Edwin Samuel Williams (born 1948) is an American linguist and Emeritus Professor of
linguistics at
Princeton University.
He is known for his expertise on
morphology and
syntax
In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituency) ...
.
Williams is credited as the creator of
representation theory.
Books
* ''On the Definition of Word'',
Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Edwin Williams, MIT Press
* ''Thematic Structure in Syntax'', MIT Press
* ''Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology'', Routledge
* ''Representation Theory'', MIT Press
References
1948 births
Living people
Morphologists
Linguists from the United States
Princeton University faculty
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
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