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Mary Niepokuj
Associate Professor, Department of English
Director of English Language and Linguistics
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1991
Office: Heavilon 309COffice Phone: (765) 496-2807
Office Fax: (765) 494-3780
Email: niepokuj@purdue.edu
Specialization: Linguistics, Theoretical approaches to historical change and Indo-European languages and literatures, particularly Celtic, Germanic, and Indic languages
Professor Niepokuj is the author of The Development of Verbal Reduplication in Indo-European (1997). She has published articles in the Journal of Indo-European Studies and the Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society and contributed two chapters to two recent edited collections published by John Benjamins: Germanic Linguistics: Synchronic and Diachronic (1996) and Explanation in Historical Linguistics (1992). She is a specialist in historical linguistics and theoretical phonology and regularly teaches the History of the English Language. Her research interests include theoretical approaches to historical change and Indo-European languages and literatures, particularly Celtic, Germanic, and Indic languages.