A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word people is a collective noun used to define a specific group of humans. However, when used to refer to a group of humans possessing a common ethnic, cultural or national unitary characteristic or identity, "people" is a singular noun, and as such takes an "s" in the plural; (example: "the English-speaking peoples of the world").
The concept of personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in philosophy and law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example, John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding II 27 and Immanuel Kant's Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals).
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Abbott, Barbara - Michigan State University - Interested in semantics and pragmatics of language. Holds a joint appointment in linguistics and philosophy.
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Beaver, David - Stanford University - Interested in semantics, pragmatics, and more specifically presupposition and dynamic semantics.
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Bigert, Johnny - Research into computational linguistics, natural language processing and language engineering.
Chung, Karen - Homepage with university-level materials and links in phonetics, linguistics and language learning, especially for Chinese and Taiwanese students as well as for general learners and linguists.
Cooper, Robin - Göteborg University - Computational linguist interested in situation semantics and Montague grammars.
Copeland, James - Rice University-Professor of linguistics.
Crystal, David - Author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of English LanguageLanguage Death and Language and the Internet
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Frantz, Don - University of Lethbridge professor working on the syntax and historical linguistics of Amerindian and African native languages.
Fujinami, Tsutomu - Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - Researcher in knowledge science interested in semantics of natural language in general, and situation semantics in specific.
Geurts, Bart - Radboud University Nijmegen - Interested in semantics of natural language, especially presuppositions and Dynamic Logic.
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Graesser, Arthur C. - Full professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Memphis with interests in cognitive science, discourse processing, artificial intelligence and information processing.
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Harley, Heidi - University of Arizona - Interest are syntax, lexical semantics and morphology.
Hartsuiker, Rob - Senior Lecturer at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Includes teaching material on language production, experimental material and a program to calculate word similarity.
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Hendriks, Petra - Home page of Petra Hendriks, professor at the Center for Language and Cognition at the University of Groningen.
Johnson, Angel M. - PhD student's website containing a regular journal of thoughts and study, a comprehensive bibliography, a feedback form and her completed thesis on online forms of communication.
Jusczyk, Peter W. - John Hopkins University - Infant language perception, first language acquisition, phonology and prosody.
Kempson, Ruth - Kings College, London - Principally interested in formal approaches to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. Joint originator, with Dov Gabbay, of the Labelled Deductive System for Natural Language Understanding.
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Krifka, Manfred - Professor in general linguistics at the Institute for German Speech and Linguistics, Humboldt University in Berlin. Interested in semantics and interrogatives.
Labov, William - University of Pennsylvania - Change in language and dialect, sociolinguistics. Principal investigator of the Phonological Atlas of North America, a massive survey of phonetic variation across the USA.
Llisterri, Joaquim - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Research and teaching in general and applied phonetics, general and applied linguistics, speech technologies and spoken language resources.
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lingüística general, lingüística aplicada,
fonètica general, fonètica aplicada, tecnologies de la parla,
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general, lingüística
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Mugele, Bob - Experienced field linguist (nickname `Jungle Bob') and computational linguist.
Nouwen, Rick - University of Utrecht - Interested in dynamic semantics, generalized quantifiers theory, plurals, reflexives, reciprocals, NP-typology, and mereology.
Partee, Barbara H. - University of Massachusetts at Amherst - A distinguished early worker on Montague Grammar, the main line of her work lies in foundational aspects of semantics and its relationship to syntax.
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Peperkamp, Sharon - University of Paris 8. Research interests include phonological theory and early language acquisition.
Sergei Starostin's Home Page - The page will be devoted to databases in comparative linguistics.
Stokhof, Martin - University of Amsterdam - Collection of his papers, including his survey article `Questions' (written in collaboration with Jeroen Groenendijk), which appeared in the `Handbook of Logic and Language' (1997).
van Dijk, Teun A - University of Amsterdam - Interested in critical discourse studies, especially in the application discourse theory to politics, and racism.
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van Eijck, Jan - CWI, Amsterdam - Computational linguist, whose site includes details of Dynamo, an implementation of dynamic logic programming.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee - Biography, publications, and quotations.
Yee, Danny - Reviews of popular linguistics books.
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Zellner Keller, Brigitte - Annotated links to her publications in linguistics with focus on temporal structure of speech.
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Zuckerman, Ghil`ad Zuckermann - Academic website of Dr Ghil`ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxford), a linguist at the University of Cambridge whose interests include linguistics, Israel, Hebrew, Yiddish, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish and word games.
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