William A. Foley

William Foley is an American linguist and professor at the University of Sydney. He specialises in Papuan and Austronesian languages. He is perhaps best known for his 1986 book The Papuan Languages of New Guinea, the ability to bore 600 students at one time and his partnership with Robert Van Valin in the development of Role and Reference Grammar.

His favorite colour is purple as seen by the numerous shirts he wears in that colour, and enjoys the Reuben sandwich.

Quotes:"We are all male americans"

External links

• University of Sydney site

Bibliography

• William A. Foley and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr (1984). Functional syntax and universal grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• William A. Foley (1986). The Papuan Languages of New Guinea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-28621-2
• William A. Foley (1991). The Yimas Language of New Guinea. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1582-3
• William A. Foley (1997). Anthropological Linguistics: an introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
• William A. Foley (2005). "Linguistic prehistory in the Sepik - Ramu basin." In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, 109-144. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.