Alexis Manaster Ramer
Alexis Manaster Ramer is a Polish-born American linguist.Work
Ramer has published extensively on syntactic typology ; on phonological theory and its relation to phenomena such as versification and speech errors; on comparative linguistics and etymology, on glottochronology and genetic classification of languages ; on poetics ; and on the history of linguistics.
Manaster Ramer is the founder of the ACL special interest group on Mathematical linguistics and the organizer of the first Mathematics of Language conference.
He is honored by a festschrift edited by Fabrice Cavoto, The Linguist's Linguist: A Collection of Papers in Honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer, Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2002.
