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Brigham Young University

Linguistics Education Theology Applied Linguistics Historical Linguistics Pragmatics Semantics Syntax English Philology

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Dallin D. Oaks serves as Professor of English Linguistics at Brigham Young University, where he has been a faculty member in the Linguistics department since 1990. He progressed from Assistant Professor of English (1990–1997) and Associate Professor of English (1997–2001) to Associate Professor of English Linguistics (2001–2021) before attaining his current rank in 2021. Earlier in his career, Oaks taught English as a Second Language at Davis School District high school and junior high as well as Utah Technical College Skills Center from 1985 to 1987. He also held half-time instructor positions in linguistics and English composition at Purdue University from 1987 to 1990. Oaks holds a B.A. in English Teaching from Brigham Young University (1984), an M.A. in Linguistics with an applied linguistics emphasis from the University of Utah (1986), and a Ph.D. in English (English linguistics) from Purdue University (1990), with a dissertation titled Enablers of Grammatical Ambiguity.