Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago & Exec. Director and Director of Publications (Chair of the Board) Emeritus (1974-1995) ; Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS, Inc.) ; Founder (1974) and Registered Agent, Permanent Member of the Board of Directors ; Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of ATLANTIS-CENTAUR, Inc. (Publisher) (1995-) ; B.A. Harvard University, ’58; Russian major, French minor ; M.A. ’62, Yale University; Ph.D. ’65, Yale University, General Linguistics. Dissertation: Idiom Structure in English (see “Publications”), Committee: Rulon S. Wells, Warren C. Cowgill, Floyd G. Lounsbury, Hugh M. Stimson, Sydney M. Lamb ; Citizenship: Naturalized American Citizen as of January 12, 1963.; Professor für Linguistik