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Robert A. Fradkin, Ph.D.

Department of Classics	World Languages Department
2207 Marie Mount Hall	Atholton High School
University of Maryland	6520 Freetown Rd.
College Park, MD 20742	Columbia, MD 21044
Tel. 301-405-2013	Tel. 410-313-7065

rfradkin@umd.edu

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin

Teaching Interests, Higher Education or Secondary

Latin, Russian, Arabic, French, ESL, Hebrew
General linguistics; Languages of the World
Writing systems in relation to culture and language structure

Language Teaching Experience

¤ Latin

2002-Present	Atholton High School, Columbia, MD Teacher of Latin, Russian, French
2003-2005	Long Reach High School, Columbia, MD Teacher of Latin
2002-Present	University of Maryland College Park, MD Adjunct Professor of Classics
Spring 2002	George Washington University, Washington, DC Adjunct Instructor in Latin

Russian

2002-Present	Atholton High School, Columbia, MD Teacher of Latin, Russian, French
2002-2003	American University, Washington, DC Professorial Lecturer in Russian
1995-1996	Duke University, Durham, NC Visiting Professor of Slavic linguistics
1990-1995	Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Assistant Professor of Russian
Summer, 1984	University of Washington, Seattle, WA Lecturer in Russian
1975-1978	Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Graduate Instructor in Russian

Hebrew

1996-2002	University of Maryland College Park, MD Assistant Professor of Hebrew
1985-1990	Brown University, Providence, RI Assistant Professor of Hebrew
1982-1985	University of Washington, Seattle, WA Lecturer in Hebrew
1978-1982	Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Graduate Instructor in Hebrew

Courses Taught

Latin I, II, III, IV
Russian I, II, III
French I, II
Modern Hebrew I, II, III
Biblical Hebrew
Related courses in Linguistics

á Structure of Hebrew

á Structure of Russian

á Old Church Slavonic

á Structure of English

á Language Universals

á Languages of the World

á History of the Alphabets

á Latin and Greek Roots of Medical Terminology

Education

Post-Doctoral

Summer 2006	NEH Seminar for High School Latin Teachers Selected as one of 25 teachers from the US for an intensive study of Latin literature in Rome and Cuma.
2006-Present	Advanced Professional Certificate in Secondary School Teaching, Latin and Russian Maryland State Department of Education
1998-2002	University of Maryland, Classics Department Coursework in Latin language and literature
Summer 1995	Petrozavodsk State University, Karelia, Russia IREX Summer Teacher Exchange
Summer 1991	University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Intermediate Dutch
July 1986, 1987	Hebrew University in Jerusalem Summer teachersÕ seminar in Jewish civilization

University

Ph.D., 1985	(with distinction) Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
	Major Field: Slavic Linguistics Minor Fields: Semitic Languages, Turkic Languages Dissertation: Verb Systems of Russian and Arabic
1980-1981	Moscow State University: IREX doctoral research exchange
Summer 1977	Hebrew University: Intensive course in Arabic
M.A., 1976	Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Slavic Languages
B.A., 1973	Boston University, Boston, MA Russian Language, General Linguistics
Summer 1972	Leningrad Polytechnical Institute
1971-1972	Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Junior Year Abroad)

Publications

Books Published

1996

The Well-Tempered Announcer: A Pronunciation Guide to Classical Music. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press).

A study of the sound systems of the major European languages and their representation in alphabetic writing systems with practical application to how English speakers can pronounce names in a specific field according to English norms. Adopted by the national organization, Music Personnel in Public Radio.

1991

Stalking the Wild Verb Phrase: English Grammar For English Speakers Learning Other Languages. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America).

A non-technical survey of English grammar designed to train native speakers to become aware of their language structures and apply them to learning other languages.

Book Manuscripts

2005

Prelude to Latin Poetry: Workbooks for Catullus, Vergil, and Ovid

A unique presentation of English and Latin poetic meters and of the highly variable syntax typical of Latin poetry; sentence-by-sentence texts of some of the great poetsÕ works for grammatical analysis, translation, and scanning.

2004

Everything You Already Know About English Grammar (but didnÕt know you knewÑespecially if you are learning another language!)

A new attempt to put the terms and concepts of language study into the hands and minds of English-speaking language learners. Includes a new way to ÒchartÓ grammatical relations on the printed.

