- Wallace Chafe
Wallace Chafe (born 1927) is an
American linguist .Born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts , and graduating theYale University where he obtained his doctorate in 1958, he further worked in theUniversity of California, Berkeley until 1986 and later in theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara before he was createdprofessor emeritus of the latter in 1991.Chafe is a cognitivist, he considers
semantics to be a basic component of language. He is a critic ofNoam Chomsky 'sgenerative linguistics .He is an influential scholar in
indigenous languages of the Americas , notably Iroquoian andCaddoan languages , indiscourse analysis andpsycholinguistics , and alsoprosody of speech.Together with
Joanna Nichols he edited a seminal volume onevidentiality in language in 1986.He is married to a fellow linguist,
Marianne Mithun .Works
1962. «Phonetics, semantics, and language». Language 38.335-344.
1967. Seneca Morphology and Dictionary. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, vol. 4. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
1968. «Idiomaticity as an Anomaly in the Chomskyan Paradigm». Foundations of Language 4.109-127.
1970. Meaning and the Structure of Language. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
1970. A Semantically Based Sketch of Onondaga. International Journal of American Linguistics, Memoir 25 (Supplement to vol. 36, no. 2).
1976. «Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics, and point of view». In Li 1976, 25-55.
1980. The Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
1988. «Linking Intonation Units in Spoken English». In Haiman and Thompson 1988, 1-27.
1994. Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
1996. «Beyond Beads on a String and Branches in a Tree». Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language ed. by Adele Goldberg, 49-65. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
2000. «The Interplay of Prosodic and Segmental Sounds in the Expression of Thoughts». Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1997, 389—401.
2000. «Loci of Diversity and Convergence in Thought and Language». Explorations in Linguistic Relativity ed. by Martin Pütz and Marjolijn H. Verspoor, 101—123. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
External link
* [http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/chafe/ W. Chafe's homepage]
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