Alan Timberlake

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Alan Timberlake (born in 1946) is a linguist, a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University and the director of the East Central European Center. [1]

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Education

Alan Timberlake received a Ph.D from Harvard University in 1973. [2]

Academic career

Alan Timberlake taught for 14 years at UCLA, then for 21 years at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2008, he came to Columbia University. He served as chair at these three universities for 12 years in total. He also has taught courses in philology at Stanford as a visitor. [3]

Research interest

The focus of Timberlake's research is language. At Columbia University, he teaches courses on Slavic cultures and Russian linguistics. [4] Apart from that, he teaches several courses a year in general linguistics, including recently “Language and Society”, which included a discussion of language allegiance among diasporic communities in America.

Timberlake speaks Czech and Russian and reads other Slavic languages and Lithuanian [5]

Selected works

Books

Articles

Festschrift

Vladislava Warditz (ed.): Russian Grammar: System – Usus – Variation (= Linguistica Philologica 1), Peter Lang Verlag, Berlin et al. 2021.

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Russian Grammar: System–Usus–Language Variation, which took place from September 22 to 24, 2021, at the University of Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany). This collection of essays is dedicated to Alan Timberlake, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

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