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Department of Germanic Languages
University of North Carolina
438 Dey Hall, CB# 3160
Chapel Hill NC 27599

Phone:	919-966-1642
Fax:	919-962-3708
Email:	german@unc.edu

Sidney R. Smith
srsmith@email.unc.edu | Profile

EDUCATION:

1957-62: University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1965 in Germanic Languages

1949-53: Duke University, B.A., 1953 in Business Administration.

TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:

1966-97: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Germanic Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1965-66: Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut

1962-65: Instructor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

AWARDS:

1969: Stephen Freeman Award, Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

1997: Certificate of Merit, Goethe Institutes and the American Association of Teachers of German

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

"Historical Linguistics and the Teaching of German," German Quarterly, vol. 41 (1968), pp. 231-238.

"Orthographical Criteria in Eggert Olafsson's 'Rettritabok,'" Scandinavian Studies, vol. 41 (1969), pp. 231-242.

"German: The Language We Neglect." North Carolina Education, vol. 1 (New Series), no. 1 (September 1970), pp. 12-14.

"Teaching the Modified-Adjective Construction," Die Unterrichtspraxis, vol. 3, No. 2 (1970), pp. 52-55.

"Problems in Establishing Genealogy and Urtext of Icelandic Manuscripts," South Atlantic Bulletin, vol. 36 (March 1971), pp. 32-40.

"The Tools of the Norsklaerer's Trade," Scandinavian Studies, vol. 43 (1971), pp. 278-289.

"Grammatical and Lexical Materials for Modern Icelandic," Scandinavian Studies, vol. 50 (1978), pp. 414-422.

"Magnus Ketilsson's Orthography and the Hrappsey Press," Scandinavian Studies, vol. 54 (1982), pp. 195-204.

"Bloomfield's Revisions of Language (1933)," Historiographia Linguistica, vol. 18, No. 1 (1991), pp. 167-180.

"George Sherman Lane: Biography and Bibliography," Lexicon Grammaticorum, ed. H. Stammerjohann, Tübingen: Niemeyer, forthcoming.

"Ernst Morwitz in North Carolina," They Fled Hitler's Germany, ed. Christoph E. Schweitzer and Henry Landsberger, publication of the"Southern Research Report", 1996.