Dr. Guy Deutscher
Guy Deutscher, Ph.D. is the author of
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other
Languages
and
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest
Invention.
Formerly a Fellow of St. John’s
College,
Cambridge and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages in the
University of Leiden in the Netherlands, Guy is an honorary Research
Fellow at the School of Languages,
Linguistics and Cultures in the University of Manchester.
His papers include
Stability against the odds? The survival of verb-final order in
Akkadian,
On the mechanisms of morphological change,
The rise and fall of a rogue relative construction,
The origin of ergativity in Sumerian, and the ‘inversion’ in
pronominal
agreement:
a historical explanation based on Neo-Aramaic parallels, and
The Semantics of Clause Linking in Akkadian,
Read the
full list of his publications!
Guy also authored the book
Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential
Complementation.
Read
American Scientist: An interview with Guy Deutscher,
Dr. Guy Deutscher – The Evolution of Language, and
Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
He earned his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at the University of
Cambridge and earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics there as
well.