Alexis Manaster Ramer

Alexis Manaster Ramer

Alexis Manaster Ramer (born 1956) is a Polish-born American linguist (PhD 1981, University of Chicago).

He has published extensively on syntactic typology (esp. in relation to Australian, Eskimo, and Austronesian languages); on phonological theory and its relation to phenomena such as versification and speech errors; on comparative linguistics and etymology (Indo-European, Uto-Aztecan, Yiddish), on glottochronology and genetic classification of languages (Nostratic, Altaic, Haida-Nadene, Pakawan/Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa-Nadene); on poetics (Vedic, Homeric, medieval Yiddish); and on the history of linguistics.

Manaster Ramer is the founder of the ACL special interest group on Mathematical Linguistics (SIGMOL) and the organizer of the first Mathematics of Language conference.

He is honored by a festschrift, Fabrice Cavoto (ed) "The linguist's linguist: A collection of paper in honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer", 2002, LINCOM Europa, Munich.

External links

* [http://molweb.org SIGMOL group home page]


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