Sheila Embleton
University Research Professor and Vice-President Academic

Sheila Embleton's areas of interest are historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, mathematical linguistics, onomastics, and women and language.  Her areas of language specialization include English, German, Romance, Slavic and Finno-Ugric.  She is the author of Statistics in Historical Linguistics (1986) and is editor of the Fourteenth LACUS Forum (1988) and Twenty-Fourth LACUS Forum (1998), and co-editor of Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans (1992, 1993) as well as both "The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the Transition from Historical-Comparative to Structural Linguistics". Volume 1 "Historiographical Perspectives" and Volume 2 "Methodological Perspectives and Applications" (1999). Both are published by John Benjamins, of Amsterdam and Philadelphia.

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