October 2006

Richard W. Bailey

1609 Cambridge Road

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

Voice: 734-663-6901

e-mail: rwbailey@umich.edu

Appointments at The University of Michigan:

Assistant Professor of English: 1965 to 1971

Associate Professor of English: 1971 to 1976

Professor of English: 1976-

Fred Newton Scott Collegiate Professor of English: 2002-

Education:

Degrees	University	Dates
Ph.D.	The University of Connecticut	1965
M.A.	The University of Connecticut	1963
	Summer Linguistic Institute [Indiana University] Summer	1964
A.B.	Dartmouth College	1957-59, 1960-61
	The University of Edinburgh	1959-60

Academic Experience:

Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Connecticut (1961-62)

Lecturer in English, Willimantic State College (Winter 1964)

Visiting Lecturer in Linguistics, SUNY/Buffalo (Summer 1969)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, The University of California at Berkeley (Spring 1970)

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh (1971)

Participant, Stage intensivo d'iniziazione alla semiotica, Universita di Urbino (July 1971)

Visiting Professor of English, The University of British Columbia (Summer 1978)

Committee and Administrative Service:

a. Department

Member, Teacher Preparation and Professional Relations Committee, (1966-77)

Member, Graduate Examinations Committee, English language (1969-78).

Secretary, Graduate Administrative and Curriculum Committee (1969-70).

Director, Doctor of Arts in English Program (January 1972 - August 1973, 1983- 92)

Chair, Graduate Administrative and Curriculum Committee (September 1973 - January 1978)

Member, Executive Committee (Ex officio 1973-74; elected 1974-76, 1976-77, 1981-83, 1983-85; 2004, 2006)

Member, Graduate Administrative and Curriculum Committee (1980-82)

Member, Committee on Scholarly Activities (1988-91)

Chair, Awards Committee (1992-93 )

Member, First and Second Year Studies Committee (1997-98)

b. College:

LS&A

Member, English Department Review Committee (1972, 1977)

Member, Interdepartmental Advisory Committee for Linguistics (1969-71)

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Linguistics (1970-71)

Member, Linguistic Institute Planning Committee (1972-73)

Member, Applied Linguistics Review Committee (1985-86)

Chair, English Composition Board Advisory Committee (1988-91)

Member, Library Committee (1991-93)

Member, Faculty Grievance Board (2003-2004)

Rackham:

Member, Rackham Divisional Board (1973-76)

Member, Nominating Committee for Division IV, Rackham Executive and Administrative Boards (1975, 1986)

Member, Selection Committee for Rackham Dissertation Grants (1988-90)

Member, English and Education Executive Committee (1992- )

Member, Rackham Appeals Panel (1996-2000 )

c. University:

Member and Sub-committee Chairman, Rackham Review Committee (1974-75)

Member, Advisory Committee on Recreation, Intramural, and Club Sports (1974-76; 1976-78); Vice-Chair (1977-78)

Member, University Committee on Dictionaries (1968-74)

Member, Humanities Advisory Committee, Office of the Vice-President for Research (1976-79)

Member, Community College Advisory Committee (1977-80)

Member, Middle English Dictionary Council (1978- 2001)

Member, University of Michigan Press Board (1978-81)

Member, University Library Council (1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 2004-2006)

Member, Senate Assembly (1981-84, 1984-86)

Member, Budget Priorities Committee (1981-84, 1984-87, 1990-91; Chair, 1984-85, 1986-87)

Member, Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (1983-86)

Member, Financial Affairs Advisory Committee (1992-94 ; Chair, 1993- 94)

Member, Residency Appeals Committee (1995-98)

Member, Search Committee for U-M Chief Financial Officer (1996-97)

Chair, Committee to Investigate an Accusation of Research Misconduct (2003)

Professional Activities:

The Modern Language Association of America

a. Associate Bibliographer to the General Linguistics Section, MLA International Bibliography (1970-76)

b. Old English Computer Advisory Group (1971-73)

c. Chair, Computer Research Seminar (1972; 1979)

d. Member and Chair, Committee on Lexicography (1973-76; 1976-79)

e. Chairman, Workshop associated with the Forum, "New Ways of Analyzing Literature," 1973 Annual Meeting

f. Ad hoc Committee for a National Clearinghouse of Texts in Computer-readable Form (1973)

g. Secretary (1975) and Chair (1976), English 13: Present-Day English

American Dialect Society

Chairman, Midwest Region (1972-73)

Member at Large, Executive Council (1980-84, 1989-92)

Vice-President (1985-87), President (1987-89)

Dictionary Society of North America, President (2001-2003).

Midwest Modern Language Association

a. Secretary, Computer Research Section (1970)

b. Chairman, Computer Research Section (1971)

c. Advisory Committee, Computer Research Section (1972-74)

d. Executive Committee (1977-80)

e. Secretary, Linguistics I (1979)

f. Chairman, Linguistics I (1980)

The National Council of Teachers of English Member, Commission on the English Language (1983-86)

The Linguistic Society of America

Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Corresponding Editor, Eastern USA (1976-85)

Association for Computers and the Humanities Executive Committee (1978-80, 1984-86, 1986-88); Vice-President (1980-83)

Michigan College English Association

Member, Committee on Articulation between the Two- and Four-Year Colleges and Universities (1971-73)

The Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters

The Michigan Linguistic Society

a. Member, Executive Board (1973-76)

b. Program Chairman (1974-75)

c. President (1975-76)

American Association of University Professors

Association of Community College Trustees

National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Grants Panelist (1975, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1996)

Member, Editorial Board, Computer Studies in the Humanities and Verbal Behavior (1972-76)

Bibliographer (1967-76), and Consulting Editor (1976- ), Style

Editor, Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, (1978-90)

Member, Senior Panel on the Humanities, United Negro College Fund (1981-88)

