Carolyn Horton Harford
Professor,
Department of African Languages and Literature,
University of Swaziland, Swaziland.
Email: chharford@yahoo.com.

1985                             Ph.D – University of Wisconsin-Madison

                                    Major: Linguistics

                                    Minor: African Languages and Literature

Dissertation Title: Aspects of Complementation in Three Bantu Languages

1981                             M. A. – University of Wisconsin-Madison

                                    Major: Linguistics

1978                             Summer Linguistic Institute

                                    Linguistic Society of America

                                    University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

1975                             B. A. – Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

                                    Major: Classical Languages (Greek and Latin)

                                    Graduated Cum Laude

University Teaching and Administrative Experience

August 2004                              
Associate Professor, Department of English and Communication, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

January 2004                            
Associate Professor and Chair of Department, Department of English and Communication, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

2001-2003                                
Senior Lecturer and Chair of Department, Department of English and Communication, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

1996-2001                                
Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Zimbabwe

2000                                        
Coordinator of the Masters in Applied English Linguistics Programme, Department of Linguistics, University of Zimbabwe

1994-1995                                
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Zimbabwe

1995                                        
Associate Professor of Linguistics and African Studies, with tenure, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

1987-1994                                
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and African Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

1992                                        
Director and Faculty Member, Intensive Summer Shona Institute, sponsored by the Consortium for Inter-Institutional Collaboration in African and Latin American Studies (CICALS), Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U. S. A.

1990                                        
Director and Faculty Member, Intensive Summer Shona Institute, sponsored by the Consortium for Inter-Institutional Collaboration in African and Latin American Studies (CICALS), Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U. S. A.

1978-1981                                
Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2009-ongoing                
Chair, Faculty Research Committee, Faculty of Humanities

2009-ongoing                
Member, UNISWA Research Board

2009-ongoing                
Member, Technical Advisory Committee of UNISWA Research Board

2009-ongoing                
Member, Senate Subcommittee on the Guidelines for the Establishment of Faculties/Schools/Colleges

2009                            
Member, Senate Subcommittee on the Guidelines/Procedures for the Operation of the Institutional Fund for Academic Advancement, University of Swaziland

2009-ongoing                
Professorial Representative of the Faculty of Humanities to Senate, University of Swaziland

2007                            
Chair, International Student and Bridging Programme Committee, Midlands State University

2007                            
Chair, Student Funding Committee, Midlands State University

2007                            
Chair, Student Health Committee, Midlands State University

2005-2008                    
Acting Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Midlands State University on various occasions; responsibilities have included chairing Fees Revision Committee, Selection Board, Associate and Affiliate Status Committee, Asset Disposal Committee, Termination of Studies Appeals Committee, Staff Development Committee, Library Committee and interview panels at both academic and non-academic levels.

2003                            
Vice-Chair of Research Board, Midlands State University

2003-2004                    
Member, Editorial Board, Midlands State University

2003                            
Member, Senate Subcommittee working on the Citation of an Honorary Degree to be Awarded to the Chancellor of Midlands State University, Midlands State University

1997-1999                    
Member, Bookshop Committee, Faculty of Arts, University of Zimbabwe

1998-2000                    
Member, Equipment Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Zimbabwe

1998-2000                    
Member, Editorial Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Zimbabwe

1999                           
Member of curriculum development committee for Master of Arts in Language for Specific Purposes degree, Department of Linguistics, University of Zimbabwe

1990-1992                    
Member of the Board, Consortium for Inter-Institutional Collaboration in African and Latin American Studies (CICALS), Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.

1992-1993                    
Member, Admissions Committee, Department of Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.

Other Academic Employment Experience

1985                            
Assistant on project to compile comparative lexicon on Thaagicu languages, directed by Prof. Patrick R. Bennett, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1984                            
Assistant on project to study methods of teaching composition, directed by Prof. Martin Nystrand, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1983                            
Assistant on psycholinguistic project studying experimental data on sentence perception, directed by Prof. Peter A. Schreiber, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2007: with N.M. Bhebe, Traditional Cultures and Modern Universities: Continuity and Evolution, in Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium, Vol. VIII (B), Research Council of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

2003: Perfective Stems in Shona, in Zambezia Vol. 30 (ii), pp. 190-203

1999: with Katherine Demuth, An Optimality Approach to Subject Inversion in Bantu Relatives, in Linguistic Analysis Vol. 29 (1-2)

1999: Disyllabification in Shona and the Prosody-Syntax Interface in Optimality Theory, in Malilime: Journal of Malawian Linguistics, Vol. 1

1999: with Katherine Demuth, Verb Raising and Subject Inversion in Bantu Relatives, in Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Vol. 20.1

1999: with Alan Beretta, Maria Piñango and Janet Patterson, Recruiting Comparative Crosslinguistic Evidence to Address Competing Accounts of Agrammatic Aphasia, in Brain and Language Vol. 67.3

1997: Empty Operator Raising in Kitharaka, in Studies in African Linguistics Vol. 26.2

