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Johanna Nichols (born 1945, Iowa City, Iowa)[1] is an American linguist and professor emerita in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.
Johanna Nichols | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Slavic languages, Northeast Caucasian languages, historical linguistics |
| Notable works | Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time |
She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973 with a dissertation titled "The Balto-Slavic predicate instrumental: a problem in diachronic syntax".[2]
Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory, and languages of the Caucasus, chiefly Chechen and Ingush.[3] She has made fundamental contributions to these fields.[4]
A festschrift in her honor, Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, was published in 2013.[5]
Nichols's best known work, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time, won the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 1994.[6]
In 2013 Nichols was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[7] In 2023 she was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.[8]
- Predicate Nominals: A Partial Surface Syntax of Russian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. ISBN 0-520-09626-6.
- Grammar Inside and Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the Field. Edited by Johanna Nichols and Anthony C. Woodbury. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-521-26617-3.
- Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology. Edited by Wallace Chafe and Johanna Nichols. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1986. ISBN 0-89391-203-4
- Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0-226-58056-3.
- Sound Symbolism. Edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. Cambridge [England]; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-45219-8.
- Chechen–English and English–Chechen Dictionary / Noxchiin–ingals, ingals–noxchiin deshnizhaina. London; New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004. ISBN 978-0-203-56517-9. Johanna Nichols, Ronald L. Sprouse, and Arbi Vagapov.
- Ingush Grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 0-520-09877-3.
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