Member, Editorial Board, Empirical Studies of the Arts

Member, Editorial Board, American Speech (1985-88, 1997-2000)

Advisory Editor, English World-Wide (1984-85); Co-Editor (1985-87)

Delegate, American Council of Learned Societies (1996-99; 1999-2003 )

Recognition and Honors:

Rackham Faculty Fellowships (1967, 1975)

ACLS Grant for Computer-Oriented Research in the Humanities (1968)

Research Fellowship, Office of Research Administration, The University of Michigan (1970)

ACLS Grant-in-Aid (1971)

Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh (1971)

Project Director, The Early Modern English Dictionary Project, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities: 1971-72 ($60,000), 1973 March 1975 ($159,603), April-December 1975 ($69,000)

Co-Project Director, International Conference on the Semiotics of Art, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1978 ($29,000)

Co-Project Director, Program to Improve Student Writing, the Ford Foundation, 1978-80 ($99,000).

Project Director, Colloquium on English Lexicography, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985 ($9,789).

Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, U-M, 1989.

Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991-1992 ($30,000).

Regents' Award for Distinguished Public Service, 1992.

Michigan Humanities Fellowship, 1997.

U-M Press Book Award, 1993, 1998.

D’Arms Award for Graduate Mentoring, 2001

Appointed as an Honorary Faculty Member, Washtenaw Community College, 2002.

Publications

Books:

A London Provisioner’s Chronicle, 1550-1563, by Henry Machyn: Manuscript, Transcription and Modernization. (with Marilyn Miller and Colette Moore). Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press and theScholarly Publication Office, the University of Michigan Library, 2006. An electronic edition: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/machyn/

Rogue Scholar: The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003.

Editor, Milestones in the History of English in America: Papers by Allen Walker Read. Duke University Press, 2002.

Nineteenth-Century English. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Associate Editor, The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Editor, Dictionaries of English: Prospects for the Record of Our Language. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1987.

Editor, Literacy for Life: The Demand for Reading and Writing (with Robin Melanie Fosheim). New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1983.

Editor, English as a World Language (with Manfred Görlach). Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1982. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983

Editor, Computing in the Humanities. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1982.

Editor, Tagmemics, Discourse, and Verbal Art by Kenneth L. Pike. Ann Arbor: Michigan Studies in the Humanities, 1981.

Editor, The Sign: Semiotics around the World (with Ladislav Matejka and Peter Steiner). Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1978.

Early Modern English: Additions and Antedatings to the Record of English Vocabulary, 1475-1700. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1978.

Editor, The Flounders: Fifty Years by Clark Hopkins (1895-1976). Ann Arbor: privately printed, 1976. .

Michigan Early Modern English Materials (with J. W. Downer, J. L. Robinson, and Patricia V. Lehman). Ann Arbor: Xerox University Microfilms and the University of Michigan Press, 1975.

Editor, Varieties of Present-Day English (with J. L. Robinson). New York: The Macmillan Company, 1973.

Computer Poems. Drummond Island, Michigan: Potagannissing

Press, 1973,.

Editor, The Computer and Literary Studies (with A. J. Aitken and N. Hamilton-Smith). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973.

Editor, Statistics and Style (with L. Dolezel). New York: American Elsevier, 1969.

An Annotated Bibliography of Statistical Stylistics (with L. Dolezel). Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Contributions, 1968.

English Stylistics: A Bibliography (with D. M. Burton). Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1968.

Dissertation:

The Public and Private Styles of the Earl of Chesterfield (1965). Dissertation Abstracts 28 (1967): 209A

Articles:

“English among the Languages,” in The Oxford History of English, ed. Lynda Mugglestone, 334-59. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006,

“Standardizing the Heartland,” in Language Variation and Change in the American Midland, eds. Thomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon, 165-17. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006.

“Beginning the Drummond Island Library,” Drummond Island Digest 16.10 (October 2005): 25-26.

“Memoirs of the Dictionary Society of North America,” Dictionaries 25 (2004): 160-63.

“Phat Slang,” LSA Magazine (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, U-M) (Spring 2005): 36.

“Making All Things New,” Trustee Quarterly (Association of Community College Trustees), (Summer 2004), 22-23.

“American English: Its Origins and History,” in Language in the USA Themes for the Twenty-first Century, eds. Edward Finegan and John R. Rickford, 3017, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

“One Death Too Many,” The Record (Episcopal Diocese of Michigan), 15.5 (May 2004): 10.

“The Need for Good Texts: The Case of Henry Machyn, 1550-1563,” in Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations, ed. Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons, 217-28. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.

“Ideologies, Attitudes, and Perceptions,” in Needed Research in American Dialects, ed. Dennis Preston, 123-50. Publication of the American Dialect Society, 88. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003

“The Foundation of English in the Louisiana Purchase: New Orleans, 1800-1850,” American Speech 78(2003): 363-84.

.“A Life in Lexicography: Allen Walker Read,” Dictionaries 24 (2003): 179-86.

“Globalization and Poetry,” Newsletter of the Department of English, The University of Michigan (May 2003), 2.

“The Ideology of English in the Long Eighteenth Century,” in Insights into Late Modern English, eds. Marina Dossena and Charles Jones, 21.44. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002.

“Teaching Sound Change,” Journal of English Linguistics 30 (2002): 310-17.

“A Thousand Years of the History of English,” in Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millenial Perspective, ed. Donka Minkova and Robe rt Stockwell, 449-71 (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002).

“Foreword” to Still More Englishes by Manfred Görlach (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002), xi-xii.

“English in a Multilingual World,” The English Academy Review (South Africa) 17 (2000 [2002]): 12-24.

“The Last Straw,” English Today 17 (2001):62.

“American English Abroad,” in The Cambridge History of the English Language: English in North America, ed. John Algeo, 456-96 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

“Language at the Edges,” American Speech 75 (2000): 385-86.

