For the Swedish alpine skier, see Sarah Thomasson.
Sarah Grey Thomason
Thomason in July 2012
Born
1939 (age 84–85)
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Parent
Marion Griswold Grey (mother)
Awards
Wilbur Cross Medal
Academic background
Alma mater
Stanford University (BA)
Yale University (MA, PhD)
Thesis
Noun suffixation in Serbo-Croatian dialects (1968)
Doctoral advisor
Alexander Schenker
Academic work
Discipline
Linguist
Institutions
University of Pittsburgh
University of Michigan
Website
www-personal.umich.edu/~thomason/
Sarah Grey Thomason (known as "Sally") is an American scholar of linguistics, Bernard Bloch distinguished professor emerita at the University of Michigan.[1] She is best known for her work on language contact, historical linguistics, pidgins and creoles, Slavic Linguistics, Native American languages and typological universals. She also has an interest in debunking linguistic pseudoscience, and has collaborated with publications such as the Skeptical Inquirer, The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal and American Speech, in regard to claims of xenoglossy.[2]
Sarah Grey Thomason (known as "Sally") is an American scholar of linguistics, Bernard Bloch distinguished professor emerita at the University of Michigan...
Machine SarahThomason. (1984). Do You Remember Your Previous Life’s Language in Your Present Incarnation?. American Speech 59: 340-350. SarahThomason. (1986-87)...
2010) SarahThomason and Terrence Kaufman, Language Contact, Creolization and Genetic Linguistics (University of California Press 1988). SarahThomason, Language...
foreign language, instead of merely being able to recite foreign words. SarahThomason, a linguist at the University of Michigan, reanalyzed these cases, concluding...
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Thomason, Sarah (2015). Endangered Languages: An Introduction. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-521-68453-8. Thomason, Sarah...
articles were co-authored with other scholars such as Lyle Campbell, SarahThomason and John Justeson. In a 1976 paper co-authored with Lyle Campbell, he...
foreign language, instead of merely being able to recite foreign words. SarahThomason, a linguist (and skeptical researcher) at the University of Michigan...
methodology. Writing on University of Pennsylvania blog Language Log, SarahThomason questions the accuracy of the LWED data on which the paper was based...
and a greater understanding of language contact types. The works of SarahThomason and Terrence Kaufman have been used in particular to model borrowing...
and Computer Science. Artur Schnabel Pianist and classical composer SarahThomason, William H. Gedney Professor of Linguistics George Uhlenbeck, with fellow...
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McConnell-Ginet 2007: Stephen R. Anderson 2008: Ellen Prince 2009: SarahThomason 2010: David Lightfoot 2011: Sandra Chung 2012: Keren Rice 2013: Ellen...
a recurring role as Congressman Trey Thomason on Salvation. In 2019 he appeared as Henry, the boyfriend of Sarah Jessica Parker's lead character Frances...
the 1995 comedy The Glam Metal Detectives. In 2009, she appeared as Jane Thomason, the news producer for the BBC in Taking the Flak. She portrayed Cherie...
moved to Chicago; the couple had three children, including linguist SarahThomason. After she brought a pipefish to the Field Museum of Natural History...
Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles, MacMillan, ISBN 0-333-63024-6 Thomason, Sarah G.; Kaufman, Terrence (1988), Language contact, creolization, and genetic...
the Dutch Cape Colony between 1652 and 1672 had a Dutch father. Sarah Grey Thomason and Terrence Kaufman argue that Afrikaans' development as a separate...