John Mathieson Anderson,
FBA (born 1941) is a British linguist and academic. He is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the
University of Edinburgh
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. In the 1970s, Anderson revived the idea of localism, which is the linguistic theory that all grammatical cases, including syntactic cases, are based on a local meaning; however Anderson used a generative approach to the idea. Collaborating with
Colin J. Ewen, he wrote the first detailed overview of the theory of
dependency phonology in their 1987 work ''Principles of Dependency Phonology''.
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References
1941 births
Living people
Fellows of the British Academy
Linguists from Scotland
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
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