About Edwin S. Williams
Born 1948. Edwin S. Williams is a linguist.
Edwin Samuel Williams (born 1948) is an American linguist and Emeritus Professor of linguistics at Princeton University. He is known for his expertise on morphology and syntax. Williams is credited as the creator of representation theory.
Books On the Definition of Word, Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Edwin Williams, MIT Press Thematic Structure in Syntax, MIT Press Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology, Routledge Representation Theory, MIT Press
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Edwin S. Williams was born in 1948.
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