Mathematician:James David McCawley
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Mathematician
Scots-born American linguist with a training in mathematics.
His main contribution to mathematics has been his excellent translations of mathematics textbooks into English.
Nationality
Scots-born American
History
- Born: March 30, 1938, Glasgow, Scotland
- Died: April 10, 1999, Chicago, USA
Publications
- 1964: Challenging Mathematical Problems With Elementary Solutions, Volume I (by A.M. Yaglom and I.M. Yaglom) (as a translator from the Russian 1954: Незлементарные задаци в элементарном изложений)
- 1967: Challenging Mathematical Problems With Elementary Solutions, Volume II (by A.M. Yaglom and I.M. Yaglom) (as a translator from the Russian 1954: Незлементарные задаци в элементарном изложений)
- 1968: The Phonological Component of a Grammar of Japanese
- 1973: Grammar and Meaning: Papers on Syntactic and Semantic Topics
- 1976: Notes from the Linguistic Underground
- 1979: Adverbs, Vowels, and Other Objects of Wonder
- 1982: Everything that Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know About Logic (but were Ashamed to Ask)
- 1982: Thirty Million Theories of Grammar
- 1984: The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters
- 1988: The Syntactic Phenomena of English (2 vols.)
- 1991: A Linguistic Flea Circus