About Thomas Givon
Born 1936. Thomas Givon is an Israeli and American linguist and linguistics.
Thomas Givon (born 22 June 1936), also known as Talmy Givón, is an American linguist and writer. He is one of the founders of "West Coast Functionalism", today classified as a usage-based model of language, and of the linguistics department at the University of Oregon. Givón advocates an evolutionary approach to language and communication.
Education Givón earned his bachelor of science degree cum laude in agriculture from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1959.
He was the editor of the book series Typological Studies in Language published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Other writings Givon has written a series of novels and historical translations through his publishing house, White Cloud Publishing, and is a google blogger.
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Israeli linguist
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Thomas Givon was born on 22 June 1936 in Afula.
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