Curriculum Vitae - Kenneth L. Miner

• EDUCATION
  • Ph.D. Linguistics, Indiana University, December 1975.
    Minors in English and History. Dissertation Title: Interference Relations in Menominee Phonology.
  • M.A. Linguistics, Indiana University, August 1972.
    Special commendation in phonology.
  • B.A. magna cum laude, City University of New York, September 1969.
    Linguistics major.
• PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
  • Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, August 1987-1999
  
  
  • Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, August 1980--May 1987.
    
    Responsibilities: Taught beginning and advanced Phonology and Syntax, Semantics, Field Methods, Linguistic Analysis, Phonetics and American Indian languages. Completed three-year term as Graduate Advisor for the Department. Carried out research in Algonquian and Siouan linguistics, the history of Amerindian language studies in North America, and linguistic typology.
  • Assistant Professor,Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas October 1976--August 1980
    
    Responsibilities: Taught courses in American Indian languages, Amerindian Seminar, Field Methods, beginning and advanced Phonology, beginning and advanced Syntax, Practical Phonetics, and Introductory Linguistics. Carried out field research on Kansas potawatomii served as part-time consultant to the Indian Center of Topeka, Inc. Involved graduate students in "action linguistics" projects with the Kansas Potawatomi language and with the Kansas Kickapoo tribe. Guest-lectured in the School of Social Welfare.
  • Lecturer in Department of Linguistics and Specialist in Native American Studies Program, University of Wisconin-Milwaukee, September 1973--June 1976
    
    Responsibilities: Trained native speakers of Menominee and Winnebago in basic linguistics, literacy, and language-teaching techniques. Taught introductory linguistics, Menominee and Winnebago linguistics for native speakers, a workshop for Menominee university students, and field methods. Guest-lectured in the Anthropology department. Field research.
  • Publications Chairman, Indiana University Linguistic Club, Indiana University, Summer 1973
    
    Responsibilities: This was a salaried position. Solicited, selected, and edited manuscripts in transformational-generative theory for publication by the Club. Supervised all stages of production.
  • Translator (German-English) Bloomington Translation Group, Indiana University, Summer 1973
    
