René Paul Victor Kiparsky | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | MIT |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Linguistics |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Doctoral advisor | Morris Halle |
Doctoral students | Sharon Inkelas |
René Paul Victor Kiparsky (born January 28, 1941) is a Finnish linguist and professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He is the son of the St. Petersburg (Russia)-born linguist and Baltist/ Slavicist Valentin Kiparsky.
Kiparsky is especially known for his contributions to phonology. These include coining the terms elsewhere principle,[1] and phonological opacity (including the types feeding, bleeding, counterfeeding, and counterbleeding),[2] and creating the frameworks of Lexical Phonology and Morphology (LPM) and its successor, Stratal Optimality Theory.[3] A noted Pāṇini scholar, he has also made fundamental contributions to historical linguistics[4] and generative metrics, as well as working in morphosyntax, especially on his native Finnish.