An interview with Elizabeth Closs Traugott
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Alan S Kaye
Alan S. Kaye (b. 1944) is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Phonetics Research Laboratory at California State University, Fullerton 〈akaye@fullerton.edu〉. His principal research interests are phonology and morphology, Semitic and Afroasiatic languages, and Arabic dialectology. His major publications include
A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic (1982);Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau (ed. 1991); andPhonologies of Asia and Africa (ed. 1997).
Abstract
In this interview, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, the world's leading authority on grammaticalization and the history of English syntax and Stanford University Professor Emerita, speaks candidly about her long and distinguished career as professor, former President of the Linguistic Society of America, former President of the International Society for Historical Linguistics, and Stanford University administrator (Vice Provost). Among the topics covered are: her influence over the past 40 years in (1) linguistics in general and (2) in English linguistics and philology in particular, and her evaluation of the writings of Leonard Bloomfield, Zellig Harris, Dwight Bolinger, and Edward Sapir for the contemporary linguistic scene.
About the author
Alan S. Kaye (b. 1944) is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Phonetics Research Laboratory at California State University, Fullerton 〈akaye@fullerton.edu〉. His principal research interests are phonology and morphology, Semitic and Afroasiatic languages, and Arabic dialectology. His major publications include A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic (1982); Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau (ed. 1991); and Phonologies of Asia and Africa (ed. 1997).
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