Joe Salmons

Joe Salmons
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisor	Edgar C. Polomé
Academic work
Discipline	linguistics
Institutions	Purdue University University of Wisconsin–Madison
Notable works	A History of German (2018)

Joseph Curtis Salmons is an American linguist who is Professor of Language Sciences at University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Biography

Joe Salmons received his BA in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1978, and his PhD in Germanic Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984. He subsequently served as Assistant Professor (1985-1991) and Associate Professor (1991-1995) of German and Linguistics at Purdue University. Since 1995, Salmons has served as Associate Professor (1995-1997) and Professor (1997-2017) of German, and Professor of Language Sciences (2017-) at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Salmons specializes in Germanic linguistics and works increasingly on Algonquian languages. He primarily researches language change and linguistic theory, particularly sound systems. Salmons is the author numerous monographs, including A History of German (2018), and co-editor with Patrick Honeybone of the Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology (2015). He edited the journal Diachronica from 2002-2020 and is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals, and has held leading positions at several scholarly societies. Salmons co-founded the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures with Jim Leary and has served as director for much of its existence. He was elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2018.

Selected works

• Accentual Change and Language Contact, 1992
• The Glottalic Theory, 1993
• A History of German, 2018
• Sound Change, 2021

External links

• Website of Joe Salmons
• Joe Salmons at the website of the University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Joe Salmons at Google Scholar