Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Linguist known for conceptual semantics within generative grammar.
1945, Chicago, Illinois, United States
United States
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Jackendoff is an American linguist whose theory of conceptual semantics, developed within the generative-grammar tradition, models how the mind represents the meaning of language and links it to thought and perception. He is Jewish, born in Chicago, and has held professorships at Brandeis and Tufts universities.
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Linguist known for conceptual semantics within generative grammar.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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