
605-6.
12.
Review of Lexical-Functional Grammar, by George M. Horn, Amsterdam:
Mouton Publishers, 1983, in Language 61, 1.
(3/1985) 180-2.
13.
Book Notice about The be + past participle Construction in Spoken
English, with
Special Emphasis on the Passive, by Sylviane
Granger, Amsterdam
and New
York: North-Holland, 1983, in Language 61, 1.
(3/1985) 218-9.
14.
Book Notice about Agreement and Anaphora: A Study of the Role of
Pronouns
in Syntax and Discourse, by Peter Bosch, New York: Academic
Press, 1983, in
Language 61, 3. (9/1985) 679-80.
15.
Review of
La sintassi
dell'infinito in italiano moderno. 2 vols. tudes
romanes
de l'Universit de Copenhague [=Revue romane, suppl. 27], by Gunver
Skytte, Copenhagen:
Munksgaards
Forlag, 1983, in
Romance
Philology,
XXXIX, 2
(11/1985) 249-50.
16.
Book Notice about Il dialetto lucano di Calvello, by Joseph
Gioscio, Stuttgart:
Franz Steiner Verlag Weisbaden GmbH, 1985, in Language 62, 3
(9/1986) 719-21.
17.
Book Notice about French Liaison and Linguistic
Theory, by Jurgen
Klausenburger, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Weisbaden GmbH, 1984,
in
Language 62, 3 (9/1986) 721-2.
18.
Review of Word Grammar, by Richard Hudson, Great
Britain: Basil
Blackwell,
1984, in Journal of Linguistics 22 (5/1986) 187-94.
19.
Book Notice about Selected papers from the XIIIth Linguistic
Symposium on
Romance Languages, ed. by Larry King and Catherine
Maley (also
called
Amsterdam studies in
the theory and history of linguistic science, IV:
current issues in linguistic theory, 36),
Amsterdam and
Philadelphia:
Benjamins, 1985, in Language 63,1 (3/1987)
183-4.
20.
Book Notice about X-bar Grammar: Attribution and Predication
in Dutch by
Frank C. van Gestel, Dordrecht: Foris, 1986, in Language 63,
4 (12/1987) 916-7.
21.
Book Notice about Everyday magic: child languages in Canadian
literature by
Laurie Ricou, Vancouver: The Univ. of British Columbia Press,1987,
in
Language 65, 1 (3/1989) 190-2.
22.
Book Notice about Les predicats nominaux en franais:
les phrases
simples
verb support by Jacqueline Giry-Schneider,
Geneve-Paris: Librairie
Droz, 1987,
in Language 65, 2 (6/1989) 428-9.
23.
Book Notice about Ins and outs of predication ed.
by Johan van
der Auwera and
Louis Goossens, Dordrecht: Foris, 1987, in Language
65, 3 (9/1989)
680-81.
24.
Book Notice about Encouraging early literacy: an integrated
approach to reading
and writing in N-3 by Judith Schwartz, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
Educational Books, Inc., 1988, in Language 65, 3
(9/1989) 678.
25.
Book Notice about Anaphoric Relations in English and
French: A
Discourse
Perspective by Francis Cornish, London: Croom Helm, 1986, in
Language 65, 4
(12/1989) 881-882.
26.
Book Notice about I composti nominali latini by Renato Oniga,
Bologna: Patron
Editore, 1988, in Language 66, 3 (9/1990) 648.
27.
Book Notice about Noun + Verb Compounding in Western Romance
by Kathryn
Klingebiel, Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press, 1989, in
Language 66,
4 (12/1990)
783-784.
28.
Book Notice about Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
60: Studies
in Romance
Linguistics ed. by Carl Kirschner and Janet
DeCesaris, Amsterdam:
John
Benjamins, 1989, in Language 67,1 (3/1991)
182-183.
29.
Review of The Syntactic Recoverability of Null Arguments by
Yves Roberge,
Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990, in
Language 67,
3 (9/91) 636-640.
30.
Review of The Syntax of Noun Phrases by Alessandra Giorgi and
Giuseppe
Longobardi, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991, in Studies in
Language
16, 1 (1992) 201-205.
31.
Review of Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar,
edited by Robert
Freidin, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991, in Journal of
Linguistics
28, 2. (9/92)
538-542.
32.
Book Notice on Mmoires de la societ neophilologique
de Helsinki:
But, Only,
Just, Focusing adverbial change in Modern English 1500-1900,
by Terttu
Nevalainen, Helsinki: Societ neophilologique, 1991, in
Language
69, 3 (9/93)
631-632.
33.
Book Notice on Syntax and semantics: syntax and the lexicon,
vol. 26, ed. by Tim
Stowell and Eric Wehrli. San Diego: Academic Press. 1992,
in Language
69, 4
(12/93) 876-877.
34.
Book Notice on Structure de la phrase et thorie du
liage, ed.
by Hans-Georg
Obenauer and Anne Zribi-Hertz, Paris: Presses
Universitaires de Vincennes,
1992, in Language 69, 4 (12/93)
869-870.
35.
Review of Interactive Morphonology: Metaphony in
Italy by Martin
Maiden,
London: Routledge, 1991, in Forum Italicum
28 (Spring 1994) 195-196.
36.
Book Notice on Linguistic perspectives on the Romance
languages,
ed. by
William Ashby, Marianne Mithun, Giorgio Perissinotto, and
Eduardo Raposo.
(Current issues in linguistic theory, 103) Amsterdam &
Philadelphia:
John
Benjamins. 1993, in Language 70, 3 (9/94)
593-594.
37.
