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Georgian Syntax: A Study in Relational Grammar
Georgian has sometimes been described as a language that is 'totally irregular', where the notions of 'subject', 'object' and 'indirect object' have no relevance. Although it is often cited in work on general linguistics, language universals and language typology, no systematic account of the syntax of this morphologically complex language has been available for Western linguists. Dr Harris's work fills this important need, and indeed her book provides one of the best and most thorough studies available in English of the syntax of a non-Indo-European language. Working in the framework of relational grammar - a framework that is attracting great interest - Dr Harris shows that Georgian does have constructions found in better-known languages, and the study of individual languages to the development of linguistic theory.
352 pages, Paperback
First published August 31, 1981
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Alice C. Harris
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Professor Emerita
Having received a B.A. from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, an M.A. from the University of Essex (England), and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976, Alice Carmichael Harris held positions at Vanderbilt University (serving as the department chair of Germanic and Slavic Languages there from 1993 to 2002) and at the State University of New York. She was Professor of Linguistics at SUNY Stony Brook from 2002 to 2009, before taking up a position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2009 where she remained until her retirement in 2020.
▪In 1998, a book she co-wrote in 1995 with Lyle Campbell won the Leonard Bloomfield award from the LSA, an award given out every two years to a book that makes an outstanding contribution to the understanding of languages or linguistics.
▪Harris received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.
▪She was elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2012.
▪She served as President of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.
▪Harris was elected Fellow of the British Academy in July 2020.
Email acharris@linguist.umass.edu
Professor Emerita
Having received a B.A. from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, an M.A. from the University of Essex (England), and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976, Alice Carmichael Harris held positions at Vanderbilt University (serving as the department chair of Germanic and Slavic Languages there from 1993 to 2002) and at the State University of New York. She was Professor of Linguistics at SUNY Stony Brook from 2002 to 2009, before taking up a position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2009 where she remained until her retirement in 2020.
▪In 1998, a book she co-wrote in 1995 with Lyle Campbell won the Leonard Bloomfield award from the LSA, an award given out every two years to a book that makes an outstanding contribution to the understanding of languages or linguistics.
▪Harris received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.
▪She was elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2012.
▪She served as President of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.
▪Harris was elected Fellow of the British Academy in July 2020.
Email acharris@linguist.umass.edu
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