William A. Foley

Birthday August 19, 1949

Birth Sign Leo

Nationality American

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1949

William A. Foley (William Auguste "Bill" Foley; born 1949) is an American linguist and professor at Columbia University.

He previously worked at the University of Sydney.

He specializes in Papuan and Austronesian languages.

Foley developed Role and Reference Grammar in a partnership with Robert Van Valin.

1986

In 1986, Foley published The Papuan Languages of New Guinea through Cambridge University Press.

1991

In 1991, his book The Yimas Language of New Guinea was published by Stanford University Press.

1997

In 1997, his book Anthropological Linguistics, "the first comprehensive textbook in anthropological linguistics" was published with an introduction by Noam Chomsky.

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