Edwin S. Williams

Edwin Samuel Williams (born 1948) is an American linguist and Emeritus Professor of linguistics at Princeton University.[1] He is known for his expertise on morphology and syntax.[2] Williams is credited as the creator of representation theory.

Edwin S. Williams
Born1948 (age 7172)
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsMorphology, syntax
InstitutionsPrinceton University
ThesisRule Ordering in Syntax (1974)
Doctoral advisorNoam Chomsky

Books

  • On the Definition of Word, Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Edwin Williams, MIT Press
  • Thematic Structure in Syntax, MIT Press
  • Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology, Routledge
  • Representation Theory, MIT Press
gollark: People have been known to implode before the glory of ABR's source.
gollark: I know, its codebase is so much worse than ABR's optimal one.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Besides, it can't be undetectably corrupted due to the uncountably infinite redundancy and unchangeable memory cells.

References

  1. "Edwin S. Williams". dof.princeton.edu. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  2. Ananiadou, Sofia (1989). "On the definition of word". Machine Translation. 4 (4): 313–317. doi:10.1007/BF00713706.
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