Christopher D. Sapp

 

 

  • Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Awards 

Teaching

Publications

Presentations

 

 

Service

Time abroad, Workshops

Organizations, Languages

References

Contact

Bondurant Hall C-115
University, Mississippi 38677
csappolemiss.edu
 

Education

Ph.D., Germanic Linguistics and Philology
Indiana University, July 2006
Dissertation topic: “Verb Order in Subordinate Clauses from Early New High German to Modern German”

M.A., Germanic Studies
Indiana University, May 2000
M.A. project: “Dating Ynglingatal: Chronological Metrical Developments in Kvišuhįttr”

B. A. with honors, summa cum laude, German with Linguistics minor
Austin College, Sherman, Texas, May 1996
Honors thesis: “Explicit Grammar Presentation in the Foreign Language Classroom”


Grants and Awards (selection)

College of Liberal Arts faculty grant, 2010
“The Verbal Complex from Middle High German to Modern German”

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Mini-Grant, 2009-2010
“Language Resource Center Pedagogical Materials”, with Nicola Schmerbeck

College of Liberal Arts faculty grant, 2009
“Verb Order in Subordinate Clauses in Old High German”, Berlin

Faculty Research Fellowship, 2008
“Subordinate Clauses in Middle High German and Zurich German”,
Bochum, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland

William J. Fulbright Grant, 2005-2006
University of Vienna

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship, 2004-2005
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

King Olav V Norwegian-American Heritage Fund Scholarship, 2003
Oslo International Summer School

Chancellor's Fellowship, 1998-2003
Indiana University Dept. of Germanic Languages

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, 1996-1997
Project: “Reading the Runestones of the Germanic Peoples”


Teaching Experience

University of Mississippi, 2006-present

Courses taught in German:

First- and second-year German
German Conversation and Composition I (fifth semester)                
Introduction to German Linguistics (third-year level)                       
German News Coverage (for International Studies majors)
German Phonetics and Phonology (fourth-year/graduate)                
Advanced Grammar and Composition (fourth-year/graduate)         
History of the German Language (fourth-year/graduate)                  
Survey of German Literature I (fourth-year/graduate)                      

Courses taught in English:

Intensive Freshman Writing: Language Change and Variation         
Introduction to Linguistics (general linguistics)                                
Syntax (general linguistics)                                                    
Structure of a Less Commonly Taught Language: Old Norse (general ling.)
Historical Linguistics (general linguistics; upper-level/graduate)      

Indiana University, 1999-2004

First- and second-year German
German for reading knowledge         
First-year Norwegian                                                   


Publications: Book

2011.  The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German.  Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 173.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

Publications: Articles

To appear.  “The Verbal Complex in Old High German: Evidence for SOV.” Interdisciplinary Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Semiotics.

To appear (2011).  “Auxiliary selection in the Early New High German perfect tenses.”  Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik (GAGL).

 

2010.  “The Reflexive Possessive sīn in Old Saxon.”  Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur 132.3: 329-342.

2009.  “Syncope as the Cause of Präteritumschwund: New data from an Early New High German corpus.”  Journal of Germanic Linguistics 21.4: 419–450. [download]

2007.  “Focus and verb order in Early New High German: Historical and contemporary evidence”.  In Roots: Linguistics in search of its evidential base, ed. by Sam Featherston and Wolfgang Sternefeld, 299-318.  Berlin: de Gruyter. [download]

2006. “The Rise of the Suffixal Article in the Early North Germanic DP”. Co-authored with Dorian Roehrs. In Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics 2004, ed. by Michal Temkin Martinez, Asier Alcazar, and Roberto Mayoral Hernandez, 290-301.  Fresno: California State University. [download]

2005. “Factors Favoring Aux-V Order in 15th-century German Subordinate Clauses”. In Syntax and Beyond. Indiana University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 5, Dorian Roehrs, Ock-Hwan Kim, and Yoshihisa Kitagawa, 149-169. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club.

2000. “Dating Ynglingatal: Chronological Metrical Developments in Kvišuhįttr”. Skandinavistik 30: 85-98.


Publications: Reviews

2007.  Review of Sįndor Hervey, Michael Loughridge, and Ian Higgins: Thinking German Translation: A course in translation method: German to English.  London: Routledge, 2006.  Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 40: 95-96 (originally appeared on the Linguist List 18.478).

2007.  Review of Volker Gast: The Grammar of Identity: Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages.  London: Routledge, 2006.  Southern Journal of Linguistics 31: 91-96 (originally appeared on the Linguist List 18.1331).

2003. Review of Ulrike Demske: Merkmale und Relationen: Diachrone Studien zur Nominalphrase des Deutschen. (Studia Linguistica Germanica, 56.) Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 15: 277-281.

2002. Review of Bjarne Fidjestųl: The Dating of Eddic Poetry. A Historical Survey and Methodological Investigation. Ed. Odd Einar Haugen. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitals Forlag, 1999. Skandinavistik 32: 60-61.


