Robert D Van Valin Jr
Robert D. Van Valin Jr. received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1977. He has taught at the University of Arizona, Temple University, the University of California, Davis, and the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. He also served as Professor of General Linguistics at the Heinrich Heine University, Germany. In 2006, he received the Research Award for Outstanding Scholars from Outside of Germany from the Alexander von Humboldt...See more
Robert D. Van Valin Jr. received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1977. He has taught at the University of Arizona, Temple University, the University of California, Davis, and the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. He also served as Professor of General Linguistics at the Heinrich Heine University, Germany. In 2006, he received the Research Award for Outstanding Scholars from Outside of Germany from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and, in 2008, he was awarded a Max Planck Fellowship from the Max Planck Society. His research is focused on theoretical linguistics, especially syntactic theory and theories of information structure, as well as the Siouan language Lakhota. He has played a leading role in the development of the theory of Role and Reference Grammar. See less
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