Dr. K Aaron Smith
Professor
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 421m
Office Hours
Send email to kasmit3@ilstu.edu
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Current Courses
LAT 112.001 First Year Latin (Part II)
ENG 241.001 Growth And Structure Of The English Language
ENG 400.001 Independent Study
ENG 500.001 Independent Study
ENG 599.003 Research And Dissertation
Teaching Interests & Areas
Theoretical Linguistics, History of English, Grammar
Research Interests & Areas
Linguistics, Morphosyntax, Grammaticalization, History of English, Germanic Linguistics, Dutch
Ph D Linguistics
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque
Glossary of Useful Terms
K. Aaron Smith.
Simon and Schuster, 185-194, (1997)
Book Review
Review of Anderwald, Liselotte. 2009. The Morphology of English Dialects: Verb-formation in Non-standard English. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
K. Aaron Smith.
(2010), 21, 2486, Linguistlist
Review of Leap, Willam and Tom Boellstorf. 2004. Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
K. Aaron Smith.
(2004), 1, 82-85, Sexuality Research and Social Policy
Review of Busse, Ulrich. 2002. Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morphosyntactic Variability of Second Person Pronouns. Cambridge: University Press.
K. Aaron Smith.
(2003), 14, 945, Linguistlist
Book, Authored
Kaplan Essential Review for the TOEFL
Marilyn Rymniak, Gerald Kulandski, K. Aaron Smith.
(1997), 521, Simon and Schuster
Conference Proceeding
Proceedings from the 4th Annual High Desert Linguistics Conference
K. Aaron Smith, Dawn Nordquist.
High Desert Linguistics Society, (2002)
Proceedings from the 3rd Annual High Desert Linguistics Conference
K. Aaron Smith, Dawn Nordquist.
High Desert Linguistics Society, (2001)
The Development of the Remote Past
K. Aaron Smith.
High Desert Linguistics Society, 1-15, (1998)
Material Regarding New Courses/Curricula
Curriculum Units from The Story of English
K. Aaron Smith.
Albuquerque Teacher’s Institute, (2002)
Other
Extending the HEL Classroom: Working across Disciplines, Cultures, Curricula and Technologies
K. Aaron Smith, Susan Kim.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 16 (1), (2008)
Immigration and the Plight of Same-Sex Binational Couples
K. Aaron Smith.
Gender Matters: A Publication of the Illinois State University Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 16 (2), 1-2
Notice for Linn, Andrew R. and Nicola McLelland (eds.). 2002. Standardization: Studies from the Germanic Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
K. Aaron Smith.
Language, 81 (2), 537-538
Notice for Newman, John (ed.). 2002. The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
K. Aaron Smith.
Language, 80 (3), 631-632
Textbook, New
This Language, A River: A History of the English Language
K. Aaron Smith, Susan Kim.
(2017), 352, Broadview
Presentations
“‘Into English from that letter-craft called Grammatica’: Ælfric, Grammatica, Correction, and Diachronic Language Study”
Susan Kim, K. Aaron Smith.
Fall Lecture, Speaker Series, Normal, IL, November 29, 2011
"'To engliscum gereorde of ðam stæfcræfte, þe is gehaten grammatica': Ælfric, Grammatica, and Diachronic Language Study"
K. Aaron Smith, Susan Kim.
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2011
A Critical and Historical Investigation into Semantic Prosody
K. Aaron Smith, Dawn Nordquist.
Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, May, 2010
Ælfric’s Grammatical Ideology
K. Aaron Smith.
Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, May, 2010
"Achieving the Small Classroom Dynamic and Maximizing Student Involvement in the Large Classroom Setting"
K. Aaron Smith.
9th Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning, Bloomington, IL, January, 2009
“The importance of the Middle English development of the progressive for the 19th century development of the verbal periphrasis fixing to”
K. Aaron Smith.
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2008
“Reconciling Grammatical Variability in Medieval Texts with Larger Patterns of Grammaticization”
K. Aaron Smith.
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2007
“Standardization after 1600 and its likely Effects on Spoken English”
K. Aaron Smith.
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2007
“Typology of Progressives in Germanic and the Odd Case of English”
K. Aaron Smith, Yuri Yerastov.
Germanic Philology Discussion Group at the Annual MLA Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, December 29, 2006
"Fighting in Public: Approaches to team teaching HEL in the Large Lecture"
K. Aaron Smith, Susan Kim.
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2006
“Frequency in Grammaticization as a Heuristic for Categorizing Types of Change”
K. Aaron Smith.
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2006
“Standardization of English and Development of the English Progressive”
K. Aaron Smith.
International Congress on Medieval Studie, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2005
“LGBT Linguistics in the Classroom”
K. Aaron Smith.
Lavender Languages and Linguistics XI, The American University, Washington DC, , 2004
“Auxiliary Selection in Germanic: The Importance of Diachrony in Synchronic Description”
K. Aaron Smith.
Michigan Linguistics Society Meeting, Flint, Michigan, October 16, 2004
“An Explication of the Dual Source Hypothesis: The Effects of Standardization on the Literary versus Spoken Development of the English Progressive”
K. Aaron Smith.
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting: Germanic Philology Discussion Group, San Diego, CA, , 2003
“A New View on the Unidirectionality Debate: The Evolution of Pragmatics”
K. Aaron Smith.
The Normal Linguistics Roundtable, Normal, IL, , 2003
“The Network Approach to Teaching Latin: Building Associations between two Languages”
K. Aaron Smith, Virginia Durham.
The American Classical League 54th Annual Institute, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, , 2001
“Semantic Developments of the Modern English Progressive in a Universal Context”
K. Aaron Smith.
The Modern Language Association Annual Convention: Germanic Discussion Group, New Orleans, LA, , 2001
“Modern Dutch as a Diagnostic for Middle English: The Dilemma of the English Progressive”
K. Aaron Smith.
The 36th Chicago Linguistics Society Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, , 2000
“Parataxis in Old English: Evidence from Translation”
K. Aaron Smith.
2nd Annual High Desert Linguistics Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, , 1999
“The Stability of Grammatical Categories in the Repeated Process of Grammaticization”
K. Aaron Smith.
The International Symposium on Grammaticalization, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, , 1999
“The Role of Frequency in the Specialization of the Have Auxiliary in English”
K. Aaron Smith.
The Symposium on Frequency Effects and Emergent Grammar, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, , 1999
“The Development of the Remote Past in the Languages of the World”
K. Aaron Smith.
The 1st Annual High Desert Linguistics Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, , 1998
“The Stability of Grammatical Categories during Grammaticization”
K. Aaron Smith.
Tokyo, Japan, , 1998