    Responsibilities: Translated linguistics articles from German into English for Mouton-funded translators' group.
• HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, & GRANTS
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1969
  • NSF Traineeship, 1969-70
  • NDEA Title IV Fellowship, 1970-73
  • University of Kansas General Research Fund, grant for Summer 1977 to Summer 1978 for a monograph entitled "The Winnebago Language, Phonological and Grammatical Description, with Texts and Lexicon."
  • KU Small Grants Sub-Committee grant, 1978, for xeroxing the Leonard Bloomfield Menominee manuscript materials for myself and for the Kansas Collection of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas. (The originals were placed in the Smithsonian.)
  • KU Faculty Development Fund grant, 1980, to attend the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology at Indiana University in November.
  • KU Faculty Development Fund grant, 1985, to attend, as visiting scholar, the LSA/TESOL Institute, Georgetown University.
• MEMBERSHIPS (at various times)
  • Linguistic Society of America
  • American Anthropological Association
  • Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
  • The North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences
  • The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas
• ARTICLES AND MONOGRAPHS
  • "John Eliot of Massachusetts and the Beginnings of American Linguistics," Historiographia Linguistica 1 (1975), 169-183.
  • "English Inflectional Endings and Unordered Rules," Foundations of Language 12 (1975), 339-364.
  • Omaeqnomenew-Kiketwanan: An English-Menominee and Menominee-English Word List. Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 1975. 139pp.
  • Payiakemenewek: A Morphemic Index to Bloomfield's Menomini. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Native American Languages Project, 1975. i + 99 pp.
  • Acemwanan mesek Ataeqnohkakanan (Menomini Stories and Legends). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Native American Languages Project, 1975. 21 pp.
  • An English Key to Bloomfield's Menominee Lexicon. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Native American Languages Project, 1976. 123 pp.
  • A Wisconsin Winnebago Field Lexicon. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Native American Languages project, 1976. iii + 209 pp.
  • "Certifying of Native American Language Competence: A Report," Linguistic Reporter, March 1977, pp. 3, 5.
  • "On the Notion 'Restricted Linguistic Theory': Toward Error-Free Data in Linguistics," Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 3 (1978), 1-19.
  • "Theoretical Implications of the Great Menominee Vowel Shift," Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 4 (1979), 7-25.
  • "Dorsey's Law in Winnebago-Chiwere and Winnebago Accent," International Journal of American Linguistics 45 (1979), 25-33.
  • "Through the Years with a Small Language: More Trouble with Data in Theoretical Linguistics" International Journal of American Linguistics 45 (1979), 75-78 (note).
  • "The Order of Dakota Person Affixes: the Rest of the Data," Glossa 14 (1980), 5-42.
  • "Bloomfield's Process Phonology and Kiparsky's Opacity." International Journal of American Linguistics 47 (1981), 310-322.
  • "Metrics, or Winnebago Made Harder." International Journal of American Linguistics 47 (1981), 340-342 (note).
  • "A Short Modern Winnebago Text with Song," Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 7, (1982), Studies in Native American Languages (special number in honor of Mary R. Haas), 90-103.
  • "Object Stripping in Some Oceanic Languages," Papers of the 17th Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, November, 1983, pp. 129-140.
  • "Noun Stripping and Loose Incorporation in Zuni," Papers in Anthropology (Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma) 24:2, pp. 251-261, Fall 1983; Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 8/2 (1983), pp. 83-93.
  • "Computerized Permutation of Pikean Field Matrices," Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 8/1 (1983) (with Barbara Lynn Taghva), pp. 97-106.
  • "Noun stripping in Chamorro and Jacaltec," 1983 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 303-312.
  • "Noun Stripping and Loose Incorporation in Zuni," International Journal of American Linguistics, 52 (1986), pp. 242-254. (Revision of the 1983 article).
  • "Algonquian." Article in The Sanseido Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1: Languages of the World Part I. Edited by Takashi Kamei, Rokuro Kono, and Eliichi Chino. Sanseido Press: Tokyo, 1988, pp. 516-519. Translated by Akira Yamamoto.
  • "A Note on Noun Stripping," International Journal of American Linguistics 55 (1989), pp. 476-477 (note).
  • "Cohesion and the Yiddish Consecutive Order," Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 14:1 (1989), pp. 81-96.
  • "Yiddish VII Declarative Clauses in Discourse," Papers in Pragmatics 4 (1990) pp. 122-149.
  • "Winnebago Accent: the Rest of the Data," Anthropological Linguistics 31:3-4 (1992), pp 148-172.
  • "Some issues in Japanese accent," Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 17:1 (1992), pp. 1-24.
  • "On some theoretical implications of Winnebago Phonology," Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 18 (1993), pp. 111- 130.
• BOOK REVIEWS
  • Review of Generative Phonology by Sanford Shane, Language Sciences 35 (1975), pp. 34-36.
  • Review of An Areal-Typological Study of American Indian Languages North of Mexico by Joel Sherzer, Language Sciences 47 (1977), pp. 25-27.
  • Review of Menominee Lexicon by Leonard Bloomfield, International Journal of American Linguistics 43 (1977), pp. 66-73.
  • Review of Beginning Lakhota: Elementary Bilingual Dictionary and Lakhota Readings, by David S. Rood & Allan R. Taylor, International Journal of American Linguistics 47 (1981), pp. 181-185.
