Contact Information

Office: 4071 JFSB

Phone: 422-9168

E-mail: mark_davies@byu.edu

Courses Taught:
Corpus Linguistics (LING 485), Empirical Methods in English Linguistics (ELang 273), English Grammar (ELang 325)

Link to Vitae

Website: http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu

BA and MA in Linguistics and Spanish (BYU, 1986/1989), PhD in Hispanic Linguistics (U Texas, 1992). Taught Spanish Linguistics at Illinois State U 1992-2003. Professor at BYU since 2003. Specializes in Corpus Linguistics (using large collections of text to study language variation and change). Recipient of three large government grants (NEH 2001, 2004; NSF 2002) to create and use corpora for linguistic analysis. More than 40 publications related to language change, variation, and corpus creation and use.

Degrees

BA Linguistics and Spanish (BYU, 1986)
MA Spanish Linguistics (BYU, 1989)
PhD Hispanic Linguistics (U Texas, 1992)

Interests

[Professional] Corpus creation and use, historical change and linguistic variation
[Other] Comparative religion, world cultures, historical and culture