Mathematician:James David McCawley

Scots-born American linguist with a training in mathematics.

His main contribution to mathematics has been his excellent translations of mathematics textbooks into English.

Nationality
Scots-born American

History

 * Born: March 30, 1938, Glasgow, Scotland
 * Died: April 10, 1999, Chicago, USA

Books and Papers

 * 1964: (by A.M. Yaglom and I.M. Yaglom) (as a translator from the Russian 1954: Незлементарные задаци в элементарном изложений)
 * 1967: (by A.M. Yaglom and I.M. Yaglom) (as a translator from the Russian 1954: Незлементарные задаци в элементарном изложений)
 * 1968: The Phonological Component of a Grammar of Japanese
 * 1973: Grammar and Meaning: Papers on Syntactic and Semantic Topics
 * 1976: Notes from the Linguistic Underground
 * 1979: Adverbs, Vowels, and Other Objects of Wonder
 * 1982: Everything that Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know About Logic (but were Ashamed to Ask)
 * 1982: Thirty Million Theories of Grammar
 * 1984: The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters
 * 1988: The Syntactic Phenomena of English (2 vols.
 * 1991: A Linguistic Flea Circus