Matthews, Peter (Hugoe)

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MATTHEWS, Peter (Hugoe)

MATTHEWS, Peter (Hugoe). British, b. 1934. Genres: Language/ Linguistics. Career: Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge, and Professor and Head of Dept. of Linguistics, Cambridge University, 1980-96. Lecturer, University College of N. Wales, 1961-65; Lecturer, 1965-69, Reader, 1969-75, and Professor, 1975-80, University of Reading. Ed., Journal of Linguistics, 1970-79. Publications: Inflectional Morphology, 1972; Morphology, 1974, 2nd ed., 1991; Generative Grammar and Linguistic Competence, 1979; Syntax, 1981; Do Languages Obey General Laws?, 1982; Grammatical Theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky, 1993; The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, 1997. Address: 10 Fendon Close, Cambridge CB1 4RU, England.

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