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Christopher Stevens

By Shawn Higgins

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research

BOOKS

  • The Origin of Language. 2016. Self published.
  • An Historical Analysis of Directional Adverbs in Fourteenth Century Southwestern German: A Study in Historical Dialectology. Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1992. Pp. xii + 222. [= Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, no. 570.]
  • On the Bifurcation and Repression Theories of Germanic and German.  Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph, No. 29. Edgar C. Polomé and Richard Diebold, editors. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Man, 1998. Pp.xiv + 98.

 

TRANSLATIONS

  • Translation of poem into Gothic for Endgame:  The Calling by James Frey and Nils Johnson Shelton. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. P. 184 (2014).
  • Translation of a page of text into Gothic for Endgame:  Sky Key by James Frey and Nils Johnson Shelton. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. P. 420 (2015).
  • Translation of a text into Gothic for Endgame:  volume 3 by James Frey and Nils Johnson Shelton. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. Forthcoming.

 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

  • Book: On the Grammaticalization of the Word (in preparation)
  • Articles: “On the locus of grammaticalization in Old English roots.”

Publications

  • “The Derivational Suffixes and Suffixoids of Old Saxon: A Panchronic Approach to a Linguistic Category.” American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 12.1:53-79 (2000).
  • “More Prefixes and Prefixoids of Old Saxon and Further Examples of the Grammaticalization of the Old Saxon Root.” Leuvense Bijdragen 91:301-318 (2002).
  • “The Prefixes and Prefixoids of Old Saxon: On the Grammaticalization of the Old Saxon Adverbs and Prepositions. Leuvense Bijdragen 93:151-178 (2004).
  • “Revisiting the Affixoid Debate: On the Grammaticalization of the Word.” In Grammatikalisierung im Deutschen, edited by T. Mortelmans, T. Leuschner, and S. Groodt [= Linguistik — Impulse und Tendenzen, 9.] Berlin: de Gruyter. Pp. 71-84 (2011).