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Johanna Nichols (born 1945, Iowa City, Iowa)[1] is an American linguist and professor emerita in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973 with a dissertation titled, "The Balto-Slavic predicate instrumental: a problem in diachronic syntax."[2]

Johanna Nichols
Born	1945 Iowa City, Iowa
Occupation	Linguist
Academic background
Academic work
Main interests	Slavic languages, Northeast Caucasian languages, historical linguistics
Notable works	Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time

Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory, and languages of the Caucasus, chiefly Chechen and Ingush.[3] She has made fundamental contributions to these fields.[4] A festschrift in her honor, Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, was published in 2013.[5]

Nichols's best known work, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time, won the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 1994.[6]

Books

• Predicate Nominals: A Partial Surface Syntax of Russian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. ISBN 0-520-09626-6.
• Grammar Inside and Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the Field. Edited by Johanna Nichols and Anthony C. Woodbury. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-521-26617-3.
• Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology. Edited by Wallace Chafe and Johanna Nichols. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1986. ISBN 0-89391-203-4
• Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0-226-58056-3.
• Sound Symbolism. Edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. Cambridge [England]; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-45219-8.
• Chechen–English and English–Chechen Dictionary / Noxchiin–ingals, ingals–noxchiin deshnizhaina. London; New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004. ISBN 978-0-203-56517-9. Johanna Nichols, Ronald L. Sprouse, and Arbi Vagapov.
• Ingush Grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 0-520-09877-3.

References

External links

• Biography of Johanna Nichols
• The Chechen Language
• The Ingush Language
• An overview of languages of the Caucasus
• Typology in the service of classification: Alternative approaches to language classification Stanford, July 17–19, 2007
• World Atlas of Language Structures

На других языках

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- [en] Johanna Nichols

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[ru] Николс, Джоханна

Джоха́нна[1] Бибесха́ймер Ни́колс (также «Николз»[2], «Никольс»[3], англ. Johanna Biebesheimer Nichols; род. 1 января 1945, Айова-Сити, Айова) — американский лингвист, специалист по исторической лингвистике и типологии, славянским языкам, нахским языкам. Профессор-эмерит отделения славянских языков и литератур Калифорнийского университета в Беркли.

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