FranzMueller

Contact Information

fmueller@fullerton.edu

Office: GH-421

Voice: 657-278-7004

Dept: 657-278-3163

Franz Mueller

Professor / Linguistics Graduate Adviser

Biography

I began teaching as a part-time lecturer at CSUF in Spring 1986 while still a graduate student at the University of Southern California.  Having received my Ph.D. from USC in 1991, I became a tenure-track professor here in Fullerton in the same year.  My publications include books on language typology and on the Sundanese language of Java, Indonesia, as well as numerous articles, book chapters, etc.  I have been Coordinator of the Linguistics program for many years and also served as either graduate adviser or undergraduate adviser in linguistics most semesters.

Degrees

1991, Ph.D., University of Southern California

1987, M.A., University of Southern California

Research Areas

Language typology, Indonesian languages, Syntax, Endangered languages

Courses Regularly Taught

Descriptive linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Language structure and language use

Publications

Müller-Gotama, Franz. Sundanese. Lincom Europa, 2002. 

 

Müller-Gotama, Franz. Grammatical Relations : A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Their Syntax and Semantics. M. de Gruyter, 1994.

 

Mueller, Franz. “Special Levels and Language Shift.” The Lacus Forum, vol. 38, 2020, pp. 1-7.

 

Mueller, Franz. “Language Shift on Java.” The LACUS Forum, vol. 34, 2007, pp. 179-.

 

Mueller, Franz. “Indonesian Morphology.” Morphologies of Asian and Africa, vol. 2, 2007, pp. 1207-1230.

 

Mueller, Franz. “Insular Southeast Asia: Linguistic and Cultural Studies in Honour of Bernd Nothofer (Review).” Oceanic Linguistics., vol. 47, no. 2, 2008, pp. 468–69, https://doi.org/10.1353/ol.0.0013.

 

Müller-Gotama, Franz. “Review of Thorsten Roelcke. Sprachtypologie des Deutschen.” Linguistic Typology, vol. 7, no. 3, 2003, pp. 417-419.

 

Office Hours

Spring 2025

M 3:00pm-6:00pm

(via Zoom 1/21-2/3)

(In-person 2/4-5/9)