CurriculumVitae

1. NAME Dr. John Newman

2. ADDRESS

Departmentof Linguistics
Faculty of Arts
4-36A Assiniboia Hall
University of Alberta
Edmonton T6G 2E7
Canada
Tel: (780) 492-5500
email: john.newman@ualberta.ca

3. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS ANDTRAINING

PhD in Linguistics, University of California at San Diego, 1976-1981
Graduate courses: Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Austronesian Linguistics,Chinese Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
Dissertation: The Semantics of Raising Constructions

MA in German Linguistics,Monash University, 1970-1972
Thesis: The Article in a Generative-Transformational Grammar of German

BA (1st Class Honours in German Language and Literature), Queensland University, 1966-1969
Fields of study: Philosophy, Pure Mathematics, Russian Language and Literature,German Language and Literature Thesis: The Development of the GermanLanguage in the East and West German Dudens

4. PRESENT POSITION

July 2002- Professor (and Chair) Departmentof Linguistics, University of Alberta

5. DETAILS OF APPOINTMENTSPREVIOUSLY HELD

Jan. 1992-July 2002 Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, MasseyUniversity.

July 1986-92 Lecturer in Linguistics, Massey University.

July 1985-July 86 Lecturer in Communication Studies,Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (now University of SouthernQueensland).

Jan. 1985, Jan. 1986 Consultant to Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Sarawak Branch, Malaysia.

Dec. 1987, 1981-1985 Specialist in Linguistic Analysis, AustralianDepartment of Foreign Affairs (ADAB), attached to the Southeast Asian Ministersof Education Organization, Regional Language Centre, Singapore.

1983 Assistant Professor for one semester in the Departmentof Chinese Literature and Linguistics, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

1976-1981 Teaching Assistant, UCSD. Also, an instructor inEnglish to Japanese students.

1975-1976 Part-time Lecturer and Tutor, LinguisticsDepartment, University of Newcastle, NSW.

1972-1974 Teaching Fellow and Senior Teaching Fellow,German Department, Monash University.

6. PUBLICATIONS

Books

Newman, J. 2002. (ed.) The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing, and Lying. [Studies in Typological Linguistics 51]. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Newman, J. and Anand V. Raman. 1999. Historical Chinese Phonology: A Compendium of Beijing and Cantonese Pronunciations of Characters and their Derivations from Middle Chinese. [Lincom Studies in Asian Linguistics 27]. Newcastle and München: Lincom Europa. 256 pages. Published with CD.

Newman, J. 1998. (ed.) The Linguistics of Giving. [Studies in Typological Linguistics 36]. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 384 pages. [Reviewed by A. S. Kaye, Language 2000, Vol. 76, No. 2, 465-466.]

Newman, J. 1997. Coursebook in Feature Geometry. [Lincom Coursebooks in Linguistics 2] Newcastle and München: Lincom Europa. 125 pages.

Newman, J. 1996. Give: A Cognitive Linguistic Study. [Cognitive Linguistics Research 7] Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 319 pages.[Reviewed by Nick Enfield, Australian Journal of Linguistics 1997, Vol.17, No. 1, 89-92; Maria Polinsky, Anthropological Linguistics 1999, Vol. 41, No. 4]

Newman, J. 1985. Workbook in Southeast Asian Linguistics. Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre. With accompanying cassette tape. 150 pages [Reviewed by T. May, Australian Journal of Linguistics 1986, Vol. 6, No. 2, 297-299; Robert Brichoux, Philippine Journal of Linguistics 1986/1987, Vol. 18, No. 2 & Vol. 19, No. 1, 83-84]

Newman, J. 1982. A Study of Hokkien-Mandarin Phonological Correspondences. [Occasional Papers 22] Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre. 61 pages.

Newman, J. [with the assistance of R. Sproat] 1981. Old High German Reader (with computer-formatted translation, concordance and glossary). Reynoldsburg, Ohio: Advocate Publishing Group. 157 pages. [Reviewed by E. M. Wilkinson, AUMLA 1984,Vol. 61, 115-119].

Chapters in Books/Proceedings

Newman, J. and S. Rice. 2008. Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences: A corpus-based approach. In Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (ed.), Asymmetric Events: An Interpretation, pp. 3-22. Amsterdam and New York: John Benjamins.

