Jerrold (Jerry) Sadock is Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics and the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago.
Inter alia, he founded the grammatical theory of Autolexical Syntax (aka Automodular Grammar).
He is primarily a theoretical linguist, having written a number of influential works on noun incorporation, morphology and pragmatics, but is also an authority on West Greenlandic and Yiddish.
[1] A list of his works up through 2009 can be found in the preface to the Festschrift in his honor.
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