Julia S. Falk (born 1941) is a professor emeritus at the Linguistics Department,

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. She earned her PhD in linguistics from the

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in 1968 with a dissertation entitled "Nominalizations in Spanish." She was apparently the first woman to receive her PhD in this department.

Career

Julia S. Falk is most known for her work on the history of linguistics, and in particular the history of linguistics in the United States from 1900 to 1950. She has written articles on the early history of the

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, as well as a number of short intellectual biographies of particular linguists, in journal articles and for various reference works, including the

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and the Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Her work has played an important role in drawing attention to the role of women linguists in the first half of the twentieth century through her book, ''Women, Language and Linguistics'', as well as in Falk (1994, 1995). A member of North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), she served as president in the year 2000.

Selected publications

Linguistics and Language: A Survey of Basic Concepts and Implications ''History of linguistics'' Falk, Julia S. 1992. Otto Jespersen,

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, and American structural linguistics. ''Language'' 68:3.465-91. Falk, Julia S. 1995. Roman Jakobson and the history of Saussurean concepts in North American linguistics. ''Historiographia Linguistica'' 22:3.335-67. Falk, Julia S. 1995. Words without grammar: Linguists and the international auxiliary language movement in the United States. ''Language & Communication'' 15:3.241-59. Falk, Julia S. 1998. Defining linguistics: E.H. Sturtevant and the early years of the Linguistic Society of America. ''16th International Congress of Linguists'', ed. by Bernard Caron, paper no. 0029, CD-ROM. Oxford: Pergamon/Elsevier Science. Falk, Julia S. 1998. The American shift from historical to non-historical linguistics. ''Language & Communication'' 18:171-80. Falk, Julia S. 1999. 'Language as a living, cultural phenomenon' -- Gladys Amanda Reichard and the study of native American languages. In ''History of Linguistics'' 1996, ed. by David Cram et al., pp. 111–118. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Falk, Julia S. 2003. Turn to the history of linguistics:

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and Charles Hockett in the 1960s. ''Historiographia Linguistica'' 30:1/2.129-185. Falk, Julia S. 2004. Saussure and American linguistics. In ''The Cambridge Companion to Saussure'', ed. by Carol Sanders, pp. 107–123. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Falk, Julia S. 2004. Otto Jespersen. In ''The Encyclopedia of Linguistics'', ed. by Philip Strazny, pp. 562–565. ''Women linguists'' Falk, Julia S. 1994. The women Foundation Members of the

. ''Language'' 70:3.455-90(1994). Falk, Julia S. 1995. ‘Portraits of women linguists:

Louise Pound Louise Pound (June 30, 1872 – June 28, 1958) was an American folklorist, linguist, and college professor at the University of Nebraska. In 1955, Pound was the first woman elected president of the Modern Language Association, and in the same y ...

Edith Claflin Edith Frances Claflin (6 October 1875, Quincy, Massachusetts – 5 March 1953, New York City) was an American linguist, a noted scholar of Latin and Greek. Career Claflin earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1897, graduating magna cum laud ...

, Adelaide Hahn’. In Kurt R. Jankowsky (ed.), ''History of linguistics 1993'' (pp. 313–320). Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Falk, Julia S. 1997. Territoriality, relationships, and reputation: The case of Gladys A. Reichard. ''Southwest Journal of Linguistics'' 16:1/2.17-37. Falk, Julia S. 1999. ''Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century'' nowiki/>Alice Vanderbilt Morris, Gladys Amanda Reichard, E. Adelaide Hahn]. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

References

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