Newman, J. 2008. Aiming low in linguistics: Low-level generalizations in corpus-based research. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-11), May 23-25 2008, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. [Distributed on CD]

Newman, J. and J. Lin. 2007. The purposefulness of going: A corpus-linguistic study. In J. Walinski, K. Kredens, and S. Gozdz-Roszkowski (eds.), Corpora and ICT in Language Studies, 293-308. Lodz Studies in Language, Vol. 13. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Newman, J. and S. Rice. 2006. Transitivity schemas of English EAT and DRINK in the BNC. In S. Th. Gries & A. Stefanowitsch (eds.), Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-based Approaches to Syntax and Lexis, 225-260. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Newman, J. 2004. The quiet revolution: Ron Langacker's Fall Quarter 1977 lectures. In B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and A. Kwiatkowska (eds.), Imagery in Language: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Ronald W. Langacker, 43-60. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Newman, J. 2004. Motivating the uses of basic verbs: Linguistic and extralinguistic considerations. In Guenter Radden and Klaus Uwe Panther (eds.), Motivation in Grammar [Cognitive Linguistics Research 28], 193-218. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Newman, J. and S. Rice. 2004. Aspect in the making: A corpus analysis of English aspect-marking prepositions. In Suzanne Kemmer & Michel Achard (eds.), Language, Culture and Mind, 313-327. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Newman, J. and T. Yamaguchi. 2002. Action and state interpretations of 'sit' in Japanese and English. In John Newman (ed.), The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing, and Lying, 43-59. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Newman, J. 2002. A cross-linguistic overview of the posture verb 'sit', 'stand', and'lie'. In John Newman (ed.), The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing, and Lying, 1-24. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Newman, J. 2002. Culture, cognition, and the gramar of 'give' clauses. In Nick Enfield (ed.), Ethnosyntax, 74-95. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Newman, J. 1999. Figurative giving. In Leon de Stadler and Christoph Eyrich (eds.), Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: 1993 Proceedings of the InternationalCognitive Linguistics Conference [Cognitive Linguistics Research 12], 113-140. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Newman, J. 1998a. The origin of German es gibt. In John Newman (ed.), The Linguistics of Giving. [Studies in Typological Linguistics 36], 307-325. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Newman, J. 1998b. Recipients and `give' constructions. In William van Belle and Willy van Langendonck (eds.), Case and Thematic Relations Volume 2: Theoretical and DescriptiveStudies, 1-28. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Raman A. V, J. D. Patrick, and J. Newman. 1997. A complexity measure for diachronic Chinese phonology. In John Coleman (ed.), Computational Phonology, 1-9. Somerset, N.J.: Association for Computational Linguistics.

Newman, J. 1996. Footnotes to a history of Cantonese: accounting for the phonologicalirregularities. In Mark Durie and Malcolm Ross (eds.), The Comparative Method Reviewed: Regularity and Irregularity in Language Change, 90-111. New York: Oxford UniversityPress.

Newman, J. 1994. The history of Wenzhou [y]. In Matthew Chen and Ovid Tzeng (eds.), In Honor of William S-Y. Wang, 333-348. Taipeh: Pyramid Press.

Newman, J. 1993. The semantics of giving in Mandarin. In R. Geier and B. Rudzka-Ostyn(eds.), Conceptualizations and Mental Processing in Language, 433-485. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Newman, J. 1987. Metalinguistic discourse in the Singapore Primary classroom. In Bikram K. Das (ed.), Communication and Learning in the Classroom Community, 90-115. Anthology Series 19, Singapore:SEAMEO Regional Language Centre.

Newman, J. 1983. Hokkien-Mandarin phonological correspondences as potential transfer strategies. In Franz Eppert (ed.) Transfer and Translation in Learning and Teaching, 90-103. Singapore: Singapore University Press.

Journal Articles

Newman, J., J. Lin, T. Butler, and E. Zhang. 2007. The Wenzhou Spoken Corpus. Corpora 2.1: 97-109.

Dilts, P. and J. Newman. 2006. A note on quantifying "good" and "bad" prosodies. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2: 233-242.

Newman, J. 2005. Three-place predicates: A cognitive linguistic perspective. Language Science 27: 145-163.

Newman, J. and S. Rice. 2004. Patterns of usage for English sit, stand, and lie: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics 15: 351-396.

Newman, J. 2002. Good as gold: A corpus-based study of a Kiwi expression. New Zealand English Journal 16: 24-32.

Newman, J. and S. Rice. 2001. English SIT, STAND, and LIE in small and large corpora. ICAME Journal 25: 109-133.

Newman, J. 2001. A corpus-based study of the figure and ground in sitting, standing, and lying constructions. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 36: 203-216.

