SYLVIA L. REED Curriculum Vitae Fall 2012 EDUCATION May 2012 May 2008 June 2005 Fall 2003 Department of English Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 Ph.D., Linguistics.. M.A., Linguistics.. reed_sylvia@wheatoncollege.edu Office: 508.286.5499 Mobile: 508.386.8361 B.A., magna cum laude, Classical Studies. Carleton College, Northfield, MN. Senior thesis: Parasitoi and Ritual Eating among the Greeks. Semester abroad program in Ancient and Modern Greek Studies. Arcadia University, Athens, Greece. EMPLOYMENT Fall 2012-present Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Linguistics. Department of English, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. 2007, 2009-2012 Teaching Associate (2008-2012), Teaching Assistant (2007-2008). Department of Linguistics,. (Excluding 2010-2011 school year, while on outside scholarship.) 2007-2009 Research Associate (2008-2009), Research Assistant (2007-2008). Department of Linguistics,. RESEARCH INTERESTS Semantics and morphosyntax of aspect, tense, mood, and modality; formal semantics; semantics and syntax of prepositions; formal syntax; language description, documentation, and revitalization; roots and categories; lexical semantics and event structure; theoretical and experimental morphology; Distributed Morphology; psycholinguistics and lexical access; Scottish Gaelic; Ancient Greek; cognitive science. DISSERTATION The Semantics of Grammatical Aspect: Evidence from Scottish Gaelic. Committee: Andrew Carnie (co-chair), Heidi Harley (co-chair), Andrew Barss, Bridget Copley PUBLICATIONS Book Chapters Reed, Sylvia L. (In press, expected winter 2012). A Distributed Morphology analysis of tense and aspect in Greek. In [Proceedings of the 8 th International Meeting on Greek Linguistics], 277-290. Leuven, Belgium: Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l Institut de Linguistique de Louvain. Reed, Sylvia L. (2011a). The semantics of Scottish Gaelic tense and aspect. In A. Carnie, ed. Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics, 255-282. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Invited Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries Reed, Sylvia L. (To appear). The syntax-semantics/pragmatics interface. For A. Carnie, Y. Sato, and D. Siddiqi, eds. Routledge Handbook of Syntax. London: Routledge. Reed, Sylvia L. (In press). Gaelic. In World Book Encyclopedia. (Edits and revisions.) Reed, Sylvia L. (In press). Gaeltacht. In World Book Encyclopedia. (Edits and revisions.) Conference Proceedings Reed, Sylvia L. (To appear). On the meaning(s) of after in varieties of Scottish English. In Dan Brenner, ed., Coyote Papers 21: Proceedings of the Arizona Linguistics Circle 6. Tucson, AZ. Reed, Sylvia L. (In press). Perfect doesn t mean past: The classification of prospectives. In Proceedings from the 47th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society. Reed, Sylvia L. (2012c). Evaluating prospectivity in a Neo-Reichenbachian aspectual system. In Dan Brenner, ed., Coyote Papers 19: Proceedings of the Arizona Linguistics Circle 5. Tucson, AZ. Reed, Sylvia L. (2012a). Multiple perfects in Scottish Gaelic. In Jaehoon Choi et al., eds. Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 389-397. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Reed, Sylvia L. (2008). A position class analysis of the Greek verbal paradigm. In M. Grosvald and D. Soares, eds. Proceedings of the thirty-eighth Western Conference On Linguistics, 277-289. Davis, CA. Book Reviews Reed, Sylvia L. (2012b). Review of Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Volume 1, ed. by C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger & P. Portner. In M. Macaulay, ed. Linguist List 23.2292. Reed, Sylvia L. (2011b). Review of Introducing Semantics by Nick Reimer. In M. Macaulay, ed. Linguist List 22.341. Papers in Preparation Reed, Sylvia L. (In prep). Intervals and the nature of the perfect. For submission to Linguistics and Philosophy. Expected submission December 2012. Reed, Sylvia L., and Andrew Carnie. (In prep). The syntax and semantics of Scottish Gaelic a dol. For submission to Journal of Celtic Linguistics. Expected submission December 2012. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008 Conference Travel Awards, Cognitive Science Program,. 2012, 2010, 2009 Travel Grants, Graduate and Professional Student Council,. Fall 2010-Spring 2011 P.E.O. Scholar Award, P.E.O. Foundation. $15,000. 2
Spring 2009 Fall 2006 Pre-Doctoral Research Grant, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute,. Graduate College Fellowship,. PRESENTATIONS October 5-7, 2012 June 22-23, 2012 February 11-12, 2012 October 28-30, 2011 April 22-24, 2011 April 7-9, 2011 January 6-9, 2011 October 27-28, 2010 June 24-25, 2010 October 1-3, 2009 March 27-29, 2009 On the meaning(s) of after in varieties of Scottish English. Presented at the Sixth Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle,. The syntax and semantics of Scottish Gaelic a dol. With Andrew Carnie. Presented at the 7 th Celtic Linguistics Conference, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France. Beyond states and events: A semantics for verbs of spatial configuration. Presented at the 38 th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley. Evaluating prospectivity in a neo-reichenbachian aspectual system. Presented at the Fifth Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle,. Multiple perfects in Scottish Gaelic. Presented at the 29 th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics,. Perfect doesn t mean past: The classification of prospectives. Presented at the 47 th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago. Beyond