Edith A. Moravcsik

Edith Andrea Moravcsik (Hungarian pronunciation: [edit moravt͡ʃik]) (born 2 May 1939) is a Hungarian-born American linguist.

In 1971, she received her PhD in linguistics at Indiana University.

Between 1968 and 1976, she was a member of the Language Universals Project at Stanford University under the direction of Joseph Greenberg and Charles Ferguson.

After over 30 years of teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she retired from this institution as professor emeritus in 2009.

She was elected an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2019.