swap_horiz Samuel Jay Keyser Alternatives

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Morris Halle

Morris Halle (1923–2018) was a Latvian-born American linguist who spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institut...

Russian American Generative Phonology

9.1 Excellent

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Ken Hale

Kenneth Locke Hale was an American linguist who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was highly...

American Fieldwork Endangered Syntax

9.0 Excellent

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Paul Kiparsky

Paul Kiparsky is a prominent Finnish-American linguist and a long-time professor at Stanford University. He is widely re...

Historical Generative Finnish Phonology

8.9 Great

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John Robert Ross

John Robert Ross is an American linguist whose 1967 MIT dissertation, Constraints on Variables in Syntax, identified syn...

American Generative Islands Syntax

8.7 Great

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Joan Bresnan

Joan Bresnan is an American linguist and a Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Stanford University. She is most widely r...

American Generative Syntax Lfg

8.7 Great

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David Pesetsky

David Pesetsky is an American linguist and a prominent professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He...

American Generative Grammar Syntax

8.5 Great

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Richard S. Kayne

Richard S. Kayne is an American linguist and a prominent theoretical syntactician, currently serving as a professor at N...

American Romance Generative Syntax

8.4 Great

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Howard Lasnik

Howard Lasnik is an American linguist and a professor at the University of Maryland who has made major contributions to...

American Minimalism Generative Syntax

8.3 Great

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Mark Baker

Mark C. Baker is an American linguist and a professor at Rutgers University. He works in generative syntax and is known...

American Morphology Generative Syntax

8.3 Great

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Elisabeth Selkirk

Elisabeth Selkirk is an American linguist and academic known for her extensive research in phonology. She is a foundatio...

American Phonology Syntax Prosody

8.3 Great

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James D. McCawley

James D. McCawley was a prominent American linguist who served as a professor at the University of Chicago. He is best r...

American Generative Semantics Syntax

8.2 Great

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Edwin Williams

Edwin Williams is an American linguist and an emeritus professor at Princeton University. He is a prominent figure in ge...

American Morphology Generative Syntax

8.2 Great

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Michael Kenstowicz

Michael Kenstowicz is an American linguist and a scholar in the field of phonology, holding a long-standing academic pos...

American Theory Generative Phonology

8.2 Great

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Norvin Richards

Norvin Richards is an American linguist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he spe...

American Generative Syntax Prosody

8.1 Great

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Heidi Harley

Heidi Harley is a Canadian-born linguist and a professor at the University of Arizona, where she specializes in theoreti...

American Morphology Generative Syntax

8.0 Great

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Paul Postal

Paul Postal is an American linguist recognized for his extensive contributions to theoretical syntax, particularly withi...

American Generative Grammar Syntax

7.9 Good

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Shigeru Miyagawa

Shigeru Miyagawa is a prominent Japanese-American linguist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

American Japanese Generative Syntax

7.8 Good

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Andrew Nevins

Andrew Nevins is an American linguist and a professor of linguistics at University College London. His academic research...

American Morphology Phonology Syntax

7.7 Good

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Robert Freidin

Robert Freidin is an American linguist and syntactician, currently serving as a professor at Princeton University. He is...

American Minimalism Generative Syntax

7.6 Good

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Ellen Kaisse

Ellen Kaisse is an American linguist and professor emerita at the University of Washington, specializing in phonological...

American Phonology Syntax Prosody

7.6 Good