Donna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 1948) is an author of children's and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist who has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance. Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created A Book is a set or collection of written printed illustrated or blank sheets made of Paper, Parchment, or other material usually fastened together In Linguistics, syntax (from Ancient Greek grc συν- syn-, "together" and grc τάξις táxis, "arrangement" is the Phonetics (from the Greek φωνή ( phonê) "sound" or "voice" is the study of the physical sounds of human speech Phonology ( Greek φωνή (phōnē voice sound + λόγος (lógos word speech subject of discussion is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning Morphology is the field of Linguistics that studies the internal structure of words Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, or Neolatin languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family comprising all is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities American Sign Language (or ASL Ameslan is the dominant Sign language of the Deaf community in the United States, in the English-speaking parts Poetics refers generally to the theory of literary Discourse and specifically to the theory of Poetry, although some speakers use the term so broadly as to denote Folk dance is a term used to describe a large number of dances mostly of European origin that tend to share the following attributes originally danced in about the
She has taught linguistics at Smith College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and is currently a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College. Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton Massachusetts. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research Georgetown University is a Jesuit Private university located in Georgetown Washington D The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1500 students
Born the youngest of four children in Miami, February 28, 1948, Napoli received both her B. Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A. (mathematics, 1970) and Ph. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and D. (General and Romance Linguistics, 1973) from Harvard, before a postdoctoral fellowship in linguistics at M.I.T. Napoli has dual citizenship in the U. S. and Italy.
Her children's books, listed below, have been translated into Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Persian, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and will be in Portuguese and Thai. Many of her children's books are re-tellings of fairy tales, including The Magic Circle, Crazy Jack, Spinners, Zel, Bound, and Beast. A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional Story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, enchantments]] often involving Other children's stories are historical fiction based in Italy, including Daughter of Venice and For the Love of Venice.
Her publications in linguistics include Syntactic argumentation (with Emily Rando). (Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press, 1979), Syntax: Theory and Problems (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993), and Linguistics: Theory and Problems (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), with dozens of articles in the scholarly journals. She is a former editor of the premiere journal Language. Napoli has won numerous awards for her work, including the Golden Kite Award given by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (for Stones in Water) and the Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award (for North).
Bibliography
Young Adult Novels
- The Magic Circle, published 1995
- Zel, published 1998
- Song of the Magdalene, published 1998
- Stones in Water, published 1999
- For the Love of Venice, published 2000
- Sirena, published 2000
- Spinners, published 2001
- Crazy Jack, published 2001
- Beast, published 2002
- Daughter of Venice, published 2003
- Three Days, published 2003
- The Great God Pan, published 2005
- Breath, published 2005
- North, published 2005
- Fire in the Hills, published 2006
- Bound, published 2006
- The King of Mulberry Street, published 2007
- Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale, published 2007
- The Smile, published 2008
External links
- Donna Jo Napoli's Curriculum vitae
- