Contact Info
Albert_Bickford@diu.edu(972) 708-7340 ext. 2429
Curriculum Vitae
1. EDUCATION
Degrees
1980-1987
University of California, San Diego
Ph. D. in Linguistics, 1987. Dissertation: Universal constraints on relationally- complex clauses.
M.A. in Linguistics, 1982
1973-1978
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
B.S. in Music Education, 1978
Other coursework
2000-2004
Pima Community College, Tucson AZ
(ASL)
1979
University of Texas, Arlington
(linguistics)
1978-1979
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
(linguistics)
2. ACADEMIC AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2022-present
Associate Area Director for Language Program Services, Global Sign Languages Team, SIL International
2020-present
Adjunct Faculty Member, Dallas International University
2014-2022
Linguistic Services Coordinator, Global Sign Languages Team, SIL International
2013-2024
Senior Linguistic Consultant, SIL International
2019-2022
Associate Director, Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota
2004-2019
Director (linguistics program chair), Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota
2004–2022
Adjunct Professor in Linguistics, University of North Dakota
1994–2003
Adjunct Associate Professor in Linguistics, University of North Dakota.
1988–ca. 1994
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota.
2002–2012
Managing editor, Linguistic Publications, SIL International, Mexico Branch
1987–2012
Linguistic consultant, SIL International, Mexico branch.
3. MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
2014-present
Research editor for Ethnologue, specializing in sign languages: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th-23rd editions. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com
2018
with Melanie McKay-Cody: Endangerment and Revitalization of Sign Languages. In Leanne Hinton, Leena Huss, and Gerald Roche (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization, ch. 25, pp. 255-264. New York: Routledge.
2016
The ethics of language identification and ISO 639. Listening: Journal of communication ethics, religion, and culture 51.1:21-34. https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/68887
2014
with M. Paul Lewis and Gary F. Simons: Rating the Vitality of Sign Languages. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36.5:513-527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2014.966827. Preprint available: http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/59096
2009
1-handed PERSONs and ASL Morphology. In Gerdts, Donna B., John C. Moore, and Maria Polinsky, eds. Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter, pp. 79-90. Current Studies in Linguistics 49. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
2008
with Kathy Fraychineaud: Mouth morphemes in ASL: A closer look. In R. M. de Quadros (ed.), Sign Languages: spinning and unraveling the past, present and future. TISLR9, forty five papers and three posters from the 9o. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, Florianopolis, Brazil, December 2006, pp. 32–48. Editora Arara Azul. Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil. Available: https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/6054
2005
The signed languages of Eastern Europe. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2005-026. http://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/9012
1998
Tools for analyzing the world’s languages: Morphology and Syntax. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas. Electronic edition available in LinguaLinks (versions 3.5 and later), [CD-ROM:\W_LNGLNK\W_LINGUI\pdf\Morphsyn.pdf]. (1999). SIL International, Dallas. Reviewed as a book notice in Language 76.3: 746-7 (2000).
1991
Lexical variation in Mexican Sign Language. Sign Language Studies 72:241-276 (Fall 1991). DOI: 10.1353/sls.1991.0010. Earlier version, 1989, Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session 33, pp. 1-29.
1987
Universal constraints on relationally-complex clauses. Unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego. (Committee: David M. Perlmutter, chair, Margaret Langdon, Edward Klima, Margaret Speas, David Jordan, Walter Savitch.)
1985
Spanish clitic doubling and levels of grammatical relations. Lingua 65:189-211.
4. OTHER PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, EDITED VOLUMES, AND SOFTWARE
2023
Review of “The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Learning and Cognition”, 2020, by Marc Marschark & Harry Knoors, eds. Journal of Language, Culture and Religion. 4.1:107-110 (March 2023). Available: https://www.diu.edu/jlcr/volume-4-number-1/
2022
Developing an RSL Dictionary. Comparative & International Education Society, 2022 Annual Conference, Minneapolis MN, April 21, 2022.
2022
Long-distance consulting on the Rwandan Sign Language Dictionary. Dallas International University, Academic Forum, Dallas TX, April 14, 2022.