Book Notice on The function of verb prefixes in
Southwestern Otomi,
by
Henrietta Andrews, Arlington: The Summer Institute of
Linguistics and
the
Univ. of
Texas at Arlington.
1993, in Language 70, 4 (12/94) 848-849.
38.
Review of Issues and theory in Romance linguistics
ed. by Michael
Mazzola.
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 1994, in Journal of
Linguistics 31, 2 (1995)
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Review of The Romance languages by Rebecca Posner. Cambridge:
Cambridge
Unviersity Press. 1996, in Journal of Linguistics 34: 299-305
(1998)
Publications in Fiction -- Picture
Books, Children's and Young Adult Novels
Major Awards in Creative
Writing (for
a complete list of awards, see
Summer fellowship from the
American Association
of University
Women for research pursuant to writing fiction, Summer
1995.
Grant to Individual Women Artists from the Leeway Foundation for
excellence in fiction, Fall 1995.
Jerry Weiss Award of the NJ
Reading Association
for THE PRINCE
OF THE POND
Golden Kite Award for STONES IN
WATER.
Sydney Taylor Award from the
National Association
of Jewish
Libraries
for STONES IN WATER
Drexel University/Free Library
of Philadelphia
Children's
Literature Citation, 1998
Library Association for STONES IN WATER
Carolyn W. Field Honor Book award fromthe
Pennsylvania
Library Association for SPINNERS
Carolyn W. Field Honor Book award fromthe
Pennsylvania
Library Association for BEAST
Kentucky Blue Grass Award for
ALBERT
Golden Kite honor book award for BREATH
Parents' Choice Silver Medal Award for THE
KING OF MULBERRY STREET
Sons of Italy National Book Club Selection: THE KING OF MULBERRY STREET
Sydney Taylor Honor Book: THE
KING OF MULBERRY
STREET
Carolyn W. Field Honor Book award fromthe
Pennsylvania
Library Association for FIRE IN THE HILLS
Literary Lights for Children
Award from the
BostonPublic
Parents' Choice Gold Medal Award for historical fiction for ALLIGATOR BAYOU
Publications in Creative Writing:
Poetry Books
1.
(coeditor and contributor with Emily Rando) The Linguistic
Muse. (Edmonton:
Linguistic Research, Inc., 1980).
2.
(coeditor and contributor with Emily Rando)
Meliglossa. (Edmonton:
Linguistic
Research, Inc., 1983).
3.
(coeditor and contributor with Emily Rando)
Lingua Franca. (Chicago: Jupiter
Press, 1989).
4.
(coeditor and contributor with Emily Rando and Brad
Strahan) Speaking in
Tongues. (Falls Church, VA: Black Buzzard Press,
1994).
5.
(coeditor and contributor with Andrew Sunshine) Tongue's Palette.
(Chicago, IL: Atlantis-Centaur,Inc., 2004).
Publications in/on
Creative Writing:
Stories, Poems, Essays, Reviews
1.
Poem: "For Ungaretti, always", Discovered Tongues,
ed. by William Bright.
(San Francisco: Corvine Press, 1983).
2.
Poems: "Paesino" and "Brazil Nuts",
Word Formations,
ed. by William Bright.
(San Francisco: Corvine Press, 1985).
3.
Story: "Sweet Giongio", Diane Goode's Book of
Silly Stories
and Songs. (NY: E.P.
Dutton, 1992).
4.
Story: "Little Lella", Diane Goode's Book of Giants and
Little People (NY: E.P.
Dutton, 1997).
5.
Story: "Albert", The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine
June, 1996.
6.
Essay: Autobiography for Something About the Author Autobiography
Series,
vol. 23. 161-178. (Detroit: Gale Research, Inc,
1997).
7.
Essay: "A memorable experience," Learning & Media:
Journal of the
Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. vol. 24, no. 2.
13-14. (Spring 1997).
8.
Essay: "Fairy Tales, Myths, and Religious Stories," The
ALAN Review, 25, 1. 6-10
(Fall 1997).
9.
Essay: "Motivation", appeared in a celebrity motivational
book for children put
out by SHINE of Trenton, NJ.
It was also showcased at the Gen Art and SHINE
Benefit & Celebrity Silent Auction at the Metropoliton Pavilion
in NYC in June
2000.
10.
Essay: "Why I Write", Eighth Book of Junior Authors and
Illustrators ed. by
Connie Rockman (Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson, Co., 2000) pp.
392-94.
11.
Essay: "On Writing as an Art and as a Need", Literature
for Today's Young
Adults by Alleen Pace Nilsen and Kenneth L. Donelson, p. 377
(NY:Addison
Wesley Longman, 2000).
12.
Essay: "Learning to Write for Children: Experiences, Mistakes,
and Rules
Learned," Catholic Library World,
2000.
13.
Review: "Hurt, cloaked in silence," about Speak by
Laurie Halse Anderson
(Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999) in The Philadelphia
Inquirer, Jan.
30, 2000, K3.
14.
Essay on the occasion of receiving the Sydney Taylor Older
Children's
Literature
Award, in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Convention of
the Association
of
Jewish Libraries, June 20-23, 1999, NY: Association of Jewish
Libraries, 2000,
pp. 275-277.
15.
Essay: "What's math got to do with it?" Hornbook,
Jan./Feb. 2001, pp 61-66.
16.
Poem: "Twelve" On her way (anthology
edited by Sandy
Asher), NY: Dutton
Children's Books, 2003
17. Story:
"So many first kisses", In Cylin Busby (ed.) First Kiss (Then
Tell) (NY:
Bloomsbury, 2008).