Professor
Ladislav Zgusta
(
–
)
1924
2007
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
;
Urbana, IL
Linguist; Lexicographer; Educator; Research institution staff member
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
1992
Research concentrates on onomastic study of various areas around the Black Sea. Single topics: The Scythians and Sarmatians; the offshot of that: Ossetic in the Caucasus. Anthroponymy and toponymy of post-Hittite Anatolia. Theory of lexicography, based on linguistic features of the language(s) in question; theory of the bilingual equivalent; history of lexicography.
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