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He is one of the founders of "West Coast Functionalism" [4] , today classified as a usage-based model of language, and of the linguistics department at the University of Oregon. His work covers many language areas Semitic , African, Amerindian , Austronesian , Papuan , Sino-Tibetan , Indo-European , as well as many areas of theoretical linguistics: syntax , semantics , pragmatics , second language acquisition , pidgins and creoles , discourse and text linguistics , methodology and philosophy of science , philosophy of language , typology and language universals , grammaticalization and historical syntax , cognitive science , language evolution.

Givon has written a series of novels and historical translations through his publishing house, White Cloud Publishing, and is a google blogger. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately , especially if potentially libelous or harmful.

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