2022
with Tim Grove: SooSL, version 0.9.3. (Software for producing sign language video dictionaries.) [http://www.soosl.net], released March 23, 2022.
2021
with Elizabeth D. Merrill, Shelley Dufoe, and Alma I. Trujillo T.: Language use among deaf and hearing people in a Mexican Zapotec community. Texas Linguistic Society 2021, March 5, 2021.
2021
with Tim Grove: SooSL, version 0.9.2. (Software for producing sign language video dictionaries.) [http://www.soosl.net], released Sept 2, 2021.
2021
with Tim Grove: SooSL, version 0.9.1. (Software for producing sign language video dictionaries.) [http://www.soosl.net], released February 1, 2021.
2020
Afterword: Can we return to Martha’s Vineyard? Society for American Sign Language Journal 4(2, Fall/Winter 2020): 54‒57. [first available online 2021-11-15: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/saslj/vol4/iss2/11]
2020
Review of “The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages: Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World”, 2019, ed. by Maartje de Meulder, Joseph J. Murray and Rachel L. McKee. Sign Language Studies 20(4). Pp. 699-702. Available: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/763675
2020
with Tim Grove: SooSL, version 0.9.0. (Software for producing sign language video dictionaries.) [http://www.soosl.net], released September 17, 2020.
2019
Sign Languages. Colloquium presentation, Mahidol University, Nov 22, 2019.
2019
How many Deaf? 1 in 10(0(0))? SIL-UND Colloquium, June 13, 2019. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG-WM1f02UA
2019
with Stuart M. Thiessen and Gwendolyn Davies: Bible translation in sign languages. A Guide to Bible Translation: People, Languages and Topics, ed. by Philip A. Noss and Charles S. Houser. Maitland FL: Xulon Press and Swindon UK:United Bible Societies. Pp. 231-234
2018
How many sign languages are there, anyway? SIL-UND. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeLrH37oE6I
2016
with Timothy Grove, Geoffrey Hunt, and Stuart M. Thiesson: SooSL: General- purpose software for creating sign language dictionaries. 12th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 12), Melbourne, Australia, 4-7 January 2016. Available: http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/64270
2015
Review of Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle & Tony DeBrum 2009, Marshallese-English Online Dictionary. Language Documentation and Conservation. 9:158-163. Available: http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/24638/bickford.pdf?sequence=1
2013
with M. Paul Lewis and Gary Simons: Rating the Vitality of Sign Languages. 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawaii, March 3, 2013. Available: http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/52701 and https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/26131
2012
with M. Paul Lewis and Gary Simons: Adapting the EGIDS language development scale for sign languages. Colloquium presentation, Summer Institute of Linguistics at the University of North Dakota, July 19.2012.
2010
Participant Referencing in Signed Languages. Paper presented at Global Linguistics Forum (GLiF), Vajta, Hungary, August 2010.
2008
With Jim Brase and Lorna A. Priest: When to convert to Unicode. SIL International. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=UTConvert2Unicode
2005
Using ELAN: A getting-started guide for use with sign languages. Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session. [Online] Available: http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/linguistics/textbooks/UsingELAN.pdf.
2001-2005
Editor or co-editor, Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session. [Online] Available: http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/wp/wphome.htm.
2004
1-handed PERSONs and ASL Morphology. Linguistic Society of America, Boston, Jan. 10, 2004.
2002
Lessons learned while localizing Shoebox into Spanish. Computer Technical Conference, JAARS Center, Waxhaw NC, Nov. 20, 2002.
2001
with David Tuggy: Electronic glossary of linguistic terms (with equivalent terms in Spanish), http://www.sil.org/mexico/ling/glosario/E005ai-Glossary.htm, and Glosario electrónico de términos lingüísticos (con los términos equivalentes en el inglés), http://www.sil.org/mexico/ling/glosario/E005ae-Glosario.htm.
2001
Web-based language documentation and description and the Open Language Archives Community. Notes on Linguistics 4.1:52–58. Slightly revised version available online: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/expl2000/report.html.
