Ling/Eng 206 – Language Structure and Language Use

English/Linguistics 206 is an introductory-level course that explores the nature of language, including its structure, its development, and its use.  We will explore how sounds are articulated  (Phonetics) and patterned to represent meaning (Phonology); the relationship between the spoken and written form of language (Phonics); the principles of word formation (Morphology); sentence construction (Syntax); and how we use language to communicate (Semantics and Pragmatics), among other topics.

Ling/Eng 305 – English Language in America

English/Linguistics 305 is an introduction to American English. We will explore its history, structure, use, and status with respect to other languages and other varieties of English. Structural properties of American English that we will survey include sound patterns, word formation, sentence construction, and how the expression of meaning.

Ling/Anth 406 – Descriptive Linguistics

LING 406 deals with the most central aspect of linguistics, the description of languages.  Focusing on syntax (sentence structure), morphology (word structure), phonetics and phonology (sound structure), the course tries to show how much variation there is among the languages of the world and what all languages have in common.  We will do many exercises on a diverse range of languages in all of these areas.

Ling 408 – Syntax

Linguistics 408 deals with one of the most central aspects of linguistics, the study of syntax. It introduces the concepts that are necessary for the description of sentence structure and, in doing so, tries to show how much variation there is in the syntax of the languages of the world and what all languages have in common.

Ling 412 – Sociolinguistics

LING 412 is an introduction to sociolinguistics, the subfield of linguistics which studies language as a tool of social interaction.  The course highlights such topics as social, regional, ethnic, and gender-based linguistic variation, the organization of conversations and texts in different cultural groups, the roles of standard languages and bilingualism, and much more.

Ling 508 – Theories of Syntax

Syntax has been a central area of linguistic research since the 1960s.  This course reviews the concepts that are necessary for the description of sentence structure, showing how much variation there is among languages and what all human languages have in common.  Based on this knowledge, we explore how various linguistic theories (especially generative grammar and functional-typological grammar) try to explain how syntax works.

Franz Mueller, Ph.D.

(formerly Franz Müller-Gotama)

Professor
Linguistics Program Coordinator
Department of English, Comparative Literature and Linguistics
California State University
Fullerton, CA 92834-6848

(657) 278-7004 (office)
(657) 278-3163 (department)
fmueller@fullerton.edu


EDUCATION 

1991   Ph.D. University of Southern California: Linguistics
1987   M.A. University of Southern California: Linguistics

TEACHING PERFORMANCE

1991-present California State University, Fullerton

I teach a wide variety of linguistics classes, from introductory courses (LING 106) to graduate seminars (LING 501, 505, 507, 508) and related courses in English and German. LING 408 and LING 413 are new courses developed by me.

COURSES
LING 106 Language and Linguistics
LING/ENG 206 Language Structure and Language Use
LING 230 Word Origins and Semantics
LING 251 Animal Communication and Language
LING/ENG 305 English Language in America
LING 351 Phonetics and Phonology
LING/ANTH 406 Descriptive Linguistics
LING 408 Syntax
LING 412 Sociolinguistics
LING 413 Child Language
LING 501 Research Methods and Bibliography
LING/ANTH 505 Phonology
LING 507 Grammatical Analysis
LING 508 Theories of Syntax
ENG 303 Structure of Modern English
GERMAN 399 German Phonetics
GERMAN 466 German Linguistics

SCHOLARSHIP/CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

My research focus is on the syntactic typology of languages. Within this area I specialize in Austronesian languages, specifically Indonesian and Sundanese. During my sabbatical in spring 2011, I conducted research on the speech registers in Austronesian. My previous sabbatical in fall 2000 resulted in a book on the grammar of the Sundanese language (Müller-Gotama 2001). I have published various articles on these languages.

I conducted the archival portion of this research during various stays (2000, 2003, 2008, 2010) at the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) in Leiden, The Netherlands, and linguistic field research in Indonesia in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Djajasudarma Idat at Padjadjaran University, in Bandung, West Java.

Scholarly books
Mueller, Franz. In preparation. Language Structure and Language Use.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 2001. Sundanese. (Languages of the World 369.) Munich: Lincom Europa.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1994. Grammatical Relations: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Their Syntax and Semantics. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 11.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.


