Donna Jo Napoli 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. An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... [1]#redirect Book ... Syntax, originating from the Greek words συν (syn, meaning co- or together) and τάξις (táxis, meaning sequence, order, arrangement), can in linguistics be described as the study of the rules, or patterned relations that govern the way the words in a sentence come together. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice). ... Phonology (Greek phonē = voice/sound and logos = word/speech), is a subfield of linguistics which studies the sound system of a specific language (or languages). ... Morphology is the following: In linguistics, morphology is the study of the structure of word forms. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist or linguistician. ... Look up romance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... American Sign Language (ASL, also Amslan obs. ... Aristotles Poetics aims to give an account of poetry. ... ESL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Folk dance is a term used to describe a large number of dances that tend to share the following attributes: They were originally danced in about the 19th century or earlier (or are, in any case, not currently copyrighted); Their performance is dominated by an inherited tradition rather than by...

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. Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist or linguistician. ... Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the largest womens college in the United States. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... Not to be confused with the University of Georgetown in Georgetown, Guyana or Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY. Georgetown University is a private university in the United States. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public coeducational university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ... A professor (Latin: one who publicly professes to be an expert) (or prof for short) is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist or linguistician. ... Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, with an enrollment of about 1450 students. ...

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. This article is about the city in Florida. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Mathematics is often defined as the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ...

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, Farsi, 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.html

Interview: http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-napoli-donna.asp