Joe Salmons

{{Short description|American linguist (born 1956)}} {{distinguish|Joseph Salmon}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Joe Salmons | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}} | birth_place = North Carolina, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | home_town = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = | education = | alma_mater = University of Texas at Austin | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = Edgar C. Polomé | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline = Linguistics | sub_discipline = | workplaces = {{hlist|Purdue University|University of Wisconsin–Madison}} | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = ''A History of German'' (2018) | notable_ideas = | influenced = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Joseph Curtis Salmons''' (born in North Carolina in 1956) is an American linguist who is professor of language sciences at University of Wisconsin–Madison.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-29 |title=Salmons, Joe |url=https://langsci.wisc.edu/staff/joe-salmons/ |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=Language Sciences}}</ref>

==Biography== 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. His dissertation supervisor was Edgar C. Polomé.<ref>{{Cite web |title=College of Liberal Arts {{!}} The University of Texas at Austin |url=https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/ |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=liberalarts.utexas.edu |language=en}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Joseph Salmons |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CPzEEu8AAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> Salmons is the author numerous monographs, including ''A History of German'' (2018), and he is co-editor with Patrick Honeybone of the ''Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology'' (2015).

Salmons is married to linguist Monica Macaulay.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mollie Salmons Obituary (2000) - Durham, NC - The News & Observer |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/mollie-salmons-obituary?id=35403518 |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=Legacy.com}}</ref>

== Honors and awards == Salmons edited the journal ''Diachronica'' from 2002-2020<ref>{{Cite web |title=LSA September 2016 Member Spotlight: Joseph Salmons {{!}} Linguistic Society of America |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-september-2016-member-spotlight-joseph-salmons |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=www.linguisticsociety.org}}</ref> and is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals, and has held leading positions at several scholarly societies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Joseph C. Salmons {{!}} John Benjamins |url=https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/12380 |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=John Benjamins Publishing Catalog |language=en}}</ref>

He co-founded the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures<ref>{{Cite web |last=Awad |first=Doha |date=2017-02-28 |title=Wisconsin Idea seminar gives UW faculty opportunity to collaborate, be inspired |url=https://badgerherald.com/news/2017/02/28/wisconsin-idea-seminar-gives-uw-faculty-opportunity-to-collaborate-be-inspired |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=The Badger Herald}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LSA Fellows By Name {{!}} Linguistic Society of America |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-fellows-name |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=www.linguisticsociety.org}}</ref>

==Selected works== * ''Accentual Change and Language Contact'', 1992. {{ISBN|978-0-415-08872-5}} * ''The Glottalic Theory'', 1993. {{ISBN|978-0-941694-40-7}} * ''A History of German'', 2018. {{ISBN|978-0-19-872302-8}} * ''Sound Change'', 2022. {{ISBN|978-1-4744-6174-0}} * ''Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology'', 2015. [Co-edited with Patrick Honeybone.] {{ISBN|978-0-19-923281-9}}

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==External links== * [https://joseph-salmons.net/ Website] of Joe Salmons * [https://langsci.wisc.edu/staff/joe-salmons/ Joe Salmons] at the website of the University of Wisconsin–Madison * [https://ohms.library.wisc.edu/viewer.php?cachefile=Salmons.J.1344.xml Interview with Joe Salmons, UofWisconsin-Madison Oral History Program]

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