Edith Andrea Moravcsik () (born 2 May 1939) is a Hungarian-born American linguist.

Career

Edith Andrea 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 Scien ...

. Julius Moravcsik and

Michael Moravcsik Michael Julius Alexander Moravcsik (; ; 25 June 1928 – 25 April 1989) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical high energy physicist whose areas of research included the two nucleon system, particle spin symmetries. He also made important c ...

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

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in linguistics at

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

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under the direction of

Joseph Greenberg Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages. Life Early life and education Joseph Greenberg was born on M ...

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

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in 2019.

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