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Professor Stanley Dubinsky

Education: PhD in Linguistics

Affiliation: University of South Carolina, USA

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Linguistics Program

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

USA

Phone: +1-803-777-2208

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Email: dubinsky@sc.edu

Web: http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/


Vita

Stanley Dubinsky (PhD, Cornell University, 1985) is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature. He received a BA in Spanish & Latin American Literature and in Asian Studies from The Hebrew University (Jerusalem). His graduate degrees, an MA in East Asian (Chinese) Literature and a PhD in Linguistics, are both from Cornell University. He joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina (USC) in 1991. His primary area of research is syntactic theory and the syntax-semantics interface. He has produced three books, four edited volumes, and several dozen articles and book chapters on a variety of topics – largely on the syntax and semantics of various languages, including English, Japanese, Korean, Bulgarian, Hebrew, and two Bantu languages (Chichewa and Lingala). A 2004 Blackwell book, The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation, was co-authored with William D. Davies, and was followed in 2007 by an edited collection with Springer, New Horizons in the Analysis of Control and Raising. His two most recent co-authored books are Understanding Language through Humor (2011, Cambridge University Press), and Language Conflict and Language Rights: Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on Human Conflict (2018, Cambridge University Press).

He is currently engaged in two digital projects. One with Michael Gavin and Harvey Starr is called the Language Conflict Project [https://www.languageconflict.org/] and seeks to analyze through measures of Linguistic Distance and a Language Freedom Index, the role of language in intrastate ethnolinguistic political conflict. The other is called the WordificationTM Project [https://wordification.scholastechnology.com/] and is developing an online instructional spelling application which is designed to improve English spelling ability and advance literacy, with a particular focus on students who are speakers of English dialects or are non-native speakers of English. A complete CV is available HERE.

Selected Publications

Davies, W. D., & Dubinsky, S. (2018). Language conflict and language rights: Ethnolinguistic perspectives on human conflict. Cambridge University Press.
Dubinsky, S., & Sim, R. (2021). Concealed passives and the syntax and semantics of need/philyo in English and Korean. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 6(1),1-8. [Washington DC: LSA]
Dubinsky, S., & Starr, H. (2022). Weaponizing language: Linguistic vectors of ethnic oppression. Special issue: Cruelty and Global Politics. Global Studies Quarterly, 2(2), ksab051.
Dubinsky, S., & Tasseva-Kurktchieva, M. (2018). On the NP/DP frontier: Bulgarian as a transitional case. In S. L. Franks, V. Chidambaram, B. D. Joseph & I. Krapova (Eds.), Katerino mome: Studies in Bulgarian morphosyntax in honor of Catherine Rudin (pp. 287-311). Slavica Publishers.
Murphy, A., & Dubinsky, S. (2023). Classical Greek object cases: A corpus-driven analysis of their distribution. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 23(1), 97-126.
Park, K., & Dubinsky, S. (2021). [+Agent] conditioned Case assignment to nominalized VPs in Korean LFN constructions. Linguistic Research, 38(1), 1-26. Seoul: ISLI, Kyung Hee University.
Rubina, A., & Dubinsky, S. (2022). Morpho-syntactic, contextual, and lexical determinants of non-referentiality in Russian. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 30(1), 109-144.

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