The YourDictionary.com Advisory Council of Experts (ACE) has helped to compile the content at YourDictionary. The distinguished members of the Council help ensure the integrity of their respective areas of linguistic specialization, as well as provide indispensable guidance in the development, acquisition, and maintenance of the dictionaries under their purview. Members of the Council also contribute original articles to the YourDictionary Library.
Stephen R. Anderson
Professor of Linguistics
Chair, Department of Linguistics
Yale University
PhD Linguistics, MIT
Author of:
A-Morphous Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Phonology in the Twentieth Century: Theories of Rules and Theories of Representations. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1985.
The Organization of Phonology. New York: Academic Press, 1974. A Festschrift for Morris Halle (with P. Kiparsky). New York:Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973.
Fellow: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Guggenheim Fellow.
Articles in: Language, Linguistic Analysis, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, etc.
Mark Aronoff
Editor of Language
Professor of Linguistics, chair, & founder
Department of Linguistics
SUNY Stony Brook
PhD Linguistics MIT
Author of:
Word Formation in Generative Grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1976.
Morphology Now. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992
Morphology by Itself. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.
Articles in: Language, Yearbook of Morphology, Linguistic Inquiry, etc.
Silvia Luraghi
Associate Professor of Linguistics Università di Pavia
Ph.D. Linguistics, Università di Pavia
Author of:
Old Hittite Sentence Structure. London-New York, Routledge, 1990.
Hittite. München-New Castle, Lincom Europa, 1997.
"On the distribution of instrumental and agent markers for human and non-human agents of passive verbs in some Indo-European languages." Indogermanische Forschungen, 1986.
"On the directionality of grammaticali-zation." Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 1998.
"Noun phrase structure in the languages of the Mediterranean." Forthcoming in Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (with L. Gaeta).
Vladimir Plungian
Doctor Docent of Linguistics
Moscow University
Senior Researcher
Institute of Linguistics
Russian Academy of Sciences
PhD Philological Sciences Moscow University
Author of:
Glagol v aggliutinatovnom iazyke (The Verb in Agglutinative Languages) Moscow: Linguistic Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1992.
Putevoditel' po diskursivnym slovam russkogo iazyka (Guide to Discursive Words in Russian, with A. Baranov & E. Rakhilina). Moscow: Pomovsky & Partners, 1993.
Dogon. Munich: LINCOM Europa, 1995.
Why are Languages Different? Moscow, 1996.
"Three causatives in Dogon and the overlapping of causative and passive markers". Causatives and Transitivity, B.Comrie et al. (eds). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1993.
Afro-Asiatic
Christopher Ehret
Professor of African History, Step VII
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. Northwestern
Author of:
The Historical Reconstruction of Southern Cushitic Phonology and Vocabulary. Berlin: Reimer, 1980.
The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History (with M. Posnansky). Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982.
"The Origins of Third Consonants in Semitic Roots: An Internal Reconstruction (Applied to Arabic),"Journal of Afroasiatic Languages 3 (1989).
Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995.
An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.
Khoisan
Bonny Sands
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Department of English
Northern Arizona University
Ph.D. Linguistics, UCLA
Author of:
Eastern and Southern African Khoisan: Evaluating Claims of Distant Linguistic Relationships. Koln: Radiger Koppe Verlag, 1998.
"An acoustic study of Xhosa clicks." Actes du XIIème Congres International des Sciences Phonetiques. Aix-en-Provence, 1991.
"Comparison and classification of Khoisan languages." Language History and Linguistic Description. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998.
"Interpreting Hadza Data." Festschrift for A. Traill. Koln: Radiger Koppe Verlag, in press.
Australian Languages
David Nash
Honorary Visiting Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Australian National University
PhD Linguistics MIT
Author of:
Topics in Warlpiri Grammar. New York, London: Garland Publishing, 1985.
A Traditional Land Claim by the Warlmanpa, Warlpiri, Mudbura and Warumungu Traditional Owners. Alice Springs: Central Land Council, 1980.
"Aboriginal knowledge of the aeroplane 'Kookaburra.." Aboriginal History, 1982.
"The Warumungu's Reserves 1892-1962: a case study in dispossession." Australian Aboriginal Studies 1984.
Caucasian Languages
Prof. Dr. Bernard Comrie
Director
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, Germany
PhD Linguistics, Cambridge
Author of:
Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1981.
Studies in the Languages of the USSR. Edmonton: Linguistic Research, 1981.
The World's Major Languages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Chinese (Sino-Tibetan)
Scott DeLancey
Associate Editor, Language, 1985-88
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
University of Oregon
PhD Linguistics, Indiana University
Author of:
"The Sino-Tibetan Languages." The World's Major Languages. Croom Helm: London 1987.
