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Catie Berkenfield, Lecturer, Linguistics

Ph.D. Candidate at the University of New Mexico
M.A. University of New Mexico
B.A. University of Montana

VBHEC 245B
757-368-4126
cberkenf <AT> odu.edu

Teaching

  • General Linguistics
  • Advanced Composition
  • American English
  • Research Areas

  • Discourses of Gender and Race
  • Language in Society
  • Metaphor Theory
  • Feminist Linguistic Theory and Practice
  • Selected Publications

    2006. Berkenfield, Catie. Pragmatic Motivations for the Development of Evidential and Modal Meaning in the Construction [be supposed to X]. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 7. 139-71.

    2001. Berkenfield, Catie. The Role of Frequency in the [Phonetic] Realization of English "that". In Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Joan Bybee and Paul Hopper, Eds. 281-307. Amserdam: John Benjamins.

    1998. Berkenfield, Catie. Distribution, Transitivity and Aspect, and Construal of "Passive" Morphology in Spanish Text. In Proceedings of the First Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, C. Berkenfield, D. Nordquist, and A. Grieve-Smith, Eds. 139-58. Albuquerque, NM: High Desert Linguistics Society.