Paul Kay
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1934 –
Who is Paul Kay?
Paul Kay is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982 and now working at the International Computer Science Institute. He is best known for his work with anthropologist Brent Berlin on colour: Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution ISBN 1-57586-162-3. More recently, he has worked in the area of Construction Grammar with Charles J. Fillmore, authoring the textbook Construction Grammar. He is currently working on an extension of Construction Grammar called Sign-Based Construction Grammar, authoring a book on this topic with Charles J. Fillmore, Ivan Sag and Laura Michaelis.
Since 2005 Kay has returned to experimental testing of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and his findings show that taking into account brain lateralization allows another perspective on the debate. More specifically he proposed that "Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left".
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- Born
- Nov 13, 1934
New York City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
Social anthropology
( - 1963) - Bachelor's degree, Tulane University
Economics
( - 1955)
- PhD, Harvard University
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Berkeley
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on July 23, 2013
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