Theodora Bynon

Theodora Bynon
Born	1936 (age 88–89)
Spouse	James Bynon
Scientific career
Doctoral students	Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

Theodora Bynon (born 1936) is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Historical Linguistics at SOAS University of London. She was a student of the German linguist Hans Krahe and studied the ergative case in languages such as Kurdish. ^{[1] [2]} She is known for her works on historical linguistics and wrote what is considered a seminal text in 1977. ^[3]

Books

• Historical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1977
• James and Theodora Bynon (eds.), Hamito-Semitica, London 1975
• Masayoshi Shibatani & Theodora Bynon, Approaches to language typology, Clarendon Press, 1995. ^[4]

References

1. Bynon, Theodora; Bynon, Professor of Historical Linguistics Soas Theodora (15 September 1977). Historical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-29188-0.
2. Bynon, Theodora (1979). "The Ergative Construction in Kurdish". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 42 (2): 211–224. doi:10.1017/S0041977X0014577X. ISSN   0041-977X. JSTOR   615012. S2CID   153447165.
3. "Book review".
4. Haspelmath, Martin (1996). "Review of Approaches to Language Typology". Journal of Linguistics. 32 (2): 513–517. doi:10.1017/S0022226700016005. ISSN   0022-2267. JSTOR   4176380. S2CID   144800272.