Suzette haden elgin biography templates

  • Suzette Haden Elgin was an American researcher in experimental linguistics, construction and evolution of languages and poetry and science fiction writer.
  • US poet, author and teacher Patricia Anne Suzette Wilkins Elgin (1936-2015) for her sf.
  • Suzette Haden Elgin is a writer, artist, linguist, poet, verbal self-defense trainer, and grandmother, publishes the Linguistics & Science Fiction.

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    Elgin, Suzette Haden

    Born Patricia Anne Suzette, 18 November 1936, Louisiana, Missouri

    Daughter of Gaylord and Hazel Lewis Lloyd; married Peter Haden, 1955 (died); George Elgin, 1964; children: Michael, Rebecca, Christopher, Patricia, Benjamin

    Suzette Haden Elgin is a retired professor of linguistics and the author of numerous nonfiction works on linguistics and communication as well as a number of science fiction novels. In addition to her writing, Elgin has founded several associations devoted to the study of linguistics, including the World Verbal Self-Defense League and the Linguistics & Science Fiction Network. Elgin also founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and served for a time as the editor of its newsletter, Star*Line. She runs the Ozark Center for Language Studies, which she founded in 1980. The Ozark Center provides information on linguistics to the public and publishes the bimonthly newsletter of the Linguistics & Science Fiction Network.

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    Suzette Haden Elgin

     

    Photo by George Elgin
     


    Suzette is writing a new novel -- no title yet. The protagonist is a linguist from the U.S. Corps of Linguists [USCOL] who has failed some of her finals and has been ordered, as a penalty, to do fieldwork on -- and write a monograph about -- four ET languages spoken on the planet Gaudalle. One of the first things linguists do to prepare for fieldwork with a language is put together a core-vocabulary list [traditionally called a "Swadesh list"] for it, roughly one hundred words long. Which means that before Suzette could write the novel she had to do one of those lists for each of the languages: Thandi; Lenadess; Aubre; and Nangdi. And here they are, starting with a Panglish list to serve as the key....

    Click here for the core-vocabulary list.


    Thanks to the hard work and the technical skills of Jackie Powers, there's now a new Láadan website. [Láadan is the language I constructed for the Na
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    Working name of US poet, author and teacher Patricia Anne Suzette Wilkins Elgin (1936-2015) for her sf. She combined writing with a professional specialization in Linguistics, having a PhD in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego; she was a professor of linguistics at San Diego State University 1972-1980, subsequently emeritus, and published widely in her specialist field. Her sf began in May 1969 with "For the Sake of Grace" in TheMagazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, which was incorporated into At the Seventh Level (1972), part of an ongoing Space musikdrama series featuring the interstellar adventures of Trigalactic Intelligence Service agent Coyote Jones; with its two earlier companions, The Communipaths (1970 dos) and Furthest (1971), it was assembled as Communipath Worlds (omni 1980). Further titles, Star-Anchored, Star-Angered (1979) and Yonder Comes the Other End of Time (1986), did l