Robert B. Lees

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Robert B. Lees (born July 9, 1922 in Chicago , † 1996 ) was an American linguist.

Life

After studying at the University of Chicago , he graduated in 1950 and received his doctorate in 1959. In 1969 he followed a call to Tel Aviv University .

He initially dealt with machine language translation. He became known for his often cited glottochronological work in Language 29-2 / 1953: 113-127 and for his enthusiastic review of the work, which was also published in Language shortly after Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Sctructures in 1957 .

Works

  • The Phonology of Modern Standard Turkish . Routledge Curzan. ISBN 978-0700708062
  • English for Turks . Spoken Language Serv 1981, ISBN 978-0879506148
  • with Braj B. Kachru, Yacov Malkiel, Angelina Pietrangeli: Issues in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Henry and Renee Kahane . University of Illinois Press 1974, ISBN 978-0252002465
  • The Grammar of English Nominalizations
  • The Basis of Glottochronology . Language, 29 (1953)

literature

  • Robert B. Lees, Jerrold M. Sadock, Anthony L. Vanek: Studies Presented to Robert B. Lees by His Students: Jerrold M. Sadock, Anthony L. Vanek . Linguistic Research Inc., Edmonton Alberta Canada, 1970
  • Wolfgang Behn: Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus: An International Who's who in Islamic Studies from Its Beginnings Down to the Twentieth Century . Brill, 2006, ISBN 9004150374
  • Itzhak Ben, Moshe Grünberg: Who's who in Israel and in the Work for Israel Abroad . Bronfman & Cohen, 1978

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Itzhak Ben, Moshe Grünberg, 1978, p. 223
personal data
SURNAME Lees, Robert B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH 1996