John Haiman
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Professor Emeritus
John Haiman has done research on syntactic change in Germanic languages, the grammar of Hua (Papua New Guinea), iconicity in syntax, the rhaeto-romance languages of Switzerland and Italy, and Khmer. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989 for the study of sarcasm, and is the author of Talk is Cheap and other books.