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Douglas Edward Biber (born August 5, 1952 ) is an American linguist .

Life

Biber received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Southern California in 1984 . In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University . He is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University .

He researched the veracity of a quote from Daniel Wemp in the rich and poor and thereby triggered claims for damages against Jared Diamond in the amount of 10 million US dollars .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Profile of Douglas Biber ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frias.uni-freiburg.de
  2. ^ Pleiotropy: Linguistic analysis of Jared Diamond quotations