- Anthony Aristar
Anthony Manuel Rodrigues Aristar (born in
Cape Town ,South Africa , 1948) is alinguist , the founder of theLINGUIST List , the most important linguistic resource on the web [http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/subjectguides/ling/linguist.htm] , and currently a professor of linguistics atEastern Michigan University . Aristar received his BA from theUniversity of Melbourne in Australia, his MA from theUniversity of Chicago , and hisPhD from theUniversity of Texas at Austin in 1984 (Dissertation: "On the Syntactic Incorporation of Linguistic Units"). Aristar is now co-director of the Institute for Language and Information Technology atEastern Michigan University . He is married to Helen Aristar-Dry, also a professor of linguistics at Eastern Michigan University, and co-director of the institute he heads. He has been one of the prime movers in the establishment of standards for the dissemination and publication of linguistic information on the Internet, and was Principal Investigator of the E-MELD project, whose aim was also the establishment of standards for linguistic data [http://emeld.org/documents/index.cfm] . He is very involved in the preservation of endangered languages data. He is principal investigator of the Multitree project, [http://linguistlist.org/multitree/] and co-Principal Investigator of the LL-MAP project. [http://linguistlist.org/llmap/] As part of his work on the interoperability of digital linguistic data, he is involved with the Open Languages Archive Community (OLAC ). He was also involved in producing the 2007ISO 639-3 standard for the coding of languages, in that this standard is a union of theEthnologue code-set and a code-set for ancient and constructed languages produced at LINGUIST List by him [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3] .ee also
LINGUIST List External links
* [http://linguistlist.org/aristar/ Anthony Aristar's web page] @
The LINGUIST List
* [http://www.emich.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/aristar_a.html Anthony Aristar’s web page] @Eastern Michigan University
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