Stanley Dubinsky
Professor of Linguistics, University of South Carolina
Stanley Dubinsky is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina. After completing a Ph.D. at Cornell University and before arriving at South Carolina, he taught several other institutions, including The Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Indiana University, University of Iowa, and University of Wisconsin.
His broad research interests include general linguistics, research into the syntax and semantics of various languages, including English, Japanese, Korean, Bulgarian, Chinese, Hebrew, and two Bantu languages (Chichewa and Lingala), and the role of language in global interstate and intrastate conflict. He has produced three books, four edited volumes, and several dozen articles and book chapters on a variety of topics.
His 2004 Blackwell book, co-authored with William D. Davies, is titled The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation, and was followed in 2007 by an edited collection with Springer, New Horizons in the Analysis of Control and Raising. His co-edited book with Harvey Starr, The Israeli Conflict System: Analytic Approaches (Routledge), appeared in 2015. His two most recent co-authored books are Understanding Language through Humor (2011, Cambridge University Press), and Language Conflict and Language Rights: Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on Human Conflict (2018, Cambridge University Press). He is currently engaged in a digital project with Michael Gavin (University of South Carolina), titled The Encyclopedia of Global Ethnolinguistic Conflict.
He has taught a wide array of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Introduction to Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Phonology, Mathematical Linguistics, History and Evolution of Linguistic Theory, Language Conflict and Language Rights, Language and Humor, and Research Methods in Digital Humanities.
He has served the University of South Carolina as director of the Linguistics Program, the founding director of the Jewish Studies Program, and associate dean of the Graduate School. He is a recipient of the University of South Carolina’s highest recognition of research, the Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences, and a two-time finalist for the University’s highest graduate teaching honor, the Mungo Graduate Teaching Award. He served four years (2002-2005) as Book Review Editor for Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, and four additional years (2013-2016) as the journal’s Executive Editor. He has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and has reviewed proposals for the NSF, the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).