Steven (William) Schäufele
Address:
712 W. Washington Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
Telephone: 217-344-8240
Fax: 217-333-2863
e-mail address: fcosws@prairienet.org
WWW homepage: http://www.prairienet.org/~fcosws/homepage.html
Date and Place of Birth: 29 June 1953, Bakersfield, CA, USA
1971-1975 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; music theory & composition; A. B.
magna cum laude June 1975
1975-1977 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; graduate work in
musicology (no degree)
1977-1978 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; graduate work in
musicology (no degree)
1983-1990 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; graduate work in
linguistics; M. A. May 1985, Ph. D. Jan. 1991
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Oriental Society
Ask-A-Linguist panel
Association for Linguistic Typology
Foundation for Endangered Languages
Linguistic Society of America
Poetics and Linguistics Association
Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura (Finno-Ugrian Society)
Academic Honours and Awards:
Graduated magna cum laude from Kenyon College
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (South Asia), 1983-85
Research Assistantship, 1985-87
Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, 1986
Invited to join New York Academy of Sciences, 1996
Employment History:
9/1975 - 5/1977 Clerical, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of
Pennsylvania
8/1976 - 5/1977 Manager, Orchestra, University of Pennsylvania
8/1977 - 5/1978 Teaching Assistant, Department of Musicology, School of
Music, University of Illinois
9/1978 - 5/1979 Security Guard, Spartan Detective Agency
10/1978-10/1980 Statistical Worker, Lawless Commodities
11/1979- 9/1981 Library Clerk, University Library, University of Illinois
9/1981 -12/1993 Library Technical Assistant, University Library,
University of Illinois
8/1985 - 5/1987 Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University
of Illinois
1/1994 - 6/1994 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Theoretical Linguistics,
E"otv"os Lor'and University, Budapest
2/1995 - 5/1997 Typesetter, Omegatype, Champaign, IL
8/1977 - 5/1978 Teaching Assistant, music history and appreciation,
University of Illinois
1/1994 - 6/1994 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Theoretical Linguistics,
E"otv"os Lor'and University, Budapest
9/1994 - SYNTHINAR seminar/tutorial on syntactic theory via Internet
Occasional guest lectures in comparative & historical linguistics,
syntactic theory, and interfaces between syntax and morphology, semantics, and
pragmatics.
Administrative Committee Experience:
9/1976 - 6/1977 Parish Life Council,
Parish of St. Mary's--Hamilton Village
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8/1980 - 7/1982 Technical Services Support Staff Advisory Committee
University Library,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10/1987- 5/1988 Arts and Humanities Council
University Library,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Alice Davison,
Department of Linguistics,
University of Iowa,
Iowa City, IA 52242.
phone: 319-335-0211
fax: 319-335-6036
e-mail:
adavison@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu
Dr. Georgia M. Green,
Department of Linguistics,
University of
Illiois,
4088 Foreign Languages Building,
707 S. Mathews St.,
Urbana, IL
61801
phone: 217-244-0676
fax: 217-333-3466
e-mail:
green@lees.cogsci.uiuc.edu
Dr. Hans Henrich Hock,
Department of Linguistics,
University of
Illinois,
4088 Foreign Languages Building,
707 S. Mathews St.,
Urbana, IL
61801
phone: 217-333-7129
fax: 217-333-3466
e-mail: hhhock@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Dr. Brian D. Joseph,
Department of Linguistics,
Ohio State
University,
1841 Millikin Road,
Columbus, Ohio 43210
phone: 614-292-4981
fax: 614-292-4273
e-mail:
bjoseph@ling.ohio-state.edu
Dr. Laszlo Kalman,
Room 119,
Research Institute for Linguistics,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
P.O. Box 19,
1250 Budapest, Hungary
phone: 36-1-1758-011, ext.277
fax: 36-1-212-2050
e-mail: kalman@nytud.hu or
kalman@mars.let.uva.nl
Dr. Ferenc Kiefer,
Room 119,
Research Institute for Linguistics,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
P.O. Box 19,
1250 Budapest, Hungary
phone: 36-1-1758-285
fax: 36-1-212-2050
e-mail: kiefer@nytud.hu
Dr. Jerry L. Morgan,
Department of Linguistics,
University of
Illinois,
4088 Foreign Languages Building,
707 S. Mathews St.,
Urbana, IL
61801
phone: 217-244-3060
fax: 217-333-3466
e-mail:
morgan@lees.cogsci.uiuc.edu
Dr. Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande,
Department of
Linguistics,
University of Illinois,
4088 Foreign Languages
Building,
707 S. Mathews St.,
Urbana, IL 61801
phone:
217-333-0473
fax: 217-333-3466
Additional Possible References, from among SYNTHINAR Participants:
Adams Bodomo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
e-mail:
adams.bodomo@hf.unit.no
Pierre Larrivee, Universite Laval
e-mail: aaa552@agora.ulaval.ca
Dr. Linda Schockey, University of Reading
e-mail:
L.Shockey@reading.ac.uk
Ronald Ross Verdmark, University of Costa Rica
e-mail:
rross@cariari.ucr.ac.cr
1988
Where's my NP? Non-Transformational Analyses of Vedic Pronominal
Fronting. Studies in the Linguistics Sciences 18.2:129-162.
