English Faculty 

William Spruiell, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/William_Spruiell/vita.htm

Language & Literature
TESOL

Anspach Hall 301H
(989) 774-2665
William.C.Spruiell@cmich.edu

Education

Ph.D., Rice University, 1990
M.A., University of Florida, 1986
B.A., University of Florida, 1983

Research Interests

Functions of complex derived nominal elements in grammar 
       and discourse
Typology of derivational morphology
Theory and historical views of fundamental grammatical categories
Cognitive psychological studies of lexical organization and storage
Language development; specifically, development of grammatical
     categories
History and structure of English

Select Publications

Spruiell, William and Gray Kochhar-Lindgren.  "Michael Bishop."  Science Fiction Writers, 2nd Ed.  New York:  Scribners, 1998.

"A Lack of Alien Verbs:  Coinage in Modern Science-Fiction."  Proceedings of the 23rd LACUS Forum 1996.

"Entities and Effort:  Toward an Alternative Simplicity Metric."  Proceedings of the 22nd LACUS Forum 1995:  525 - 536.

"Possible Sources of Participant Nominalizers:  Implications for Typology."  Proceedings of the 21st LACUS Forum 1994:  13 - 26.

"Explaining the Meanings of Participant Nominalizations."  Southwest Journal of Linguistics 11 (1992):  61 - 79.

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