Since completing the requirements for a PhD in Germanics (dissertation on the syntax of German) at the UW in 1988, I have been employed as a professor of German, first at North Dakota State University (1987-1991), and since August, 1991 at Oklahoma State University, where I have been full professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures since 2006. From January to June 1999, I was a Senior Scholar at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft in Berlin, with the support of the Fulbright Commission. In 2006 I published a monograph (382 pp, John Benjamins, Amsterdam) on the syntax of coordinate structures in West Germanic languages. This past summer I completed a study supported by the Oklahoma Humanities Council on the contributions of heritage Germans to this state. In 1990 I completed a similar study, supported by the North Dakota Humanities Council, in that state. My current project is the documentation of Plautdietsch spoken in Oklahoma.
Submitted by Michael Neininger
on April 9, 2018 - 2:14 pm