Metropolitan State University of Denver

Dr Marina L Gorlach

Personal Biography Statement

Courses Taught

Structure of the English Language, Nature of Language (ENG 2010), History of the English Language (ENG 3020), Language and Society (ENG 3050), College Composition (ENG 1010), Modern Language Theory (ENG 3060), Phonetics, Phonology as Human Behavior, Semiotics and Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Morphology and Syntax (ENG 3040), Anthropological Linguistics (ENG 401B), Languages of the World (ENG 401D), Semantics (ENG 3030), Psycholinguistics (ENG 401C), Analyzing English (ENG 390Q)



Areas

General Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Translation Theory



Selected Projects, Presentations, and Publications

“The Hebrew Translation of the Consolatio Philosophiae.” with Jefferey Taylor and Leslie A. Taylor. Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society 15 (2006): 89-109.

“Resultativeness in English.” In: Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories (Studies in language Companion Series 72), edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Adam Hodges & David S. Rood, 363-379. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005.

Phrasal Constructions and Resultativeness in English. (Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 52). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004.

“Resultativeness: Constructions with Phrasal Verbs in Focus.” In: Between Grammar and Lexicon, edited by Ellen Contini-Morava and Yishai Tobin, 255-287. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000.

Educational Biography

Ph.D. – Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 2000
M.A. - Linguistic University, Pyatigorsk, Russia (summa magna cum laude) 1983
Major: English and Teaching English (K-12)
Minor: French and Teaching French (K-12)

Selected Publications

BOOKS:

Gorlach, Marina. Phrasal Constructions and Resultativeness in English. (Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 52). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004.

Selected Publications

BOOK CHAPTERS:
Gorlach, Marina. “Resultativeness in English,” In Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories (Studies in language Companion Series 72), edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Adam Hodges & David S. Rood, 363-379. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005.
Gorlach, Marina. “Resultativeness: Constructions with Phrasal Verbs in Focus.” In Between Grammar and Lexicon, edited by Ellen Contini-Morava and Yishai Tobin, 255-287. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000.

Selected Publications

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
Gorlach, Marina. “Intercultural Communication in the US College Classroom: A Russian Professor’s Perspective.” In Proceedings of the 16th Symposium About Language and Society – Austin, Texas Linguistic Forum, vol. 52, 2008.
Gorlach, Marina. “Íntercultural Communication in College Classroom.” In Academic Exchange Quarterly, Vol. 12, issue 4, 2008.
Gorlach, Marina, Jefferey H. Taylor, and Leslie A. Taylor. “The Hebrew Translation of the Consolatio Philosophiae.” In Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society, vol. 15, 89-109, 2007.

Selected Presentations

Conference paper: “Changing the Design of English modal auxiliaries,” 70th Anniversary CEA conference “Design”, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 26-28, 2009.
Conference paper: ”From Grammaticalization to Merger – Evolution of some English modal auxiliaries.” First Tri-ennial conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), University of Freiburg, Germany, Oct. 2008.
Conference paper: “Intercultural Communiaction in the US College Classroom: A Russian professor’s perspective.” 16th Symposium About Language and Society – Austin (SALSA), University of Texas at Austin, Apr 2008.
Conference paper: “Intercultural Communication in a US college classroom.” 3rd International Symposium on Intercultural Communication and Pragmatics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. January 14-16, 2008.
Conference paper: “Resultativeness as a Category in Contemporary English: A sign-oriented approach.” 1st International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. Edinburgh, United Kingdom. June 23-26, 2005.
Conference paper: “The Hebrew Translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy.” Frontiers & Borders: Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association Conference. Jackson Hole, Wyoming. June 2-5, 2005.
Conference paper: “Resultativeness: A Sign-Oriented Approach.” 8th International Conference of Columbia School of Linguistics. New York, New York. February 13-15, 2004.
Conference paper: “Phrasal Verbs and Resultativeness in English.” Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories: International Symposium in Linguistics. Boulder. Colorado. May 13-17, 2003.
Conference paper: “Position of Adverbial Particles in Phrasal Verbs and Resultativeness in English.” International Conference on Adpositions of Movement. Leuven, Belgium. January 11-13, 2002.

Current Projects

We are running a Linguistics Club here at Metro and working on the Linguistics Major. You may join us, it's really fun!

Courses Taught

ENG-2010,ENG-3011,ENG-3050,ENG-3060,ENG-390V,ENG-498F,LING-3040,LING-4012
,LING-4013,LING-4060

Office Hours

Monday - [04:00 to 05:15]
Tuesday - [11:30 to 12:45]
Wednesday - [04:00 to 05:15]
Thursday - [11:30 to 12:45]

Current Semester Schedule