"Ergativity and the cognitive model of event structure in Lhasa Tibetan." Cognitive Linguistics, 1990.
"The Sino-Tibetan languages."The International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
"Semantic categorization in Tibetan honorific nouns." Anthropological Linguistics, 1998.
"Relativization in Tibetan." Studies in Nepalese Linguistics. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy (to appear).
Classics
Philip H. Baldi
Professor of Linguistics and Classics
Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Pennsylvania State University
PhD University of Rochester
Author of:
An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages. Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology, editor. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990.
The Foundations of Latin. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.
"Indo-European Languages," in Bernard Comrie, ed., The World's Major Languages. London: Croom-Helm, 1989.
30 etymologies of "time" words in Proto-Indo-European. The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, ed. by J. Mallory and D. Adams. Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997.
English
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Canterbury University
Christchurch, New Zealand
BA Oxford, PhD University of London
Harkness Fellow, MIT, 1969-1972
Author of:
Allomorphy in Inflexion. London: Croom Helm, 1987.
Current Morphology. London: Routledge, 1992.
The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables and Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
"Suppletion," "Syncretism," and "Typology, morphological," The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon, 1994.
Articles in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Mind, Language, Linguistic Analysis, Journal of Linguistics, Linguistics, etc.
John Algeo
Professor Emeritus
Department of English
University of Georgia
Ph.D., University of Florida
Author of:
Problems in the Origins and Development of the English Language. New York: Harcourt, 1966.
Fifty Years "Among the New Words": A Dictionary of Neologisms, 1941-1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Cambridge History of the English Language, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
The Origins and Development of the English Language (with T. Pyles). New York: Harcourt, 4th ed., 1993.
Advisor or consultant to: The Barnhart Dictionaries, Random House Dictionary, Webster's New World Dictionary and others.
French-Italian
Martin Maiden
Professor of Romance Languages
Department of Romance Languages
Oxford University
Trinity College, Oxford OX1 3BH
MA Oxford, PhD Cambridge
Author of:
Interactive Morphonology. Metaphony in Italy. London: Routledge, 1991.
The Dialects of Italy (ed. with M. Parry). London: Routledge, 1997
Storia linguistica dell'italiano, Bologna: Il Mulino, 1998.
"Perfecto y tiempos afines": History of an Ibero-Romance morphome', Oxford Working Papers in Linguistics and Philology 4 (1999)
'Irregularity as a determinant of morphological change'. Journal of Linguistics, 28:285-312, 1992.
'On the Romance inflectional endings -i and -e'. Romance Philology, 1996.
Finnish (Uralic)
Fred Karlsson
Dean, Faculty of the Humanities
Professor of General Linguistics
Department of General Linguistics
University of Helsinki
PhD Linguistics Helsinki
Finnish: An Essential Grammar. London: Routledge, 1999.
Yleinen kielitiede. Uudistettu laitos. Helsinki: Yliopistopaino, 1998.
The History of Linguistics in the Nordic Countries (with E. Hovdhaugen, C. Henriksen & B. Sigurd). Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica. 2000. Finnische Grammatik
Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1984.
German
Rex Sprouse
Associate Professor of Germanic Studies
Department of Germanic Studies
Indiana University
PhD Germanic Linguistics Princeton
Author of:
"When syntactic theories evolve: Consequences for L2 acquisition research" (with B. Schwartz) Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, J. Archibald (ed.). Malden, MA:
Blackwell, 2000.
"An explanation for the decline of null pronouns in certain Germanic and Romance languages" (with B. Vance). Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and
Development, M. DeGraff (ed). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
"Some notes on the relationship between inflectional morphology and parameter setting in first and second language acquisition."
Morphology and its Interfaces in L2 Knowledge M. Beck (ed). Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998.
"Lexical case phenomena" (with R. Freidin). "Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar," R. Freidin (ed). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.
Indo-Iranian
George Cardona
Graduate chair and
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
PhD Linguistics Yale
A Gujarati Reference Grammar. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1965.
On Haplology in Indo-European. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.
Indo-European and Indo-Euopeans (with H. Hoenigswald & A. Senn). Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1970.
Panini: His Work and Its Traditions. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988.
Articles in Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopedia Britannica, Language, International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Handbook of Linguistics, and others.
Indo-European
Calvert Watkins
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics
Linguistics Department
Harvard University
PhD Linguistics Harvard
Author of:
How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Indogermanische Grammatik III/1. Geschichte der Indogermanischen Verbalflexion. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 1969.