“Sri Lanka in the English Language” and “The Revenge of the Clerks,” in Fact and Fable Aspects of East-West Interaction, ed. Rajiva Wijesinha (Subaragamuwa, Sri Lanka: Subaragamuwa University Press, 2000), 70-93.

“’This Unique and Peerless Specimen’: The Reputation of the OED,” in Lexicography and the OED, ed. Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 207-27.

“The OED and the Public,” Lexicography and the OED, 253-84.

“The Past Has Become Another Country,” in ‘Gladly Wolde She Lerne and Gladly Teche’: Felicitation Volume for Professor Yasmine Gooneratne AO, D.Litt, ed. Devika Brendon (London: Argus Publications, 1999), 10-16.

“Majority Language, Minority Misery: The Case of Sri Lanka,” in Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights, ed. Douglas A. Kibbee (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998), 206-24.

“The Diary of Henry Machyn: An Electronic Text” (with Anne Curzan), in Tracing the Trail of Time: Proceedings from the Second Diachronic Corpora Workshop (1995), ed. Raymond Hickey et al., 25-31. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997).

“The English Language in Japan,” in Englishes Around the World: Studies in Honour of Manfred Görlach, ed. Edgar W. Schneider (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997), 2.177-87.

“Philological Eccentrics,” Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 29.1 (1997): 5-10.

“Centennial Celebration of The Century Dictionary: Origins,” Dictionaries 17 (1996): 1-16.

“Hans Kurath,” in Lexicon Grammaticorum, ed. Harro Stammerjohann (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1996), 539.

“Celebrating Slang,” Dictionaries 17 (1996): 265-67.

“Attitudes toward English: The Future of English in South Asia,” in South Asian English: Structure, Use, and Users, ed. Robert J. Baumgardner (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 40-52

“Allen Walker Read: American Scholar," Notes on Etymology 24.5 (February 1995): 1-10. Reprinted in Forum Anglicum 22 (1997): 169-79.

“Old Dictionaries, New Knowledge,” in Early Dictionary Databases, ed. Ian Lancashire and T. Rosson Woodridge (Toronto: Center for Computing in the Humanities, 1994), 17-30. Reprinted in Informatique et dictionnaires anciens (Paris: Didier Érudition, 1995), 17-30.

“Charles Carpenter Fries (1887-1967), in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. R. E. Asher and J. M. Y. Simpson (Oxford: Pergamon Press, Oxford), vol. 3, pp. 1307-08.

"Whose Usage? Fred Newton Scott and the Standard of Speech," in Centennial Usage Studies, ed. Greta D. Little and Michael Montgomery (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 1-9.

"Studying the English of Rituals," in Language Variation in North American English: Research and Teaching, ed. A. Wayne Glowka and Donald M. Lance (New York: The Modern Language Association, 1993), 77-81.

"Literally," Verbatim 20 (Autumn 1993): 3-4.

"Word Watchers: Fitzedward Hall," Verbatim 20 (Winter 1993): 21-22.

"Dr. Murray Sees a UFO," Dictionaries 13 (1991 [1992]): 178-79.

"Hans Kurath," Language 68 (1992): 797-808

"Scots and Scotticisms: Language and Ideology," Studies in Scottish Literature 26 (1991 [1992]): 65-77.

"The First North American Dialect Survey," in Old English and New: Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honor of Frederic G. Cassidy, ed. Joan H. Hall, Nick Doane, and Dick Ringler (New York: Garland, 1992), 305-26.

"Dialects of Canadian English," English Today 27 (1991): 20-25.

"The Period Dictionary: English," in Wörterbücher /Dictionaries/Dictionnaires, ed. Franz Josef Hausmann et al. (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1990), 2: 1436-57.

"The Politics of the English Language: Issues to Consider in the Chinese Context," in ELT in China: Papers Presented at the International Symposium on Teaching English in the Chinese Context (ISTEC), Guangzhou, China, 1985, (Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press [1990]), 11-28.

"English at Its Twilight," in The State of the Language, ed. Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 83-94.

"Evolution and Change in Graduate Education: The Doctor of Arts in English at the University of Michigan," in The Doctor of Arts Degree: Re-Assessing Teaching and Research Priorities, ed. Anne Paolucci (Whitestone, NY:

Council on National Literatures, 1989), 57-75.

"Writing into a Community" (with Barbara Couture), in Disciplinary Perspectives on Thinking and Writing, ed. Barbra S. Morris (Ann Arbor: English Composition Board, 1989), 80-100.

"The Hegemony of Information," in Language Topics: Essays in Honour of Michael Halliday, ed. Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987), 2,: 385-400.

"Yes, But WHICH Dictionary?: North America," English Today 10 (1987): 14-17.

"Teaching in the Vernacular: Scotland, Schools, and Linguistic Diversity," in The Nuttis Schell: Essays on the Scots Language, ed. Caroline Macafee and Iseabail Macleod (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), 131-42.

"On Some Discontiguities in Our English Dictionaries," in Dictionaries of English: Prospects for the Record of Our Language, ed. Richard W. Bailey (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1987), 136-61.

"Preface," in Functional Approaches to Writing: Research Perspectives, ed. Barbara Couture (London: Frances Pinter, 1986), ix-xi.

"Dictionaries of the Next Century," in Lexicography as an Emerging International Profession, ed. Robert Ilson (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986), 123-137.

"Charles C. Fries: The Life of a Linguist," in Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles C. Fries in Perspective, ed. Peter Howard Fries and Nancy M. Fries (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1985), 1- 15.

"Charles C. Fries and the Early Modern English Dictionary," in Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles C. Fries in Perspective, ed. Peter Howard Fries and Nancy M. Fries (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1985), 171-204.

