Michael Brame

Michael K. Brame (January 27, 1944[1] – August 16, 2010[2]) was an American linguist and professor at the University of Washington, and founding editor of the peer-reviewed research journal, Linguistic Analysis.[3] He was known for his theory of recursive categorical syntax. He also co-authored with his wife, Galina Popova, several books on the identity of the writer who used the pseudonym "William Shakespeare".[1]

Early life and education

Michael Brame was born on January 27, 1944, in San Antonio, Texas.[1]

Brame started his study of linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving his BA in 1966.[1] That summer he studied Egyptian Arabic at the American University of Cairo.[1] That fall, Brame began a PhD program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying under Morris Halle and Noam Chomsky, who was his adviser.[2] He received his PhD in 1970[1] or 1971.[2] His dissertation was titled Arabic Phonology: Implications for Phonological Theory and Historical Semitic.[4]

Brame was a Fulbright scholar (Netherlands, 1973-1974).[5]

Recursive categorical syntax

Brame developed an algebraic theory of syntax, recursive categorical syntax, also sometimes called algebraic syntax, as an alternative to transformational-generative grammar. It is a type of dependency grammar, and is related to link grammars. He wrote that "transformations simply do not exist", that "the lexicon must be elaborated", and that "deep structure falls along with the classical transformations once the lexicon is taken seriously".[6]

Brame formulated an algebra,[7] (technically a non-associative groupoid with inverses) of lexical items (words and phrases), or lexes for short. A LEX is a lexicon containing string representations of a word or idiomatic phrase together with a notation specifying what other classes of word or phrase can bond with the string on the left and on the right.[7][6]

Shakespeare's Fingerprints

In 2002, Brame co-authored with his wife Galina Popova a book titled Shakespeare's Fingerprints.[8][1][9] Over the next two years, they published three more books on the topic.

Personal life

Brame was married to Galina Popova.[1]

Bibliography

Dissertation
  • Brame, M. K. (1970). Arabic phonology: implications for phonological theory and historical Semitic (PDF) (Doctoral dissertation). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2022-02-25.

Books
  • Brame, Michael K. (1976). Conjectures and Refutations in Syntax and Semantics. North Holland: Elsevier Science. ISBN 978-0444001856.
  • Brame, Michael K. (1978). Base Generated Syntax. Linguistics research monograph series. Vol. 1. Seattle: Noit Amrofer Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0932998002.
  • Brame, Michael K. (1979). Essays Toward Realistic Syntax. Linguistics research monograph series. Vol. 2. Seattle: Noit Amrofer Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0932998019.
On Shakespeare
  • Brame, Michael K.; Popova, Galina (2002). Shakespeare's Fingerprints. Adonis Editions. ISBN 978-0972038508.
  • Brame, Michael K.; Popova, Galina (2003). Never and Forever. Adonis Editions. ISBN 978-0972038553.
  • Brame, Michael K.; Popova, Galina, eds. (2004). Secret Shakespeare's Adventures of Freeman Jones. Adonis Editions. ISBN 978-0972038515.
  • Brame, Michael K.; Popova, Galina, eds. (2004b). What Thing Is Love?. Adonis Editions. ISBN 978-0972038560.

Selected articles
Recursive categorical syntax
  • Brame, M. (1984). "Universal Word Induction vs Move α". Linguistic Analysis. Seattle. 14 (4): 313–352.
  • Brame, M. (1984). "Recursive categorical syntax and morphology". Linguistic Analysis. Seattle. 14 (4): 265–287.
  • Brame, M. (1985). "Recursive Categorical Syntax II: n-arity and Variable Continuation". Linguistic Analysis. Seattle. 15 (2–3): 137–176.
  • Brame, M. (1987). "Recursive Categorical Syntax III: d-Words, l-Words, and dl-Induction". Linguistic Analysis. Seattle. 17 (3–4): 147–185.

See also

References

Citations
  1. Brame (2004).
  2. Kim (2010).
  3. "Editors". Linguistic Analysis.
  4. Brame (1970).
  5. Michael Brame at Fulbright Scholar Directory.
  6. Brame (1984).
  7. Ostler (1992), p. 12.
  8. Joseph (2003).
  9. Charlton (2010).

Works cited

Further reading
  • Gazdar, G. (1982). "[Review of Base Generated Syntax, by M. K. Brame]". Journal of Linguistics. 18 (2): 464–473. doi:10.1017/S002222670001375X. JSTOR 4175653. S2CID 143920079.
  • Hoeksema, J. (1992). "Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure". Journal of Literary Semantics. 21 (1): 74–77. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
  • Hoeksema, Jack (2020). "Head-types in morpho-syntax". In Booij, Geert; van Marle, Jaap (eds.). Yearbook of Morphology. Vol. 1. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 123–138. doi:10.1515/9783112329528-008. ISBN 978-3112329528.
  • Lambek, Joachim (2012). "Deductive Systems and Categories in Linguistics". In Ohlbach, Hans Jürgen; Reyle, Uwe (eds.). Logic, Language and Reasoning: Essays in Honour of Dov Gabbay. Netherlands: Springer Netherlands. pp. 279–294. ISBN 978-9401145749.
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