Researching Johanna Nichols
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 9757 people with the Nichols surname? In that year Nichols was ranked number 422 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Johanna means "Form of JOANNE. God is Gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Johanna Nichols on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Johanna Nichols and the Nichols Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 9050 people with the Nichols surname in the UK? Nichols is now ranked number 640 for popularity in the UK. |
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Johanna Nichols
Johanna Nichols (born 1945, Iowa City, Iowa) is a linguist and professor emerita in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her PhD in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973 with a dissertation entitled, "The Balto-Slavic predicate instrumental: a problem in diachronic syntax."
Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory, and languages of the Caucasus, chiefly Chechen and Ingush. She has made fundamental contributions to these fields. A festschrift in her honor, Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, was published in 2013.
Nichols's best known work, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time, won the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 1994.
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