Curriculum VitaeMargaret E. Winters

862 UniversityGrosse Pointe, MI 48230(313) 417-8406mewinters@wayne.edu

Professional Preparation:Baccalaureate: Brooklyn College, Brooklyn NY, 1967 (cum laude)Graduate: MA University of California, Riverside CA, 1970

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, 1975Postgraduate (postdoctoral): University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland, 1994

Academic Appointments:2017 – Present Professor Emerita, Wayne State University

2002 – 2016 Professor, Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

1991 – 2002 Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

1984 – 1991 Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

1978 – 1984 Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

1977 – 1978 Visiting Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Administrative Appointments:

2013 – 2016 Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2011 – 2013 Associate Provost for Academic Personnel, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2007 – 2011 Chair, Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2005 – 2007 Chair, Romance Languages and Literatures, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2002 – 2004 Associate Provost for Academic Personnel, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

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Professional Society Membership(s): Linguistics Society of America, International Cognitive Linguistics Association, International Society for Historical Linguistics, National Association for the History of the Language Sciences, American Dialect Society

Honors and Awards

Brooklyn College

B.A. cum laude

Southern Illinois University

College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher

University Woman of Distinction

Leo Kaplan Research Award, Sigma Xi

Wayne State University

Commission on the Status of Women – MI-ACE Women’s Network Outstanding Achievement Award

Publications:A. Scholarly Books

1. Authored

1986. Jean Renart. The Lai de l’ombre. Edited from Manuscript E. Summa.

1984. The Romance of Hunbaut, an Arthurian Poem of the Thirteenth Century. (Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, 4). Brill.

2. Edited

2010. Historical Cognitive Linguistics, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Edited with H. Tissari and K. Allan.

1984. Papers from the First Conference on the Uses of Phonology. (Occasional Papers on Linguistics, 12). SIU Department of Linguistics. Edited with Geoffrey S. Nathan.

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B. Chapters Published

2015. On the Origins of Cognitive Grammar, in Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes, J. Daems et al., eds, pp. 149-167. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.

2015. Lexical Layers, in The Oxford Handbook of the Word, J. Taylor, ed., pp 445-461. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2013. Grammatical Meaning and the Old French Subjunctive, in Research in Old French, The State of the Art, D. Arteaga, ed., pp. 351-376. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag.

2010. Introduction: On the Emergence of Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics, in Historical Cognitive Linguistics, ed. By M. Winters, H. Tissari, and K. Allan, pp. 3-27. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2010. Linguistic Categories and Language Change, in English Language, Literature and Culture: New Directions in Research, ed. by C. Humphries, J. Kossek, and A. Gomola, pp. 13-36. Bielsko-Biala.

2006. On the Life and (Near-) Death of a Morphophoneme, in Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspective, ed. by Randell S. Gess and Deborah Arteaga, pp. 237-252. Benjamins.

2000. Optimality Theory as Prototypicality, in Naturally! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler presented on the occasion of his 60th birthday, ed. by Ch. Schaner-Wolles et al., pp. 347-354. Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier; with Geoffrey S. Nathan.

1998. Language Across Time: Historical Linguistics, in Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics, ed. by R. Dirven and M. Verspoor, pp. 217-246. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With René Dirven. Also published in German, French, Greek, Dutch. Gunter Narr Verlag.

1994. Diachronic Natural Morphology and Cognitive Grammar, in Papers in Natural Morphology from Krems, 1992, ed. by W. U. Dressler and L. Tonelli, pp. 169-178. Padova: Unipress.

1992. Schemas and Prototypes: Remarks on Syntax Change. Diachrony within Synchrony: Language History and Cognition, ed. by G. Kellermann and M. D. Morrissey, pp. 265-280 (Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft, 14). Peter Lang.

1992. Diachrony within Synchrony: The Challenge of Cognitive Grammar. Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution, ed. by M. Pütz, pp. 503-512. Benjamins.

1992. First He Called Her a Philologist and then She Insulted Him. The Joy of Grammar: A Festschrift in Honor of James D. McCawley, ed. by D. Brentari, et al., pp. 351-367. Benjamins. With Geoffrey S. Nathan.

1990. Toward a Theory of Syntactic Prototypes. Meanings and Prototypes: Studies on Linguistic Categorization, ed. by S. L. Tsohatzidis, pp. 285-307. London: Routledge.

1985. Morphonologization of a Phonological Process: A Case-Study from Old French. Papers in Natural Phonology from Eisenstadt, ed. by W. Dressler and L. Tonelli, pp. 161-72. CLESP.

C. Journal Articles Published

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2015. Part-Time Faculty: Semantics and the Meaning of Contingent Teaching. Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy.

2010. On construals and vantages. Language Sciences 32: 335–346.

2002. Vantage theory and diachronic semantics. Language Sciences 24: 625-37.

2002. On Choosing a Theory: a Diachronic Case Study. Language and Communication 22:113-129.

1997. Kurylowicz, Analogical Change, and Cognitive Grammar, Cognitive Linguistics 8:359-386.

1997. On Reconstructing the Middle Ground, Linguistica Atlantica 18/19: 141-153.

1995. Who Are You Talking to, or, Whom Should I Say is Calling? Language Change in the Adult Grammar, Rivista di Linguistica 6:365-382.

1995. Translation, with Introduction and Notes, of J. Kurylowicz, “La Nature des procédés dits analogiques”, Diachronica 12:113-145.

1991. Manuscript Variation and Syntactic Change. TEXT 5:131-143.

1991. Subjonctif et réseau sémantique. Communications 53:155-169.

1989. Diachronic Prototype Theory: On the Evolution of the French Subjunctive. Linguistics 27:703-30.

1987. Innovations in French Negation: A Cognitive Grammar Account. Diachronica 4:27-51.

1985. Language and Cognition - An Integrated Alternative. Proteus 2.2:26-32. With Geoffrey S. Nathan.

1984. Steps to the Romance Passive Inferable from the Itinerarium Egeriae. Romance Philology 37:445-54.

D. Papers Published in Refereed Proceedings Volumes

2012. How different is prototype change? in A. van Kemenade and N. de Haas (eds.) Historical Linguistics 2009 (Current Issues in Linguistics, 320), ed. by A. van Kemenade and N. de Haas, pp. 89-106. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins; with Geoffrey S. Nathan

2000. Bringing the Invisible Hand to Cognitive Grammar, in Historical Linguistics 1995, vol. I: General Issues and non-Germanic Languages, ed. by J.-C. Smith and D. Bentley, pp. 409-422. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Geoffrey S. Nathan

1993. On the Semantic Structure of the French Subjunctive. Linguistic Perspectives on the Romance Languages, ed. by W.J. Ashby, et al., pp. 271-279. Benjamins

1990. Cognitive Grammar and Kurylowicz’s Laws of Analogy. Historical Linguistics 1987. ed. by H. Andersen and K. Koerner, pp. 543-551. Benjamins.

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1987. Syntactic and Semantic Space: The Development of the French Subjunctive. Papers from the VIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Pavia, 9-13 September 1985) , ed. by A. G. Ramat et al., pp. 407-418. Benjamins.

1984. Negative Polarity and the Syntax of the Romance Languages. Proceedings of the Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages, ed. by P. Baldi, pp. 517-29. Benjamins. With Geoffrey S. Nathan.

Book Reviews and Conference Presentations available upon request.

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