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Alice Carmichael Harris (b. 11/23/1947) is an American linguist. After studying in Virginia, Scotland, and England, Harris received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1976. She taught at Vanderbilt University from 1979-2002, serving as the department chair of Germanic and Slavic Languages there from 1993-2002. She was Professor of Linguistics at SUNY Stony Brook from 2002-2009. She is currently Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she has been employed since 2009. Citing an early interest in the “systematic, almost mathematical aspects of languages,” Harris began investigating ergativity in graduate school, and in doing so began to study the Georgian language. She was one of the first Americans allowed to do research in the Republic of Georgia when it was still part of the Soviet Union. She has continued to work in this region, looking at different characteristics of the languages Georgian, Laz, Svan, Mingrelian, Udi, and Batsbi. Harris also has a strong interest in promoting the larger topic of documenting endangered languages. She played a key role in establishing the Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) Program, a granting sub-unit that is part of the National Science Foundation. ==Awards== *In 1998, a book she co-wrote in 1995 with Lyle Campbell won the Leonard Bloomfield award from the LSA, an award given out every two years to a book that makes an outstanding contribution to the understanding of languages or linguistics. *Harris received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. *She was elected President of the Linguistic Society of America, for a term starting in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Harris (linguist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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