Robert B. Dewell
Associate Professor of German
Ph.D. in German Philology,
Tulane University, 1975
B.A. Davidson College, 1968
Further studies at Philipps-Universität
Marburg, 1966-67, 1972-73
His primary research interest is German linguistics, particularly in the area of cognitive linguistics. His publications include: "Over Again: Image-Schema Transformations in Semantic Analysis", "The Separability of German über-: A Cognitive Approach", "Construal Transformations: Internal and external viewpoints in interpreting containment", "Case Meaning and Sequence of Attention: Source landmarks as accusative and dative objects of the verb", "The Semantics of be-verb Constructions and the German Locative Alternation", "Dynamic Patterns of CONTAINMENT".