1993: The Applicative in Chishona and Lexical Mapping Theory, in Mchombo, S. (ed.), Aspects of Bantu Grammar, Center for the Study of Language and Information/University of Chicago Press

1992: Object Asymmetries in Kitharaka, in BLS 17, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley

1990: Locative Inversion in Chishona, in Hutchison, J., and V. Manfredi (eds.), Current Approaches to African Linguistics, Vol. 7, Foris Publications, Dordrecht

1985: The Shona Passive and Government-Binding Theory, in Dimmendaal, G. (ed.), Current Approaches to African Linguistics, Vol. 3, Foris Publications, Dordrecht

1984: Anaphoric Binding in Bantu, in Drogo, J., V. Mishra and D. Testen (eds.), CLS 20: Papers from the Twentieth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago

1983" Locative Pseudo-Subjects in Shona, in Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, Vol. 5.2

1983: with Patrick R. Bennett, Ann Biersteker, Waithira Gikonyo, Susan Hershberg, Joel Kamande and Martha Swearingen, Gikuyu Ni Kioigire: A First Course in Kikuyu, African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1991                             Review of The Syntactic Phenomena of English, Vols. 1,2, by James D. McCawley, in Word, Vol. 42.3

1991                             Review of Linguistic Theory in America, 2^nd edition, by Frederick J. Newmeyer, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 13.3

1987                             Review of Order in Makua Syntax by Susan U. Stucky, in Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

1998                            
Associate Editor of Malilime: Journal of Malawian Linguistics

1992                            
Associate Editor of Studies in African Linguistics

Conference Presentations

2006: Order and Allomorphy in Verbal Inflectional Morphology in Bantu and Romance Languages, poster presentation at The Bantu-Romance Connection Workshop, European Science Foundation, University of Leeds, Leeds

1996 : C-Command in Morphology: Final Vowels in Chishona, Seventh International Morphology Meeting, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

1995: with Katherine Demuth, Word Order and Head Movement in Southern Bantu Relatives, Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

1994: with Alan Beretta, Janet Patterson and Maria Piñango, The Proper Description of Comprehension Deficits in Agrammatic Aphasia, Nineteenth Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, Massachusetts

1993: Infinitives in Gikuyu, Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1991: Object Asymmetries in Kitharaka, Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California

1990: The Applicative in Chishona and Lexical Mapping Theory, Twenty-First Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

1989: Interrogatives, Raising and Subject Markers in Kitharaka, Twentieth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Urbana, Illinois

1987: Successive Cyclicity in Kitharaka, Eighteenth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Universite du Quebec à Montreal, Montreal

1985: Inversion in Shona, 60^th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Seattle, Washington

1985: with Stuart B. Soffer, A Database System for Linguistic Analysis, MUMPS Users’ Group Meeting, Chicago, Illinois

1985: A Government-Binding Analysis of Infinitives in Kikuyu, Sixteenth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1984:  Anaphoric Binding in Bantu, Twentieth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, Illinois

1984: Raising and Control in Bantu, Fifteenth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

1983: An Argument Against Passivization of Locatives in Shona, Ninth Annual Minnesota Regional Conference on Language and Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1982: Locative Pseudo-Subjects in Shona, Thirteenth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Universite du Quebec à Montreal, Montreal

Invited Presentations

2007: Improving Communication and Negotiation Skills through your Emotional Intelligence, invited presentation for Female Leadership and Management Excellence (FLAME), Enhancement Consultants convention held at the Montclair Hotel, Nyanga, Zimbabwe

Management Development Part 1, Zimbabwe Institute of Management, Bulawayo,

September 19-23, 2005

Workshop to review the Strategic and Business Plans of Midlands State University, Masvingo, October, 2005

Workshop to construct balanced scorecards, conducted by Ntabeni-Bhebe Enhancement Associates, Masvingo, October, 2005

Female Managers Convention, presented by Ntabeni-Bhebe Enhancement Associates,

Harare Sheraton, July 22-24, 2004

Workshop to review the Strategic and Business Plans of Midlands State University,

Kadoma, Zimbabwe, August 14-16, 2003

“Becoming HIV/AIDS Free”, workshop conducted by Deseret International, May 10-12,

2003, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

“Education for Life, a behaviour change based training program in HIV/AIDS

awareness and prevention”, workshop conducted by Deseret International, October 4-6,

2002, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

2)    Introduction to Syntax (generative)

3)    Advanced Syntax (generative)

4)    Applied English Syntax and Morphology

5)    English for Specific Purposes

6)    Introduction to Morphology

7)    Discourse Analysis

8)    Occupational Discourses

9)    Second Language Acquisition

10)  Comparative Bantu Linguistics

11)  Shona Syntax

12)  Ndebele Syntax

13)  Swahili Structure for 2^nd Language Learners

14)  Shona Structure for 2^nd Language Learners

15)  Field Linguistics

16)  Animal Communication

17)  Stylistics

18)   History Linguistics (Western and Bantu)

19)  English Literature (the poetry of William Butler Yeats)