Sarah Thomason

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Sarah Thomason

Sarah "Sally" Gray Thomason is an American linguist . Her main areas of work are general linguistics , contact linguistics , historical linguistics , Slavic linguistics, Indian languages , pidgin and creole languages as well as xenoglossia .

Thomason received her Bachelor (BA) in German Studies at Stanford University . From 1961 to 1962 she studied at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . She received her Masters (MA) and PhD in Linguistics from Yale University .

Between 1968 and 1972 she taught Russian and Slavic linguistics at Yale, and from 1972 she worked as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh . She has been Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan since 1999 . Between 1988 and 1994 she was also the senior editor of Language , the journal of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).

She is married to the philosopher and computer scientist Richmond Thomason. Her daughter Lucy Thomason is also a linguist.

Fonts

  • Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics (with Terrance Kaufman). University of California Press, Berkeley 1988 ISBN 0-520-07893-4 .
  • Montana Salish (Flathead) Dictionary . Salish Culture Committee, St. Ignatius (MT) 1994/1996
  • Contact languages: A wider perspective . John Benjamin, Amsterdam 1997
  • Language contact: an introduction . Georgetown University Press, Washington 2001 ISBN 0-87840-854-1
  • With strange tongues . In: Gero von Randow (Ed.): My paranormal bicycle . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, pp. 65-75 ( PastTonguesRemembered . In: Skeptical Inquirer 11 (4) 1987, pp. 367-375, German)

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SURNAME Thomason, Sarah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomason, Sarah Gray (full name); Thomason, Sally (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1950