Carl Lodewijk Ebeling (8 February 1924 – 24 February 2017)Family notices in ''

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'', 2 March 2017 was a Dutch linguist specializing in Slavic and

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. He was a professor at the University of Amsterdam from 1955 to 1985.

Career

Ebeling was born in Zaandam on 8 February 1924. He finished his in Slavic languages at the University of Amsterdam in 1947. He then moved to the United States and studied Slavic languages at Harvard University and obtained his PhD there under Roman Jakobson in 1950 with a thesis titled: ''The parts of the sentence in modern Russian: a structural analysis''. Ebeling returned to the Netherlands and from 1955 to 1960 he was professor of Slavic languages. He subsequently became professor of both Slavic and Baltic languages. He retired in 1985. In 1954 Ebeling started formulating his ideas on

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in an article. In 1978 he wrote his '' magnum opus'' on the topic, ''Syntax and Semantics. A Taxonomic Approach''. He followed this up in 2006 with the Dutch-language ''Semiotaxis. Over theoretische en Nederlandse syntaxis''. In the 1960s Ebeling came up with a law-like theory of verbal paradigmic accentuation in Slavic, and possibly Balto-Slavic languages. Ebeling was elected a member of the

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in 1979. Ebeling died in Graft on 24 February 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ebeling, Carl Lodewijk 1924 births 2017 deaths Harvard University alumni Linguists from the Netherlands Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Zaanstad Syntacticians University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam Dutch expatriates in the United States