Book chapters
Mueller, Franz. 2007. “Indonesian Morphology.” In: Alan S. Kaye (ed.).
Morphologies of Asia and Africa, vol. 2. Winona Lake: Eisenbraun’s, 1207-1230.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1992. “Towards a Semantic Typology of Language.” In: Van der Auwera, Johan and Michel Kefer (eds). Meaning and Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 137-178.

Articles

Mueller, Franz. In preparation. “A Whorfian Analysis of Secularism in the Muslim World.” To be submitted.

Mueller, Franz. 2013. “Speech Levels and Language Shift.” Lacus Forum 38.

Mueller, Franz. 2009. “Language Shift on Java.” Lacus Forum 34: 179-185.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1999. “Topic Prominence and Grammatical Relations in Korean.” Lacus Forum 25: 171-178.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1998. “Clause Structure in Classical Malay.” General Linguistics 36:1: 89-99.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1996. “Topic and Focus in Sundanese.” Anthropological Linguistics 38:1: 117-132.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1995. “The Syntax of Classical Malay Complementation.” In: Mark Alves (ed.). Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Tempe: Arizona State University.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1993. “Teaching Metaphor: The Teacher as Motivator/Teaching Strategies” In: Barnes, Carol P. and Kenneth Goodhue-McWilliams (eds). Those Who Can, Teach. Published on ERIC (ED 352352).


Book reviews

Mueller, Franz. 2008. “Review of Fritz Schulze and Holger Warnk (eds). Insular Southeast Asia: Linguistic and Cultural Studies in Honour of Bernd Nothofer.” Oceanic Linguistics 47:2, 253-255.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 2003. “Review of Thorsten Roelcke. Sprachtypologie des Deutschen.” Linguistic Typology 7-3, 417-419.

Kaye, Alan S. and Franz Müller-Gotama. 2000. “Review of Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds): The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 15:2 (2000), 401-407.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1998. “Review of Lang, Ewald and Gisela Zifonun (eds). Deutsch – typologisch.” Language Typology 2:3, 404-410.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1996. “Book Review of Moulin-Fankhänel, Claudine: Bibliographie der deutschen Grammatiken und Orthographielehren.” General Linguistics 34, 125.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1994. “Book Review of Byrne, Francis and Donald Winford (eds.): Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages.” Languages of the World 9, 77-79.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1994. “Book Notice of Beauquiaux, Luc and Jacqueline M. C. Thomas: Studying and Describing Unwritten Languages.” Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 70:2, 380-381.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1993. “Book Notice of Oppenrieder, Wilhelm: Von Subjekten, Sätzen und Subjektsätzen.” Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 69:1, 215-216.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1991. “Book Notice of Song, Seok C.: Explorations in Korean Syntax and Semantics.” Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 67:3, 664.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1990. “Review of Hammond, Michael, et al.: Studies in Syntactic Typology.” California Linguistic Newsletter 20:3, 32-33.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1990. “Review of Van Driem, George: A Grammar of Limbu.” Linguistics 28:2, 175-178.

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1989. “Book Notice of Ramat, Paolo: Linguistic Typology.” Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 65:2, 437.

Kaye, Alan S. and Franz Müller-Gotama. 1988. “Review of Lehman, Winfred P. (ed.): Language Typology 1985.” Canadian Journal of Linguistics 34:1, 104-111.

Kaye, Alan S. and Franz Müller-Gotama. 1988. “Review of Shopen, Timothy (ed.): Language Typology and Syntactic Description.”Canadian Journal of Linguistics 33:3, 267-275.

Kaye, Alan S. and Franz Müller-Gotama. 1988 “Review of Stassen, Leon: Comparison and Universal Grammar.” Studies in Language12:1, 186-192.


CONFERENCES AND INVITED LECTURES

2013 “Social Stratification and Its Linguistic Correlates in Austronesian Languages.” 22nd Annual Linguistics Symposium, Fullerton, CA.

2011 “Speech Levels and Language Shift.” Toledo, OH: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Annual Meeting.

2009 “Sundanese”. Fullerton, CA: Annual Linguistics Symposium.