2001
Linguistic software for use in other disciplines. Oral presentation at the University of Arizona, College of Education. March 6, 2001.
1997
A rich model for presenting interlinear text. SIL Electronic Working Papers 1997- 003, June 1997 [Online]. Available: http://www.sil.org/silewp/1997/003 [1997, June 6]. (Revised version of the 1992 oral presentation.)
1997
with Stephen A. Marlett: Index to volumes 18-40 (1974-1996), Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session [Online].
Available: http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/wp/wpindex1.htm. (An updated electronic version of the 1995 index.)
1996
Grammatical concepts taught in current SIL prefield training. Proceedings of the 1996 General CARLA Conference (Nov. 14-15, 1996), JAARS Center, Waxhaw NC, pp. 257–272.
1996
AWK and CC. Notes on Computing 15.2:22-23 (March-April 1996). Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas.
1995
Review of Paul M. Postal and Brian D. Joseph, Studies in Relational Grammar 3, Notes on Linguistics 70:23–27 (August 1995), Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas.
1995
with Stephen A. Marlett: Index to volumes 18-38 (1974-1994). Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, vol. 39: 1-9.
1995
editor, Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, vol. 39.
1994
Review of R. M. W. Dixon, A grammar of Boumaa Fijian. Notes on Linguistics 64:48-51 (February 1994), Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas.
1993
With Stephen A. Marlett: SIL-Mexico guide to text glossing and analysis. Unpublished ms., Summer Institute of Linguistics, Tucson.
1992
A rich model for text glossing. Oral presentation at Linguistic Association of the Southwest (Tucson, Oct 16, 1992).
1991
With James Rupp and Nadine Rupp: Verbs of motion, arrival, and transport in Chinantec of Ozumacín. Oral presentations at University of North Dakota colloquium (June 1991), and International Congress of Americanists (Tulane University, New Orleans, July 9, 1991).
1991
Monolingual demonstration. Oral presentation at Summer Institute of Linguistics, Tucson AZ (Feb. 16, 1991; also at other times and places since 1985).
1990
Exploiting the Lexicon: The next step in automated text glossing. Colloquium at University of North Dakota (June 28, 1990).
1989
co-editor (with Robert A. Dooley), Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, vol. 33.
1989
Mexican Sign Language: Is it a language? Oral presentation at University of North Dakota (June 1989).
1989
SIL-Mexico Glossed Text Archive: Proposed content. Oral presentation and workshop (with Steve Marlett, Doris Bartholomew, John Alsop, Roy Eberhardt, and Burt Bascom) at the LSA Summer Linguistics Institute, University of Arizona (June 28, 1989).
1988
with Stephen A. Marlett: The semantics and morphology of Mixtec mood and aspect. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, 32:1-39.
1987
Impersonal 2-1 advancement. Oral presentation at Third Biennial Conference on Relational Grammar and Grammatical Relations, University of Iowa (October 1987).
1987
Technical assistant (computerized indexing and typesetting) to Frenk, Margit, for her book Corpus de la Antigua Lírica Popular Hispánica (siglos XV a XVII). Madrid: Editorial Castalia.
1986
Review of David M. Perlmutter, Studies in Relational Grammar, and David M. Perlmutter and Carol Rosen, Studies in Relational Grammar 2. Notes on Linguistics 33:61-63 (January 1986), Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas.
1986
The Entrant Term Law. Oral presentation at Second Biennial Conference on Relational Grammar (Ohio State University, Columbus)
1986
Possessor Ascension in Kinyarwanda. Chicago Linguistic Society 22 (Part 1):129- 143, and University of North Dakota colloquium, summer 1986.
1985
Fortis/Lenis consonants in Mixe: A preliminary acoustic study. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, 29:195-207.
1985
Another look at tone in Peñoles Mixtec. Oral presentations at Southern California Conference on General Linguistics (University of California, San Diego, April 20, 1985) and University of North Dakota colloquium (June 1985).
1984
Special Input Options With CC/MS. Notes for the JAARS Users’ Group, 20. JAARS, Waxhaw, North Carolina.
