Alexis Manaster Ramer
Alexis Manaster Ramer | |
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Born | 1956 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Linguist |
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Alma mater | University of Chicago |
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Main interests | Mathematical linguistics, linguistic typology, comparative linguistics |
Alexis Manaster Ramer (born 1956) is a Polish-born American linguist (PhD 1981, University of Chicago).
Work[]
Ramer has published extensively on syntactic typology (esp. in relation to Australian, Eskimo, and Austronesian languages); on phonological theory and its relation to phenomena such as versification and speech errors; on comparative linguistics and etymology (Indo-European, Uto-Aztecan, Yiddish), on glottochronology and genetic classification of languages (Nostratic, Altaic, Haida-Nadene, Pakawan/Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa-Nadene); on poetics (Vedic, Homeric, medieval Yiddish); and on the history of linguistics.
Manaster Ramer is the founder of the ACL special interest group on Mathematical linguistics (SIGMOL) and the organizer of the first conference.[1]
He is honored by a festschrift edited by Fabrice Cavoto, The Linguist's Linguist: A Collection of Papers in Honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer, Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2002.
References[]
- ^ Alexis Manaster-Ramer. ACL Anthology.
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- Linguists from the United States
- Linguists from Poland
- Paleolinguists
- 1956 births
- Living people
- Linguists of Uto-Aztecan languages
- Linguists of Altaic languages