  • Review of Josephine White Eagle, A Lexical Study of Winnebago, International Journal of American Linguistics 60 (1993), pp. 46-56.
• NEWSLETTER NOTES
  • "Errata in Aubin's Proto-Algonquian Dictionary," Algonguian Linguistics 4 (1979), pp. 29-31.
  • "An Unusual Natural Class in Mississippi Valley Siouan," Siouan and Caddoan Linguistics 2 (1979), pp. 8-9.
  • "Recent Algonquian Acquisitions of the Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas," Alqonguian Linguistics 4:4 (1979), pp. 44-45.
  • "An 'Alsatian' Method for Algonquian Lexicography?" Algonquian Linguistics 5:3 (1980), pp. 38-39.
  • "Positionals Outside Siouan," Siouan and Caddoan Linguistics 3 (1980), pp. 1-2.
  • "A Note on Ergativity in Algonquian," Algonguian and Iroquoian Linguistics 6:2 (1981), pp. 9-10.
  • "Comment on Charney's 'Style in Winnebago Narratives,' SCL 3." Siouan and Caddoan Linguistics 4 (1981), pp. 3-4.
  • "Preliminary Observations on Hockett's 'The Phonological History of Menominee'," Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 6:4 (1981), pp. 49-50.
  • "A Note on Noun Incorporation," Algonguian and Iroguoian Linguistics 7 (1982), pp. 36-37.
  • "Addenda & Corrigenda Miscellanea," Algonguian and Iroguoian Linguistics 8 (1983), 20-21.
  • "A Pascal Program for Manipulation of Pikean Field Matrices, " SSILA Newsletter 111:1 (1984), pp. 12, 13 (with Dana Barrager).
  • "Another Verb-Initial Characteristic of Algonquian," Algonguian and Iroguoian Linguistics 11 (1986), p. 5.
  • "The Thing Called Theory: What to Read?" Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Newsletter VI:1 (1987), p.2.
  • "Some Thoughts on Derrida," Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Newsletter VIII:3, (1989) pp 6,7.
  • "Menominee Exception Classes and Metrical Phonology, " Algonquian and Iroguoian Linguistics 15:4 (1990), pp. 34- 5.
  • "The Torah in Yiddish," The Book Peddler/Der Pakntreger, July 1992.
• UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
  • Winnebago Field Lexicon. 1984. 4,000+ entries, now corrected and updated; supplied to both branches of the tribe in 1993.
  • Winnebago Grammar, unfinished version supplied to both branches of the tribe in 1993.
  • A Stab at the Striped Apple. August, 1993. (Application of fuzzy logic to prototype theory.)
• ORAL PRESENTATIONS
  • "English Inflectional Endings and Unordered Rules," read at Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chapel Hill, N.C., August 1972.
  • Panelist, Indiana University Conference on Rule Ordering, May 1973 (invited).
  • "Modern Menominee," University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Colloquium, May 1973 (invited).
  • "A Problem in Menominee Historical Change," University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Colloquium, May 1974 (invited).
  • Panelist, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics symposium on Experimentation in Linguistics, March 1975 (invited).
  • Panelist, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics symposium on Bilingualism, March 1976 (invited).
  • Speaker & panelist, Edgewood College (Madison, Wisconsin) Forum "Native Americans: Test Case for Democracy," March 1976 (invited).
  • Talk to staff, Bilingual Education Service Center, Chicago, Illinois, "Issues in Curriculum Development," June 1976 (invited).
  • "Equivalence Rules in Generative Phonology," KU Linguistics Colloquy, October 1976 (invited).
  • "American Indian Language Maintenance/Revival: Lessons from Wisconsin," Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Dallas, Texas, October 1976.
  • "Dorsey's Law and the Winnebago Accent Shift," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Houston, Texas, November 1977.
  • "Dorsey's Law in Winnebago-Chiwere," KU Linguistics Colloquy, April 1978 (invited).
  • "Leonard Bloomfield's Process Phonology and Kiparsky's Transparency," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, November 1978.
  • Session chairman and paper, "Potawatomi Lexicography and its Problems," Southeastern Native American Bilingual Education Conference, March 1979 (invited).
  • Session chairman, Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, November 1979.
  • Session chairman, Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, October 1980 (invited).
  • "Noun Incorporation as Evidence for Early Syntax: A New Approach," KU Linguistics Colloquy, March 1981 (invited).
  • "Algonquian medials as incorporated nominals: the evidence and some implications," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, November 1981.
  • "Winnebago Syllabary," Annual Meeting of the Missouri Philological Association, Fulton, Missouri, February 1982.
  • "The Remarkable Orthographical Practices of Sam Blow Snake," KU Linguistics Colloquy, March 1982.
  • "Vowel Length in Winnebago-Chiwere," Second Siouan Languages Conference, Medora, North Dakota, May 1982.
  • "Noun Stripping and Loose Incorporation in Zuni," First Conference of Native American Studies, Oklahoma State University, May 1983.
  • "Noun Stripping in Chamorro and Jacaltec," 18th Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Boulder, Colorado, 1983; and KU Linguistics Colloquy, October, 1983.
  • "The Verb-Initial Construction in Literary Yiddish," Third symposium on Germanic Linguistics, Purdue University, March 1989.
  • "Antitranslation" Inter-Departmental Language Group, February, 1990.
  • "Winnebago Accent: The Rest of the Data". Tenth Annual Siouan and Caddoan Linguistics Conference, Lawrence, KS., October 1990.
• CONSULTING
  • 1976-77: Indian Center of Topeka, Inc. Unpaid.
  • 1977-78: Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (Newberry Library). Paid.
  • 1981: NEH annual review panel for linguistics, lexicography, and foreign literatures. Paid.
  • 1983-84: Kansas Kickapoo Technical Assistance Project. Unpaid.
  • 1985: St. Martin's Press. Paid.
  • 1987: American Philosophical Society. Paid.