1984
To Learn to Speak, Must one Speak? Notes on Linguistics, 30. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas.
1984
Vowel Shifts in Mixe. Linguistic Notes from La Jolla, 12:18-48. Dept. of Linguistics, UC San Diego. Also presented orally at University of North Dakota colloquium, summer 1983.
1982
Initial and Non-initial Indirect Objects in Spanish. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session 26:118-157. Also presented orally at University of North Dakota and University of California, San Diego.
1980
Evaluation in reading readiness programs. Notes on Literacy 30. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas.
5. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2020-present
Salvadoran Sign Language (LESSA)
1988-present
Language identification and vitality of signed languages
2005-2008
(with Kathy Fraychineaud) Morphological use of the mouth in ASL
2003-2006
ASL morphology
1987-2012
Description of indigenous languages of Mexico (either alone or in collaboration with others) especially on Chinantec, Mixtec, and Mexican Sign Language
1990-2003
Consultant, tester, and designer for LinguaLinks and Fieldworks, software developed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics for use in field linguistic research, especially helping in the areas of text glossing and morphological analysis
1985-1987
Graduate research assistant in computational linguistics (a computer-assisted comparative study of Yuman languages), under Margaret Langdon, Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego.
1985-1986
Graduate research assistant in Spanish literature (computer-assisted indexing and typesetting) under Margit Frenk, Dept. of Literature, University of California, San Diego
1983-1984
Field research in Mexico on Guichicovi (Isthmus) Mixe
1978
Undergraduate research assistant in ethnomusicology, under Alan Kagan, University of Minnesota, Department of Music.
6. WORK IN PROGRESS AND CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2020-present
Linguistic analysis of Lengua de Señas Salvadoreña (LESSA): advising the Equipo de Investigaciones Lingüísticas de LESSA (EIL-LESSA) in text collection and analysis, dictionary production, and gramatical analysis
2014-present
SooSL (dictionary software for sign languages), software development
7. THESES DIRECTED
The following are for the M.A. in linguistics at the University of North Dakota, and include only those for which I have served as chair:
2021
Aanestad, Aidan. A typology of morphological argument focus marking.
2021
Gateley, Martha Lois. Participant reference in Colombian Sign Language narrative.
2021
Paterson, Hugh. Language archive records: Interoperability of referencing practices and metadata models.
2021
Samson, John. The Iconicity and non-arbitrariness of body locations in four unrelated sign languages.
2018
Katelin French. Reference tracking in Ethiopian Sign Language.
2018
Beth C. Gray. The impact of translation on constructed action and constructed dialogue in ASL texts.
2015
Benjamin J. Cavaletto. Computer-assisted vocabulary learning for Deaf learners of foreign sign languages.
2014
Heidi A. Davis. Consonant correspondences of Burmese, Rakhine and Marma with initial implications for historical relationships.
2013
Sarah Eberle. Locative Expressions in Signed Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison.
2013
Vanessa Jones. Numeral incorporation in American Sign Language.
2013
Mark Penner. The mouthing of verbs in Japanese sign language.
2013
Jason Hopkins. Toward a further understanding of the extensibility of sign languages.
2012
Julia Ciupek-Reed. Participatory methods in sociolinguistic sign language survey: A case study in El Salvador.
2011
Stuart Thiessen. A grammar of SignWriting.
2010
Gretta Owen. Berne, Indiana Swiss German: Lessons learned from a small-Scale documentation project.
2009
Bettina Revilla. Place names in Israeli Sign Language.
2005
Joëlle Lewis. The -ing suffix in French.
2002
Susan Quigley. The Awara verbal system.
2002
Bela Hettich. Ossetian: Revisiting inflectional morphology.
2001
Inga McKendry. Two studies of Mixtec languages.
1997
Kang-Yuen (Felix) Ma. The relation between the writing system and the use of metaphor in English andChinese.
1995
Larry P. Williams. Noun classification or spatial categorization: Damana orientation verbs.
1994
Marilyn Plumlee. Who’s speaking whose language? A study of contact signing between deaf and hearing co-workers.
