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Glenn G. Gilbert
		Home: 166 Union Grove Road
Professor of Linguistics		Carbondale, Illinois 62901 USA
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale		Home Tel. (618) 529-1250
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E-mail: ggilbert@siu.edu

BORN: September 17, 1936 in Montgomery, Alabama

LIVED IN: Auburn, Alabama (1936-1937), Atlanta, Georgia (1937), round the world by boat with parents to England, Egypt, India, Australia, and Hawaii (1937-1938), Knoxville, Tennessee (1938), Albany, New York (1938-1939), Washington, DC (1939-1941)

GREW UP IN: Silver Spring, Maryland (1941-1954)

EDUCATION: Woodside Elementary School (1941-1948), Montgomery Hills Junior High School (1948-1951), Montgomery Blair Senior High School (1951-1954).

University of Chicago, BA in German Language and Literature (1954-1957)

Universitaet Frankfurt, Sorbonne, Paris, graduate study in German, French, Sanskrit, Indo-European linguistics (1957-1960)

Harvard University, Ph.D. in Linguistics (1960-1963)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1989 to present Professor of Linguistics, SIU

1987-1989 Chair, Dept. of Linguistics, SIU

1975-1987 Professor of Linguistics, SIU

1970-1975 Associate Professor of Linguistics, SIU

1963-1970 Instructor and Assistant Professor of Germanic

Languages, University of Texas at Austin


1989 to present	Professor of Linguistics, SIU
1987-1989	Chair, Dept. of Linguistics, SIU
1975-1987	Professor of Linguistics, SIU
1970-1975	Associate Professor of Linguistics, SIU
1963-1970	Instructor and Assistant Professor of Germanic
	Languages, University of Texas at Austin

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

language variation (German, English, pidgin and creole languages), languages in contact (especially the transfer of European & African languages to the New World), sociolinguistics, German dialectology, Germanic linguistics

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

fieldwork in sociolinguistics, dialectology, linguistic geography, pidgin and creole languages (German in Texas & Kansas, Foreign Workers' German in Mainz, the English of triracial isolates in southern Maryland, English Creole in Honduras)

EDITING, WRITING, AND PUBLICATION EXPERIENCE:

since 1985, editor of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 6 authored, edited, or co-edited books, 15 chapters in professional books, 13 articles, 32 book reviews (complete reference list available upon request)

INTERESTS AND HOBBIES:

EARLIER: fairy tales & myths, science fiction, history, motorcycles, chess, tennis, learning new languages, travel, linguistics, German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, history, classical music, art

LATER: history, jogging, travel, classical music, new ideas, space travel, science fiction, cinema, American late 19th and early 20th-century fiction, sociolinguistics, pidgin & creole languages

CURRENT: history, late 19th and selected 20th century classical music, pidgin & creole languages, travel, new ideas, space travel, science fiction, cinema, computers, walking, family geneology

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