Donna Jo Napoli
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Donna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 1948) is an author of children's and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist with work in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance.
She has taught linguistics at Smith College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and is currently a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College.
Born the youngest of four children in Miami, February 28, 1948, Napoli received both her B.A. (mathematics, 1970) and Ph.D. (General and Romance Linguistics, 1973) from Harvard, before a postdoctoral fellowship in linguistics at M.I.T.
Her books for children include (among many others) The Magic Circle, Soccer Shock, The Prince of the Pond, Bound, Beast, Three Days, Zel, Stones in Water, Crazy Jack, and the picture books Albert and How Hungry Are You? Her children's books have been translated into Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Persian, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and will be in Portuguese and Thai.
Her publications in linguistics include Syntactic argumentation (with Emily Rando). (Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press, 1979), Syntax: Theory and Problems (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993), and Linguistics: Theory and Problems (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), with dozens of articles in the scholarly journals. She is a former editor of the premiere journal Language. Napoli has won numerous awards for her work, including the Golden Kite Award given by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (for STONES IN WATER) and the Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award (for NORTH)
External Links
Donna Jo Napoli, curriculum vitae: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/dnapoli1/djnlinguist.htmlInterview: http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-napoli-donna.asp
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