"Negotiation and Meaning: Revisiting the Context of Situation," in Systemic Perspectives on Discourse, ed. William R. Greaves and James D. Benson (Norwood, N. J.: Ablex, 1985), 2: 1-17.

"The Idea of World English," English Today 1 (1985): 3-6.

"The Conquests of English," in The English Language Today, ed. Sidney Greenbaum (Oxford: Pergamon Institute of English, 1985), 9-19.

"Donald Belshaw Sands" [obituary notice]. Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 16.3 (September 1984): 23-24.

"If the Truth Be Told," in Test Your Word Power, ed. Jerome Agel (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 78-79.

"Angus Fraser Cameron" [obituary notice]. ALLC Bulletin [Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing] 12 (1984): 61.

"George Orwell and the English Language," in The Future of Nineteen Eighty-Four, ed. Ejner J. Jensen (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1984), 23-46.

"Literacy in English: An International Perspective," in Literacy for Life: The Demand for Reading and Writing, ed. Richard W. Bailey and Robin Melanie Fosheim (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1983), 30-44.

"Having Your Words Cut Out for You: An Introduction to Idioms and Phrases," in Idioms and Phrases Index, ed. Laurence Urdang and Frank R. Abate (Detroit: Gale Research, 1983), l: vii-x.

"Writing Across the Curriculum: The British Approach," in fforum: Essays on Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing, ed. Patricia L. Stock (Upper Montclair, N. J.: Boynton-Cook, 1983), 24-32.

"Computing in the Humanities," in Computing in the Humanities, ed. Richard W. Bailey (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1982), 1-6.

"The State of Things" [On multilingualism in the United States], Michigan Academician, 14 (1982): 333-35; reprinted as "Our National Language(s)," CLAC: Conference on Language Attitudes and Composition, no. 9 (1983): 15-16.

"The English Language in Canada," in English as a World Language, ed. Richard W. Bailey and Manfred Görlach (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1982), 134-76.

"Literacy: The Present and the Future," LSA Journal (The University of Michigan), 5.2 (1982): 10-13.

"Robert Laverne Parslow" [obituary notice]. Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 14.1 (1982): 7.

"Tagmemics and the Universe of Discourse," in Tagmemics, Discourse, and Verbal Art, by Kenneth L. Pike (Ann Arbor: Michigan Studies in the Humanities, 1981), vii-xvi.

"Litigation and Literacy: The Black English Case," fforum: Newsletter of the English Composition Board 3.1 (Fall 1981): 29-30; reprinted in fforum: Essays on Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing, ed. Patricia

L. Stock (Upper Montclair, N. J.: Boynton-Cook, 1983), 128-32.

"Haliburton's Eye and Ear," Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 26 (1981): 90-101.

"Press Coverage of the King Case," in English and the Education of Black Children and Youth, ed. Geneva Smitherman (Detroit: Wayne State University, 1981), 359-89.

"Education and the Law: The King Case in Ann Arbor," in English and the Education of Black Children and Youth, ed. Geneva Smitherman (Detroit: Wayne State University, 1981), 94-129; reprinted in Black English: Educational Equity and the Law, ed. John W. Chambers, Jr. (Ann Arbor: Karoma Press, 1983), 1-28.

"Writing Across the Curriculum: The British Approach." fforum: Newsletter of the English Composition Board, 2.2 (Winter 1981): 80, 92-93.

"Progress toward a Dictionary of Early Modern English, 1475-1700," in Proceedings of the Second International Round-Table Conference on Historical Lexicography, ed. W. Pijnenburg and F. de Tollenaere (Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1980), 199-226.

"Our Readers Write: Black English and the Ann Arbor Public Schools." English Journal, 69.6 (1980): 74.

"The Department of English Language and Literature," in The University of Michigan: An Encyclopedic Survey, 1940-1975, ed. Ferol Brinkman (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, 1980), vol. 6, pp. 158-52..

"Determining Authorship in Ancient Greek," Proceedings of the International Conference on Literary and Linguistic Computing, ed. Zvi Malachi (Tel-Aviv: The Katz Research Institute, 1980), 279-90.

"Measuring Student Writing Ability" (with Richard T. Brengle and Edward L. Smith Jr.), in Reinventing the Rhetorical Tradition, eds. Aviva Freedman and Ian Pringle (Ottawa: Canadian Council of Teachers of English, 1980), 137-44.

"The Law Lends an Ear to Black English," Newsletter of the American Dialect Society, 12.1 (1980): 15.

"Hawks and Handsaws," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 72.2 (October 1979): 26.

"The Future of Computational Stylistics," Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Bulletin 7.1 (1979): 4-11; reprinted in Literary Computing and Literary Criticism, ed. Rosanne G. Potter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), 3-12.

"Authorship Attribution in a Forensic Setting," in Advances in Computer-Aided Linguistic Research, eds. D. E. Ager, F. E. Knowles, and J. M. Smith (Birmingham: University of Aston, 1979), 1-20.

"What To Do Till the Doctor Comes: Selecting a College President," Trustee Quarterly 3.1 (1978-79): 1-3.

"William Dwight Whitney and the Origins of Semiotics," in The Sign: Semiotics around the World, eds. R. W. Bailey, L. Matejka, and P. Steiner (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1978), 68-79.

"The American What Society?" Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 10.1 (1978): 11.

"Saying It is One Thing: Robbins Burling and the English Department," ADE Bulletin (Association of Departments of English) No. 56 (1978): 23-25.

"The Second Congress on Historical Lexicography," DSNA Newsletter [Dictionary Society of North America] 1.2 (1977): 3.

"Authorship, Patricia Hearst, and the Courts," LSA Journal (The University of Michigan) 1.4 (1977): 8-9.

"Academic Responsibility to the Public," Trustee Quarterly (Association of Community College Trustees) 1.4 (1977): 1-2.

