Sarah Thomason
Sarah Thomason | |
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Thomason in July 2012 | |
| Born | 1939 (age 85–86) |
| Mother | Marion Griswold Grey |
| Awards | Wilbur Cross Medal |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Noun suffixation in Serbo-Croatian dialects (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexander Schenker |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Institutions | |
| Website | www-personal |
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.