Gregory Guy

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Gregory R. Guy
Born (1950-08-23) August 23, 1950 (age 73)
Education
Occupations
  • Linguist
  • professor
Websitegregoryrguy.com

Gregory Riordan Guy (born August 23, 1950)

linguist who specializes in the study of language variation and language diversity, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonetics, and phonology. He has a particular interest in the Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish
languages.

He received his first of two B.A. degrees from Central High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (the only high school in the United States accredited to award such degrees to high school students), and went on to receive his B.A. from Boston University in 1972 and M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and 1981.[2] His Ph.D. dissertation described syntactic change in spoken Brazilian Portuguese.[3]

Guy is now a Professor of

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
.

Notable publications include Towards a Social Science of Language and a series of papers in the journal Language Variation and Change dealing with linguistic variation and phonological theory.

Published works

References

  1. ^ a b "Gregory Riordan Guy Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). GregoryGuy.com. January 2016. Retrieved March 23, 2021.
  2. ^ "Gregory Guy". NYU | Arts & Science. Retrieved March 23, 2021.
  3. ^ Guy, Gregory Riordan (January 1, 1981). "Linguistic variation in Brazilian Portuguese: Aspects of the phonology, syntax, and language history": 1–404. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "When is a Dialect Not a Dialect? When It's a Different Language". Focus on York University Research. Fall 2001. Archived from the original on May 1, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-27.

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