"Maxwell's Demon and the Muse," Dispositio 1 (1976): 293-301.

"Annual Bibliography for 1973," Style 10 (1976): 117-75.

"Literary Semiotics in North America" (with Seymour Chatman), Versus: Quaderni di studi semiotica 8/9 (1974): 227-44.

"Computer-Assisted Lexicography: A Preliminary Bibliography," American Journal of Computational Linguistics 1 (1974): 9-15.

"Annual Bibliography for 1972" (with others), Style 8 (1974): 155-207.

"Computer-Assisted Poetry: The Writing Machine is for Everybody," Computers in the Humanities, ed. J. Lawrence Mitchell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1974), 283-95.

"MEMEM: A New Approach to Lexicography" (with J. L. Robinson), Source 4 (1974): 2-6.

"Stylistics Today," Foundations of Language 11 (1974): 115-39.

"Research Dictionaries," American Speech 44 (1969 [1973]): 166-72.

"Reflections on Technology in Lexicography," in Lexicography in English, eds. Raven I. McDavid, Jr., and Audrey Duckert (New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 211, 1973), 293-97.

"Write Off versus Write On: Dialects and the Teaching of Composition," in Varieties of Present-Day English, eds. R. W. Bailey and J. L. Robinson (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 384-408.

"The Computer in Lexicography" (with J. L. Robinson), in Lexicography and Linguistic Geography: Festgabe fur Hans Kurath, eds. Harald Scholler and John Reidy (Weisbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1973), 37-45.

"Annual Bibliography for 1971" (with others), Style 7 (1973): 74-118.

"Computer-Produced Microfilm in Lexicography: Toward a Dictionary of Early Modern English" (with J. L. Robinson), in The Computer and Literary Studies, eds. A. J. Aitken, R. W. Bailey, and N. Hamilton-Smith (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973), 3-14.

"Annual Bibliography for 1970" (with others), Style 6 (1972): 90-121.

"New OED" (with J. W. Downer and J. L. Robinson) [Letter], TLS (November 11, 1972); 1368.

"Toward the Integrity of Stylistics: Symbiosis vs. Parasitism," Current Trends in Stylistics, eds. Braj B. Kachru and Herbert F. W. Stahlke (Edmonton and Champaign: Language Research Foundation, 1972), 97-101.

"Statistics and the Sounds of Poetry," Poetics 1 (1971): 16-37.

"Annual Bibliography for 1969" (with others), Style 4 (1970): 252-94.

"Automating Poetry," Computers and Automation 19.4 (1970): 10-13.

"Computers and Dictionaries" (with J. L. Robinson), in Computers and Old English Concordances, eds. Angus Cameron, Roberta Frank, and John Leyerle (Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1970), 94-102.

"Annual Bibliography for 1968" (with others), Style 3 (1969): 261-302.

"Statistics and Style: A Historical Survey," in Statistics and Style, eds. L. Dolezel and R. W. Bailey (New York: American Elsevier, 1969), pp. 217-36.

"T. E. Lawrence: A Man for All Seasons," Michigan Quarterly Review 8 (1969): 208-11.

"The University of Michigan Early Modern English Dictionary Project" (with J. L. Robinson), Shakespeare Research and Opportunities 4 (1968/69): 120-21.

"Annual Bibliography for 1967" (with others), Style 3 (1968): 245-65.

"Language to Literature: A Rejoinder," Style 1 (1967): 221-24.

"Current Trends in the Analysis of Style," Style 1 (1967): 1-14.

Reviews:

Of Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the Dictionary of English, ed. Allen Reddick, Dictionaries 26 (2005): 207-10.

Of An Adventure of Great Dimensions: The Launching of the Chicago Asyrian Dictionary, by Erica Reiner, Dictionaries 26 (1005): 211-13.

Of Francis A. March: Selected Writings of the First Professor of English, eds. Paul Schlueter and Jan Schlueter, Journal of English Linguistics 34 (2006): 153-65.

Of Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary by Lynda Mugglestone, Journal of British Studies 45 (2006): 205-207.

Of Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol (2^nd ed.) by Lynda Mugglestone, Language 81 (2005): 269-71.

Of The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary” by Simon Winchester, Dictionaries 25 (2004): 169-74.

Of The Correspondence of John Stephen Farmer and W. E. Henley on Their Slang Dictionary, 1890-1904 ed by Damian Atkinson, Dictionaries 25 (2004): 175-79.

Of Slayer Slang: A “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Lexicon by Michael Adams, American Speech 79 (2004):92-97.

Of Variation Past and Present: Studies on English for Terttu Navalainen, ed. Helena Raumolin-Brunbert, et al., Language and Society 31 (2004): 130-33.

Of A Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach, Dictionaries 24 (2003): 253-59.

Of the Dictionary of American Regional English ed. by Joan Houston Hall, vol. 4, Journal of English Linguistics 31 (2003): 358-62.

Of Writing Machines by N. Katherine Hayles and Anne Burdick, Computing Reviews 43 (April 2003).

Of The Cambridge History of the English Language, 1476-1776, ed. by Roger Lass, Language 78 (2002): 565-69.

Of Language and the Internet by David Crystal, Computing Reviews 42 (April 2002): 125.

Of The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800, ed. by Laura Wright, Language in Society 31 (2002): 456-60.

Of The Warden of English: The Life of H. W. Fowler by Jenny McMorris Verbatim 26.4 (2001): 27-29.

Of The World in So Many Words by Allan Metcalf, Dictionaries 22 (2001): 220-22.

Of The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783 by Mary Jane Corry et al., American Speech 76 (2001): 100-103.

Of The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910 by David Matthews. Victorian Studies 43.2 (2001): 363-65.

Of The Cambridge History of the English Language, vol. 4. Journal of Linguistics 36 (2000): 612-19.