Newman, J. 2001. How to understand understand. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 2 CII: 185-199.

Newman, J. and C. J. White. 1999. A pilot study of language awareness at the New Zealand tertiary level. The New Zealand Language Teacher 25: 41-53.

Newman, J. 1997a. Eating and drinking as sources of metaphor in English. Cuadernos de Filología Inglesa (Special volume on Cognitive Linguistics) 6.2: 213-231.  

Newman, J. 1993. A cognitive grammar approach to Mandarin gei. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 21.2: 313-336.

Newman, J. and D. Britain. 1992. High rising terminals in New Zealand English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 22.1/2:2-11.

Newman, J. 1991. Investigating word-associations of a head-trauma patient. The New Zealand Speech-language Therapists' Journal XLVI: 2-15.

Newman, J. and R. Petterson. 1990. The tones of Kairi. Oceanic Linguistics 29.1: 49-76.

Newman, J. 1989. Some notes on phonological description, with special reference to Sarawak Malay. Sari: Journal of Malay Language, Literature and Culture 7: 73-86.

Newman, J. 1988. Singapore's Speak Mandarin Campaign. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 9.5: 437-48.

Newman, J. 1987a. The evolution of a Cantonese phonotactic constraint. Australian Journal of Linguistics 7.1: 43-72.

Newman, J. and Haji Hussain Jamil. 1987b. Bisaya Limbang: language and society. Sarawak Museum Journal Vol. XXXVII, No. 58 (New Series), 75-89.Also published as: Bisaya Limbang: Masyarakat dan Bahasanya. Dewan Bahasa 31.5: 374-88.  

Newman, J. 1986. Singapore's Speak Mandarin Campaign: The educational argument. Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science 14.2: 52-67.

Newman, J. 1985. Spurious flip-flops in Cantonese and Wenzhou. Computational Analysis of Asian and African Languages (CAAAL) 24: 169-80.

Matthew Y. Chen and J. Newman. 1984-5. From Middle Chinese to Modern Cantonese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 12.1: 148-94 (Part 1), 12.2: 334-88 (Part 2), 13.1: 122-70 (Part 3).

Newman, J. 1984. Nasal replacement in Western Austronesian: an overview. The Philippine Journal of Linguistics 15.2 (and 16.1): 1-17.

Newman, J. 1983. Cantonese vowel shift. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale XII.1: 65-79.

Newman, J. 1982. Predicate adjuncts. Australian Journal of Linguistics 2.2: 153-66.

Newman, J. 1981a. Perception predicates. Linguistic Notes from La Jolla, Working Papers of the Linguistics Department, UCSD, 8: 25-40.

Newman, J. 1981. Teaching phonetic alphabets. RELC Journal 12.2: 67-75.

Newman, J. 1978. Remarks on Why . . ./ Why not. . . constructions. Studies in English Linguistics 6: 24-31.

Newman, J. 1976a. Remarks on `modality and conversational information'. Theoretical Linguistics 3.3: 281-6.

Newman, J. 1976b. On deriving the `request' meaning of can sentences. Working Papers in Language and Linguistics 3: 1-10.Tasmanian College of Advanced Education.

Newman, J. 1974a. Levelling in the German verb paradigm. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia XV.1: 91-100.

Newman, J. 1974b. An account of English may based on a postulate of modal logic. Kivung 7.1: 47-54.

Newman, J. 1973. A proposed transformational rule. Linguistics 116: 115-22.

Reviews

Newman, J. 2003. Review of Auxiliation: An Enquiry into the Nature of Grammaticalization, by Tania Kuteva. Journal of Linguistics 39: 429-430.

Newman, J. 2000a. Review of A Grammarof Kayardild: With Historical-Comparative Notes on Tangkic, by Nicholas D. Evans. Linguistic Typology 4.1: 168-174.

Newman, J. 2000b. Review of Grammatical Relations: A Functionalist Perspective, ed. by T. Givón. Journal of Linguistics 36.1: 206-207.

Newman, J. 1998. Review of Syntax: Structure, Meaning and Function (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. and Randy LaPolla. Linguistic Typology 2:399-404.

Newman, J. 1997. Review of An Introduction to English Language: Sound, Word and Sentence, by Koenraad Kuiper and W. Scott Allan. English in Aotearoa 33: 66.

Newman, J. 1990. Review of Generative and Non-linear Phonology, by Jacques Durand. Australian Journal of Linguistics 10.1: 113-117.

Newman, J. 1988. Review of Natural Syntax, by John Haiman. Australian Journal of Linguistics 8.1: 124-127.

