Education
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College in 1955, and her Master of Arts in English in 1961 and Doctor of Philosophy in linguistics in 1967, both from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Carol Myers-Scotton
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Carol Myers-Scotton was a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Linguistics Program and Department of English at the University of South Carolina until 2003 and is now an adjunct professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at Michigan State University, and also a visiting scholar at the Moscow State University African Studies Center.
Career
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College in 1955, and her Master of Arts She resided in Columbia, South Carolina until 2003, where she was Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Linguistics Program and Department of English. She currently resides in Michigan, where she is an adjunct professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at Michigan State University, and also a visiting scholar at the Moscow State University African Studies Center. She continues her research and writing.
Achievements
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Myers-Scotton has received many grants and honors, including a 1983 Fulbright grant to study language use patterns in Kenya and Zimbabwe, a 1994-1997 National Science Foundation grant to study grammatical constraints on code switching (with Company-Principal Investigator January Jake), and a 2004-2005 National Science Foundation grant to test a hypothesis about the grammatical aspects of the abruptness of language shift. Specifically, the study dealt with Xhosa-English bilinguals in Gauteng Province in South Africa around Pretoria and Johannesburg.