Of A Cultural History of the English Language by Gerry Knowles. Language in Society 29 (2000): 131-33.

Of Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England, by Jane Kamensky. American Speech 74 (1999): 429-33.

Of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner. Dictionaries 20 (1999): 151-55.

Of Language and Society in Early Modern England by Vivian Salmon. Language 74 (1998): 433-34.

Of The Madman and the Professor by Simon Winchester. Verbatim 23.4 (1998): 14-16.

Of English Language Scholarship by Helmut Gneuss. American Speech 72 (1997 [1998]): 433-36.

Of The Cambridge History of the English Language: English in Britain and Overseas, ed. R. W. Burchfield, Journal of English Linguistics 26 (1998): 68-71.

Of The Story of Webster’s Third: Philip Gove’s Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics by Herbert Morton, Language 71 (1995): 604-607.

Of The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755 by De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes, Dictionaries 13 (1991 [1992]): 124-25.

Of The Oxford English Dictionary and the State of the Language, by Robert W. Burchfield and Hans Aarslef, Dictionaries 11 (1989): 266-71.

Of English-Language Dictionaries, 1604-1900, by Robert Keating O'Neill, and of A Collection of Dictionaries and Related Works by H. Rocke Robertson and J. Wesley Robertson, Dictionaries 11 (1989): 283-87.

Of International Journal of Lexicography, ed. Robert Ilson, [London] Times Higher Education Supplement (March 1990).

Of Lexicography Today: An Annotated Bibliography by Ladislav Zgusta, Dictionaries 10 (1988): 145-47.

Of Dispatches from the Front: The Prefaces to the Oxford English Dictionary by Darrell R. Raymond, Dictionaries 10 (1988): 177-83.

Of Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English by T. K. Pratt, Dictionaries 10 (1988): 196-99.

Of When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands by Patricia Jones-Jackson, English World-Wide 9 (1988): 343-45.

Of Van Winkle's Return: Change in American English, 1966-1986 by Kenneth G. Wilson, Dictionaries 9 (1987): 222-24.

Of Toward a Social History of American English by Joey L. Dillard, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 7 (1986): 529-31.

Of The Language of the American South by Cleanth Brooks, English World-Wide 7.1 (1986): 159-61.

Of A Study of Lexical Borrowing from Chinese into English with Special Reference to Hong Kong by Mimi Chan and Helen Kwok, English World-Wide 7.1 (1986): 166-69.

Of Modern Englishes: Pidgins and Creoles by Loreto Todd, Verbatim 12.4 (Spring 1986): 19-20.

Of Colonial American English: A Glossary by Richard M. Lederer and of New Words Dictionary by Harold LeMay et al., Dictionaries 7 (1985): 340-43.

Of Longman Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry by Robert M. Goldenson; of Heinemann New Zealand Dictionary by H. W. Orsman; of Loanwords Index by Laurence Urdang and Frank R. Abate; of LEXeter '83 Proceedings by R. R. K. Hartmann; of Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English by Tom McArthur, Dictionaries 6 (1984): 292-302.

Of A Dictionary of Africanism by Gerard M. Dalgish, Dictionaries 6 (1984): 286-88.

Of Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson, English World-Wide 5 (1984): 281-82.

Of The English Language in Sudan: A History of Its Teaching and Politics, by Lisa Sandell, English World-Wide 4 (1984): 312-15.

Of The Spoken Word: A BBC Guide, by Robert W. Burchfield, American Speech 59 (1984): 165-72.

Of Good Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the American Language, by Dennis E. Baron, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 83 (1984): 144-46.

Of Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar, compiled by W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kucera with the assistance of Andrew W. Mackie, and of Word Frequencies in British and American English, compiled by Knud Hofland and Stig Johansson, Dictionaries, 5 (1983): 128-133.

Of The Dictionary of Bahamian English, edited by John A. Holm with Allison Watt Schilling, and of Dictionary of Newfoundland English, edited by G. M. Story et al., Dictionaries, 4 (1982): 263-69.

Of English in Singapore and Malaysia, by John Platt and Heidi Weber, English World-Wide, 3.2 (1982): 260-63.

Of Language in the USA, edited by Charles Ferguson and Shirley Brice Heath, and The State of the Language, edited by Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks, English World-Wide, 3.1 (1982): 103-06.

Of Documentation in the OED by Jürgen Schäfer, Dictionaries 2/3 (1980-81): 171-73.

Of Gad by Stephen Geller, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 72.5 (January-February 1980): 16.

Of Ferdinand de Saussure by Jonathan Culler, Style 13 (1979): 295-99.

Of Soviet Semiotics: An Anthology, ed. and tr. Daniel P. Lucid, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 37 (1979): 367-69.

Of Essays on Semiolinguistics and Verbal Art by W. O. Hendricks, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 33 (1975): 472-73.

Of The Comic Style of P. G. Wodehouse by R. A. Hall, Jr., Style 9 (1975): 249-51.

Of George Orwell as Essayist: A Stylistic Study by H. Ringbom, Style 9 (1975): 146-51.

Of The Letters of Sir William Jones, ed. by Garland Cannon, Michigan Quarterly Review 2 (1972): 210-13.

Of American Place-Names by George Stewart, Michigan Academician 4 (1971): 130-131.

Of The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia by P. Knightley and C. Simpson, Michigan Quarterly Review 10 (1971): 222-24.

Of Style: he Problem and Its Solution by B. Gray, Style 5 1971): 177-84.

Of Virginia Woolf's Lighthouse: Study in Critical Method by M. A. Leaska, Computer Studies in the Humanities and Verbal Behavior 3 (1970): 55-56.

Of Computation in Linguistics, ed. by Paul Garvin and Bernard Spolsky, Computers and the Humanities 4 (1970): 271-74.