1994
Shawn Boylan. Aspect in Mende.
1993
Cindy Williams. A grammar sketch of Damana
1993
Richard A. Thiele. Interrogatives in Yanomam
1992
Kris Waskosky. Affixes of Salasaca Quichua with special attention to derivational affixes which attach to verbs
8. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020-present
Courses in introductory grammar analysis, sign language grammar and digital technology (Dallas International University)
1988–2020
(mostly summers)
Courses in morphological and syntactic analysis (upper division undergraduate and graduate); field methods; sign language morphosyntax, sign language sociolinguistics, sign language phonology, technological tools for linguistic research; supervising graduate students in independent readings courses and theses (SIL-UND).
1982–1983, 1985–1987 (summers)
Instructor, Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session. Course in introductory morphological and syntactic analysis.
1980–1981 (summers)
Teaching Assistant, Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session. Course in introductory morphological and syntactic analysis.
1980–1985
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego. Courses in Spanish grammar and independent study of foreign languages.
1975–1978
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Music, University of Minnesota. Courses in music theory and ear training.
9. WORKSHOPS
2022
Investigación lingüística de LESSA, October 2022 (10 days), El Salvador, under the auspices of the Equipo de Investigaciones Lingüísticas de LESSA
2022, 2023
Checking naturalness in sign language materials, online, spring 2022 and 2023 (6 2-hour sessions, offered once each year)
2021
LESSA lexicography, online, December 2022 (3 days), under the auspices of the Equipo de Investigaciones Lingüísticas de LESSA
2018
Romanian Sign Language lexicography, Oradea, February 2018 (1 day)
2017
Thai Sign Language linguistic structure, Bangkok, March 2017 (4 days)
2013
Sign language morphology and syntax. DOOR International, Nairobi, Kenya, Nov. 11-22, 2013.
2012
Advanced Toolbox. CoLang, University of Kansas, June 25-28, 2012.
2011
Advanced Toolbox. International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawaii, Feb 9-10, 2011. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/5237.
2010
Lexical and text research with Toolbox Software, InField, University of Oregon, June 29 – July 2, 2010.
2008
Lexical and text research with Toolbox Software, InField, University of California, Santa Barbara, July 1-3, 2008.
2007
Lexical and text research with Toolbox Software, LSA Summer Linguistic Institute, Stanford University, July 1-3, 2007.
2002
(with Doris Bartholomew) CIESAS, Tlalpan, Mexico City
1990–present
Workshops with members of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, especially preparation of annotated interlinear text.
1999
Computerized preparation of dictionaries using Shoebox software, University of Arizona, March 1999.
1996
With Ruth Schillberg: “Essential Ingredients for Adult Learning”, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas TX, August 1996. (6 hours of in-service training for faculty and staff)
10. CONSULTING AND SUPERVISION
2020-present
LESSA (Salvadoran Sign Language) Linguistic Analysis
2021-2022
Rwandan Sign Language Dictionary
2012-2013
Alex Jaker and the Goyatiko Language Society, text glossing in Dogrib
2011
Judi Lynn Anderson, Chinantec paradigms
2008-2011
Kennedy Bosire, Ekegusii online dictionary
2003
Isaac and Shirley de Souza, bilingual dictionary and interlinear texts
2003
Paulette Levy, Susana Cuevas, interlinear glossed texts
1999
Margarita Valdovinos, Cora glossed texts
1998-2000
Amy Miller, Yuma bilingual dictionary
1998-1999
William Samarin, Sango analytical comparative dictionary
1998
Cristina Monzon, Purepecha (Tarascan) bilingual dictionary
1998
Bev Staley, survey of sign languages of Canada
1995–1998
Shelley Dufoe, Mike Hurst, Karla Hurst, research on Lenguaje de Signos Mexicano (Mexican Sign Language)
1987–present
many other linguistic research programs for shorter periods of time, mostly members of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico
11. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
2009-present
Sign Language Linguistics Society
1987-present
Linguistic Society of America
1986-ca. 2015
The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
12. FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
ILR proficiency levels are approximate.
