Linda Lombardi is an American writer and editor specializing in animals.
Lombardi worked as an academic linguist at the
University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...
and was known for her works on
phonology
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...
and
optimality theory
In linguistics, Optimality Theory (frequently abbreviated OT) is a linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the optimal satisfaction of conflicting constraints. OT differs from other approaches to phonological ...
until she quit her tenured job to become an
animal keeper.
Books
Animals
* ''The Pit Bull Life'', co-authored with Deirdre Franklin, Countryman Press 2016
* ''The Lemur's Cry'', Wombatarama 2014
* ''The Sloth's Eye'', Five Star Mysteries 2012
* ''Animals Behaving Badly: Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales'', Penguin/Perigee 2011
Linguistics
* ''Laryngeal Features and Laryngeal Neutralization'', Garland 1994 (Routledge 2018)
* ''Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory'', Cambridge University Press 2001
References
External links
Personal website
American phonologists
Living people
Linguists from the United States
21st-century American women writers
20th-century American women scientists
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Animal trainers
Zookeepers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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