OfficeCampus PO Box: 7486 Phone: 803-516-4817 Fax: E-mail:ssalone@scsu.edu |
Educational BackgroundBachelor of Arts - Linguistics - Master of Arts - Linguistics - Ph.D. - Linguistics -
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Research InterestsThe Interface between Syntax and Semantics, Unreality, Reality and Conditional Structures in Universal Grammar, Unreality, Reality and Doubt structures in Literature: Midaq Alley and Rosa Mistika, Agreement with Conjoined Noun Phrases in Swahili, Dialects of English, Pidgin and Creole languages.
Research Activities Selected Publications Teaching |
Research Activities
Current Research
Unreality, Reality and Doubt structures in Midaq Alley and Rosa Mistika; Agreement with Conjoined Noun Phrases in Swahili.
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Selected Publications
"Conditionals in Haya." Southern California Occasional Papers in Syntax 6. (1977): 149-159.
"Typology of Conditionals and Conditionals in Haya." Studies in African Linguistics. 10.1 (1979): 65-80.
"Vowel Coalescence & Tonal Merger in Old Moshi (Chagga): A Natural Generative Approach." Studies in African Linguistics 11.1 (1980):61-76).
"The Pragmatics of Conditionals in Swahili." Journal of Pragmatics 7 (1983): 147-162.
"Unreality in Yoruba." Current Approaches to African Linguistics 4 (1987):339-348.
"Event-Semantics, Typeshifting and Teaching Swahili Verbs." Journal of the African Language Teacher’s Association 1.2. 2000.
"Event Semantics and Typeshifting of Swahili Verbs: Passive." ERIC Data Base, Washington, D.C. 2003.
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Teaching
Teaching Areas
Linguistics:
General Linguistic Theory
Syntax
Syntax-Semantics
Introduction to Linguistics/Language
Area Structure Courses: Bantu, Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic
Socio-linguistics
Child-language Acquisition
English:
English as a Second Language
English Composition
The History of English
World Literature
Modern English Grammar
Advanced Grammar