Carlee Arnett
Associate Professor
of German
Director of Basic Languages, Department of German
Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
Office Hours
Phone: (530) 752-0751
Office: 413 Sproul Hall
Course Website
http://trc.ucdavis.edu/clarnett/computerlabor
Research Interests
Germanic Linguistics, Cognitive Grammar
Education
- Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1995
- M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1991
- B.A. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 1987
Academic Positions
- Assistant Professor (visiting), Ohio State University, 1997-1998
- Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, 1998-2000
- Faculty member, Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
- Director of Basic Languages, Department of German
Major Publications
- 2004. with Susannah Martin. "Auxiliary Selection in the Present Perfect by L2 Students of German." Unterrichtspraxis 37.2.
- 2004. A Cognitive Approach to the Semantics of the German Passive. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
- 2004. McConnell, Winder and Carlee Arnett. "Marriage in Robinson Jeffers's 'At the Birth of an Age': Gudrun/Kriemhild and Attila/Etzel in the Twentieth Century". Festschrift for Werner Wunderlich, ed. By Ulrich Mueller and Margarete Springeth. Stuttgart: Hans-Dieter-Heinz Verlag.
- 2004. with Masuda, Kyoko. "On German and Japanese Dative Constructions." High Desert Linguistics Society.
- 2000. "A Cognitive Approach to the Old Saxon Processual Passive." American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 12.1, 81-99.
- 2000. with Janet K. VanValkenburg. "The Professionalization of Teaching Assistants: Can it be accomplished?" Die Unterrichtspraxis/ Teaching German 33:1, 1-6.
- 1997. "Perfect Auxiliary Selection in the Old Saxon Heliand." American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 9:1, 23-72.
- 1997. "A Functional Approach towards the Subject Category in German." 1996 Mid-American Linguistics Conference Papers, The University of Kansas, 17-23.
- 1997. "German Impersonal Passives." Lexical and syntactic constructions and the construction of meaning, ed. By Keedong Lee, Eve Sweetser and Marjolijn Verspoor, in Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 399-415. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- 1995. with Irmengard Rauch, Julie Belz et al. "BAG [Bay Area German Project] IV: Phonological Interference." Insights in Germanic Linguistics I: Methodology in Transition, ed. By Irmengard Rauch and Gerald F. Carr, 2275-292.
Teaching Fields/Courses Taught
- Intermediate Literature and Culture
- German 105: The Modern German Language
- German 143: Language and the Media
- FRS 001: Germanic Myth and Linguistic Wisdom in Tolkien's Fiction
- German 206: Cognitive Grammar for Applied Linguistics