Angus B. Grieve-Smith

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39-65 51^st Street, Apt. 3B, Woodside, NY 11377 • (718) 205-8665 • grvsmth@panix.com

Education

Teaching Experience

Saint John’s University, Jamaica, NY.  Fall 2008 – Present.
Adjunct Professor of Languages and Literatures
LAC 1000C: Language and Culture: French
LAC 1000C: Language and Culture: Linguistics
LIN 1010: Introduction to Linguistics

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.  Fall 2005 – Spring 2006.
Adjunct Instructor of Romance Languages
French 002: Introduction to French
French 003: Intermediate French

Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ.  Spring 2005.
Adjunct Lecturer of Linguistics
Linguistics 288/Psychology 290: Introduction to Cognitive Science

Publications

• Accepted for publication. L’évolution de la négation dans un corpus de théâtre français. Proceedings of the Association for French Language Studies.
• 2008. Effects of language experience on the perception of American Sign Language (co-authored with Jill P. Morford, James MacFarlane, Joshua Staley and Gabriel Waters).  Cognition 109: 41-53.
• 2007. The Envelope of Variation in Multidimensional Register and Genre Analyses.  Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word (Language and Computers 60).  Amsterdam: Rodopi.
• 2002. SignSynth: A Sign Language Synthesis Application Using Web3D and Perl.  Gesture and sign language in human-computer interaction. International Gesture Workshop, GW 2001, London, UK, April 18-20, 2001 Proceedings.  Berlin: Springer.
• 2000. Review of R.M.W. Dixon, The Rise and Fall of Languages.  LINGUIST List http://www.linguistlist.org, February 11.
• 1999. “English to American Sign Language Translation of Weather Reports.”  Proceedings of the Second Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference.  Albuquerque: HDLS.

Conference Presentations:

• 2010. "Type and Token Frequency as Underlying Motivators for S-Curves in Language Change." International Linguistics Association, New Paltz.
• 2009. “Modeling the Spread of ne … pas in French.” Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Tucson.
• 2008 “L’évolution de la négation dans un corpus de théâtre français.” Association for French Language Studies, Oxford.
•      “Controlling for Fads in Historical Corpora.” American Association for Corpus Linguistics, Provo.
•      “The Role of Type Frequency in the Evolution of French Negation.”  Linguistic Society of America, Chicago.
• 2005. (with Jill P. Morford and James MacFarlane) “Continuous or categorical: New findings on the perception of American Sign Language.” Linguistic Society of America, Oakland.
• 2004. “The Role of Choices in Measuring Register and Genre Variation.”  Fifth North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics, Montclair, NJ.
• 2001. “SignSynth: A Sign Language Synthesis Application Using Web3D and Perl.” Gesture Workshop, London.
• 2000. “Topicalization and Word Order in Conversational French.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXII, Oxford, MS.

Grants

• University of New Mexico Research Project and Travel (RPT) Grant, Summer 2006.
• National  Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders Grant, 1998-2000. Jill Morford, Principal Investigator.

Selected Additional Work Experience:

• Grieve-Smith Consulting, Woodside, NY.  January 2004 – Present.
  Independent Information Technology Consultant for nonprofits, businesses and households.
  • Provide individual and small-group computer training, in addition to other services.
• LexiQuest, New York City. July 2000 - July 2001.
  Technical and Linguistic Consultant for a computational linguistics technology restart.
  • Researched terminology and developed dictionaries for information retrieval applications.
  • Developed Perl programs for a range of tasks and taught Perl classes for company staff.
• Linguistics Department, University of New Mexico.  September 1998 - June 2000.
  Programmer/Analyst for a sign psycholinguistics research project funded by the NIDCD.
• ARTFL Project (University of Chicago/CNRS), Chicago.  July 1993 – August 1994.
  Assistant Editor for a corpus of classic French texts dating back to the 13^th century.

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