Arnold Zwicky Explained

Arnold Zwicky
Birth Date:6 September 1940
Birth Place:Allentown, Pennsylvania
Citizenship:United States
Nationality:American
Fields:Linguistics
Thesis Title:Topics in Sanskrit Phonology
Thesis Year:1965
Doctoral Advisor:Morris Halle
Website:https://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/
Spouse:Ann Daingerfield Zwicky

Arnold Melchior Zwicky (born September 6, 1940) is an adjunct professor of linguistics at Stanford University and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University.[1] The Linguistic Society of America’s Arnold Zwicky Award, given for the first time in 2021, is intended to recognize the contributions of LGBTQ+ scholars in linguistics and is named for Zwicky, the first LGBTQ+ President of the LSA.[2]

Early life and education

Zwicky was born on September 6, 1940, in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[3] He received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at Princeton University (1962). He was a student of Morris Halle at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received a Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics in 1965.

Career

Zwicky has made notable contributions to fields of phonology (half-rhymes), morphology (realizational morphology, rules of referral), syntax (clitics, construction grammar), interfaces (the Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax), sociolinguistics and American dialectology.

He coined the term "recency illusion", the belief that a word, meaning, grammatical construction or phrase is of recent origin when it is in fact of long-established usage.[4] For example, the figurative use of the intensifier "literally" is often perceived to have recent origin, but in fact it dates back several centuries.[5] The phenomenon is thought to be caused by selective attention.

At the Linguistic Society of America's 1999 Summer Institute (held at UIUC) he was the Edward Sapir professor, the most prestigious chair of this organization, of which he is a past president.[6]

He is one of the editors of Handbook of Morphology, among other published works. He is also well known as a frequent contributor to the linguistics blog Language Log, as well as his own personal blog that largely focuses on linguistics issues.[7]

Zwicky was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.[8] He is a former board member of the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, who chose him as 2008 GLBT Scientist of the Year.[9]

Selected publications

As sole author/editor
As co-author/co-editor

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2005-2006 Fellows . 2008-07-20 . Stanford Humanities Center . Stanford University . https://web.archive.org/web/20080705094755/http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/0506zwicky.htm . 5 July 2008 . dead .
  2. Web site: Arnold Zwicky Award . . Linguistic Society of America . 2024-02-02 .
  3. Web site: 2022-09-15 . About AMZ . 2024-06-01 . Arnold Zwicky's Blog . en-US.
  4. Intensive and Quotative ALL: something old, something new, John R. Rickford, Thomas Wasow, Arnold Zwicky, Isabelle Buchstaller, American Speech 2007 82(1):3-31; Duke University Press (what Arnold Zwicky (2005) has dubbed the "recency illusion," whereby people think that linguistic features they’ve only recently noticed are in fact new).
  5. Web site: Language Log: Literally: a history. 2020-12-26. itre.cis.upenn.edu.
  6. http://www.lsadc.org/info/inst-past-profs.cfm Past Linguistic Institutes: Named Professorships
  7. Web site: Arnold Zwicky's Blog | A blog mostly about language . Arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com . 2013-10-27 . 2013-10-31.
  8. Web site: Mr. Arnold Melchior Zwicky . . 23 January 2024. American Academy of Arts and Sciences . 2024-02-02 .
  9. Web site: NOGLSTP Bulletin, Winter 2008 . 2013-12-04.

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