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Frede Jensen, Ph.D., (February, 17 1926 - September 13, 2008) was a 20th-century, Danish-born Romance philologist and professor of French. Author of 17 books and over 60 articles, he was widely respected by the romance philology community and recognized as an expert in the field. He is highly esteemed for his detailed and thorough publications on old occitan grammar and has been referred to endearingly as "the 'Grevisse' of old Occitan".

An extraordinary linguist, Jensen was fluent in eight languages with a remarkable command of medieval/ancient Romance languages. His publications include works on vulgar and classical Latin, old Italian, old Spanish, medieval Occitan, old French, and old Portuguese.

Life
Frede Jensen was born on February 17, 1926 to Hans Jensen and Jenny Kirstine Martinusen in Taarup, Auning county, in the Midtjylland region of Denmark. He spent his first years on a sizable family homestead and was raised by his two loving parents. Frede was the second of three children born to the Jensen family. The property was home to a lovely forest where oak, pine, and beech trees grew. These early surroundings were likely the mold where Frede's great sensibility to nature was formed. The great depression arrived with its share of sufferings and soon the family had to relocate to a smaller house in the nearby small village of Trojstrup. Frede lived there with his family until he graduated from the Randers Stattskole in 1945. When he was a young teenager, he loved collecting and drying flowers from the countryside. His collection later ended up in the hands of the Museum of the Botanical Garden of Copenhagen, which they still preserve today. In 1945, Jensen went to the University of Copenhagen and completed his undergraduate studies in 1949. Jensen then attended the Université de Grenoble in France on a scholarship where he received a degree in French grammar and Philology (Certificat de Grammaire et de Philologie Francaises) in 1950. While in Grenoble he joined a mountaineering club. For him it was the door opened to the undulating slopes of wild flowers, before setting his sights on higher summits later in his life. Jensen returned to Denmark to serve his mandatory 9-month military service from 1950 to 1951 where he served as a telex operator. Jensen then returned to the University of Copenhagen where he received his master's degree, with distinction, in 1953 in French with a minor in English.

He spent the summer of 1953 studying at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, then went on to attend the University of Salamanca, Spain where he received a Spanish Philology degree in 1955 (Diplomado de Filologia Hispánica). It was here that he met his future wife, whom he later wed in the United States in 1968.

In 1956, Jensen moved to Los Angeles, California in the United States on a Fulbright grant and subsequently earned his Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. in 1961, in Romance Languages and Literatures with an emphasis in Philology (French, Spanish, and Italian).

Over the next 6 years, Jensen held a number of teaching positions, first at the University of Calgary, Canada and then at U.C.L.A., before settling in Boulder, Colorado to take on a professorship position at the University of Colorado in 1967. Jensen was Professor of French at the University of Colorado at Boulder until his retirement on June 19, 1996.

Jensen was the recipient of numerous awards for scholarly achievements throughout his career (listed below). He also served as the President of the Centre de Guillaume IX, a center for research in Troubadour studies, and was a member of the editorial board of Semasia (a romance philology publication).

He was also a tireless mountain climber who summitted hundreds of peaks in Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Europe and the United States, and he climbed all fifty three of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks within two summers. He continued to hike regularly up until his death in September of 2008, in Boulder, Colorado, at the age of 82.

Education
Middle school, a private school in Allingaabro, Denmark

High school studies at Randers Stattskole in Randers, Denmark, graduating in June, 1945

University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1949 (B.A.)

Université de Grenoble, France,1950, Certificat de Grammaire et de Philologie Françaises

University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1953, M.A. (with distinction) with major in French and a minor in English

University of Salamanca, Spain, 1955, Diplomado de Filologia Hispánica

U.C.L.A., California, U.S.A.1961, Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, with major emphasis on Philology (French, Spanish, Italian)

Professional Career
University of Washington at Seattle, 1956-57, Teaching Assistant, Department of Romance Languages.

U.C.L.A, 1957-60, Teaching Assistant, Department of French.

Katedralskole, Nykøbing, Denmark, 1960-1961, Acting Instructor in French and English.

