Roger Lass
{{short description|American linguist (born 1937)}}
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Roger Lass (born January 1, 1937){{Cite web|url=https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2002-08-26-lass-distinguished-with-second-festschrift|title=Lass distinguished with second festschrift|date=2002-08-26|website=University of Cape Town}} is a historical linguist, currently Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Cape Town. He was previously an honorary professorial fellow at the University of Edinburgh.{{cite web|url=http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/affiliated_faculty/roger_lass.php|title=Roger Lass : Linguistics and English Language|website=www.lel.ed.ac.uk|access-date=2018-08-12}}
Career
He earned his PhD from Yale University in 1965 in Medieval English Language and Literature, and subsequently worked at Indiana University (1964–1971), the University of Edinburgh (1972–1982), and the University of Cape Town (1983–2002).
He has done extensive work in the history of English, the motivation of sound change, and the history of linguistics. He was made an honorary professor at Edinburgh in 2014.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/staff/appointments-awards/2014/roger-lass-250914|title=Honorary Professor: Roger Lass|work=The University of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-08-12|language=en}}
He was the editor of the third volume of The Cambridge History of the English Language.
A festschrift in honor of Lass was published in 1997 edited by Jacek Fisiak. A volume of the journal Language Sciences, entitled Collecting views on language change (Volume 24, Issues 3–4, May–July 2002, edited by Raymond Hickey) was dedicated to Lass on his sixty fifth birthday. Other essays in his honor were published in the book Motives for Language Change (CUP 2003).{{cite journal |last1=Hickey |first1=Raymond |title=Foreword |journal=Language Sciences |date=1 May 2002 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=187–188 |doi=10.1016/S0388-0001(01)00046-8 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0388000101000468 |language=en |issn=0388-0001}}
Books
- Historical linguistics and language change
- Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion
- The Shape of English
- Phonology: An Introduction to Basic Concepts
- Language and Time: A Historian's View
- On Explaining Language Change
- English Phonology and Phonological Theory
- Old English Phonology, with John Mathieson Anderson
- Approaches to English historical linguistics
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Category:Historical linguists of English
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Phonologists from the United Kingdom
Category:Philosophers of linguistics
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