Background
Thomason, Sarah Grey was born on November 28, 1939 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Arthur L. and Marion (Griswold) Grey.
( Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advan...)
Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.
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Thomason, Sarah Grey was born on November 28, 1939 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Arthur L. and Marion (Griswold) Grey.
Bachelor in German, Stanford University, 1961. Master of Arts in Linguistics, Yale University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, Yale University, 1968.
Postgrad, University Freiburg, Germany, 1962. Postgrad, Indiana University, 1964. Postgrad, University Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1966.
Instructor linguistics, U. Pittsburgh, 1967-1968;
assistant professor linguistics, U. Pittsburgh, 1973-1978;
associate professor linguistics, U. Pittsburgh, 1978-1986;
professor linguistics, U. Pittsburgh, since 1986. Lecturer Russian and Slavic Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, 1968-1972. Visiting lecturer University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1969, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1993.
Visiting assistant professor linguistics U. Pittsburgh, 1972-1973, member numerous university committees. Presenter, consultant in field.
( Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advan...)
Volunteer linguistic consultant Salish-Kootenai Confederated Tribes, St. Ignatius, Montana, since 1981. Volunteer teacher State Correctional Institute Pittsburgh, since 1993. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (chair section on linguistics and language science 1996), Society Study Indigenous Languages of the American mathematical society, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.
Married Richmond Hunt Thomason, November 25, 1967. Children: Lucy Grey, Jennifer Marion.