Sarah Thomason | Academic Influence

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Sarah Thomason

Communications

#282

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#497

Historical Rank

#162

USA Rank

Linguistics

#143

World Rank

#196

Historical Rank

#73

USA Rank

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Sarah Thomason's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Sarah Grey Thomason is an American scholar of linguistics, Bernard Bloch distinguished professor emerita at the University of Michigan. She is best known for her work on language contact, historical linguistics, pidgins and creoles, Slavic Linguistics, Native American languages and typological universals. She also has an interest in debunking linguistic pseudoscience, and has collaborated with publications such as the Skeptical Inquirer, The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal and American Speech, in regard to claims of xenoglossy.

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Sarah Thomason's Published Works

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Language Contact: An Introduction (2001) (901)
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics (1990) (860)
Contact languages : a wider perspective (1997) (172)
Social and Linguistic Factors as Predictors of Contact-Induced Change (2008) (110)
Contact as a Source of Language Change (2008) (109)
Language Contact and Deliberate Change (2007) (85)
A typology of contact languages (1997) (70)
CHINOOK JARGON IN AREAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT (1983) (58)
Contact Explanations in Linguistics (2020) (50)
On mechanisms of interference (1997) (41)
Creoles and genetic relationship (2002) (40)
Endangered Languages: An Introduction (2015) (39)
Linguistic Areas and Language History (2000) (33)
Contact-induced typological change (2001) (30)
On interpreting ‘The Indian Interpreter’ (1980) (30)
How much syntactic reconstruction is possible (2008) (29)
Pronoun borrowing (2001) (27)
On the unpredictability of contact effects (2000) (26)
Phonetic structures of Montana Salish (2008) (26)
Contact-induced language change and typological congruence (2014) (21)
Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics (2009) (21)
Why universals VERSUS contact-induced change? (2008) (20)
On Changes from Palatalized Labials to Apical Affricates (1986) (18)
Language Change and Language Contact (2006) (14)
Speakers' choices in language change (1999) (14)
When is the diffusion of inflectional morphology not dispreferred (2015) (13)
Morphological instability, with and without language contact (1980) (13)
What Motivates Changes That Occur in Emerging Pidgins and Creoles (2003) (11)
Before the Lingua Franca: Pidginized Arabic in the eleventh century A.D. (1986) (11)
Genetic relationship and the case of Ma'a Mbugu (1983) (10)
10. Contact-induced language change and Pidgin/Creole genesis (2001) (10)
How to Establish Substratum Interference (2009) (7)
WHAT ELSE HAPPENS TO OPAQUE RULES (1976) (7)
A response to Mufwene’s response (2003) (6)
Is morphosyntactic change really rare? (2011) (4)
Determining language contact effects in ancient contact situations (2004) (4)
Which route(s) to creole genesis (2002) (4)
How and why do people change their languages (1995) (4)
Speakers' attitudes in language change, contact-language genesis and language preservation (2001) (3)
Middle English: English, Not Norse (2016) (3)
Continuity of transmission and genetic relationship (1980) (3)
Noun suffixation in Serbo-Croatian dialects (1968) (2)
Language Contact and Language Endangerment (2018) (2)
On predicting calques and other contact effects (1999) (2)
Language Change, Intentional (2006) (2)
How to avoid pitfalls in documenting endangered languages (2013) (2)
DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR PREVIOUS LIFE'S LANGUAGE IN YOUR PRESENT INCARNATION? (1984) (2)
Typological and theoretical aspects of Hungarian in contact with other languages (2005) (2)
English as a Contact Language: Innovation and contact: the role of adults (and children) (2013) (2)
SYNTACTIC RECONSTRUCTION (2004) (2)
At a loss forwords: The Native-American language Salich-Pend d'Oreille is on the brink of disappearing. More than half the world's 6,000 languages will be gone by the end of the century. (2008) (2)
A comparison between greenberg ’ s classifications in Africa and in the Americas * (2)
The journal ten years later (2003) (2)
How I Got Here and Where I’m Going Next (2021) (1)
Coping with Partial Information in Historical Linguistics (1993) (1)
John Holm and Creole Linguistics (2014) (1)
Historical Linguistics Since 1968: On Some of the Causes of Linguistic Change (2019) (1)
Bilingualism and contact-induced language change (2005) (1)
The Pacific Northwest linguistic area (2014) (1)
Special Issue on Indigenous Languages: Introduction (2019) (1)
Fantastic Linguistics (2020) (1)
Lexical Transfer between Southern Interior Salish and Molalla-Sahaptian (2012) (1)
The Genesis of Language: the First Michigan Colloquium, 1979 (1981) (1)
Languages in Conflict: Linguistic Acculturation on the Great Plains (1982) (1)
The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: Historical perspectives (2014) (1)
On the analysis of inflectional change (1974) (1)
The Čakavian Dialect of Orlec on the Island of Cres@@@The Cakavian Dialect of Orlec on the Island of Cres (1986) (0)
The linguistic aspect of Thor Heyerdahl's theory By W. Wilfried Schuhmacher (review) (2015) (0)
The Čakavian dialect of Orlec on the island of Cres By H. Peter Houtzagers (review) (2015) (0)
Language contact and change in the Americas (2016) (0)
The Native-American language Salish-Pend d'Oreille faces extinction : just like more than half of the world's 6, 000 other languages (2007) (0)
Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 17: Languages (review) (2007) (0)
The Finality of Decisions: Revisiting Editorial Review (and Some General Lessons) (2005) (0)
Albert Valdman and Arnold Highfield (eds.), Theoretical orientations in creole studies . New York: Academic Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 449. (1982) (0)
Language Contact (2019) (0)
Languages and Language Varieties (1984) (0)
Language contact and change in the Americas: The state of the art (2016) (0)
Nominal contact in Michif by Carrie Gillon, Nicole Rosen, Verna Demontigny (2019) (0)
1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics (2010) (0)
SHORT NOTE GENETIC LINGUISTICS AND GENETIC CREOLISTICS: A RESPONSE TO SARAH G. THOMASON’S “CREOLES AND GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS” (2003) (0)
Peter Bakker & Maarten Mous (eds.), Mixed languages: 15 case studies in language intertwining . (Studies in language and language use, 13.) Amsterdam: Institute for Functional Research into Language and Language Use, 1994. pp. viii, 244. (1997) (0)
Analogy By Raimo Anttila (review) (2015) (0)
Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction Message 1 : Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction (2010) (0)
Anneli Sarhimaa: Syntactic Transfer, Contact-induced Change, and the Evolution of Mixed Codes: Focus on Karelian-Russian Language Alternation [Doctoral dissertation], Finnish Literature Society (Studia Fennica, Linguistica 9), Helsinki, 1999, 340 pp. (2000) (0)
Response to Bickerton (1992) (0)
Sarah Thomason: Brief Mention (1989) (0)
Arabic in contact witih other languages (2006) (0)
LINGUISTICS : AN INTRODUCTION Chapter 3 : Phonology (2005) (0)
On reconstructing past contact situations (1998) (0)
Dialectology Meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (review) (2007) (0)
The Editor's Department (2015) (0)

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