Chris Golston

Professor

Department of Linguistics

California State University, Fresno

5245 North Backer Avenue M/S PB92

Fresno, CA 93740-8001

Office: (559) 278-2136

FAX:  (559) 278-7299

Email: chrisg “at” csufresno.edu

Education

PhD, UCLA 1991

Thesis: ‘Both Lexicons’

MA, UCLA 1988

Thesis: ‘Phrasal morphology in Homeric Greek’

BA, UC Berkeley 1983

Double Major: Philosophy & Classical Languages

Interests

Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Poetic Meter, Historical Change

Classical Greek, Crow, German, Hittite, Hmong, Hopi, Latin, Mixtec, and the language you speak

Publications

Second-position is first-position: Wackernagel’s Law and the role of clausal conjunction. (to appear, with Brian Agbayani). Diachronica.

Variables in Optimality Theory. (to appear) In Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye, and Martin Krämer (eds.), Freedom of Analysis? Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Embedded structure and the evolution of phonology. (2006, with Jason Brown) Interaction Studies 7:1. 15-39.

Diphthongs. (2006). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elseviere Limited.

The phonology of Greek lyric meter. (2005, with Tomas Riad). Journal of Linguistics 41, 77-115.

A prosodic theory of laryngeal contrasts. (2004, with Wolfgang Kehrein). Phonology 21.3. 325-357.

Alliteration och avkodning i germansk vers. (2003, with Tomas Riad). In Sven Bäckman, Mattias Hansson, Eva Linja (eds.), Rytm och dialog. 61-86.

Reduplication as Echo:  Bontok and Chumash. (2003, with Ela Thurgood).  In  Laury, Ritva, Gerald McMenamin, Shigeko Okamoto, Vida Samiian and Karumuri V. Subbarao (eds.),   Papers in Honor of  P.J. Mistry.  New Delhi:  Indian Institute of Language Studies.

Scansion and alliteration in Beowulf. (2001, with Tomas Riad). Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik. 77-105.

The phonology of Classical Greek meter.  (2000, with Tomas Riad). Linguistics  38-1, 1-69.

Stricture is structure. (1999, with Harry van der Hulst). In Ben Hermans and Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory. Amsterdam:  Benjamins.

Constraint-based metrics. (1998) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 16, 719-770.

Mazatec onsets and nuclei. (1998, with Wolfgang Kehrein). International Journal of American Linguistics., 64.4, 311-337.

The structure of the German root. (1998, with Richard Wiese). In Wolfgang Kehrein and Richard Wiese (eds.), Phonology and Morphology of the Germanic Languages. Tübingen: Niemeyer.  165-185.

The phonology of Classical Arabic meter. (1997, with Tomas Riad). Linguistics.  111-132.

Direct Optimality Theory: representation as pure markedness. (1996a). Language 72.4.  713-748.

Direct Optimality Theory:  representation as pure markedness. (1996b).  [dance mix: ROA.]

Prosodic constraints on roots, stems, and words. (1996c) Interfaces in Phonology, Studia Grammatica, vol. 41, ed. by Ursula Kleinhenz. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 172-193.

Syntax outranks phonology:  evidence from Ancient Greek. (1995). Phonology 12.3,  343-368.

Zero morphology and constraint interaction.  (1995, with Richard Wiese). Yearbook of Morphology, 143-159.

The Hopi Coyote Story as Narrative:  the Problem of Evaluation. (1987, with David Shaul, Roy Albert, and Rachel Satory ). Journal of Pragmatics 11.

Proceedings, Reviews, etc.

The evolution of hierarchical structure in language. (to appear, with Jason Brown.) Berkeley Linguistic Society 30.

Prosodic and linear licensing in the acquisition of English. (2002, with Shannon Bills). Western Conference on Linguistics. Seattle.

White Hmong loanword phonology. (2001, with Phong Yang). Holland Institute for Generative Linguistics Phonology Concerence V (HILP 5). Potsdam, Germany.

Review of April McMahon Lexical Phonology and the History of English. (2001) Diachronica 8.1.

Mazatec syllable structure. (1997, with Wolfgang Kehrein). Chicago Linguistic Society.

Against syllabification. (1995a). Unpublished ms. Rutgers Optimality Archive.

Review of Heinz J. Giegerich English phonology: an introduction. (1995b). Studies in Language, 19:1.

Level-ordered lexical insertion. (1990a). Western Conference on Linguistics. Was it in Phoenix?

Minimal word, minimal affix. (1990b). North Eastern Linguistic Society. Quebec.

Level-ordered lexical insertion: evidence from speech errors. (1990c) Arizona Phonology Conference, Vol. 4.

Floating high (and L*) tones in Ancient Greek. (1989a). Arizona Phonology Conference, Vol. 3.

What a phrasal affix looks like. (1989b). Western Conference on Linguistics.

Clitics in Homeric Greek: less evidence that PIE was head-final. (1989c). Berkeley Linguistic Society.