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An interview with Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • 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); and Phonologies of Asia and Africa (ed. 1997).

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Published/Copyright: April 28, 2006
Semiotica
From the journal Volume 2006 Issue 158

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.

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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); and Phonologies of Asia and Africa (ed. 1997).

Published Online: 2006-04-28
Published in Print: 2006-02-20

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https://doi.org/10.1515/SEM.2006.012

Articles in the same Issue

  1. On ‘semiotics’ as naming the doctrine of signs
  2. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes: A journey across the continuum of paradox
  3. ‘Read my hands not my lips’: Untrained observers' ability to interpret children's gestures
  4. Application d'une méthode de linguistique textuelle au livre de Ruth
  5. Connotations in semiotic systems of visual art (through the example of works by M. A. Vrubel)
  6. Dyadic versus triadic sign models in functional and object-oriented computer programming paradigms
  7. Life and semiosis: The real nature of information and meaning
  8. The cybersemiotic model of communication: An evolutionary model of the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange
  9. The semiotics of ‘difference’ in Roentgen diagnosis
  10. Mythic algebra uses: Metaphor, logic, and the semiotic sign
  11. An interview with Peter Ladefoged
  12. An interview with Elizabeth Closs Traugott
  13. A note on life as meaning-making machinery
  14. The Palace of La Moneda: From the trauma of the Hawker Hunters to the therapy of the signs
  15. A multiculturalist approach to discourse theory
  16. Formal conditions for the significance-effect
  17. Decoding speech prosody in five languages
  18. From Umwelt to Mitwelt: Natural laws versus rule-governed sign-mediated interactions (rsi's)
  19. The contribution of G. W. Leibniz's ‘cognitio symbolica’ theory to current debates on knowledge and communication management
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