education

A.B. summa cum laude, Linguistics and Arabic, Harvard, 1971.

M.A. 1973; Ph.D. "with distinction" 1976, Univ. of Chicago

employment (excluding visiting appointments)

1989--	Professor of Linguistics, Univ. of Michigan (dry-line appt. as Prof. of Near Eastern Studies 1999—)
1987	Visiting Associate Professor of Linguistics (fall semester), Univ. of Michigan
1982‑85	Associate Professor of Linguistics, Harvard
1977‑82	Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Harvard
1973‑77	Research Fellow [fieldwork], Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies

professional associations

Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe, 1993-- (charter member)

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 1990--

North American Society for the History of the Language Sciences, 1993-- (life member)

Linguistic Society of America, 1971-- (life member)

American Anthropological Association, 1970-- (life member)

Australian Linguistic Society, 1981--.

administration

2007-08	graduate committee
2005-6	undergraduate committee
2001-02, 2003-4	Chair, dept. admissions committee
2001-02	drafting of departmental Constitution (with W. Baxter)
1997-2000	development of joint Ph.D. programs for Linguistics
1993-95	graduate preliminary exams committee
1993-96	graduate advising committee
1992-93	Member, Research Partnership Committee
1991-92	Acting Director, Linguistics Program
1991-92	Interviewer, Fulbright student fellowships
	graduate admissions
1989-94	Associate Director of Linguistics Program
1989‑90	Chair, Linguistics Program curriculum committee
1989-91	Member, Dissertation Grants Committee (Rackham)
1989‑93	Member, Linguistics Steering Committee

outside service

1999-00	board member, Southeast Regional Chapter of Fulbright Association
1998--	editorial board: Anthropological Linguistics
2005--	editorial board: Journal of Language and Contact

Home Page peer reviewer (NSF, NEH, Bunting Institute, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Israel National Science Foundation)

referee for journals (Language, International Journal of American Linguistics, Current Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory)

reviewer for publishers (Harvard U. Press, ISHI, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Reidel, Oxford University Press, John Benjamins)

1993 external consultant, professorial promotion, Univ. of Cambridge (England)

1992 external consultant, professorial promotion, La Trobe Univ. (Australia)

1991 external reader, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sydney

1990 external reader, Ph.D. dissertation, Australian National University

1990 external consultant, Professorship of Linguistics, SUNY‑Buffalo

1989 external consultant, professorial promotion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1989 external reader, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sydney

1986 Consultant, Linguistic Society of America panel on undergraduate education