James Berry

James Berry is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP), specializing in linguistics. He coordinates the Interdisciplinary Certificate Program and the Summer ESL Program, focusing on generative syntax, historical morphosyntax, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.

• Ph.D. in English (Linguistics), Arizona State University
• M.A. in English, Arizona State University
• B.A. in English, University of Florida

His research explores the evolution of sentence adverbs in historical linguistics, particularly their role as secondary predicates with pragmatic functions. Additional interests include discourse analysis, onomastics, stylistics, and the pedagogy of invented languages. He has published on generative approaches to lexicalization, analyzing speech-act adverbs like 'frankly' in historical English contexts.

Contact:

• Email: jberry@uwsp.edu
• Office: CCC 441, UWSP
• Phone: 715-346-4757