CV
Education:
UC San Diego: Doctoral student in linguistics, in progress
The Ohio State University: BA in linguistics, 2017
Major Research Projects:
The linguistic representation of eventualities: Insights from a proper understanding of English main verb do. Dissertation research, UC San Diego, in progress
Do thus: A corpus study into the nature of event reference. 2nd year comprehensive paper, UC San Diego, 2019. (Abstract, PDF)
Albanian anaphora: Obliques as long-distance antecedents. Undergraduate research thesis, The Ohio State University, 2016. (Abstract, PDF)
Presentations:
Wampler, Joshua. (2020). Do thus: An investigation into event reference. Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. (Abstract, Slides)
Wampler, Joshua. (2019). We also do dogs: Main verb do and event construal. California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP) 12, University of Southern California. (Slides)
Wampler, Joshua & Eva Wittenberg. (2019). Doing thus and so: Event referential expressions and referent complexity. California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP) 3, UC Santa Cruz. (Slides)
Wampler, Joshua. (2017).Albanian anaphora: Obliques as non-local antecedents. Workshop in General Linguistics 14, University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Slides)
Posters:
Wampler, Joshua, & Eva Wittenberg. (2020). Form-specific preferences of proforms and demonstratives referring to events. The 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP), University of Potsdam, Germany.
Wampler, Joshua, & Eva Wittenberg. (2020). Conceptual parallels between event and object reference in English: A new paradigm shows that demonstratives refer to more complex events. The 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Wampler, Joshua. (2017). Albanian anaphora: Obliques as non-local antecedents. Great Lakes Expo for Experimental and Formal Undergraduate Linguistics (GLEEFUL) 7, Michigan State University. (Poster)
Reviewer:
California Meeting on Pragmatics (CAMP) 3, UC Santa Cruz, 2019
Glossa: A journal of general linguistics, 2020 - present
Session Chair:
California Meeting on Pragmatics (CAMP) 3, UC Santa Cruz, 2019
Research Assistant:
Language Comprehension Lab, PI Eva Wittenberg, Summer 2019
Teaching Assistant:
HDP 1: Introduction to the Human Development Program, UC San Diego. Fall 2017
LIGN 5: The Linguistics of Invented Languages, UC San Diego. Fall 2018; Fall 2019; Fall 2020
LIGN 121: Syntax I, UC San Diego. Winter 2020
LIGN 130: Semantics, UC San Diego. Spring 2018; Spring 2019. Spring 2020
LIGN 143: The Structure of Spanish, UC San Diego. Winter 2018
LIGN 150: Introduction to Historical Linguistics, UC San Diego. Winter 2021
LIGN 170: Psycholinguistics, UC San Diego. Winter 2019
Labs/Discussion groups:
Computational Linguistics Lab, UC San Diego. Fall 2018 – present
Experimental Syntax Lab, UC San Diego. Fall 2017 – present
Language Comprehension Lab, UC San Diego. Winter 2019 – present
Non-transformational Grammar Group, UC San Diego. Winter 2018 – Spring 2018
Semantics Babble, UC San Diego. Fall 2017 – present
Service:
Colloquium committee, UC San Diego Linguistics Department. 2017 – 2018
External relations committee, UC San Diego Linguistics Department. 2018 – 2019
LingUA (Linguistics Undergraduate Assoc.) Liaison, UC San Diego Linguistics Dept. 2019 – present
LSA Student Ambassador, Linguistics Society of America. 2019 – present
Volunteer, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, 2020
Space committee, UC San Diego Linguistics Department. 2020-present
Awards:
TA Excellence Award, UC San Diego. 2019
TA Excellence Award, UC San Diego. 2020
Mentoring:
Alistair Grey, undergraduate research assistant, Computational Linguistics Lab. Winter 2019 – Spring 2019
Professional affiliations:
Linguistic Society of America. 2017 – present
Professional development:
Introduction to College Teaching, Teaching and Learning Commons, UC San Diego. 2021
Course Design and Support Workshop, Teaching and Learning Commons, UC San Diego. 2021
Languages:
English, native
French, advanced
Spanish, intermediate
German, beginner
Albanian, beginner, research proficient
Mandarin, beginner, research proficient
Skills:
Microsoft suite, Google suite, LaTeX, Pratt, R, Ibex