Elis Harris ( born Alice Carmichael Harris ; born November 23, 1947 , Columbus ) is an American linguist , a specialist in historical linguistics and a researcher of Caucasian languages , mainly Kartvelian , as well as some languages of the Nakh-Dagestan family ( Udin , Batsby ).
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Earl Sutherland Prize Laureate ( 1998 ) at Vanderbilt University [2] . Winner of the Guggenheim Foundation Award ( 2009 ) in the humanities.
Member of the International Society of Historical Linguistics , the American Linguistic Society , the European Society of Caucasian Studies , the Association of Linguistic Typology . Member of the Editorial Board of the magazines Language , Natural Language and Linguistic Theory , Linguistic Typology , Diachronica , etc.
He participates in the organization of the documentation program for endangered languages DEL (Documentating Endangered Languages).
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 family
- 3 Research Areas
- 4 Major works
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Biography
In 1969 she graduated from the Randolph-Macon College of Women in Lynchburg ( Virginia ), where she studied literature, English and French, and Latin. One year spent on an internship at the University of Glasgow (1967-1968). At evening classes at Harvard University, attended Dwight Bolinger 's lectures on the history of Romance languages. She received a master's degree in linguistics from the University of Essex in 1971 .
Returning to the United States , she continued her studies at the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. Under the influence of professors Stephen Anderson and Robert Underhill, she became interested in ergativity and began to study the Georgian language , as well as Russian. While working on a dissertation in 1974–75. passed a one-year internship at Tbilisi State University . In 1976 she received a doctorate in linguistics. Until the late 1970s taught linguistic courses at Harvard.
From 1979 to 2002 she worked at Vanderbilt University ( Nashville ), where in 1993-2002. headed the department of Germanic and Slavic languages. From 2002 to 2009 - Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University . Since 2009 - professor of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst .
In 2015, Alice Harris was elected vice president of the American Linguistic Society [3] , and in 2016 she served as president of the Society [4] .
Family
Alice Harris's husband is an American biochemist James Staros , who also worked at Stony Brook University and in 2009 was appointed vice-rector of the University of Massachusetts - Amherst [5] . They have three children.
Research Areas
She studied the Georgian syntax from the point of view of combining various coding strategies for verb actants , as well as in connection with the phenomenon of “ non-accusability ”. (Early syntax research was done from the perspective of relational grammar .)
She developed the diachronic syntax of the Kartvelian languages , as well as the general principles of historical syntax analysis. A joint book with Lyle Campbell , Historical Syntax in a Typological Perspective (1995), received the prestigious Leonard Bloomfield Award.
She explored the Udine language clique system, making assumptions about the historical development of Udine morphosyntaxis. Particular attention was paid to the phenomenon of “endoclysis” (the introduction of the clique inside the verb stem), noting that this phenomenon contradicts the principle of lexicism , which is accepted in a number of modern grammar theories.
Current areas of research include diachronic morphology and word structure (in synchronous and diachronic aspects) in the languages of the world.
Major works
- Harris, Alice C. Georgian Syntax: A Study in Relational Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
- Harris, Alice C. Diachronic Syntax: The Kartvelian Case (Syntax and Semantics, 18). New York: Academic Press, 1985.
- Harris, Alice C. (ed.) The Indigenous Languages of the Caucasus: Kartvelian. Delmar, NY: Caravan Press, 1991.
- Campbell, Lyle & Harris, Alice C. Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-47960-6
- Harris, Alice C. Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Harris, Alice C. Multiple Exponence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. [6]
Notes
- ↑ Record # 120427449 // general catalog of the National Library of France
- ↑ Vanderbilt News: Linguist Harris receives the Vanderbilt's top research award (link unavailable) . Date of treatment March 18, 2010. Archived February 24, 2001.
- ↑ LSA election results: Alice Harris named LSA President-Elect
- ↑ Presidents | Linguistic society of america
- ↑ James V. Staros named provost unopened (unreachable link) . Date of treatment March 18, 2010. Archived on May 27, 2010.
- ↑ Multiple Exponence - Alice C. Harris - Oxford University Press