2003

Border Crossings: A Grammatical Passport to Latin Conjugation and Declension.

A new systematization of Latin verb and noun forms in terms of a single abstract stem and a set of consistent combination rules with tense markers and endings. The aim is highlight the essential regularity of Latin conjugation, since most grammar books seem to stress the irregularity. The same rules apply to noun stems, particularly the 3^rd declension. Includes a unique Òdictionary of stems.Ó

Articles

2003	Grammar in the Dictionary: An English-Hebrew ÒGrammalexicon.Ó (Hebrew Higher Education).
1996	Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic. In: Andrews, Edna and Yishai Tobin, eds. Towards a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in Markedness, Distinctive Features, and Deixis. (Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe series.) (Amsterdam: John Benjamins), pp. 319-345.
1995a.	ÔInniesÕ and ÔOutiesÕ: Paradigm Shuffle and the Pedagogy of Russian Conjugation Russian Language Journal XLIX, Nos. 162-164, pp. 41-52.
1995b.	Did Russian Re-create Hebrew in its Own Image? Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education. Vol. 6-7, pp. 15-29.
1994a.	Watch Your Metalanguage! Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages.(New York: Modern Language Association, Vol. 25, No. 2), pp. 30-36.
1994b.	Plus One/Plus None: The Communicative Conundrum and Russian Conjugation. Russian Language Journal XLVIII, Nos. 159-161, pp. 29-50.
1994c.	The Semantic Structure of the ÔTensesÕ in Literary Arabic. In: C. E. Gribble, C. H. van Schooneveld, et al, eds., James Daniel Armstrong. In Memoriam. (Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers), pp. 42-53.
1991	Marking, Markedness, and the Person-Gender-Number Patterning in the Arabic Tenses and Moods. Folia Linguistica XXV 3-4, pp. 609-664.

Conference Papers and Invited Lectures (by language area and venue)

Latin and Romance

CAAS (Classical Association of the Atlantic States)

2002a.	The Transition to High School Latin Teaching.
2002b.	What Latin Does Not Teach You About English Grammar.
2001	Who/m Is it: On English Grammar in the Shadow of Latin.
2000a.	WhatÕs the Trouble with Latin Sounds: On Latin Phonotactics and Their Grammatical Consequences.
2000b.	The Parasyllabic Fallacy and Other Classroom Conundra.
1999	The Greatest Legacy: The Roman Alphabet in Modern Europe.

Other Classical Venue

2002

A Single-Stem Verb System for Latin.

Washington Area Association of Latin Teachers

2000

Latin as a Human Language.

George Washington University Ancient Mediterranean Seminar

La Francophonie. (Invited lectures in NEH-funded summer institute for high school French teachers, Old Dominion University)

1994	French Dialectology Inside and Outside France.
1993	Comparative Outline of English and French Grammar

Russian and other Slavic

AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)

1993	On the Rhythm of Russian Conjugation.
1992	Referential Hierarchies in Slavic Verbal Inflection.
1991	Driving Miss De•xis: On Vehicular and Deictic Verbs of Motion in Slavic, Germanic, and Semitic.
1989	The Semantic Structure of Russian Verbal Categories.

Mid West Slavic Conference

1993	A Syllabic Approach to Russian Conjugation.
1979	The Place of the Opposition Long-Form/Short-Form Adjective in the Grammatical Structure of Russian.

Linguistic Circle, University of Antwerp (Invited Slavic Series)

1996	Aspects Problems in Russian.
1995	Pronoun Systems in the Slavic Linguistic Area
1994	Slavic Motion Verbs: Are They Coming or Going?

IREX Summer Program for English Professors from Russia (Invited lectures, Old Dominion University, English Language Center)

1994	Comparative Morpho-Syntax of English and Russian
1993	Deictic Mismatch in English and Russian

Hebrew and Other Semitic

NACAL (North American Conference on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics)

2000	An English-Hebrew Preposition Chain.
1999	Hebrew Phonological Space and the History of the Alphabet.
1998	Alphabetic Ironies in Semitic Encounters with Indo-European.
1992	How Russian is Hebrew?
1990	Jerzy KurylowiczÕs Contributions to the Study of Semitic Verbal Categories.
1989	Clause Linkage in Israeli Hebrew.
1988	Hebrew Vowel Alternations and the Mid Vowel Fallacy.
1987	Markedness and Iconicity in Semitic Verbal Affixation.

