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		Kathryn Remlinger Organization: Grand Valley State University, Department of English Email: remlingk@gvsu.edu

Keweenaw Now guest author Kathryn Remlinger grew up in Columbus, Ohio. She is Associate Professor of Linguistics and English at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan.

Kate received her Ph.D. from the Rhetoric and Technical Communications program at Michigan Technological University in 1995. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and sociology and a Master of Arts in English from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky.

Her research includes language variation and change, language and power, language and gender, as well as language in the classroom. She teaches a variety of linguistics courses: sociolinguistics, the history of English language, language and gender and introduction to language study.

Her office address is the following:

Kathryn Remlinger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English: Linguistics
Department of English
Grand Valley State University
1 Campus Drive 
Allendale, MI 49401 USA

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The Finnish "Brogue" of the Copper Country

Posted 02/25/2002

HOUGHTON -- If you wonder about the origins of that bumper sticker, "Say yah to da UP, eh," or why Copper Country natives "make wood" and eat "pannukakku," guest author Kathryn Remlinger, Ph.D., offers some answers from her research on the influence of the Finnish language on the Copper Country dialect. Remlinger will also present a Humanities Colloquium, "Accent with an Attitude," from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Walker 109 on the Michigan Tech campus. more