Presentations (selection)

June 2011. “A Relative Pronoun in Old Norse?”  Poster presentation at Diachronic Generative Syntax conference (DiGS) 13, University of Pennsylvania.

April 2011.  “Extraposition in Middle and Early New High German.” Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) 17, University of Texas at Austin.

April 2010.  “The Verbal Complex in Old High German.” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, University of California Berkeley.

July 2009. “The Verbal Complex from Middle High German to Modern German”.  Diachronic Generative Syntax conference, Campinas, Brazil.

June 2009. “The Verbal Complex and Focus in Zurich German and Other Varieties”.  24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Brussels.

May 2009.  “The Reflexive Possessive sīn in Old Saxon”.  GLAC 15, Banff.

April 2009.  “Dialect Syntax and Information Structure: A questionnaire study of the Zurich German verbal complex”.  Southeastern Conference of Linguistics, Tulane University.

March 2009.  Workshop on the use of GoldVarb for linguistic research.  Co-led with Allison Burkett.  University of Mississippi Dept. of Modern Languages.

May 2008.  “Auxiliary selection in the Early New High German perfect tenses”.  GLAC 14, University of Wisconsin Madison.

April 2008.  “The Role of Syncope in the Loss of the Southern German Preterite”. Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, University of California Berkeley.

November 2007.  “OV and VO in Early New High German: Discourse and other factors”.  Invited presentation at the International Workshop on Information Structure and Word Order Variation in older Germanic, Humbolt Universität, Berlin.

February 2006. “Focus and verb order in Early New High German: Historical and contemporary evidence”. International Conference on Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen.

November 2004. “Different Word Orders in the Early North Gmc. DP: The Rise of the Suffixal Article”, co-presented with Dorian Roehrs. Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), University of California Los Angeles.

April 2004. “Verb Placement in Subordinate Clauses in the History of German”. Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, University of California Berkeley.

February 2004. “Using Cartoon Captions to Teach Reading”. Foreign Language Share Fair, Indiana University Bloomington.

April 2002. “The Development of the Scandinavian s-Passive”. GLAC 8, Indiana University Bloomington.

October 1999. “Dating Ynglingatal: Chronological Metrical Developments in Kvišuhįttr”. PIGSTII, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.



Service to University of Mississippi and the profession (selection)

2010-present

Faculty Senate

2010-present

Advisory council, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

2009-present

Residential College Faculty Fellow

2008-present

Undergraduate Advisor: German Program

2008-present

Director of Basic Language: German Program

2008-present

College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum & Policy committee

2008-present

Faculty Advisor: Delta Phi Alpha honor society

2007-present

Fulbright student program committee

2007-present

Search committees, staff review committees

2007-2009

Study Abroad Advisor: German Program

2007-2008

Graduate Student Advisor: German Program

2006-present

Webmaster, Secretary/Treasurer, Mississippi AATG

2006-present

Testing/awards committee, Mississippi AATG

2006-present

Participant and sometimes advisor, German Club

Reviewer for Diachronica, Jounal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Southern Journal of Linguistics, various textbooks

M.A. committee for Stefanie Hirscher (chair), Blake Shedd (chair), Saida Abdelmalki, Brian Barnett, Samantha Coerbell

Croft/Honors thesis reader for Devon Emig (chair), Sally Spears Black, Robert Lynch


Experience Abroad

Summer 2009

Research at SFB 632, Humboldt Universität Berlin

Summer 2008

Research at Middle High German Project, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and Swiss Syntax Project, Universität Zürich

2005-2006

Universität Wien, William J. Fulbright Grant

2004-2005

Universität Tübingen, DAAD Grant

Summer 2003

Oslo International Summer School, Norwegian language and literature

Summer 2002

Sommerkurs i Bergen, Norwegian language and culture

2000-2001

Universität Kiel, Indiana University Graduate Exchange

1996-1997

Scandinavia, UK, Ireland, and Iceland, Thomas J. Watson Fellowship

1994-1995

Universität Freiburg, junior year abroad


Workshops

 

Syntax Fest, Indiana University Bloomington, Summer 2010

Language and Culture for International Business, University of Memphis, Spring 2007

Syntax Fest, Indiana University Bloomington, Summer 2004

 

Professional Organizations

 

American Association of Teachers of German

Mississippi AATG (Secretary/Treasurer, Testing/Awards Chair)

Mississippi Foreign Language Association

Society of Germanic Linguistics

SECOL

 


Languages
 

Czech

lower intermediate

German

near native

Icelandic

beginner

Norwegian

advanced

Spanish

upper intermediate

Welsh

beginner

Reading knowledge: Old High German, Middle High German, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old English, Gothic, Latin, French, Middle Welsh


References

Dr. Rex A. Sprouse

Dept. of Germanic Studies, Indiana University

Dr. Kari Ellen Gade

Dept. of Germanic Studies, Indiana University

Dr. Barbara Vance

Dept. of French and Italian, Indiana University

Dr. Donald Dyer

Dept. of Modern Languages, University of Mississippi

Created by Christopher D. Sapp
Last updated April 2011