2008 “A Whorfian Analysis of Secularism in the Muslim World.” Quebec, Canada: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Annual Meeting.

2007 “Language Shift on Java.” Richmond, Kentucky: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Annual Meeting.

2005 International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (IClaVE), Amsterdam.

2005 “Language Maintenance of Endangered Minority Languages.” Hongbang University, Vietnam.

2002 “Nasal Substitution in Indonesian and Javanese.” Pasadena, California: Linguistic Association of the Southwest Annual Meeting.

2001 “Language Skills Seminar.” Eastern Pacific Language College, Vietnam.

2000 “Large Languages and the Notion of Language Endangerment.” Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig, Germany.

1999 “Topic Prominence and Grammatical Relations in Korean.” Claremont, California: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Annual Meeting.

1998 “Javanese – 70 Million Strong and Endangered?” Fullerton, California: Seventh Annual Symposium on Language Varieties.

1997 “Indonesian Word Classes Revisited.” Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia: Malay/Indonesian Symposium.

1996 “Language Shift on Java.” San Diego, California: Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting.


SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

University service

1.Chair, Linguistics Program Restructuring Committee, 2009.

2.Member, University Library Committee, 2008-2009.

3.Member, Faculty Research Committee, 2001-2005.

4.Peer reviewer for Exchanges, the journal of the CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning, 2004.

5.Chair, University International Education Committee, 1999-2000.

6.Member, University International Education Committee, 1997-2000.

7.Member, Academic Senate Elections Committee, 1995-1997.

8.Mentor, University Mentoring Program, 1990-present.


H&SS service

1.Chair, H&SS Curriculum Committee, 2013-2014.

2.Member, Research and Grants Committee, 2008-2010.

3.Member, Faculty Awards Committee, 2005-2007.

4.Member, Modern Languages Department Personnel Committee, 2007-2008.

5.Member, Committee on Committees, 1990-1993 and 1995-2001 (3 terms).

6.Member, Scholarships and Awards Committee, 1993-1995.

7.Member, American Language Program Ad Hoc Personnel Committee, 1997-1998.

8.Faculty Marshal, H&SS Commencement Exercises, 1991-present.


English and Anthropology department service

1.Chair, Anthropology Department Personnel Committee, 2009-2010.

2.Chair, English Department Linguistics Committee, 2003-2004 and 2007-2008.

3.Member, English Department Linguistics Committee, 2002-2004 and 2006-2008.

4.Member, English Department Personnel Committee, 1997-1999 and 2006-2008.

5.Secretary, English Department Council, 1995-1996 and 1999-2000.

6.Member, English Department Council, 1995-1998, 1999-2002, and 2005-2008.

7.Chair, English Department Composition Committee, 1999-2000.

8.Member, English Department Composition Committee, 1999-2001 and 2003-2005.

9.Chair, English Department Comparative Literature Committee, 1996-1997.

10.Member, English Department Comparative Literature Committee, 1996-1998.

11.Chair, English Department Research Assistance Committee, 1995-1996.


Linguistics program service

1.Linguistics Program Coordinator, 1999-present.

2.Graduate Adviser, Linguistics Program, 1991-1999 and 2006-present.

3.Undergraduate Adviser, Linguistics Program, 1999-2005 and 2006-present.

4.Faculty Adviser, Linguistics Student Association, 2006-present.


Community service

1.Presented 2 seminars at the XuZhou Normal University Research Seminar conducted by University Extended Education, August 2011.

2.Peer Reviewer for California Linguistic Notes, 2007.

3.Conducted a teacher training workshop at Oxford School, Rowland Heights, 2005.

4.Conducted a 5-day writing instruction workshop at Hue College of Teacher Education, 2005.

5.Organized visit of the president of Hongbang University in Vietnam to CSUF, including a meeting with President Milton Gordon, 2004.

6.Organized visit of a delegation of 3 deans from Padjadjaran University in Indonesia to CSUF, 2003.


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Member, Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States
Member, Linguistic Society of America
Member, Association for Linguistic Typology
Member, Southeast Asian Linguistics Society

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluent in English, German and Indonesian.
Read Latin, French, Dutch, Sundanese, and Spanish.

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