You've come to the homepage of Joseph Salmons. I have a BA in Philosophy from UNC-Charlotte (1978) and a PhD in Germanic Linguistics from the University of Texas (1984). I study and teach about speech sounds and language change, often drawing data from historical and contemporary Germanic languages.

Beyond that, I have the privilege of serving as Executive Editor of Diachronica: International journal for historical linguistics and Director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. With Tom Purnell and Eric Raimy, I'm writing Modularity in phonology, with Patrick Honeybone I'm editing the Handbook of Historical Phonology for Oxford University Press (see here for more), and with Rob Howell and Paul Roberge, I am writing the Cambridge History of the Germanic Languages. more . . .