Paul Frommer

Paul Robert Frommer (born September 17, 1944 in New York City , New York , United States ) is an American linguist .

He is Professor of Clinical Management Communication at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (USC) and Linguistics Advisor to Lightstorm Entertainment , director James Cameron's production company .

Frommer studied at the University of Rochester and the University of Southern California; He wrote his dissertation on the syntax of Persian colloquial language under Bernard Comrie in 1981.

From 2005 to 2008 he was director of the Center for Management Communication at USC.

Frommer claims to have learned fifteen languages ​​more or less well, including Hebrew , German and Chinese , but above all Persian , on which he also wrote his dissertation. He learned Malay during a two-year stay in Malaysia . However, Frommer emphasizes that he can only speak English really fluently.

Paul Frommer became known to a larger audience as the creator of the Na'vi language , an artificial language that he developed between 2005 and 2006 especially for the film Avatar - Aufbruch nach Pandora and whose vocabulary he is continuously expanding from initially around 300 words. To date (November 2018) it has around 2400 words and a comprehensive grammar.

Paul Frommer now lives in Los Angeles .

Fonts

• Frommer, Paul Robert: Postverbal Phenomena in Colloquial Persian Syntax , University of Southern California, 1981
• Edward Finegan, Paul R. Frommer: Looking at Languages: A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics , 1st Edition Fort Worth, Texas, 1999; 4th edition 2008

Web links

• Paul Frommer's Na'vi Blog
• Paul Frommer gives a taster course in Na'vi
• TV interview with Paul R. Frommer about the Na'vi language on ABC News
• Brief résumé on the University of Southern California website
• Article in the New York Times
• Radio interview with Paul R. Frommer on Southern California Public Radio
• Short article about Paul Frommer on Deutschlandradio