Of the American Heritage Dictionary, Language Sciences 10 (April 1970): 23-29.

Of The Benevolent Man: A Life of Ralph Allen of Bath by Benjamin Boyce, Michigan Quarterly Review 8 (1969): 144-45.

Of the Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, ed. by Richard Halsband, Michigan Quarterly Review 7 (1968): 287-89.

Of The Portraits of Alexander Pope by W. K. Wimsatt, Michigan Quarterly Review 7 (1968): 70-72.

Of Style and Stylistics by Louis T. Milic, Style 2 (1968): 233-28.

Service on Dissertation Committees:

Colette Veronica Moore. “Representing Speech in Early English” (2004). Chair.

B. Sandhya. “The Effect of Replacement of English as a Medium of Instruction at Degree Level: A Study in the Andhra University” (2003). [External examiner for Andhra University, Viskhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.]

Judith Ann Dyer. “Language and Identity in a Scottish-English Dialect Community: A Phonological and Discoursal Analysis” (2000). [Linguistics.]

Alicia Beckford Wassink. “A Sociophonetic Analysis of Jamaican Vowels” (1998). [Linguistics]

Anne Leslie Curzan. “When It Became All Things: A Study of the Rise of Natural Gender in English Anaphoric Pronouns”(1998) . Chair.

Deborah Lou Keahey. “The Home Place in Canadian Prairie Literature” (1996). Chair.

Sonja Lanae Lanehart. “Language, Literacy, and the Uses of Identity” (1995). Chair.

Veta Smith Tucker. "Mammy Reclaimed in Fiction by Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler" (1994). [Doctor of Arts]

Anne Kelsch Breznau. "Writing and Self-Esteem in a Dialogic Classroom" (1994). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Jane Powel Thomas. "The Language of the Celys" (1994).

Stephen George Alter. "William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language" (1993). Member. [History]

Kathryn Kunkel Klintworth. "Diversity of English and the Multicultural Classroom" (1992). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Mary Louise Warner. "Sacred Texts: Nature, Context, Pedagogy" (1992). [Doctor of Arts]

Carol L. Winkelmann. "The Discourse of Conflict and Resistance: Elizabeth Cellier and the Seventeenth-Century Pamphlet Wars" (1992). Chair.

Gloria J. Owen-Roddy. "Cohesion and Cognition in Student Writing" (1991). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Patricia M. Radecki. "The World in the Text and the Text in the World: A Study of Old Regular Baptist Discourse" (1991). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Victor Macaruso. "Risk a Precondition of Empowerment: Three Case Studies" (1990). [Doctor of Arts]

R. S. Sharma. "Linguistic Aspects of Contemporary English Poetry" (1990). External Examiner. [D. Litt., Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India]

Jacqueline Joy Anderson, CSSF. "Linguistic Analysis and Deaf Students' Texts: Towards a Pedagogy of Meaning and Representation" (1990). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Daniel L. Madigan. "Literacy Learning: Effecting Change among High School Students" (1990). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Ella J. Davis. "African American Women Writers of Detroit" (1990). [Doctor of Arts]

Sarah Yvonne Coprich-Johnson. "The Role of the Black Church in Family Literacy: A Case Study" (1990). [Doctor of Arts] Chair.

Jamie Howe Burns. "Teaching Cohesion in College Composition Courses" (1990). [Doctor of Arts]

Richard Evan Bailey. "A Case Method Approach to Academic Writing in Introductory Composition" (1989). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Michele Marie Chan. "Between Two Worlds: Good Writing in Business or Good Business in Writing" (1989). [Doctor of Arts]

Gloria Jean Dyc. "Lakota Cultural Values and the Language of Advocacy: An Approach to Literacy in a Native American Community" (1989). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Daniel Charles Thurber. "An Approach to a Developmental English Course for Adult Cree Learners" (1988). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Agnes B. Werner. "Language Mixture in the Spontaneous Speech of Puerto Ricans in San Juan" (1988). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Cheryl Lynn Johnson. "A Womanist Way of Speaking: An Analysis of Language Use in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place" (1988).

Lisa Jane McClure. "Response and Revision: Informing the Writer's Process" (1988). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Donna Jean Richards. "Canadian English: A Reconsideration of the Strength of British and American Influences" (1988). External examiner. [The University of British Columbia]

Christine Ann Vonder Haar. "Interviewing as an Inquiry Approach in the Writing Classroom" (1987). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Cheryl Jane Burghdurf. "Conversing in Communities: An Approach to Teaching Writing" (1987). Chair. [Doctor of Arts].

Sharon Connell King. "The Thematic Ambiguity of Person in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens" (1987). Chair.

Ruth Elaine Ray. "Academic Literacy and Non-Native Writers" (1987). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

William P. Campbell. "Fiction in Composition Class: A Reorientation" (1987). [Doctor of Arts]

Stephen Monroe Crow. "The Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Teaching Contemporary Native American Literature" (1986). Co-chair with W. R. Alexander. [Doctor of Arts]

Patricia Voichahoske Lehman. "Text Act and Tradition: Salutations and Status in the Paston Family, 1440-1495" (1986).

Edward Harbage Baker. "'Timing the Thunder': Ezra Pound's Poetic Historiography" (1986).

James Robert Saunders. "Greater 'Truth' in Fiction: A Study of Four Black Writers" (1986). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Suaad Abdul Aziz Al Mana. "Poetic Necessity from the Perspective of the Medieval Arab Critics and Rhetoricians" (1986). [Near Eastern Studies]

Mary Frances Rhodes Minock. "Encompassing Discourse Polarities within a College Writing Course" (1985). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Kathleen Elizabeth Richlen Tilden. "Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Influence of Jakarta Dialect in Bahasa Indonesia in Eight Indonesian Novels" (1985). [Linguistics]

Harriet Kramer Linkin. "The Search for a Transcendent Language: Linguistic Strategies in Herbert and Blake" (1985). Chair.

