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”

Oslo International Summer School
Norwegian language and literature
University of Oslo, Summer 2003

Sommerkurs i Bergen: Kurs i norsk språk og kultur
Summer course in Norwegian language and culture
University of Bergen, Summer 2002


Grants and Awards

CIBER scholarship, 2007
Workshop on Language and Culture for International Business, Univ. of Memphis

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

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

Russel A. Havens Scholarship, 2004
Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences

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

Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences fellowship, 2003
Oslo International Summer School

Diebolt prize for best student paper at GLAC 8, 2002

College Alumni Fund Scholarship, 2002
Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences

Foster Blaisdell Award, 2002
Indiana University Dept. of Germanic Languages

Indiana University Graduate Exchange, 2000-2001
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

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

Assistant Professor,

University of Mississippi

2007-present

Third-semester German

Fall 2007

Introduction to (general) Linguistics

Fall 2007

German Phonetics and Phonology

Fall 2007

 

 

Full-time Instructor,
University of Mississippi

2006-2007

Elementary German

Fall 2006

Intensive Elementary German

Fall 2006

History of the German Language (graduate)

Fall 2006

 

 

Associate Instructor,
Indiana University

1999-2004

Second-semester Norwegian

Spring 2004

First-semester Norwegian

Fall 2003

German for reading knowledge

Summer 2002

Fourth-semester German

Spring 2002 (course chair), Fall 2001

Third-semester German

Summer 2004, Fall 2002, Spring 2000

First-semester German

Fall 1999


Publications: Articles

In preparation.  “The Cause(s) of Präteritumsschwund: New data from an Early New High German corpus”. 

To appear. “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.  Berlin: de Gruyter.

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.

2005. “Factors Favoring Aux-V Order in 15th-century German Subordinate Clauses”. In 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

To appear.  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 (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

April 2007.  “The Cause(s) of Präteritumsschwund: New data from an Early New High German corpus”.  Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) 13, Pennsylvania State University.

October 2006.  “Explicit Grammar Instruction: An overview of classroom research”.  Mississippi Foreign Language Association Conference, Louisville, MS. 

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

September 2005. “Focus at the Right Periphery in Early New High German”. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 38, Valencia.

July 2005. “Verbal Complexes from Early New High German to Modern German”. Invited lecture at Universität Tübingen.

May 2005. “Verb Raising and Focus in ENHG”. Generative Grammatik im Süden, Universität Tübingen.

December 2004. “Verb Order in Subordinate Clauses: ENHG to NHG”. Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia.

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.

May 2004. “Movement within the Noun Phrase in the History of Germanic”,
co-presented with Dorian Roehrs. Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 10 (GLAC), University of Michigan Ann Arbor.

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.

November 2003. “The Germanic Noun Phrase: Old and New: With Special Reference to Icelandic”, co-presented with Dorian Roehrs. Philologists in Germanic Studies at Illinois and Indiana (PIGSTII), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

April 2003. “Triggers for Verb Raising in the ENHG Pillenreuth Mystik”, co-presented with Rex A. Sprouse. GLAC 9, State University of New York Buffalo.

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

April 2002. “The Origin of the Scandinavian s-Passive”. Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, University of California Berkeley.

March 2002. “‘Chatting’ about Literature”. Foreign Language Share Fair, Indiana University Bloomington.

November 2001. “From Mediopassive to Passive in Mainland Scandinavian”. PIGSTII, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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

March 1999. “Researching runes”. Medieval Studies Symposium, Indiana University Bloomington.


University Service

University of Mississippi, 2006-present

 

Graduate Student Advisor: German Program

2007-present

Study Abroad Advisor: German Program

2007-present

M.A. thesis advisor for Christopher Shedd

2007-present

Webmaster, Mississippi AATG

2006-present

Awards committee, Mississippi AATG

2006-present

Participate in German Club

2006-present

Southeastern Medieval Association conference planning committee; chair of “Ballads and Ballad Traditions” section

Fall 2006

Reviewer for Southern Journal of Linguistics

2006-2007

M.A. Thesis committee for Saida Abdelmalki

2006-2007

 

 

Indiana University, 1999-2004

 

Graduate student representative at departmental faculty meetings

2003-2004

I.U. Foreign Language Share Fair, Technology Coordinator

Fall 2003

Taught 4-week Norwegian language circle for I.U. International Center; organized Scandinavian Conversation Group

Spring 2003

Graduate Steering Committee co-webmaster

2002-2003

Graduate Admissions Committee

2001-2002

Chaired “Legacies and Trajectories” section, Annual Medieval Symposium at Indiana University.

Fall 1999


Experience Abroad

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

 

Workshop on 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 (webmaster, awards committee)

Mississippi Foreign Language Association

Modern Languages Association

Society of Germanic Linguistics

 


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 August 29, 2007