types and time relations: Aspect operators in Scottish Gaelic. Poster presented at The 85 th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. The semantics of perfect aspect particles in Scottish Gaelic. Presented at the Workshop on Syntax and Semantics 7, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France. Stativized Predicates in Scottish Gaelic. Poster displayed at Genericity: Interpretation and Uses II: Dispositions, Abilities and States, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. A Distributed Morphology Analysis of Tense and Aspect in Greek. Presented at the 8th International Meeting on Greek Linguistics, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Agrigento, Italy. The Semantics of Scottish Gaelic Tense and Aspect. Presented at Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics,. November 21-23, A Position Class Analysis of the Greek Verbal Paradigm. Presented at the 2008 2008 Western Conference on Linguistics, University of California, Davis. October 19-21, 2007 A Morphemic Approach to Tense and Aspect in Attic Greek. Presented at the First Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle,. 3
May 27-June 3, 2007 Children s syntax: Experimental Probes of Knowledge and Processing. With Dr. Cecile McKee. Presented at the US-Iceland Linguistics Workshop on Change and Variation in Icelandic Syntax, Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavik, Iceland. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Positions Fall 2007-present Research Assistant (2007-2008); Research Associate (2008-2009); continuing as collaborator. Department of Linguistics,. NSF Project: A Description and Database of Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig; gla) Morphosyntax; Dr. Andrew Carnie, Principal Investigator, and Ms. Muriel Fisher, Co-Principal Investigator. Elicited data from native speaker Fisher; glossed and analyzed elicited data and managed database in FieldWorks; acted as liaison between Dr. Carnie and undergraduate assistants. Fall 2008-Spring 2012 Collaborator. Department of Linguistics,. Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics Lab, Dr. Adam Ussishkin, director. Project on Lexical Access in Semitic. Through January 2009, prepared items in Maltese and Hebrew for use in auditory lexical decision experiments. Continued as collaborator. Spring-Summer 2007 Collaborator. Department of Linguistics,. With Dr. Cecile McKee. NSF Project: US-Iceland Linguistics Workshop on Change and Variation in Icelandic Syntax; Dr. Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania, Principal Investigator. With Dr. McKee, prepared materials on experimental methods for probing syntactic knowledge in children. Teaching Positions Gen: satisfies a general education requirement for undergraduates; Hon: With honors section(s); Req: required for undergraduate Linguistics majors; Web: Web-delivered; (#) enrollment. Instructor Wheaton College Spring 2013 ENG 298: Structure of English; ENG 299: Phonology (independent study) Fall 2012 ENG 101: Writing about Time (15); ENG 298: Global Englishes (15) Spring 2012 Fall 2011 Summer 2011 Summer 2011 LING 310: Linguistic Typology (26, Hon) LING/ENGL 322: The Structure and Meaning of Words (38, Hon) Individuals and Societies 101: Language (14, Gen, Web) LING/PHIL 211: Meaning in Language and Society (1, Web) 4
Winter 2010 Summer 2010 Spring 2010 Fall 2009 LING/PSYC 201: Introduction to Linguistics (2, Req, Web) LING/ENGL 322: The Structure and Meaning of Words (14, Web) Individuals and Societies 101: Language (31, Gen) LING/PHIL 211: Meaning in Language and Society (95, Hon) Summer 2009 LING/ENGL 322: The Structure and Meaning of Words (7) Summer 2008 Summer 2007 LING/PSYC 201: Introduction to Linguistics (2, Req) Individuals and Societies 101: Language (14, Gen) Teaching Assistant/Grader Fall 2010 Spring 2007 LING 564: Formal Semantics (graduate) LING/PSYC 201: Introduction to Linguistics Guest Lectures Fall 2010 Fall, Summer, Spring 2010 Summer 2008 LING 588: Linguistic Elicitation and Documentation (Heidi Harley); Topic: Adaptive Elicitation. Individuals and Societies 101: Language (Graduate Teaching Assistants); Topic: Signed Languages. LING 322: The Structure and Meaning of Words (Graduate Teaching Assistant); Topic: A History of Greek. ACADEMIC SERVICE AND COMMITTEES Reviewing 2012 Monograph, John Benjamins 2010 Book Chapters, Cambridge Scholars Press 2010 Book Chapter, de Gruyter Committees and Other Service Wheaton College 2012-2013 Faculty Search Committee, 18 th and 19 th Century British Literature position, English department. 2011 Organizing Committee, Arizona Linguistics Circle 5. 5
2010 Travel Grant Evaluation Committee (Judge), Graduate and Professional Student Council. 2010 Organizing Committee, Arizona Linguistics Circle 4. 2009 Organizer-in-Chief, Arizona Linguistics Circle 3. 2009 Organizing Committee, Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. 2008-2009 President, LingCircle (Linguistics Graduate Student Association). 2008 Co-organizer, Arizona Linguistics Circle 2. 2008, 2007 Coordinator, Datablitz (Intradepartmental Colloquium Event). 2007-2008 Vice President, LingCircle (Linguistics Graduate Student Association). 2006 Graduate student representative to faculty, Department of Linguistics. Other 2011-2012 LSA Ethics Committee (Student Member), Linguistic Society of America. 2011 Organizing Committee, 29 th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. LANGUAGES English (native); French (proficient); Ancient Greek, Latin (advanced reading); American Sign Language, Modern Greek (conversational); Scottish Gaelic, Icelandic (research). 6