Theodora Bynon
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Theodora Bynon | |
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| Born | 1936 |
| Spouse | James Bynon |
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| Doctoral students | Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy |
Theodora Bynon (born 1936) is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Historical Linguistics at SOAS University of London. She was a student of the German linguist Hans Krahe and studied the ergative case in languages such as Kurdish.[1][2] She is known for her works on historical linguistics and wrote what is considered a seminal text in 1977.[3]
Books[edit]
- Historical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1977
- James and Theodora Bynon (eds.), Hamito-Semitica, London 1975
- Masayoshi Shibatani & Theodora Bynon, Approaches to language typology, Clarendon Press, 1995.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Bynon, Theodora; Bynon, Professor of Historical Linguistics Soas Theodora (15 September 1977). Historical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29188-0.
- ^ Bynon, Theodora (1979). "The Ergative Construction in Kurdish". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 42 (2): 211–224. doi:10.1017/S0041977X0014577X. ISSN 0041-977X. JSTOR 615012. S2CID 153447165.
- ^ "Book review".
- ^ Haspelmath, Martin (1996). "Review of Approaches to Language Typology". Journal of Linguistics. 32 (2): 513–517. doi:10.1017/S0022226700016005. ISSN 0022-2267. JSTOR 4176380. S2CID 144800272.
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