From fieldwork to linguistic theory

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-98554-102-7
Verlag: Language Science Press

Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1033 g

Reihe: Empirically oriented theoretical morphology and syntax

Dan Everett is a renowned linguist with an unparalleled breadth of contributions, ranging from fieldwork to linguistic theory, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of linguistics. Born on the U.S. Mexican border, Daniel Everett faced much adversity growing up and was sent as a missionary to convert the Pirahã in the Amazonian jungle, a group of people who speak a language that no outsider had been able to become proficient in. Although no Pirahã person was successfully converted, Everett successfully learned and studied Pirahã, as well as multiple other languages in the Americas. Ever steadfast in pursuing data-driven language science, Everett debunked generativist claims about syntactic recursion, for which he was repeatedly attacked. In addition to conducting fieldwork with many understudied languages and revolutionizing linguistics, Everett has published multiple works for the general public: "Don’t sleep, there are snakes, Language: The cultural tool, and how language began". This book is a collection of 15 articles that are related to Everett’s work over the years, released after a tribute event for Dan Everett that was held at MIT on June 8th 2023.
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Gibson, Edward

Poliak, Moshe

Über Autor(innen)

Gibson, Edward
Edward Gibson is a professor of Cognitive Science at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He finished his BSc at Queens University (Kingston, Canada) in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1985; he did a M Phil in computer speech and language processing at Cambridge University (UK, 1986), and he did a PhD in computational linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University (1991). He has been at MIT BCS since 1993. He works on many aspects of human language: what makes language easy and hard to produce and understand, and how this affects the potential structures that occur in human languages. He also competed in the 1984 Olympic games in rowing, coming 7th in the coxless fours for Canada.

Poliak, Moshe
Moshe Poliak is a PhD student at MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences under the supervision of Edward Gibson. He completed his undergraduate degree in psychology at Harvard University. He investigates how cognition shapes the manner of language production, and how the manner of production is used by comprehenders to infer the intention of the producer. His work spans speech and text, multiple languages, and behavioral and neural methods.