1990
Free Word-Order Syntax: the Challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to Contemporary
Formal Syntactic Theory. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Available from University Microfilms.
1991
Single-Word Topicalization in Vedic Prose: a Problem for Government &
Binding? Published in Hans Henrich Hock, ed., Studies in Sanskrit Syntax,
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, pp. 153-175.
Verb-Medial Clauses in Vedic: Some Theoretical Implications. Published in
Hans Henrich Hock, ed., Studies in Sanskrit Syntax, Delhi: Motilal
Banarsidass, pp. 177-196.
A Note on the Term `Scrambling'. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
9:365-368.
1993
I Know My Words & My Words Know Me: Liberation, Unification, and
Constituenthood in LFG. Andreas Kathol & Michael Bernstein, eds., ESCOL
`93: Proceedings of the Tenth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Department of Modern Languages and
Linguistics, pp. 324-335.
The Vedic Clause-Initial String and Universal Grammar. Studies in the
Linguistic Sciences 23.1:131-161.
1996
Now that we're All Here, Where do we Sit? Phonological Ordering in the
Vedic Clause-Initial String. Aaron Halpern & Arnlod Zwicky, eds.,
Approaching Second: Second Position Clitics and Related Phenomena (CSLI
Lecture Notes 61), Stanford, CA: CSLI, pp. 447-475.
O When are you Rising? How Strong is your Agr? The Issue of Subject-
Agreement and V-Agr Merger. Frances Ingemann, ed., 1994 Mid-America
Linguistics Conference Papers, Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas
Department of Linguistics, pp. 246-260.
In Press
Review of Beekes, Robert S. P. 1995. Comparative Indo-European
Linguistics: an Introduction. Amsterdam: Benjamins. To appear in
Studies in Language.
Richness of Subject-Agreement Morphology and V-Agr Merger: the Verdict of
Vedic. To appear in the Proceedings of the 20th Conference on South Asia
(Manindra K. Verma & Alice Davison, eds.)
Presentations:
Invited Lectures:
The History of VP-Adverbials, V-Agr Merger, and Loss of Subject-Agreement
Marking in English: a Case Study in Corpus-Based Diachronic Syntactic
Research. Paper presented before the Washington Linguistics Club, 15
April 1993, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Do as I Do, Not as I Say: a Study of the History of V-Agr Merger,
VP-Negation, and Do-Support in English, 1350-1750. Institute Lecture,
Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 18
Feb. 1994.
Can we Do all our Relation-Changing at Once and Get it Over With?
Morphologically-Mediated Valence Shifts and Arguments for Multistratalism.
Institute Lecture, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, 22 April 1994.
Conference Presentations:
1986
Single-Word Topicalization in Vedic Prose: a Problem for Government &
Binding? Paper read at the First Sanskrit Syntax Symposium, 8th South
Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Urbana, IL, 30 May 1986. See
Publications: 1991.
