Sarah Thomason

Sarah Thomason
Thomason in July 2012
Born1939 (age 8586)
MotherMarion Griswold Grey
AwardsWilbur Cross Medal
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisNoun suffixation in Serbo-Croatian dialects (1968)
Doctoral advisorAlexander Schenker
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Institutions
Websitewww-personal.umich.edu/~thomason/

Sarah "Sally" Thomason (née Grey; born 1939) is an American scholar of linguistics, Bernard Bloch distinguished professor emerita at the University of Michigan. She is best known for her work on language contact, historical linguistics, pidgins and creoles, Slavic Linguistics, Native American languages and typological universals. She also has an interest in debunking linguistic pseudoscience, and has collaborated with publications such as the Skeptical Inquirer, The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal and American Speech, in regard to claims of xenoglossy.