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Timothy J. Pulju

Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Department of Classics

Reed Hall HB 6220
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

(603) 646-9380
Email: Timothy.Pulju@Dartmouth.edu
Office: 302 Reed Hall

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Classics, Ph.D. (Linguistics) Rice University, 1995

Research Interests

  • Comparative Indo-European linguistics
  • Functional linguistics and language description
  • History of linguistics

Courses Taught at Dartmouth

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Field Methods
  • Historical Linguistics
  • History of Linguistics
  • History of the English Language
  • Indo-European Linguistics
  • Introductory Linguistics
  • Language and Religion
  • Language and Prehistory
  • Language and Thought
  • Language Attitudes and Language Policy
  • Languages of China
  • Languages in Science-Fiction and Fantasy
  • Morphology (Spring 2009)
  • Origin of Language
  • Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Writing Systems
  • Gothic (Fall 2008)
  • Latin
  • Sanskrit

Selected Publications

  • 2000  Indo-European *d-, *l-, and *dl-.  Pp. 311-326 in Historical Linguistics 1995. Volume I: General Issues and Non-Germanic Languages, ed. by John Charles Smith and Delia Bentley.  John Benjamins.
  • 2000  Neurological evidence for the existence of an autonomous lexicon. Pp. 49-58 in Functional Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition, ed. by David G. Lockwood, Peter H. Fries, and James E. Copeland. John Benjamins.
  • 1997  Indo-European *dA > *dh.   The Journal of Indo-European Studies Vol. 25, No. 3 & 4, 387-399.
  • 1997  Indo-European ‘jaw, cheek, chin’.  LACUS Forum 23.167-178.
  • 1995  Greenbergian methodology applied to some European languages.  LACUS Forum 21.670-680.
  • 1993  Jackendoff's cognitive linguistic theories. LACUS Forum 19.113-123.
  • 1992  Psychological reality in tagmemic phonology and stratificational phonotactics. LACUS Forum 18.167-171.
  • 1991  A short history of American linguistics. Historiographia Linguistica Vol. 18, No. 1, 221-246.
  • 1991  The high priest was not a construction engineer: a philological case study. LACUS Forum 17.429-438.

Last Updated: 8/27/08