Jerrold Sadock

Jerrold (Jerry) Sadock is Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics and the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. Inter alia, he founded the grammatical theory of Autolexical Syntax (aka Automodular Grammar). He is primarily a theoretical linguist, having written a number of influential works on noun incorporation, morphology and pragmatics, but is also an authority on West Greenlandic Eskimo and Yiddish.

He received his B.A. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1965, and an M.A. in linguistics in 1967 and a PhD in linguistics in 1969 from the same institution. ^[1]

References

• Sadock, Jerrold (1974). Toward a linguistic theory of speech acts. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-614350-1. 
• Sadock, Jerrold (1991). Autolexical Syntax: A Theory of Parallel Grammatical Representations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-73345-9. 
• Sadock, Jerrold (2003). A Grammar of Kalaallisut. Munich: LINCOM. ISBN 3-89586-234-7. 

1. ^ (mov) Lives in Linguistics: Jerry Sadock. University of Chicago. http://mindonline.uchicago.edu/media/humanities/linguistics/sadock_1_CMIG_512K.mov. 

External links

• Jerrold Sadock's University of Chicago home page

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