NAPH (National Association of Professors of Hebrew)

2001	Old Dogs, New Tricks: A New Approach to Hebrew Grammar Charts.
1998	Prolegomena to a Notional-Functional Dictionary of Hebrew and English.
1996	A Functional Approach to Hebrew Vowel Alternations.
1992	What the ÔELÕ: On the Transfer of Semantic Space from Russian to Hebrew.

MESA (Middle East Studies Association)

1984a.	Translocation and Locomotion in Hebrew and Russian
1984b.	Obligatory Categories in Semitic Verbal Morphology.
1983	Arabic Verbal Aspect and the Question of Invariance

Linguistic Colloquium, Duke University (Invited Semitic Series)

2000	On Semitic Morphophonology.
1999	Consonant Tonality in Afro-Asiatic.
1998	Aspirates, Affricates, and Secondary Articulations in Indo-European and Semitic.
1997	The Semitic Language Family in Linguistic Perspective.

Other Semitic Papers

1999	Comparative Grammatical Categories in a Bilingual Dictionary. Columbia School Linguistic Conference, Rutgers.
1998	The Bilingual Dictionary: Friend of Foe? Symposium on the Acquisition of Hebrew as a First and Second Language, University of Maryland.
1995	Linguistic Notions in Teaching Hebrew Inflection. Association of Jewish Studies, Boston.
1988	What Hebrew Morphology is Trying to Tell Us. Invited lecture: Asian Studies Colloquium, Dartmouth College.

General Linguistics, Language Typology, Pedagogy, Writing Systems

FLAVA (Foreign Language Association of Virginia)

1993	Linguistic Pheromones? (On Talking to Language Students About Related vs. Neighboring Languages).

SECOL (Southeast Conference on Linguistics)

2000	Motion Verb Systems in Europe and the Middle East.
1999	Phonological Oppositions and Alphabetic Writing.

SOVATESOL (Southern Virginia Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)

1993	Language Universals in the Classroom.
1990	Russian Grammar and Culture for ESL Teachers.

Other Linguistic and Pedagogy Papers

1999	A Linguistic Ûuro: The Roman Alphabet vs. European Phonologies. Linguistic Colloquium, George Mason University.
1998	Graphemic Responses to Phonological Challenges. Linguistic Colloquium, University of Southern California.
1997	ÔNounÕ and ÔVerbÕ Are Not Four-Letter Words. University of Maryland TA Training Session.
1990	Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic. International Symposium on Markedness, Deixis, and Distinctive Features. Duke University.

Invited Linguistic and Pedagogical Outreach for the General Public

1997	Soundings Nationally broadcast interview on linguistic issues in the media. National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina.
1997	Current: The National Public Telecommunications Newspaper ñYou Say Pah-vuh-RAH-tee; I Say Pah-vah-ROH-tee.î (Invited article on language awareness in the media. November.)
1995-1998	Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio Annual Lecture/Workshop in Phonetics and Orthography of the Languages of Europe and Linguistic Issues in the Media (Based on The Well-Tempered Announcer)
	1998: Tripping the Light Phonetic 1997: I Never Met a Diacritic I DidnÕt Like 1996: Auger-Auber, Ibert-Schubert, Wallez-Boulez, Szeryng-Szell: WhatÕs an Announcer to Do? 1995: Eye-Tongue Coordination for Classical Music Announcers: The View from Linguistics
1995	Central Intelligence Agency Language School ñEnglish Grammar and General Principles for Language Learners and Teachersî (Workshop based on Stalking the Wild Verb Phrase)
1985-1995	Slavic and Hebrew Choral Diction Coaching Diction coach for Russian, Polish, Slovak, and Hebrew pieces as member of several civic and university choruses: Bart—k, Four Slovak Songs Bernstein, Chichester Psalms Bloch Sacred Service Glinka, Ivan Susanin Jan‡ªek, Glagolitic Mass Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov Rakhmaninov, Vespers Szymanowski, Stabat Mater Tchaikovsky, Liturgy of St. John of Chrysostome.