University of Calgary, 1961-64, Teaching Assistant of Modern Languages.

U.C.L.A., 1964-67, Teaching Assistant of French and Romance Philology.

University of Colorado at Boulder, 1967-73, Associate Professor of French and Linguistics.

University of Colorado at Boulder, 1973-77, Professor of French and Linguistics.

University of Colorado at Boulder, 1977-1996, Professor of French.

Grants and Honors
French Government Scholarship, 1949-50, University of Grenoble.

University of Copenhagen Scholarships, 1948-49 and 1950-53.

Relaciones Culturales Scholarship, University of Salamanca, 1955.

Fulbright Scholarship, 1956-60, University of Washington and U.C.L.A.

C.U. Faculty Fellowship, Council on Research and Creative Work, 1974-75, for research in Portugal.

Member of the editorial board of Semasia.

Presidency of Centre Guillaume IX, 1981-86.

C.U. Faculty Fellowship, Council on Research and Creative Work, 1987-88, for research in France.

Fellow of the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France. Fall 1987.

Recipient of the 1989 Eugene M. Kayden University of Colorado Annual Faculty Manuscript Award.

GCAH Research Travel Grant for trip to Italy to support the project "The Poetry of the Siculo-Toscani," January 1989.

Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Italy, Summer 1989.

Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work, April 1991.

American Philosophical Society Committee on Research grant for research in Portugal and Galicia, July-August, 1991.

Chancellor's Fund for the Humanities grant, July 1994.

Council for Research and Creative Work Research Grant, Summer 1993.

GCAH Research Travel Grant, Summer 1993.

Distinguished Faculty Lectureship, 1993-1994.

Fellow of the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, Fall 1994.

Books
1. The Italian Verb, A Morphological Study, University of North Carolina Press, Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, No. 107, 1971. 97 pp.

2. From Vulgar Latin to Old Provençal. University of North Carolina Press, Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, No. 120, 1972. 97 pp.

3. F. Jensen and T. Lathrop: The Syntax of the Old Spanish Subjunctive. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, Janua Linguarum Series, 1973. 92 pp.

4. The Syntax of the Old French Subjunctive. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, Janua Lunguarum Series,1974. 134 pp.

5. The Old Provençal Noun and Adjective Declension. Odense University Press, Études romanes de l'Université d'Odense, Vol. 9, 1976. 177 pp.

6. The Earliest Portuguese Lyrics. Odense University Press, Études romanes de l'Université d'Odense, Vol. 11, 1978. 308 pp.

7. Provençal Philology and the Poetry of Guillaume of Poitiers. Odense University Press, Études romanes de l'Université d'Odense, Vol. 13, 1983. 374 pp.

8. The Poetry of the Sicilian School. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, Vol. 22, 1986. I-LXXIII. 250pp

9. The Syntax of Medieval Occitan. Tübingen/West Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag, Beihefte zur Zeitschirft für romanische Philologie, Vol. 208, 1986. I-VII. 431 pp.

10. Old French and Comparative Gallo-Romance Syntax. Tübingen/West Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag, Beihefte zur Zeitschirft für romanische Philologie, Vol. 232, 1990. I-XI. 590 pp.

11. ''Medieval Galician-Portuguese Poetry. An Anthology''. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, Vol. 87 1992. I-CXXXVIII. 624 pp.

12. Syntaxe de l'ancien occitan. Tübingen/West Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag, Beihefte zur Zeitschift für romanische Philologie, Vol. 257, 1994. 404 pp.

13. Tuscan Poetry of the Duecento. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, Vol. 99, 1994, I-XLV, 335 pp.

14. ''Troubadour Lyrics. A Bilingual Anthology''. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Studies in the Humanities, vol. 39, 1998, 593 pp.

15. A Comparative Study of Romance. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Studies in the Humanities, vol. 46, 1999, 446 pp.

16. ''La Vie de Saint Eustace. Introduction to Old French. Philological Commentary by Frede Jensen''. Edition and Introduction by Tom Lathrop. Newark/Delaware: LinguaText, Ltd., 2000, 208 pp.

