Paul J. Hopper is an American linguist of British birth. In 1973, he proposed the glottalic theory regarding the reconstruction of the

Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. No direct record of Proto-Indo ...

consonant inventory, in parallel with the Georgian linguist

Tamaz Gamkrelidze Tamaz (Thomas) Valerianis dze Gamkrelidze ( Georgian: თამაზ ვალერიანის ძე გამყრელიძე, 23 October 1929 – 10 February 2021) was a Georgian linguist, orientalist public benefactor and Hitti ...

and the Russian linguist Vyacheslav Ivanov. He later also became known for his theory of emergent grammar (Hopper 1987), for his contributions to the theory of grammaticalisation and other work dealing with the interface between grammar and usage. He currently works as the Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...

, USA.

Selected publications

*(1973) Glottalized and murmured occlusives in Indo-European. ''Glotta'' 7: 141-166. *(1987) Emergent grammar. ''Berkeley Linguistics Society'' 13: 139-157. (Online on archive.org

*(1993) (with Elizabeth Closs Traugott) ''Grammaticalization''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

References

External links

Paul Hopper's page
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