1987
Verb-Medial Clauses in Vedic: Some Theoretical Implications. Paper read
at the Second Sanskrit Syntax Symposium, 9th South Asian Languages
Analysis Roundtable, Syracuse, NY, 7 June 1987. See Publications: 1991.
1988
Adpositions Authentic & Inauthentic: Some Questions in the Syntax of
Vedic Sanskrit. Paper read at the Third Sanskrit Syntax Symposium, 10th
South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Seattle, WA, 12 July 1988.
1989
Remarks on the Syntax of Verb Phrases in Vedic. Paper read at the 11th
South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Madison, Wi, 4 June 1989.
1990
Constituent-Order Freedom and Phrase Structure in Vedic Sanskrit. Paper
read at the University of Illinois Linguistics Department Forum, 19 April
1990.
A `Focus' Position for Subjects within the Vedic VP. Paper read at the
12th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Berkeley, CA, 3 June
1990. Submitted for publication in the Indian Journal of Linguistics.
1991
Lexical Topicalization in Vedic Sanskrit and the Head Movement Constraint.
Paper read at the 44th Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington,
KY, 26 April 1991.
The Vedic Clause-Initial String and Universal Grammar. Paper read at the
13th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Urbana, IL, 26 May 1991.
See Publications: 1993.
Nominal Number Morphology in Dravido-Uralic. Paper read at the Tenth
International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, 14 Aug.
1991.
Richness of Subject-Agreement Morphology and V-Agr Merger: the Verdict of
Vedic. Paper read at the 20th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison,
WI, 1 Nov. 1991. See In Press.
1992
The Multiple-Extraposition Constraint in Vedic as a Diagnostic for Verbal
Syntax. Paper read at the 14th South Asian Languages Analysis
Roundtable, Stanford, CA, 23 May 1992.
1993
X0-Fronting in Vedic Sanskrit and Binding Theory. Paper read at the 15th
South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Iowa City, IA, 22 May 1993.
Submitted for publication to Linguistics.
Now that we're All Here, Where do we Sit? Phonological Ordering in the
Vedic Clause-Initial String. Paper presented at the Second Position
Clitic Workshop, The Ohio State University, 11 July 1993. See
Publications: 1996.
1994
Do as I Do, Not as I Say: a Study of the History of V-Agr Merger,
VP-Negation, and Do-Support in English, 1350-1750. Paper read at the
Third Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, Amsterdam, 31 March 1994.
Submitted for publication to the Journal of English Linguistics.
O When are you Rising? How Strong is your Agr? The Issue of Subject-
Agreement and V-Agr Merger. Paper read at the 29th Mid-America
Linguistics Conference, Lawrence, KS, 14 Oct. 1994. See Publications:
1996.
1995
Are Free Word-Order Languages Exempt from the Coordinate Structure
Constraint? Paper read at the 17th South Asian Languages Analysis
Roundtable, Austin, TX, 2 June 1995.
The Small Minds' Hobgoblin is not Optimal: Ties in Optimality
Calculations Lead to Syntactic Optionality Within a Single Grammar.
Paper read at NWAVE 24, Philadelphia, PA, 14 Oct. 1995.
1996
Can we Do all our Relation-Changing at Once and Get it Over With? The
Grammatical Status of Semantic Roles and Arguments for Multistratalism.
Poster session presented at the 23rd University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Linguistics Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, 19 April 1996.
Papers:
1984
The Dravido-Uralic Hypothesis. MS, University of Illinois.
1985
Fronting/Topicalization and Sentential Particles in Vedic Sanskrit: a
Non-Transformational Description. MS, University of Illinois.
Wherefore Relation-Changing Rules? A Comparison between Relational
Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar. MS, University of Illinois.
1986
Division by Common Language: Anglophone Lexical Diversity. MS,
University of Illinois.
1987
An Overview of `Passive Constructions' in Selected South Asian Languages,
with an Outline for Diachronic Research in the Passive in Indo-Aryan.
MS, University of Illinois.
1989
Evidence for Hierarchicality in Vedic Phrase Structure. MS, University
of Illinois.