17. The language of the eleventh century "Vie de St. Alexis". Edition by Tom Lathrop. Newark/Delaware: LinguaText, Ltd., 2003, 367 pp.

Chapters in Books
1. "Language." Chapter 17 of A Handbook of the Troubadours. F.R.P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis, eds. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1995. pp. 349-99.

Articles
1. "The Indefinite Relatives and Concessive Subordination in Old French," Proceedings of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast (1962).

2. "The Infinitive Variants of Bénir and Maudire and their Dependence on Dire," Romance Notes 13.2 (1971).

3. "Provençal sor and molher, Lone Survivors of the Feminine Imparisyllables," Colorado Research in Linguistics (CRIL) 3 (May 1973): J1-J8.

4. "Désaccord entre genre et flexion: les substantifs masculins à désinence féminine en provençal," Revue des Langues Romanes (Montpellier) 80 (1973): 393-404.

5. "Provençal cor and cors: A Flexional Dilemma," Romance Philology 28.1 (August 1974) 27-31.

6. "Retour sur la flexion du provençal coms-comte," Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (Tübingen/West Germany) 90.5/6 (1974): 497-98.

7. "Diachronic Hypercharacterization of Gender in the Old Provençal Adjective," Semasia (Amsterdam) 1 (1974): 7-20.

8. "Les substantifs féminins collectifs en ancien provençal," Romania (Paris) 96 (1975): 268-75.

9. "Les substantifs féminins collectifs en ancien provençal," Romania (Paris) 96 (1975): 459-80.

10. "Rich in the Romance Languages: An Etymological mise au point," Semasia 3 (1976): 33-37.

11. "Stem Alternations in the Occitan Adjective," Semasia 4 (1977): 370-78.

12. "Les imparisyllabiques féminin en ancien provençal," Romania 98 (1977): 370-78.

13. "Vestiges of the -ane Flexion in Old Provençal," Studia Gratularia in honour of Robert A. Hall, Jr. (Madrid, 1979): 153-56.

14. "On the Syntax of the Provençal Possessives," Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 3 (1982): 39-44.

15. "Philological Comments on the Poetry of the Earliest Troubadour," Romance Philology 38.4 (May, 1985): 436-62.

16. "Remarques sur la syntaxe des possessifs en ancient provençal," Morphosyntaxe des Langues Romanes, Actes du XVIIe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes (Marseille) 4 (1986): 215-22.

17. "Du datif á l'accusatif absolu: soi quarz et  lui quart," Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki (Helsinki: Société Néophilologique) 44 (1986): 159-63.

18. "Deviations from the Troubadour Norm in the Language of Guillaume IX." Studia Occitanica (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications/Western Michigan University) 2 (1986): 347-62.

19. "Stray Thoughts on Gallo-Romance Collectives, Mass Nouns and Generic Representations," Selecta, Journal of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages (Oregon State University) 8 (1987): 11-16.

20. "Sur l'italianité de Peire de la Cavarana," Miscellanea di Studi in onore di Aurelio Roncaglia (Modena: Mucchi Editore, 1989) 695-703.

21. "L'influence des troubadours sur la poésie sicilienne du Duecento," Études romanes de Lund (Lund: Lund University Press, 1990) 204-09.

22. "Sur les variations proportionnelles en gallo-roman médiéval," Actes du onzième congrès des romanistes scandinaves (Trondheim: Institut d'Etudes Romanes, Université de Trondheim, 1990) 251-60.

23. "Les Troubadours et l'éveil poétique en Italie," Actes du IIIème Congrès de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, Contacts de langues, de Civilisations et intertextualité, Montpellier, 20-26 September 1990, 983-89.

24. "Quelques observations sur la parataxe en occitan médiéval." Mélanges de langue et de litérature occitanes en hommage à Pierre Bec (Poitiers: Université de Poitiers, 1991) 215-21.

25. "Sur les comparaisons proportionnelles en français et occitan," Revue des Langues Romanes 95.2 (1991): 351-58.

26. "Folquet de Marselha and the Classical Tradition," ''The Influence of the Classical World on Medieval Literature, Architecture, Music, and Culture. A Collection of Interdisciplinary Studies'', ed. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992) 54-65.

