For the Australian bioentrepreneur, seePaul A. Hopper.
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Paul J. Hopper was born in Great Britain and is an American linguist. In 1973, he proposed theglottalic theory[1][2] regarding the reconstruction of theProto-Indo-European consonant inventory, in parallel with the Georgian linguistTamaz Gamkrelidze and the Russian linguistVyacheslav Ivanov. He later also became known for his theory ofemergent grammar (Hopper 1987), for his contributions to the theory ofgrammaticalisation and other work dealing with the interface between grammar and usage. He currently works as the Paul MellonDistinguished Professor of Humanities at theCarnegie Mellon University inPittsburgh, USA.
Selected publications
edit- (1973) Glottalized and murmured occlusives in Indo-European.Glotta 7: 141–166.
- (1987) Emergent grammar.Berkeley Linguistics Society 13: 139–157. (Online on archive.org -[1])
- (1993) (with Elizabeth Closs Traugott)Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
References
edit- ^Polomé, Edgar C.; Winter, Werner (1992).Reconstructing languages and cultures. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 111–.ISBN 978-3-11-012671-6. Retrieved9 July 2011.
- ^Fallon, Paul D. (2002).The synchronic and diachronic phonology of ejectives. Psychology Press. pp. 227–.ISBN 978-0-415-93800-6. Retrieved9 July 2011.
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