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Professor Paul Kiparsky FBA

Phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, metrics, and the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. The relation between word structure and sentence structure, and the principles governing language change.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
http://www.stanford.edu/~kiparsky/

Current post

Robert M and Anne T Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

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