Stanley Starosta
Stanley Starosta | |||||||||
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| Born | November 28, 1939 | ||||||||
| Died | July 18, 2002 (aged 62) Honolulu, Hawaii, US | ||||||||
| Occupation | Linguist | ||||||||
| Title | Professor of Linguistics | ||||||||
| Academic background | |||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin | ||||||||
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| Discipline | Linguistics | ||||||||
| Sub-discipline | Morphology, historical linguistics | ||||||||
| Institutions | University of Hawaiʻi | ||||||||
| Main interests | Austronesian languages, languages of South Asia, dependency grammar | ||||||||
| Notable works | The case for Lexicase (1988) | ||||||||
| Notable ideas | Lexicase, East Asian languages hypothesis | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 帥德樂 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 帅德乐 | ||||||||
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Stanley Starosta (born November 28, 1939, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin; died July 18, 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii), also known as Stan Starosta, was an American linguist. He is known for proposing Lexicase theory and the East Asian languages macrophylum hypothesis.