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  2. William A. Foley - Wikipedia

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    William A. Foley FAHA (William Auguste "Bill" Foley; born 1949) is an American linguist and professor at Columbia University. [1] He previously worked at the University of Sydney. He specializes in Papuan and Austronesian languages. Foley developed Role and Reference Grammar in a partnership with Robert Van Valin.

  3. Lois Bloom - Wikipedia

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    Lois Masket Bloom was an American developmental psychologist and Edward Lee Thorndike Professor Emerita of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. [1] Her pioneering research elucidated the roles of cognition, emotion, and social behavior in language acquisition .

  4. John McWhorter - Wikipedia

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    John Hamilton McWhorter V (/ m ə k ˈ hw ɔːr t ər /; [1] born October 6, 1965) is an American linguist. [2] [3] He is an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, [4] where he also teaches American studies and music history.

  5. Columbia University - Wikipedia

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    Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, [8] is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States.

  6. Columbia School of Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia School of Linguistics is a group of linguists with a radically functional and empirical conception of language. According to their school of thought, the main function of language is communication, and it is this fact that guides the formulation of grammatical hypotheses and constrains the form these hypotheses can take.

  7. Columbia Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia [2] produced by Columbia University Press and, in the last edition, sold by the Gale Group. [1] First published in 1935, [3] and continuing its relationship with Columbia University, the encyclopedia underwent major revisions in 1950 and 1963; [2] the current edition is the sixth, printed in 2000.

  8. History of Columbia University - Wikipedia

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    Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City, founded in 1754, prior to the American Revolution. The history of Columbia University began prior to its founding in 1754 in New York City as King's College, by royal charter of King George II of Great Britain.

  9. William Labov - Wikipedia

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    Labov took his PhD (1964) at Columbia University, studying under Uriel Weinreich. He was an assistant professor of linguistics at Columbia (1964–70) before becoming an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, then a full professor, [3] and in 1976 becoming director of the university's Linguistics Laboratory. [10]

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