Spanish
adequate for conducting research (ILR 3+)
American Sign Language
adequate for conducting research (ILR 3+)
French
intermediate (ILR 2)
Portuguese
intermediate (ILR 2)
International Sign
intermediate (ILR 2)
German
beginning (ILR 1)
Romanian
beginning (ILR 1)
Latin
reading only, beginning (ILR 1)
13. DEPARTMENTAL and PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2022-present
Associate Director for Language Program Services, Global Sign Languages Team, SIL International
2021-present Editorial board
Society for American Sign Language Journal (https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/saslj/)
2021-present
Editorial advisory board, Journal of Language, Culture, and Religion (https://www.diu.edu/jlcr/)
2019-2022
Associate Director, Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota
2014-present
Research editor, Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com)
2013-2022
Linguistic Services Coordinator, Global Sign Languages Team, SIL International
2004–2019
Director (linguistics program chair), Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota
1996–present
Webmaster, Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota
2008-2012
Member, SIL Sign Language Leadership Team
2002-2007
Member, SIL Sign Language Coordinating Committee (approximate dates)
2003-2008
Member, SIL Non-Roman Script Field Advisory Board
2000-2003
Member, SIL Language Software Board
2000–2003
Linguistics Coordinator, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico branch
1999–2003
Webmaster, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico branch
1998–2012
Linguistics Senior Editor, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico branch, with primary responsibility for linguistic publications in print (from 2003) and on the branch website (http://www.sil.org/mexico, from 1998)
1995–2003
Director of Graduate Studies in linguistics, University of North Dakota
1996–2000,
2002–2004
Member and secretary, Executive Committee, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico
1994–1996
Member and agenda coordinator, Executive Committee, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico Program.
1994–1997
Coordinator of strategic planning for the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico Program
1994
Coordinator of strategic planning for the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota
1992–1995
Chair, Task Force on Completion, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico Program (examining issues of strategic planning and productivity and organizing planning sessions)
1991–1994
Undergraduate advisor, Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota
1991
Acting Director of Graduate Studies in linguistics, University of North Dakota
1991
Chair, subcommittee for drafting a mission statement for the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico Program
1985–1987
Treasurer, Southern California Conference on General Linguistics
1985
Abstract selection committee, Southern California Conference on General Linguistics
1981–1982
Student representative to the linguistic faculty, University of California, San Diego
1977
Student representative on search committee for Associate Professor in Music Theory and Ear Training, Dept. of Music, University of Minnesota
14. LINGUISTIC HUMOR
2017
Slater, Sven [Keith] and Ollie [Albert] Bickford. Teaching Linguistics in High School. Speculative Grammarian CLXXX:1 (November 2017). Available: http://specgram.com/CLXXX.1/09.slater.highschool.html
2012
Slater, Sven [Keith] and Ollie [Albert] Bickford. Grey Duck or Goose? Mapping variation in a children’s game in Minnesota. Speculative Grammarian CLXIII:4 (January 2012). Available:
http://specgram.com/CLXIII.4/06.slater.duck.html
15. COMMUNITY SERVICE
2006–present
member, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church orchestra, Tucson AZ. Concertmaster since 2008.
1988–1998,
2000–present
member, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church choir, Tucson AZ
1999
leader of youth group for English-speaking teens in Oaxaca, Mexico
1996–2002
volunteer on Youth Ministry Team, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Tucson AZ
1989–1997
member, Lane Justus Chorale, Tucson AZ
1977–present
elder, Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (active on Session at Bethany Presbyterian Church, 1977-1978)
16. HONORS AND AWARDS
1982–1983
Josephine de Karman $2500 Fellowship
1980
Honorable mention, National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship Program
1978
B.S. with High Distinction, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1977
Pi Kappa Lambda (Honorary Music Fraternity)
1973
Valedictorian, Owatonna High School, Owatonna MN
17. REGISTERED COPYRIGHTS HELD
1988
Universal constraints on relationally complex clauses. Copyright # TX 2-442-279, filed Aug 17, 1988, registered Nov 21, 1988.
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