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Alexis Manaster Ramer | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
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| Main interests | Mathematical linguistics,linguistic typology,comparative linguistics |
Alexis Manaster Ramer (born 1956) is a Polish-born American linguist (PhD 1981,University of Chicago).
Ramer has published extensively on syntactic typology (esp. in relation to Australian,Eskimo,and Austronesian languages);on phonological theory and its relation to phenomena such as versification and speech errors;on comparative linguistics and etymology (Indo-European,Uto-Aztecan,Yiddish),on glottochronology and genetic classification of languages (Nostratic,Altaic,Haida-Nadene,Pakawan/Coahuiltecan,Tonkawa-Nadene);on poetics (Vedic,Homeric,medieval Yiddish);and on the history of linguistics.
Manaster Ramer is the founder of the ACL special interest group on Mathematical linguistics (SIGMOL) and the organizer of the first Mathematics of Language conference. [1]
He is honored by a festschrift edited by Fabrice Cavoto,The Linguist's Linguist:A Collection of Papers in Honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer,Munich:LINCOM Europa,2002.
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Uto-Aztecan,Uto-Aztekan or Uto-Nahuatl is a family of indigenous languages of the Americas,consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The name of the language family was created to show that it includes both the Ute language of Utah and the Nahuan languages of Mexico.
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Whorf's law is a sound law in Uto-Aztecan linguistics proposed by the linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf. It explains the origin in the Nahuan languages of the phoneme which is not found in any of the other languages of the Uto-Aztecan family. The existence of in Nahuatl had puzzled previous linguists and caused Edward Sapir to reconstruct a phoneme for Proto-Uto-Aztecan based only on evidence from Aztecan. In a 1937 paper published in the journal American Anthropologist,Whorf argued that phoneme was a result of some of the Nahuan or Aztecan languages having undergone a sound change changing the original */t/ to in the position before */a/. The sound law was labeled "Whorf's law" by Manaster Ramer and is still widely though not universally considered valid,although a more detailed understanding of the precise conditions under which it took place has been developed.
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