Dr. Aya Katz

Personal Information

 

 

 

Education

Sex: Female

Date of Birth: July 30, 1960

Born: Rehovoth, Israel

Naturalized U.S. Citizen: 1971

 

Ph.D. from Rice University, May 11, 1996.Dissertation Topic: Cyclical Grammaticalization and the Cognitive Link Between Pronoun and Copula

J.D. from Baylor Law School, May 13, 1982

Ranked 22 in a class of 107.

Admitted to Texas Bar in 1982.

B.A. in French from the University of Texas at Arlington, May 19, 1979. with highest honors

 

 

Experience

 

Currently: Independent Researcher in Animal Communication.

         See: http://www.well.com/user/amnfn/qst2.htm

Previous Positions:

l        Assistant Professor at Providence University , Sha Lu, Taichung Hsien,    Taiwan, ROC, August 1999 to July, 2001.

  • Assistant Professor at Tamsui Oxford University College, Tamsui, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, ROC, August 1998- July 1999.
  • Private Law practice in Grand Prairie, Texas August 1997 to February 1998.
  • Lecturer in Linguistics Department, Rice University, Fall 1996 to Spring 1997.
  • Lecturer in Biblical Language, University of St. Thomas School of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary, Houston, Texas, Fall 1996 to Spring 1997.
  • Instructor of Biblical Hebrew at University of St. Thomas School of Theology at St.Mary's Seminary, Houston, Texas 1994 to 1996.
  • Graduate Student in Linguistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, Fall 1991 to Spring 1996. Ph.D. awarded.
  • Private Law practice in Grand Prairie, Texas 1984-1991
  • In-house Counsel, Inverted-A, Inc., Grand Prairie, Texas 1982-1984

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Served as thesis advisor to June C.C. Sun for M.A. thesis: The Development of gei in Chinese: Phonological, Grammatical and Lexical. (2001).

Taught:

  • Graduate Seminar on Historical Linguistics , Spring 2001, Providence University
  • Phonology, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Providence University
  • Phonetics, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Providence University
  • Introductory Linguistics, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Providence University
  • Graduate Seminar in Grammaticalization. Spring 2000, Providence University.
  • Graduate Seminar on Language and Literature. Spring 2000, Providence University
  • Syntax, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Providence University.
  • Minors' English, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Providence University.
  • Freshman Composition , Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Providence University.
  • Graduate Business English, Fall 1999, Providence University
  •  Phonetics, Fall 1999 at Providence University
  • Structure of English, Fall 1998- Spring 1999 at Tamsui Oxford University College
  • Introductory Linguistics (2 sections), Fall 1998- Spring 1999 at Tamsui Oxford University College
  • Creative Writing, Fall 1998- Spring 1999, Tamsui Oxford University College
  • English Conversation (2 sections), 1998-1999 at Tamsui Oxford University College
  • Co-taught: Seminar on Grammaticalization (with James Copeland), Spring 1997 Rice University.
  • Introductory Modern Hebrew Fall 1996, Spring 1997 at Rice University.
  • Introductory Biblical Hebrew at Rice Fall 1994, Spring 1995, Fall 1995, Spring 1996 and at St. Mary's Seminary Fall 1994, Spring 1995, Fall 1995, Fall 1996, Spring 1997.
  • Advanced Readings in Biblical Hebrew at St. Mary's Seminary, Fall 1994, Spring 1995.
  • Beginning Biblical Hebrew, Spring 1993 at Rice University
  • Continuing Biblical Hebrew, Fall 1993, at Rice University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scholarships and Awards

 

 

 

 

 Publications

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Language Proficiency

 

 

 

  

 

Contact information

 

  • National Science Council, Taiwan, Research Grant # 89-2411-H-126-00
  • National Science Council Award, Taiwan, received Spring 1999.
  • 1995 LACUS Predoctoral Prize, awarded for best paper given by someone who has not yet received the doctorate.
  • E. Douglas Mitchell Fellowship, Fall 1991 to Spring 1996.
  • Andrews, Kurth, Campbell and Jones Scholarship, 1980-1981
  • American Jurisprudence Award for excellent achievement in the Study of Bills and Notes, 1981.
  • Academic Merit Scholarship, UTA, 1978-79.

 

Wang, Yu-Fang, Aya Katz & Chih-hua Chen. (to appear). Thinking as Saying-Shuo ('say') in Taiwan Mandarin Conversation and BBS Talk. Language Sciences  (A&HCI).

Katz, Aya. The effect of literacy on lexicality. 2003. LACUS FORUM XXIX: Linguistics and the Real World, edited by Douglas W. Coleman, William J. Sullivan and Arle Lommel. Houston:LACUS: 249-258.