Newman, J. 1987. Review of Metrical Structure and Phonological Theory, by Heinz Giegerich. Australian Journal of Linguistics 7.2: 304-310.

Newman, J. 1986. Review of English Word Stress, by Erik Fudge. Applied Linguistics 7.1: 109-111.

Newman, J. 1985a. Review of National Advisory and Co-ordinating Committee on Multicultural Education Discussion Papers Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Australian Journal of Adult Education 25.3:36-7.

Newman, J. 1985b. Shorter Notice on Semantics: A Coursebook, by J. Hurford and B. Heasley. Australian Journal of Linguistics 5.1: 135-7. 

Newman, J. 1984a. Book Notice on Speaking Chinese in China, by Hsu Ying and J. Marvin Brown. RELC Journal 15.1: 118.

Newman, J. 1984b. Book Notice on Phonological Analysis: Focus on American English, by Walt Wolfram and Robert Johnson. RELC Journal 15.2: 111-2.  

Newman, J. 1982. Review of English as a Foreign Language, by R.A. Close. RELC Journal 13.1: 108-111.

Newman, J. 1980. Review of Language Files, ed. by S. Geoghegan et al. Innovations in Linguistics Education 1.II: 119-123.

Newman, J. 1977a. Review of Spatial and Temporal Uses of English Prepositions, by D. C. Bennett. AUMLA 47:120-122.

Newman, J. 1977b. Review of Linguistische Grundlagen Poetischer Texte, by U. Oomen. AUMLA 47:119-120.


Presentations

Newman, J. May 24 2008. Aiming low in linguistics: Low-level generalizations in corpus-based research. Keynote address to the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Newman, J. 19 May 2008. Spoken corpora: Why we need them and how we make them. Invited presentation to the 7th Annual Wenshan International Symposium on Spoken Corpora: Language Documentation and Applications, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Rice, S. & Newman, J. March 14 2008. Beyond the lemma: Inflection-specific constructions in English. Presentation to American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2008, Provo, Utah.

Teddiman, L. & J. Newman. October 3 2007. Subject Ellipsis in English: Construction of and Findings from a Diary Corpus. Presentation to 26th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar, Bonifacio, Corsica.

Dilts, P. and J. Newman. October 21 2006.  Quantifying "good" and "bad" prosodies. Poster presentation to Alberta Conference on Linguistics.

Borgwaldt, S. and J. Newman. November 4 2006. In search of possession: From concept to inflection. Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference. University of California at San Diego.

Newman, J. and S. Rice. November 5 2006. English adjectival inflection: A ‘radical' Radical Construction Grammar approach. Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference. University of California at San Diego.

Geeraert, K. and J. Newman. November 9 2006. Documentation and analysis of Dinka narratives: A community-oriented approach. Poster presentation to Visiting Committee, University of Alberta.

Lin, J. and J. Newman. March 18-20, 2006. The Wenzhou Spoken Corpus (WSC V1.0): Tools for a usage-based approach to Wenzhou lexis and syntax. The Fourth International Conference on Wu Linguistics. Ningbo, China.

Newman, J. November 21 2005. The Wenzhou Spoken Corpus at the University of Alberta. Presentation for TAPoR. University of Alberta.

Newman, J., J. Lin, and D. Aberra. October 3, 2005. XML-based corpus construction of Wenzhou and Amharic. Poster presentation for Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) 2005, University of Alberta,.

Rice, S. and J. Newman. October 22 2005.  Inflectional Islands. Presentation to the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL), Banff.
July 19 2005. Rice, S. and J. Newman. Inflectional Islands. 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

Newman, J. and S. Rice. July 18 2005. Event schemas in Multi-Verb Sequences: A Corpus-Based Approach. 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

Newman, J. January 24 2005. Using corpus-linguistic tools to investigate syntactic transitivity: EAT and DRINK in the British National Corpus. ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Forum on "Computing in the Arts", University of Alberta, January 24, 2005. (invited presentation)

Newman, J. March 4 2005. Conjoining verbs. Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of Alberta.

Newman, J. September 28, 2003. The quiet revolution: Reflections on Ron Langacker's Fall Quarter Lectures 1977. Plenary talk for Imagery in Language Conference, Lodz ,Poland.

Newman, J. July 24, 2003. How to sit down and stay down in English: Disentangling actionand state phases of the posture verbs. Presentation to the 8th InternationalCognitive Linguistics Conference, Logrono, Spain.

