Robert Lees (linguist)

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

Life

After studying at the University of Chicago in 1950, he made his degree in 1959 and his doctorate. In 1969 he was appointed professor at the University of Tel Aviv.

He dealt first with machine language translation. He was renowned for his often quoted glottochronologische work in Language 29-2/1953 :113 -127 and its also published in 1957, shortly after the publication of Noam Chomsky's Syntactic sctructures in Language enthusiastic review of the work.

Works

  • The Phonology of Modern Standard Turkish. Routledge Curzan. ISBN 978-0700708062
  • English for Turks. Spoken Language Serv 1981, ISBN 978-0879506148
  • Braj B. Kachru with 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 base of glottochronology. Language, 29 (1953 )
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