Paul Kiparsky
Encyclopedia
René Paul Viktor Kiparsky (born January 28, 1941, Helsinki
, Finland) is a professor of linguistics
at Stanford University
. He is the son of the Russian-born linguist
and Slavicist Valentin Kiparsky.
He was a student of Morris Halle
at MIT, where he was also a professor from 1965 to 1984. His PhD thesis "Phonological Change" (1965) and his subsequent work on historical linguistics
helped form the modern generative view of this area. He is the founder of Lexical
Phonology and Morphology
(LPM) and a noted Pāṇini scholar. He made fundamental contributions to the modern theory of poetic meter and morphosyntax.
His recent work is framed in Optimality Theory
, integrating insights from LPM.
In 2007 he received the honorary doctorate of the German University of Konstanz
.
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
, Finland) is a professor of linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. He is the son of the Russian-born linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
and Slavicist Valentin Kiparsky.
He was a student of Morris Halle
Morris Halle
Morris Halle , is a Latvian-American Jewish linguist and an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
at MIT, where he was also a professor from 1965 to 1984. His PhD thesis "Phonological Change" (1965) and his subsequent work on historical linguistics
Historical linguistics
Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:* to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages...
helped form the modern generative view of this area. He is the founder of Lexical
Lexical (semiotics)
In the lexicon of a language, lexical words or nouns refer to things. These words fall into three main classes:*proper nouns refer exclusively to the place, object or person named, i.e...
Phonology and Morphology
Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description, in a language, of the structure of morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context...
(LPM) and a noted Pāṇini scholar. He made fundamental contributions to the modern theory of poetic meter and morphosyntax.
His recent work is framed in Optimality Theory
Optimality theory
Optimality theory is a linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints. OT models grammars as systems that provide mappings from inputs to outputs; typically, the inputs are conceived of as underlying representations, and...
, integrating insights from LPM.
In 2007 he received the honorary doctorate of the German University of Konstanz
University of Konstanz
The University of Konstanz is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was founded in 1966, and the main campus on the Gießberg was opened in 1972. As one of nine German Excellence Universities today University of Konstanz is counted among Germany's most prestigious...
.