27. "A True Dilemma: Is Occitan verai Domestic or Foreign?" Romance Notes, 32 (1992), 209-13.

28. "On the Provenance of Spanish BLANCO and Portuguese BRANCO." Romance Notes, 33.1 (1993), 39-43.

29. "Afonso Mendes de Besteiros," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 20.

30. "Bell, Aubrey Fitzgerald," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 79-80.

31. "Entwistle, William James," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 236-37.

32. "Fernan Rodriguez de Calheiros," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 262-63.

33. "Lang, Henry R.," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 379-80.

34. "Nobiling, Oskar," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 475.

35. "Osoir' Anes," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 499-500.

36. "Pranto," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 562-63.

37. "Roi Martinz do Casal," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 585-86.

38. "Roi Queimado," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 588-89.

39. "Vasco Fernandez Praga de Sandin," Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 1993), 648-49.

40. "Sobre la herencia de los trovadores en la lírica galaico-portuguesa." Salamanca: Biblioteca Española del Siglo XV (1994).

41. "On a Few Archaic Features in Duecento Tuscan," Romance Notes, 34.3 (1994), 233-39.

42. "Sur les relatifs en gallo-roman médiéval," Actes du XXIe Congrès des Romanistes Scandinaves, Aalborg, Aalborg University Press, vol. I, pp. 207-16, 1994.

43. "Arbuteus and the ty Cluster in Romance," Romance Philology, 1994, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 136-44.

44. "On Syntactic Phonetics in Romance," Romania 115 (1997): 541-47.

45. "Arrigo Testa," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 1, p. 60

46. "Cielo d'Alcamo," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 1, p. 223.

47. "Compagnetto da Prato," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 1, pp. 241-42.

48. "Giacomino Pugliese," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 1, pp. 417-18.

49. "Giacomo da Lentini," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 1, pp. 418-19.

50. "Guido delle Colonne," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 1, p. 474.

51. "Jacopo d'Aquino," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 1, pp. 571-72.

52. "Jacopo Mostacci," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 1, pp. 574-75.

53. "Mazzeo di Ricco," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, p. 698.

54. "Odo delle Colonne," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, pp. 793-94.

55. "Paganino da Serezano," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, p. 823.

56. "Percivalle Doria," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, pp. 874-75.

57. "Re Giovanni," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, p. 954.

58. "Rinaldo d'Aquino," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, pp. 966-67.

59. "Ruggeri Apugliese," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, p. 992.

60. "Ruggero d'Amici," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, p. 992.

61. "Ruggerone da Palermo," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, p. 992.

62. "Scuola Poitica Siciliana," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, pp. 1018-20.

63. "Stefana Protonotaro," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, p. 1059.

64. "Tommaso di Sasso da Messina," Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9, 2003), vol. 2, p. 1085.

Reviews
1. Lind, Ivan: De Portugal ao Brasil. In Romance Philology 19.3 (February 1966): 527-29.

2. Ronconi, A.: Filoligia e linguistica. In Forum Italicum 4 (March 1970): 143-45.

3. Ruggieri, R.M.: La Filologia Romanza in Italia. In Forum Italicum 5 (June 1971): 314-17.

4. Butler, J.L.: Latin -inus, -ina, -inus and -ineus. From Proto-Indo-European to the Romance Languages. In Forum Italicum 6.3 (September 1972): 456-58.

5. Billeskov Jansen, F.J. and P.M. Mitchell, eds.: Anthology of Danish Literature. In Modern Language Journal 57.3 (March 1973): 148-49.

6. Izzo, Herbert J.: Tuscan and Etruscan. In Italica 52.1 (Spring 1975): 95-97.

7. Spore, Palle: La diphtongaison romane. In The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 20.1 (Fall 1975): 197-203.

8. H. Le Bourdellès: L'Aratus Latinus:  Etude sur la culture et la langue latines dans le Nord de la France au VIIIe siècle. In Speculum, a Journal of Medieval Studies 62.2 (April 1987): 436-38. Published by The Medieval Academy of America.

