Edith Andrea Moravcsik () (born 1939) is a Hungarian-born

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Career

Edith A. Moravcsik was born May 2, 1939, in

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as the daughter of

Gyula Moravcsik Gyula (Julius) Moravcsik (Budapest, 29 January 1892 – Budapest, 10 December 1972), who usually wrote just as Gy. Moravcsik, was a Hungarian professor of Greek philology and Byzantine history who in 1967 was awarded the Pour le Mérite for Science ...

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and

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were her brothers. Since 1964, she has been living in the United States. Her early training in Hungary was in Classics.

Education and teaching

In 1971, she received her Ph.D. in linguistics at

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. Between 1968 and 1976, she was a member of the Language Universals Project at Stanford University under the direction of

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and Charles Ferguson. After over 30 years of teaching at the

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, she retired from this institution as professor emeritus in 2009. She was elected an external member of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its mai ...

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Books authored

* Introducing language typology. 2013. Cambridge University Press. * An introduction to syntax. Fundamentals of syntactic analysis. 2016. London: Continuum. * An introduction to syntactic theory. 2016. London: Continuum.

Recent books co-edited

* Current approaches to syntax (with András Kertész and Csilla Rákosi). 2019. Berlin: de Gruyter. * Competing motivations in grammar (with Brian MacWhinney and Andrej Malchukov). 2014. Oxford University Press. * Formulaic language (with Roberta Corrigan, Hamid Ouali, and Kathleen Wheatley). Volumes I-II. 2009. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.

Selected papers

* 2019. “Accounting for variation in language.” ''Open Linguistics'', 2019, 5: 369–382. * 2017. “Syntax.” In Hans Burkhardt & Johanna Seibt & Guido Imaguire & Stamatios Gerogiorgakis (eds.) ''The handbook of mereology'', 544–547. 2017. Munich: Philosophia Verlag. * 2017. “Number” In A. Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon (eds.) ''The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology''. 2017. 440–476. Cambridge University Press. * 2016. “On linguistic categories.” ''Linguistic Typology'' 2016. 20/2,417-425. * 2011. “Coming to grips with exceptions”. In Horst J. Simon and Heike Wiese (eds.) ''Expecting the unexpected: Exceptions in grammar''. 2011. 31–55. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. * 2011. “Explaining language universals”. In Jae Jung Song (ed.) ''The Oxford handbook of language typology''. 2011. 69–89. Oxford University Press. * 2010. “Conflict resolution in syntactic theory.” ''Studies in Language'', 2010. 34:3, 636–669. * 2009. “The distribution of case”. In: Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer (eds.) ''The Oxford handbook of case''. 2009. 231–245. Oxford University Press. * 2009. “Partonomic structures in syntax.” In Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel (eds.) ''New directions in cognitive linguistics.'' 2009. 269–285. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. * 2007. “What is universal about typology?” ''Linguistic Typology'', 2007. 11/1, 27–41. * 2003. “A semantic analysis of associative plurals” ''Studies in Language'', 2003, 27:3, 469–503. * 1978.
Agreement.
In: ''Universals of human language'', edited by Joseph H. Greenberg, Charles A. Ferguson, and Edith Moravcsik, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 331–374. * 1978.
On the case marking of objects.
In: ''Universals of human language'', edited by Joseph H. Greenberg, Charles A. Ferguson, and Edith Moravcsik, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 249–289.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moravcsik, Edith A. 1939 births Living people Hungarian emigrants to the United States Linguists from the United States Linguists from Hungary Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences American women linguists Typologists People from Budapest Indiana University alumni University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty Eötvös Loránd University alumni