- Arnold Zwicky
Arnold M. Zwicky is a perennial Visiting Professor of
linguistics atStanford University , andDistinguished University Professor Emeritus of linguistics at theOhio State University . [cite web| url = http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/0506zwicky.htm | title = 2005-2006 Fellows | accessdate = 2008-07-20 | work = Stanford Humanities Center | publisher = Stanford University]A student of
Morris Halle atMIT , he has made notable contributions to fields ofphonology (half-rhymes), morphology (realizational morphology , rules of referral),syntax (clitic s,construction grammar ), interfaces (the Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax),sociolinguistics and Americandialectology .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. [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").]At the
Linguistic Society of America 's 1999 Summer Institute (held atUIUC ) he was the Edward Sapir professor, the most prestigious chair of this organization, of which he is a past president. [ [http://www.lsadc.org/info/inst-past-profs.cfm Past Linguistic Institutes: Named Professorships] , Linguistic Society of America, official website]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
External links
* [http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~zwicky/ Arnold Zwicky's Home Page]
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