Johanna Nichols
Encyclopedia
Linguist
Johanna Nichols is a professor emerita on active duty
in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley
. Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia
, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory
, and languages of the Caucasus
, chiefly Chechen
and Ingush
. Nichols's best known work, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time
, won the Linguistic Society of America
's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award
for 1994.
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....
Johanna Nichols is a professor emerita on active duty
Active duty
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in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia
Eurasia
Eurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...
, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory
Prehistory
Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history. Prehistory can refer to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it refers to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing...
, and languages of the Caucasus
Caucasus
The Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia , is a geopolitical region at the border of Europe and Asia, and situated between the Black and the Caspian sea...
, chiefly Chechen
Chechen language
The Chechen language is spoken by more than 1.5 million people, mostly in Chechnya and by Chechen people elsewhere. It is a member of the Northeast Caucasian languages.-Classification:...
and Ingush
Ingush language
Ingush is a language spoken by about 413,000 people , known as the Ingush, across a region covering Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kazakhstan and Russia. In Ingush, the language is called ГІалгІай Ğalğaj .-Classification:...
. Nichols's best known work, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time
Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time
is linguist Johanna Nichols's best known work, pioneering the use of linguistic typology as a tool for understanding human migrations in prehistory....
, won 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 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award
Leonard Bloomfield Book Award
The Leonard Bloomfield Book Award is presented by the Linguistic Society of America to the recently published book "which makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics". From its establishment in 1992 through 2008 the award was made...
for 1994.
Books
- Predicate Nominals: A Partial Surface Syntax of Russian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. ISBN 0520096266.
- Grammar Inside and Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the Field. Edited by Johanna Nichols and Anthony C. Woodbury. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN 0521266173.
- Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology. Edited by Wallace Chafe and Johanna Nichols. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1986. ISBN 0893912034
- Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0226580563.
- Sound Symbolism. Edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. Cambridge [England]; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0521452198.
- Chechen-English and English-Chechen Dictionary = Noxchiin-ingals, ingals-noxchiin deshnizhaina. London; New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004. ISBN 978-0-203-56517-9. Johanna Nichols, Ronald L. Sprouse, and Arbi Vagapov.
- Ingush Grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 0520098773.
External links
- Biography of Johanna Nichols
- Johanna Nichols' homepage
- Johanna Nichols' Publications
- The Chechen Language
- Linguistic Diversity and Language Origins
- The Ingush Language
- An overview of languages of the Caucasus
- Typology in the service of classification: Alternative approaches to language classification Stanford, July 17-19, 2007
- World Atlas of Language Structures