Extraposition in Vedic: Rightward-Movement or Unordered-Base? MS,
University of Illinois.
The SYNTHINAR Lecturettes, Part I: REST (Lecturettes 1-23).
Sibling Rivalry: the Question of N-ary Branching in Sanskrit.
Characteristic Adverb Placement in Shakespeare.
Linguistic Theory, `English' Studies, and Bunk: a Personal Inquiry into
the Value of Linguistic Theory for Various Pedagogical and Scholarly
Activities Within English Departments.
Can One Discuss Constituent Order in Terms of Feature Logic? / Moeglich
ist eine Merkmallogik, durch die man ueber die Wortfolgen reden kann?
`Operators' vs. Direct-Dialing: a Methodological Critique of the
Theoretical Justification for Abstract Functional Heads.
Transitivity in Languages with Rich Case-Marking Systems: a Critical
Survey for Role & Reference Grammar.
Verbs and Verb Phrases in the Rg-Veda Samhita.
Meter and Syntax: the Value of Poetry in Constituent-Order Research.
Features, Functional Heads, and Functionalism: an Inquiry into
Theoretical Methodology and the Interfaces between Syntax, Semantics, and
Morphology.
Knowing One's Place in a Free Word-Order Language: Discontinuous
Constituency in Vedic Sanskrit and Lexical-Functional Grammar.
Wherefore Relation-Changing Rules? an Empirical Comparison and Critique
of Relational Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar.
Die Drawidisch-Uralisch Verwandtschaftsfrage neugeprueft / The Question of
Dravidian and Uralic Cognates Reexamined.
fluent:
English (Modern)(mother tongue), French (modern)
good reading proficiency:
German (Modern Standard), Italian, English (Middle), French (Old)
some reading proficiency, general knowledge of history & structure:
Indo-European:
Germanic:
Danish, Gothic, Icelandic, Netherlandic, Norwegian, Old English, Old &
Middle High German, Old Norse, Swedish
Romance:
Latin, Catalan, Portuguese, Provencal, Romansh, Rumanian, Spanish
Celtic:
Breton, Irish, Welsh
Greek
(Classical & Koine)
Indo-Aryan:
Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Rajasthani
Slavic:
Czech, Polish, Russian, Slovene
Dravidian:
Brahui, Kui, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
Uralic:
Finnish, Hungarian, Komi, Nenets, Saame
Australian:
Kuku-Yalanji, Pitjantjatjara, Walmatjari, Warlpiri, Wik-Mungkan
Austronesian:
Fijian, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Malagasy, Maori, Marquesan
Macro-Siouan:
Crow, Dakota, Huron, Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca
Miscellaneous:
Ameslan, Arabic, Bislama, Hebrew (Biblical), Inuit, Japanese, Swahili
Comparative
syntax. Comparative
syntactic theory. The interfaces between syntax and morphology,
pragmatics, and semantics, especially (a) the semantics and morphology of
preverbs
and similar verb-modifying morphemes, (b) of valency-changing processes,
and (c) the syntactic behaviour of semantically and/or pragmatically atomic or
empty grammatical elements. Morphological theory, pragmatic theory,
formal semantic theory. The interfaces between grammar and the lexicon,
and between grammar/language and general cognitive systems. Questions of
methodology, especially of corpus-based research and the relationship
between theoretical assumptions and methodology. Linguistic
aspects of literary usage. The relative
syntax of prose and verse.
Linguistic typology, especially the typology of
constituent-order freedom and the theoretical repercussions thereof.
General syntactic and morphological typology.
Germanic, Romance, Indo-Aryan, and Slavic diachronic
syntax. Comparative Australian, Austronesian, Celtic, Dravidian,
Macro-Siouan, and Uralic linguistics. Dravido-Uralic:
the hypothesis that the Dravidian and Uralic languages are distantly
related to each other, and the reconstruction of their hypothetical
ancestor. General historical, comparative, contrastive linguistics.
Language
contact. Sociolinguistics. Anthropological linguistics. The
relationship between language and culture.