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Name:	Guy  Deutscher
Institution:	Universiteit Leiden
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Homepage:	http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~deutscherg/
State and/or Country:	Netherlands
Linguistic Field(s):	Historical Linguistics Language Documentation
Specialty:	Historical Linguistics
Subject Language(s):	Akkadian
Selected Publications:	Books: The Unfolding of Language (2005) London: W. Heinemann, New York: Metropolitan. Syntactic Change in Akkadian: the evolution of sentential complementation. Oxford University Press (2000). Articles: 'Stability against the odds: the survival of verb final word order in Akkadian', in R. Sornicola et al. (eds.) Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2000) 55-69. 'On the mechanisms of morphological change', in Folia Linguistica Historica 22:1-2 (2001) 41-48. 'The rise and fall of a rogue relative construction', in Studies in Language 25:3 (2001) 405-422. 'On the misuse of the notion of 'abduction' in Linguistics' in Journal of Linguistics 38:3 (2002)468-85. 'The origin of ergativity in Sumerian, and the inversion in pronominal agreement: a historical explanation based on Neo-Aramaic parallels' (with Eleanor Coghill),in Orientalia 71:3 (2002) 267-290.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Syntactic Change in Akkadian, the evolution of sentential complementation.  The Unfolding of Language  Syntactic Change in Akkadian  Du Jane, ich Goethe: Eine Geschichte der Sprache
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	The Unfolding of Language
Courses Taught:	Historical Linguistics
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