Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  
Margaret E. Winters
Title Professor & Chair 
Office# 487 Manoogian
Phone (313) 577-6244
E-Mail ak5236@wayne.edu
Web Site www.clas.wayne.edu/faculty/winters

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EDUCATION

B.A. cum laude Brooklyn College, French                                                   1967
M.A. University of California at Riverside, French                                      1970
PhD. University of Pennsylvania, Romance Linguistics                              1975
Licence-level courses, Université de Reims, France                                  1967-68
Visiting Scholar, Linguistics Institute, University of Maryland                   1982
Visiting Scholar, Linguistics Institute, City University of New York            1986
Postdoctoral Fellow, Linguistics, University of Edinburgh                          1994

TEACHING INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE

Romance historical and descriptive linguistics
Historical linguistics and semantics
History of Linguistics
French linguistics (phonetics, grammar, history of French)

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SPECIALTIES

Romance and Latin historical syntax, semantics, morphology
Diachronic and synchronic aspects of Cognitive Grammar
Old French textual edition
History of Linguistics

RECENT PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS

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

2002. On Choosing a Theory: a Diachronic Case Study. Language and Communication 22:113-29.

2003. It’s Merely Applied.  Eighth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Logroño, Spain; with Geoffrey S. Nathan.

2003. On the Life and (Near-) Death of a Morphophoneme. XV International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2005. On the Origins of Cognitive Grammar.  Ninth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Seoul, Korea.

2005. The Semantics of ‘Applied’ in Linguistics and Elsewhere.  International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Urbana, Illinois; with Geoffrey S. Nathan.

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. 237-52. Benjamins.