Arnold Zwicky
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Arnold M. Zwicky is a perennial Visiting Professor of linguistics
at Stanford University
, and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University
.
A student of Morris Halle
at MIT, he has made notable contributions to fields of phonology
(half-rhymes
), morphology
(realizational morphology
, rules of referral), syntax
(clitic
s, construction grammar
), interfaces (the Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax), sociolinguistics
and American dialectology
.
He coined the term recency illusion
, the belief that a word, meaning, grammatical construction or phrase is of recent origin when it is in fact of long-established usage.
At the Linguistic Society of America
's 1999 Summer Institute (held at UIUC) he was the Edward Sapir professor, the most prestigious chair of this organization, of which he is a past president.
He is one of the editors of Handbook of Morphology, among other published works. He is also well-known as a frequent contributor to the linguistics blog Language Log
, as well as his own personal blog that largely focuses on linguistics issues.
Zwicky is a former board member of the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, who chose him as 2008 GLBT Scientist of the Year.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
.
A student of Morris Halle
Morris Halle
Morris Halle , is a Latvian-American Jewish linguist and an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
at MIT, he has made notable contributions to fields of phonology
Phonology
Phonology is, broadly speaking, the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language. That is, it is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use...
(half-rhymes
Half rhyme
Half rhyme or slant rhyme, sometimes called sprung, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, off rhyme or imperfect rhyme, is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved . Many half/slant rhymes are also eye rhymes.Half/slant rhyme is widely used in Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Icelandic verse...
), morphology
Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description, in a language, of the structure of morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context...
(realizational morphology
Realizational morphology
Word-and-paradigm or Realizational morphology concentrates on the word form rather than segments of the word. WP morphology denies that morphemes are signs . Instead, inflections are stem modifications which serve as exponents of morphological feature sets.The theory takes paradigms as a central...
, rules of referral), syntax
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....
(clitic
Clitic
In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that is grammatically independent, but phonologically dependent on another word or phrase. It is pronounced like an affix, but works at the phrase level...
s, construction grammar
Construction grammar
The term construction grammar covers a family of theories, or models, of grammar that are based on the idea that the primary unit of grammar is the grammatical construction rather than the atomic syntactic unit and the rule that combines atomic units, and that the grammar of a language is made up...
), interfaces (the Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax), sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society...
and American dialectology
Dialectology
Dialectology is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features...
.
He coined the term recency illusion
Recency illusion
The Recency illusion is the belief or impression that something is of recent origin when it is in fact long-established.The term was invented by Arnold Zwicky, a linguist at Stanford University who was primarily interested in examples involving words, meanings, phrases, and grammatical constructions...
, the belief that a word, meaning, grammatical construction or phrase is of recent origin when it is in fact of long-established usage.
At the Linguistic Society of America
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America is a professional society for linguists. It was founded in 1924 to advance linguistics, the scientific study of human language. The LSA has over 5,000 individual members and welcomes linguists of all kinds. It works to advance the discipline and to communicate...
's 1999 Summer Institute (held at UIUC) he was the Edward Sapir professor, the most prestigious chair of this organization, of which he is a past president.
He is one of the editors of Handbook of Morphology, among other published works. He is also well-known as a frequent contributor to the linguistics blog Language Log
Language Log
Language Log is a collaborative language blog maintained by University of Pennsylvania phonetician Mark Liberman.The site is updated daily at the whims of the contributors, and most of the posts are on language use in the media and popular culture. Google search results are frequently used as a...
, as well as his own personal blog that largely focuses on linguistics issues.
Zwicky is a former board member of the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, who chose him as 2008 GLBT Scientist of the Year.