Alexis Manaster-Ramer
Biographic Data
| ID | 742446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Manaster-Ramer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | Manaster-Ramer |
| SIGNATURE | MANASTER-RAMER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-4174-1335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
L’affaire d’un chargé? Ghuzz ‘deputy (of any ruler or chieftain)’ ≠ Qarluq/Uyγur Kül Erkin ‘epithet of a supreme ruler’
The author strongly criticises the medieval explanation of Mahmud Kashgari’s interpretation of the Qarluq royal title Kül Erkin as ‘intelligence collected like a full pond’, calling it utter nonsense. He also argues against the claim that this Qarluq title is the same as the Ghuzz title recorded by Ibn Faḍlān. The equation of the two titles lacks evidence and reason, since was not a royal title but a title for a subject. He suggests that the titl…
Indo-European, Nostratic and beyond
From Pitta-Pitta to Proto-Indo-European
Preview this article: From Pitta-Pitta to Proto-Indo-European, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/dia.11.1.16man-1.gif
Clusters or Affricates in Kartvelian and Nostratic
Among the weakest points of Illic-Svityd's reconstruction of Nostratic is the complex system of affricates, which in Indo-European are supposed to yield *st, *sk, *skw, and *sky clusters. In what is one of the few substantive critiques of the Nostratic hypothesis, Doerfer (1973) took the proposed direction of change from affricates to clusters as a reductio ab absurdum. However, many Kartvelian specialists assume a parallel shift from affricates …
On Illič-Svityč's Nostratic Theory
Preview this article: On Illič-Svityč's Nostratic Theory, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sl.17.1.09man-1.gif
Malagasy and the Topic/Subject Issue
A new proposal about subject and topic is offered, derived largely from an effort to see how Malagasy fits (or does not fit) in the typology proposed by Schachter (1976, 1977). This typology provides for two kinds of languages: those like Tagalog, that are supposed to have topics and actors but no subjects, and those like English, where the topic and actor properties are supposed to inhere in a single category, the subject. Malagasy is shown to r…
On Anecdotal Universals in Historical Linguistics
Sound Change vs. Rule Change the Case of Eastern Andalusian
Mathematics of Language
1. Names and Addresses of Contributors 2. Introduction (by Manaster-Ramer, Alexis) 3. Computational Complexity, Mathematical Linguistics, and Linguistic Theory (by Berwick, Robert C.) 4. Exceptions to Generic Generalizations (by Carlson, Greg N.) 5. The Structure Underlying a Semantic Domain (by Davis, Anthony R.) 6. Binary Rules and Non-Binary Trees: Breaking Down the Concept of Phrase Structure (by Jensen, Karen) 7. An Introduction to Tree Adjo…
Some Questions of Topic/Focus Choice in Tagalog
The Phoneme in Generative Phonology and in Phonological Change
Generative phonology comes out of phonemic and morphonemic theory, except that it gives up the phonemic level. Since the early 1970s, a number of attempts have been made to bring the phoneme back. One of the earliest and strongest was that of Schane (1971). His claim was that features which are phonemic in some enviornments but nonphonemic in others tend to get lost in the latter but are preserved and accentuated in the former. We find a number o…
Chunk Youg in Memoriam
Genesis of Hopi Tones
Oromo Dictionary
Georgian
Kern Laws
Oromo Dictionary
Georgian
Kern Laws
Chunk Youg in Memoriam
Genesis of Hopi Tones
Some Questions of Topic/Focus Choice in Tagalog
The Phoneme in Generative Phonology and in Phonological Change
Generative phonology comes out of phonemic and morphonemic theory, except that it gives up the phonemic level. Since the early 1970s, a number of attempts have been made to bring the phoneme back. One of the earliest and strongest was that of Schane (1971). His claim was that features which are phonemic in some enviornments but nonphonemic in others tend to get lost in the latter but are preserved and accentuated in the former. We find a number o…
Sound Change vs. Rule Change the Case of Eastern Andalusian
Mathematics of Language
1. Names and Addresses of Contributors 2. Introduction (by Manaster-Ramer, Alexis) 3. Computational Complexity, Mathematical Linguistics, and Linguistic Theory (by Berwick, Robert C.) 4. Exceptions to Generic Generalizations (by Carlson, Greg N.) 5. The Structure Underlying a Semantic Domain (by Davis, Anthony R.) 6. Binary Rules and Non-Binary Trees: Breaking Down the Concept of Phrase Structure (by Jensen, Karen) 7. An Introduction to Tree Adjo…
Malagasy and the Topic/Subject Issue
A new proposal about subject and topic is offered, derived largely from an effort to see how Malagasy fits (or does not fit) in the typology proposed by Schachter (1976, 1977). This typology provides for two kinds of languages: those like Tagalog, that are supposed to have topics and actors but no subjects, and those like English, where the topic and actor properties are supposed to inhere in a single category, the subject. Malagasy is shown to r…
On Anecdotal Universals in Historical Linguistics
On Illič-Svityč's Nostratic Theory
Preview this article: On Illič-Svityč's Nostratic Theory, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sl.17.1.09man-1.gif
From Pitta-Pitta to Proto-Indo-European
Preview this article: From Pitta-Pitta to Proto-Indo-European, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/dia.11.1.16man-1.gif
Clusters or Affricates in Kartvelian and Nostratic
Among the weakest points of Illic-Svityd's reconstruction of Nostratic is the complex system of affricates, which in Indo-European are supposed to yield *st, *sk, *skw, and *sky clusters. In what is one of the few substantive critiques of the Nostratic hypothesis, Doerfer (1973) took the proposed direction of change from affricates to clusters as a reductio ab absurdum. However, many Kartvelian specialists assume a parallel shift from affricates …
Indo-European, Nostratic and beyond
L’affaire d’un chargé? Ghuzz ‘deputy (of any ruler or chieftain)’ ≠ Qarluq/Uyγur Kül Erkin ‘epithet of a supreme ruler’
The author strongly criticises the medieval explanation of Mahmud Kashgari’s interpretation of the Qarluq royal title Kül Erkin as ‘intelligence collected like a full pond’, calling it utter nonsense. He also argues against the claim that this Qarluq title is the same as the Ghuzz title recorded by Ibn Faḍlān. The equation of the two titles lacks evidence and reason, since was not a royal title but a title for a subject. He suggests that the titl…
Philosophy (13 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · History (7 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works)