Dr. Robert M. Hertz

Robert Hertz

Title: Professor, Departments of Linguistics and English

Office Location: PSY 219

Phone Number: (562) 985-5284

E-mail Address: rhertz@csulb.edu

Education:

Bachelorfs Degree: 1961, American Civilization, Rutgers University.

Masterfs Degree: 1962, English and Education, Syracuse University.

Ph.D.: 1974, Linguistics, University of Southern California. Dissertation: The Grammar of English Causative-Transitivity.

Teaching/Research Interests:

My areas of teaching specialization include syntax, phonology, historical linguistics, and semantics.

Syntactic theory: Generative-Transformational Grammars, Case Grammars, Government and Binding Theory.

Phonology: American Descriptive Phonology, Prague School Phonology, acoustic phonetics (sound spectrography), and Generative Phonology. I am especially interested in how speakers of one language perceive the sounds of other languages.

Historical linguistics: diachronic (historical) linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, and historical development of the English language.

Semantics: I am presently researching the area of natural language semantics, i.e. how the various mechanisms found in natural languages permit speakers to create and understand meaningful utterances.

Computational Linguistics: In the past, I was active in the area of computational linguistics, especially in computer-assisted language instruction, but I have not been active in this area for a number of years.

Courses Taught:

LING 101: Introduction to the World's Languages
LING 325: Modern English Grammar
LING 327/English 327: Essentials of the English Language.
LING 363I: Essentials of Human Language
LING 420: English Phonology
LING 421: English Syntax
LING 423/English 423 & 523: Semantics
LING 426/English 426 & 526: History of the English Language
LING 610: Seminar in Historical Linguistics
LING 620: Seminar in Syntax
LING 625: Seminar in Phonology

Publications and Professional Presentations:

Computers in the Language Classroom. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley, 1987.

Microcomputers in Bilingual and Foreign Language Instruction: A Guide and Bibliography, with co-author Joseph Jacobs. Los Alamitos, CA: National Center for Bilingual Research, 1983.

Professional Activities, Awards, & Affiliations:

Linguistics Society of America, member from 1966 to the present.

Association for Computational Linguistics, member from 1979 to 1996.