Education
- PhD (University of Bucharest)
About
Professor Emeritus, University of California at Davis, Honorary Member of Academia Română. Docteur-ès-lettres, University of Bucharest (1967). President of the American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982-1994) and of the American Association of Romanian Studies (1986 1988). Taught Comparative Grammar at the University of Bucharest (1957-1977). Full-professor at the University of California at Davis (1979--). Visiting Professor, University of Düsseldorf (1994), Fulbright lecturer, University of Chicago (1972-1974), University of Bucharest (1991). Principal publications: Introducere în lingvistica romanică (with Iorgu Iordan,1965), Gramatica comparată a limbilor romanice (1971), El estructuralismo lingüístico (1978), Tipología e História: Elementos de Sintaxis comparada románica (1985), Gramatică, pragmasemantică şi discurs (1993), Pragmatic and Discourse Constraints on Grammatical Choices (1994).