Thomas E. Nunnally, Associate Professor, received
his PhD from the University of Georgia. His special interests are
the dynamics of language change in English over the last thousand
years, Old English language and literature, and cultural views of
language usage.
He has co-edited two books of essays in sociolinguistics and dialectology,
and published in American Speech, Language, The
SECOL Review, and other journals. Honors include two Fulbright
awards and NEH Seminar participation. His current projects include
research into the sociolinguistic forces behind dialect change and
lexical change, the development of relative clauses in English, and
lexical collocation. He was president of the Southeastern Conference
on Linguistics in 1998-99.
Representative Publications
"Glossing the Folk: A Review of Selected Lexical Research into
American Slang and Americanisms." American Speech 76:2
(Summer 2001): 158-76.
Co-editor (with Michael Montgomery), From the Gulf States and
Beyond: The Legacy of Lee Pederson and LAGS, University of Alabama
Press, 1998.
Co-editor (with Cynthia Bernstein and Robin Sabino), Language Variety in the South Revisited, University of Alabama Press, 1997.
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