Alice Elizabeth Moorhead. "The Rhetorical Design and Function of the Proposal" (1984). [Doctor of Arts]

Miriam Gannon Fabien. "Using a Learning Styles Approach to Teaching Composition" (1984). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Alexandra Alissandratos d'Aste Surcouf. "The Impact of Socioeconomic and Nationalistic Factors on the International Uses of English: A Case Study of Bir Zeit University" (1983). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Joanna Saunders Mann. "The Non-Fiction of Teaching Short Fiction" (1983). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Mark Kobernick. "Semiotics of the Drama and the Style of Eugene O'Neill" (1983). Chair.

Amy Joanne Devitt. "Standardizing Written English: The Influence of Genre, Audience, and Medium on Scots-English Usage, 1520 to 1659" (1982). Chair.

Ann Hollingsworth Pitts. "Urban Influence in Northern Irish English: A Comparison of Variation in Two Communities" (1982). Chair.

Christine Ann Smith Hult. "Frames, Content Organization, and Themes in Student Expository Essays" (1982).

Edward Lyman Smith, Jr. "Writer-Reader Interactiveness in Four Genres of Scientific English" (1982). Chair. [Joint degree: English and Linguistics]

John Edward Sapala. "Historical, Cultural, and Linguistic Aspects of Spanish-English Bilingual Education in Michigan" (1982). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Stephen Arthur Bernhardt. "Text Structure and Rhetoric in Scientific Prose" (1981). Chair.

Lalita Lace Muizniece. "Linguistic Analysis of Latvian Death and Burial Folk Songs" (1981). [Linguistics]

Marsha Lyn Dutton Stuckey. "An Edition of Two Middle English Translations of Aelred's De Institutione Inclusarum" (1981).

Richard Louis Behrendt. "Lifelong Learning in the Maryland Community Colleges and Recommendations for the Development of Management Strategies to Facilitate Lifelong Learning at Community Colleges" (1980). [Center for the Study of Higher Education]

Barbara Couture. "Reading to Write: Using Analytic Reading to Teach Writing" (1980). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Kenneth Eugene Snow. "State Aid Appropriation Networks for Michigan Public Community Colleges" (1980). [Center for the Study of Higher Education]

Patricia A. Jones Jackson. "The Status of Gullah: An Investigation of Convergent Processes" (1978). Chair. [Joint degree: English and Linguistics]

Janet Schlauch Knapp. "A Grammar of Narrative" (1977). Co-Chair with A. L. Becker. [Linguistics]

Loretta Susie Burns. "A Stylistic Analysis of Blues Lyrics" (1977). Chair. [Joint degree: English and Linguistics]

Steven Alex Konopacki. "Frustration and Promise: Jacob Boehme's Use of Language in the Aurora oder Morgen Rote im Aufgang" (1977). [German]

William Ralph Magretta. "Topic-Comment Structure and Linguistic Theory: A Functional Approach" (1976).

Marjorie Ashton Oliver. "Styles of Illocutionary Action: Speech Acts and The Study of Comedy and Tragedy" (1976). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Kathleen Lee Eisele. "Writing Security" (1976). Chairman. [Doctor of Arts]

George H. Stalker. "A Syntactically-Based Deep Case Grammar" (1975).

David James Amante. "Ironic Speech Acts: A Stylistic Analysis of a Rhetorical Play" (1975). Chair.

Janet Eisner. "A Grammar of Oral Narrative" (1975). Chair. [Linguistics]

Katherine Passias. "Structure and Movement in the New Novel in France from 1957 to 1962: A Deep and Surface Structure Comparison" (1974). [Romance Languages]

Greenblatt, Daniel Lawrence. “Generative Metrics and Seventeenth-Century Prosody: A Quantitative Study” (1974). Chair.

Bernard Joseph Reilly. "Reading and Writing in the Community College: Building upon Tacit Linguistic Knowledge" (1973). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

Robert Loveridge Brown, Jr. "Language Acts in Context: An Intentional Theory of Discourse" (1973). Chairman.

Stephen Dale Chennault. "Silence is Black" (1973). Chair. [Doctor of Arts]

James Joseph Garvey. "W. B. Yeats's Prose: A Linguistic Description of 'Stylistic Competence'" (1972). Chair.

Elizabeth Patton Wissman Bruss. "Autobiography: The Changing Structure of a Literary Act" (1972), Co-chair with M. Felheim.

Thomas Paul Klammer. "The Structure of Dialogue Paragraphs in Written English Dramatic and Narrative Discourse" (1971). Co-chair with K. L. Pike.

Dennis Emery Roy Baron. "Case Grammar and Diachronic Syntax" (1971).

Robert Walter Raz. "Syntactic Variation in Jane Austen's Dialogue" (1970). Chair.

James Ralph Nattinger. "A Linguistic Study of William Caxton as Translator" (1970).

Susan Jane Hanna. "The Diction of English Poetry, 1889-1900" (1970).

Victor John Streeter. "Homogeneity in a Sample of Technical English" (1969). Chair. [Linguistics]

Midhat Ridjanovic. "A Synchronic Study of Verbal Aspect in English and Serbo-Croatian" (1969). [Linguistics]

Gerald Wayne Meyers. "Modern Theories of Meter: A Critical Review" (1969).

Robert K. Krohn. "English Vowels" (1969). [Linguistics]

Geneva Smitherman. "A Comparison of the Oral and Written Styles of a Group of Inner-City Black Students" (1968).

Robert L. Parslow. "The Pronunciation of English in Boston, Massachusetts: Vowels and Consonants" (1967).

Donald Ross, Jr. "The Style of Thoreau's Walden" (1967).