9. Pierre Ruelle, ed.: Chartes en langue française antérieures à 1271 conservées dans la province de Hainaut. In Speculum, a Journal of Medieval Studies 62.2 (April 1987): 471-72. Published by The Medieval Academy of America.

10. Muir, Lynette R.: Literature and Society in Medieval France:  The Mirror and the Image, 1100-1500. In Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 8 (1987): 199-200.

11. Harris, M. Roy, ed.: The Occitan Translations of John XII and XIII-XVII from a Fourteenth-Century Franciscan Codex (Assisi, Chiesa Nuova MS 9). In Romance Philology 41.4 (May 1988): 473-77.

12. Hausmann, Frank-Rutger, ed.: Die Gedichte aus Dantes "De vulgari eloquentia", Klassische Texte des Romanischen Mittelalters in zweisprachigen Ausgaben, Vol. 27 (München:  Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1986). In Romance Philology 42.3 (February 1990): 486-90.

13. Theresa Coletti: Naming the Rose:  Eco, Medieval Signs and Modern Theory. In Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 12 (1991): 150-51.

14. William Crelly: Marcello Giovanetti (1598-1631):  A poet of the Early Roman Baroque. In Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, vol. 13 (1992): 141-42.

15. Pierre Kunstmann: Le relatif-interrogatif en ancien français. In Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, T. XXXVI, fasc. 1 (no. 141) (1993): 104-5.

16. Günter Holtus, Michael Metzeltin, and Christian Schmitt, eds.: Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik. In Romance Philology 47.2 (November 1993): 222-28.

17. Yakov Malkiel: Etymology. In English Language Notes 34.1 (September 1996): 104-7.

18. Rebecca Posner, The Romance Languages. In CHOICE 34.9 (May 1997).

Abstracts
1. "Répercussions morphologiques du n final instable en ancien provençal," Resumos (Rio de Janeiro, 1977) 38-39.

2. "Stem Alternations in the Occitan Adjective," Sociological Abstracts, Inc. (San Diego, California, 1980).

3. "La mise en relief et la relative hypothétique," Resums de Comunicacions i de Treballs (Palma de Mallorca, 1980).

4. "Le passage de e fermé en ei en provençal: diphtongaison poitevine ou licence poétique?" NOK 42 (Odense, 1981) 14.

5. "Philological Comments on the Poetry of the Earliest Troubadour," Sociological Abstracts, Inc. (San Diego, California, 1985).

6. "Sur les variations proportionnelles en Gallo-Roman médiéval," Résumés, Onzième congrès des romanistes scandinaves (Dragvoll, Norway, 1990) 23.

7. "Les troubadours et l'éveil poétique en Italie," Résumés des communications, IIIe Congrès international de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes (Montpellier, France, 1990).

Papers/Lectures
1. "Répercussions flexionnelles du n final instable en ancien provençal," presented at the 15th International Conference on Romance Linguistics and Philology, held at Rio de Janeiro, July 25-30, 1977.

2. "The Language of Guillaume IX, Troubadour and Poitevin," presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Centre Guillaume IX, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 2-3, 1979.

3. "La mise en relief et la relative hypothétique: del vers vos dic que mais ne vau qui be l'enten e n'a plus lau," presented at the 16th International Conference on Romance Linguistics and Philology, held at Palma de Mallorca, Spain, April 7-12, 1980.

4. "On the Syntax of the Provençal Possessives," presented at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, held at Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 10-11, 1981.

5. "Examen des présumés poitevinismes dans l'oeuvre de Guillaume IX," presented at the VIIIe Congrès International de langue et littérature d'oc et d'études franco-provençales, held at Liège, Belgium, August 2-9, 1981. Presided over one of the Saturday, August 8 sessions of the Liège conference.

6. "Le passage de e fermé en ei en provençal: diphtongaison poitevine ou licence poétique?", presented at the VIIIe Congrès de l'Association des Romanistes Scandinaves, held at Odense, Denmark, August 17-21, 1981.

