| 词条 | Paul Newman (linguist) |
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| name = Paul Newman | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1937}} | birth_place = Jacksonville, Florida | death_date = | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = American | fields = Linguistics | workplaces = Yale University, Bayero University, University of Leiden, Indiana University | alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania (B.A.), (M.A.), UCLA (PhD) | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Hausa linguistics and lexicography | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = Joseph Greenberg | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = }} Paul Newman (born 1937) is an American linguist active in the study of African languages. He writes on the Hausa language of Nigeria and on the Chadic language family. He wrote the Modern Hausa-English Dictionary (1977), co-authored with his wife, Roxana Ma Newman, and The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar (2000). He is the founder of the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, a journal in the field of African-language studies. He has taught at Yale University, the University of Leiden, and the Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. He is currently Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University after serving two terms as chairman of the department. Newman is a strong advocate of the theories of his mentor, Joseph Greenberg, and has published a work in defense of Greenberg’s classification of African languages entitled On Being Right. Newman is also interested in the relation of language and law and is a strong advocate of civil liberties. In addition to degrees in anthropology and linguistics he holds a JD (IU Bloomington, 2003)[1] and is a member of the Indiana state bar. A selection of works by Paul Newman
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16 : 1937 births|Living people|People from Jacksonville, Florida|University of Pennsylvania alumni|Linguists from the United States|Yale University faculty|Leiden University faculty|Indiana University faculty|American Africanists|Linguists of Hausa|American expatriates in Nigeria|Bayero University Kano faculty|American expatriates in the Netherlands|University of California, Los Angeles alumni|Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumni|Linguists of Afroasiatic languages |
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