Arnold M. Zwicky is a perennial Visiting Professor of linguistics at Stanford University, and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University.[1]
A student of Morris Halle at MIT, he has made notable contributions to fields of phonology (half-rhymes), morphology (realizational morphology, rules of referral), syntax (clitics, construction grammar), interfaces (the Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax), sociolinguistics and American dialectology.
He invented the term recency illusion, the belief that a word, meaning, grammatical construction or phrase is of recent origin when it is in fact of long-established usage.[2]
At the Linguistic Society of America's 1999 Summer Institute (held at UIUC) he was the Edward Sapir professor, the most prestigious chair of this organization, of which he is a past president.[3]
He is one of the editors of Handbook of Morphology, among other published works. He is also well-known as a frequent contributor to the linguistics blog Language Log.
References
- ^ "2005-2006 Fellows". Stanford Humanities Center. Stanford University. http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/0506zwicky.htm. Retrieved on 2008-07-20.
- ^ Intensive and Quotative ALL: something old, something new, John R. Rickford, Thomas Wasow, Arnold Zwicky, Isabelle Buchstaller, American Speech 2007 82(1):3-31; Duke University Press (what Arnold Zwicky (2005) has dubbed the "recency illusion," whereby people think that linguistic features they’ve only recently noticed are in fact new).
- ^ Past Linguistic Institutes: Named Professorships, Linguistic Society of America, official website
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