Newman, J. and S. Rice. July 22, 2003. Diathesis alternations and collocational schemas of English EATand DRINK in the BNC. Presentation to theme session Language Between Text andMind: The Use of Corpora in Linguistics at the 8th International CognitiveLinguistics Conference, Logrono, Spain.

Newman, J. and S. Rice. November 1, 2003. A corpus-based study of the transitivity of English EAT and DRINK. Presentation to the Linguistic Society of Alberta, Banff.

Rice, S. and J. Newman. October 2002. Aspectualization of prepositions in the British National corpus. Alberta Conference on Language, Banff.

Rice, S. and J. Newman. October 2002. Aspect in the making: A corpus analysis of English aspect marking prepositions. 2002 Conceptual Structure in Discourse and Language, Rice University, Houston.

November 2001. Creating multidimensionalextensions of the classroom using online resources. Vice-Chancellor's Symposium2001 on Online Learning: Meeting the Challenge. Massey University.

Newman, J. October 2001. Audio on the web. Presentation for Training Development Unit, Massey University.

Newman, J. September 2001. Posture verbs and split intransitivity.Linguistic Society of New Zealand Conference. University of Canterbury,Christchurch.

Newman, J. and S. Rice. July 2001. English SIT, STAND, and LIE: Patterns of usage and theirexperiential motivations. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, SantaBarbara, California.

Newman, J. July 2001. Posture verbs and split intransitivity. International CognitiveLinguistics Conference, Santa Barbara, California.

Newman, J. July 2000. Basic verbs: The linguistics of ordinary human experience. Plenary address, Australian Linguistics Institute, Melbourne.

Newman, J. July 2000. Three-place predicates: A cognitive linguistic perspective. Plenarypaper for Three-place Predicates Workshop, Australian Linguistics Institute,Melbourne.

Newman, J. April 2000. An experientially grounded typology of posture verbs. International Conference on Cognitive Typology. University of Antwerp, Antwerp.

Newman, J. August 1999. Motivating the uses of basic verbs: Linguistic and extralinguistic dimensions. Paper presented at the Workshop on Motivation of Grammar, Hamburg University.

Newman, J. April 1999. The linguistics of sitting, standing, and lying. Seminar, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington,Wellington.

Newman, J. and C. J. White. June 1998. Metalinguistic awareness amongst New Zealand university students: A pilot study. Language and Society Conference, Victoria University, Wellington. [Poster] 

Newman, J. November 1997. Eating and drinking as source domains for metaphor. Paper presented  at the 12th New Zealand Linguistic Conference, Otago University, Dunedin.

Newman, J. July 1997. Eating and drinking words: verbs of eating and drinking as a source of metaphors. Poster presentation for the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 

Raman A. V, J. D. Patrick, and J. Newman.J. July 1997. A complexity measure for diachronic Chinese phonology. Association for Computational Linguistics, Madrid, Spain.

Newman, J. July 1995. The history of the German es gibt construction. Paper presented at the 4th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Newman, J. May 1995. T-Dropping in Taishan (Chinese). Paper presented at the 11th New Zealand Linguistic Conference, Victoria University, Wellington.

Newman, J. August 1993. Semantic extensions of `give' verbs. Paper presented at the Tenth New Zealand Linguistics Conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Newman, J. July 1993. Figurative giving. Paper presented to the 3rd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Newman, J. August 1991. Verbs of giving. Paper presented to the 9th New Zealand Linguistics Conference, Canterbury University.

Newman, J. July 1991. The experiential and cognitive basis of GIVE constructions. Paper presented to the 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of California at Santa Cruz.

Newman, J. September 1989. Rhetoric and action: Singapore's approach to language policy. Paper presented to the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia conference, Monash University.

Newman, J. September 1989. A Cognitive Grammar approach to Mandarin gei. Paper presented to the Linguistics Society of Australia, Monash University.

Newman, J. May 1989. Macintosh and linguists. Workshop given at the New Zealand Linguistics Society Meeting, Auckland University.

Newman, J. May 1989. The Semantics of Mandarin gei. Paper presented to the New Zealand Linguistics Society Meeting, Auckland University.

Newman, J. March 1989. The Semantics of giving in Mandarin. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Cognitive Linguistics, Duisburg, West Germany.

Newman, J. August 1987. Investigating the language of head-trauma patients. Paper presented to the New Zealand Linguistics Society Meeting, Otago University.

May 1987. Singapore's Speak Mandarin Campaign. Paper presented to the Seventh Annual Conference of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society, Auckland University.