Professor
Ivan A. Sag
(
–
)
1949
2013
Stanford University
;
Menlo Park, CA
Linguist; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2007
Syntactic and semantic theorist noted for highly influential and original work on many aspects of theoretical linguistics over three decades. Contributions to modern varieties of phrase structure grammar are not just significant but definitive, and work challenges mainstream syntactic theory by constantly and productively seeking integration and mutual illumination among diverse alternatives.
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