Guy Deutscher (1) (1969–)
Author of Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
For other authors named Guy Deutscher, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Guy Deutscher was born in Tel Aviv in 1969. He received an undergraduate degree in Math and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Cambridge. Afterward, he became a fellow in historical linguistics at St. John's College at Cambridge. He later became a honorary research fellow at the show more University of Manchester and was a professor in the department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages at the University of Leiden in Holland. He has written several books including Syntactic Change in Akkadian (2000), The Unfolding of Language (2005), and Through the Language Glass (2010). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Guy Deutscher
Associated Works
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1969
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Israel (birth)
- Birthplace
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Places of residence
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Education
- University of Cambridge (PhD)
- Occupations
- linguist
- Organizations
- University of Leiden
Members
Reviews
Lists
Awards
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 5
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 2,422
- Popularity
- #10,586
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 75
- ISBNs
- 44
- Languages
- 6
It was a while since an educational book gripped me this much. Of course I am interested in this area but the way it was written just made me that much more interested to learn more. Easy to grasp, funny, diverse in writing. A book I can recommend to anyone that ever pondered how languages came to be what they are today.… (more)