William A. Foley Explained

William A. Foley
Birth Name:	William Auguste Foley
Birth Date:	1949
Nationality:	Australian/American
Occupation:	Linguist
Workplaces:	Columbia University, University of Sydney
Main Interests:	Papuan languages and Neurolinguistics
Notable Works:	The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986)
Notable Ideas:	Role and reference grammar

William A. Foley (William Auguste "Bill" Foley; born 1949) is an American linguist and professor at Columbia University.^[1] He previously worked at the University of Sydney. He specializes in Papuan and Austronesian languages. Foley developed Role and Reference Grammar in a partnership with Robert Van Valin.

Career

In 1986, Foley published The Papuan Languages of New Guinea through Cambridge University Press. In 1991, his book The Yimas Language of New Guinea was published by Stanford University Press. In 1997, his book Anthropological Linguistics, "the first comprehensive textbook in anthropological linguistics" was published with an introduction by Noam Chomsky.^[2]

Foley was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1989.^[3]

Works

William A. Foley and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr (1984). Functional syntax and universal grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
William A. Foley (1986). The Papuan Languages of New Guinea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . Google Books
William A. Foley (1991). The Yimas Language of New Guinea. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
William A. Foley (1997). Anthropological Linguistics: an introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
William A. Foley (2005). "Linguistic prehistory in the Sepik - Ramu basin." In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, 109–144. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Book: Foley, William A. . Palmer . Bill . 2018 . The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide . The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs . The World of Linguistics . 4 . Berlin . De Gruyter Mouton . 197–432 . 978-3-11-028642-7.
Book: Foley, William A. . Palmer . Bill . 2018 . The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide . The languages of Northwest New Guinea . The World of Linguistics . 4 . Berlin . De Gruyter Mouton . 433–568 . 978-3-11-028642-7.
William A.Foley (2022) "A Sketch Grammar of Kopar". Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton

External links

Prof. William A. Foley at the University of Sydney

Notes and References

Web site: GU4800: Language and Society W. Foley Science and Society. 2021-11-06. scienceandsociety.columbia.edu.
Book: Foley, William. Anthropological Linguistics. Wiley. 1997. 978-0-631-15122-7. English, Chinese.
Web site: Fellow Profile: William Foley . 2024-04-27 . Australian Academy of the Humanities . en-AU.