Sarah Thomason

Sarah " Sally " Grey Thomason is an American linguist. Her main areas of practice are general linguistics, contact linguistics, historical linguistics, Slavic linguistics, Native American languages ​​, pidgins and creoles, and xenoglossy.

Thomason received her B. A. in German Studies at Stanford University. From 1961 to 1962 she studied at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. Your M. A. and her Ph.D. in linguistics she earned at Yale University. Between 1968 and 1972 she taught Russian and Slavic linguistics at Yale, in 1972, she worked as Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 1999 she is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Between 1988 and 1994 she was also managing editor of the journal 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.

Writings

  • 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 contrary perspective. John Benjamins, Amsterdam 1997
  • Language contact: an introduction. Georgetown University Press, 2001 ISBN 0-87840-854-1 Washington
  • With foreign tongues. In: Gero von Randow (ed.): My paranormal bike. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, pp. 65-75 ( PastTonguesRemembered. In: Skeptical Inquirer 11 ( 4), 1987, pp. 367-375, dt )
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