7. "On the Versatility of the Provençal Possessives," conference delivered before the Medieval and Renaissance Collegium of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 14, 1981.

8. Presidential address, Centre Guillaume IX conference: "The Early Troubadours," held at Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 16-17, 1981.

9. "On a Few Passages in Guillaume IX: Syntax and Text Editing," presented at the Centre Guillaume IX Conference:  "The Early Troubadours," held at Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 16-17, 1981.

10. "Towards a New Edition of William of Poitiers," presented at Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association conference, held at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 8-9, 1983.

11. "Poits as Foreign-Language Learners: 'The Case of an Italian-Born Troubadour,'" presented at the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, held at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 12-14, 1983.

12. Presidential address, Centre Guillaume IX Conference: "The Troubadours of the Second Generation and the Foreign Troubadours" held at Poitiers, France, July 25-28, 1983.

13. "Sur l'italianité de Peire de la Cavarana," presented at the Centre Guillaume IX Conference, held at Poitiers, France, July 25-28, 1983.

14. "Remarques sur la syntaxe des possessifs en ancien provençal," presented at the XVIIe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, held at Aix-en-Provence, France, August 29 - September 3, 1983.

15. "On Editing a Medieval Provençal Text: the Quest for the Original Version," presented at the Symposium on Medieval Romance Manuscripts, held at the University of Colorado, March 19, 1984.

16. "Du Datif à l'accusatif absolu: soi quarz et lui quart," presented at the IXe Congrès des Romanistes Scandinaves, held at Helsinki, Finland, August 12-17, 1984.

17. "The Sicilian School of Poetry," presented at the Center of Medieval Studies, State University of Arizona, Tempe, Arizona, March 25, 1985.

18. "Stray Thoughts on Gallo-Romance Collectives, Mass Nouns and Generic Representations," presented at the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages Conference, held in Seattle, Washington, May 9, 1987.

19. "De l'influence des troubadours sur la poésie sicilienne du Duecento," presented at the Xe Congrès des Romanistes Scandinaves, held at Lund, Sweden, August 10-14, 1987.

20. "On the Troubadour Heritage in Sicilian Duecento Poetry," presented at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, held at Grand Canyon National Park, April 21-23, 1989.

21. Chair of the session on Italian Literature, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, held at Grand Canyon National Park, April 21-23, 1989.

22. "Sobre la herencia de los trovadores en la lírica galaico-portuguesa," presented at the III Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval, held at Salamanca, Spain, October 3-6, 1989.

23. "Sur les variations proportionnelles en gallo-roman médiéval," presented at the XIe Congrès des Romanistes Scandinaves, held at Trondheim, Norway, August 13-17, 1990.

24. "Les troubadours et l'éveil poétique en Italie," presented at the IIIe Congrès International de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, held at Montpellier, France, August 20-26, 1990.

25. "On the Beginnings of Lyrical Poetry in Italy," presented at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, held in Breckenridge, Colorado, April 18-20, 1991.

26. "On Animal Similes in Early Italian Lyrics," presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, Spokane, Washington, May 9-11, 1991.

27. "Folquet de Marselha and the Classical Tradition," presented at the "On Giants' Shoulders" Colloquium, held at the University of Colorado at Boulder, January 19, 1992.

28. "Etymology: From Fantasy to Word History," presented at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, held in Flagstaff, Arizona, April 8-10, 1993.

29. "Sur les relatifs en gallo-roman médiéval," presented at the XIIe Congrès des Romanistes Scandinaves, held at Aalborg, Denmark, August 11-15, 1993.

30. "Etymology: Word Origin and Word Biography," 45th Annual PNCFL Conference, Missoula, Montana, May 13, 1994.

31. "Betrayal and Hopelessness: The Symbolism of Animal Legends in Early Italian Poetry," presented at the Sixteenth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 9-11, 1996.

32. "Etymology: History and Methods," University of Colorado at Boulder, Eighty-Sixth Lecture on Research and Creative Work, March 9, 1994.

33. "Etymology: History and Methods," University of Calgary, Canada, May 19, 1994.