James D. McCawley (1938–1999)
Author of The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters
About the Author
James D. McCawley was the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages at the University of Chicago.
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Works by James D. McCawley
Everything that Linguists have Always Wanted to Know about Logic . . . But Were Ashamed to Ask (1980) 111 copies
Grammar and Meaning: Papers on Syntactic and Semantic Topics (Taishukan Studies in Modern Linguistics) (1976) 8 copies
'Concerning the base component of a transformational grammar' in Foundations of language 4 1968 1 copy
Logic 1 copy
Associated Works
Challenging Mathematical Problems With Elementary Solutions, Vol. 1 (1964) — Translator, some editions — 89 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- McCawley, James David
- Other names
- McCawley, James Quillan, Jr (birth)
Quang Phúc Ðông (pseudonym) - Birthdate
- 1938-03-30
- Date of death
- 1999-04-10
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- United States of America
UK (birth) - Places of residence
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK (birth)
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Education
- University of Chicago (MS | mathematics | 1958)
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD | linguistics | 1965) - Occupations
- linguist
- Organizations
- University of Chicago
- Short biography
- "James McCawley (1938-1999) was one of the most significant linguists of the latter half of the twentieth century. His legacy to a generation of linguists encompasses not only his work in phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language but also his emphasis on bridging research in linguistics with that in other disciplines, from anthropology and psychology to physics and biology."
He changed his name on moving to America after WWII.
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