Katz, Aya, Shueh Fang A. Chao and Li Chin J. Yang. 2001. Derivation of fantasy words in Dr. Seuss: opaque or transparent. Proceedings of Providence University Humanities Colloquium on Child Literature. Taichung: Providence: 72-115.

Katz, Aya.  Lexicalization and opacity.  2001.LACUS FORUM XXVII: Speaking and Comprehending, edited by Ruth M. Brend, Alan K. Melby and Arle R. Lommel.. LACUS: Houston: 113-121.

Katz, Aya. External Possession in Hebrew. 1999. LACUS FORUM XXV. Fullerton, CA. LACUS:157-162.

Katz, Aya. Recycled morphemes and grammaticalization: the Hebrew copula and pronoun. 1998. Southwest Journal of Linguistics. 17, 1: 59-97.

Katz, Aya. Alternating Semantic Polarities. 1998. Twenty-Fourth LACUS FORUM. Chapel Hill: LACUS: 198-206.

Katz, Aya. Cognitive Strategies for Expression of the Copula: A Crosslinguistic Approach. 1996.LACUS.Twenty-second LACUS FORUM 1995. Lake Bluff, Illinois. LACUS: 105-115.

Katz, Aya. Semantic Shift and the Concept of Servitude. 1995. Twenty-first LACUS FORUM 1994.Chapel Hill: LACUS: 648-656.

Katz, Aya. Cyclical grammaticalization: pronoun and copula. 1994. Twentieth LACUS Forum. 1993. Chapel Hill: LACUS. 267-269.

(For a list of literary publications, please request separately.)

Also see: http://www.well.com/user/amnfn/lit.html

 

Lexicalization and Opacity, paper delivered at Providence University Linguistics Colloquium on December 7, 1999.

Conflict, Competence and Conviction in the Works of Flannery O'Connor. Tamsui Oxford University College (Alethea University) Humanities' Colloquium, June 5, 1999.

Cyclical Grammaticalization, paper delivered at National Tsing Hua University, linguistics Colloquium, March 23, 1999.

 Cyclical Grammaticalization, paper delivered at Providence University Colloquium, December 29, 1998.

 Cycles in Language Change, Tamsui Oxford University College (Alethea University) Colloquium, December 18, 1998.

External Possession in Hebrew, paper delivered at Twenty-Fifth LACUS FORUM, July 28 - August 1, 1998.

  • Served as session chair, for Session 5, Typological Studies II, September 9, 1997, at the External Possession & Noun Incorporation Conference, Eugene, Oregon, September 7-11, 1997.

Alternating Semantic Polarities, paper delivered at Twenty-fourth LACUS FORUM,

August 1997.

Methodological Considerations for Assessment of Comprehension in Both Human and

Nonhuman Subjects, Cognitive Science Colloquium Series, The University of Southwestern Louisiana, January 31, 1997.

Bilingualism in Canines (and other issues in animal communication), Rice Linguistics Colloquium, Fall 1996.

Cyclicity of Result in Grammaticalization: The Hebrew Copula, paper delivered at SECOL, March 16, 1996.

Views of Grammaticalization and their Implications for the Nature of Language, Rice Linguistics Colloquium, Fall 1995.

The Cognitive Motivation Behind Cyclical Grammaticalization, paper delivered at LASSO XXIV, October 1995.

Cognitive Strategies for Expression of the Copula: A Crosslinguistic Approach, paper delivered at Twenty-second LACUS FORUM, August, 1995. Awarded Predoctoral Prize.

Translating Metrical Poetry, Rice Linguistics Colloquium, Fall 1994.

Oblique Markers in Pangasinan, paper delivered at LASSO XXIII, October 1994.

Semantic Shift and the Concept of Servitude, paper delivered at Twenty-first LACUS FORUM, August 1994.

Semantic Shift in the Doctrine of Respondeat Superior, paper delivered at Rice Linguistics Colloquium, Fall 1993.

Competing Theories of Phonology and their Efficacy in Depicting Historical Processes, paper delivered at LASSO XXII, October, 1993.

Issues in Cyclical Grammaticalization, paper delivered at Yale Linguistics Workshop, December 1993.

Cyclical Grammaticalization: Pronoun and Copula, paper delivered at Twentieth LACUS Forum, July, 1993.

Possible Genetic Ties between Semitic and Indo-European, paper delivered at Rice Linguistics Colloquium, Fall 1992.

The Story of KRT: The Ugaritic Texts, paper delivered at Rice Linguistics Colloquium, Spring 1992.

 

 

 Hebrew: Native speaker. Native proficiency in spoken and written Modern Hebrew.

English: Indistinguishable from native.

French: Fluent in reading, writing and comprehension.

German, Russian and Spanish: Reading languages.

Ancient Languages: Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Sanskrit, Ugaritic.

 

Email: amnfn@well.com

Phone: 417-457-6652   Cell: 573-247-0055

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 267, Licking, MO 65542