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Stanley Starosta
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.
Starosta was born on November 28, 1939, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He graduated from Oconomowoc High School in 1957. Starosta obtained his B.A. in physics in 1961 and Ph.D. in linguistics in 1967, both from the University of Wisconsin.
Starosta was assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1967 to 1971, and was associate professor of linguistics from 1971 to 1975. Since then, he held the title of Professor of Linguistics at the same university.
In 1988, he published a book, The case for Lexicase, in which he presents a type of dependency grammar that he had developed since the early 1970s.
Starosta also proposed an East Asian linguistic macrophylum. A paper on his East Asian proposal was published posthumously in 2005.
Starosta's primary interests included the morphosyntax of Austronesian languages (particularly the Formosan and Philippine languages) and various languages of South Asia (such as Gujarati), and historical linguistics.
On July 18, 2002, Starosta died of congestive heart failure in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Stanley Starosta
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.
Starosta was born on November 28, 1939, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He graduated from Oconomowoc High School in 1957. Starosta obtained his B.A. in physics in 1961 and Ph.D. in linguistics in 1967, both from the University of Wisconsin.
Starosta was assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1967 to 1971, and was associate professor of linguistics from 1971 to 1975. Since then, he held the title of Professor of Linguistics at the same university.
In 1988, he published a book, The case for Lexicase, in which he presents a type of dependency grammar that he had developed since the early 1970s.
Starosta also proposed an East Asian linguistic macrophylum. A paper on his East Asian proposal was published posthumously in 2005.
Starosta's primary interests included the morphosyntax of Austronesian languages (particularly the Formosan and Philippine languages) and various languages of South Asia (such as Gujarati), and historical linguistics.
On July 18, 2002, Starosta died of congestive heart failure in Honolulu, Hawaii.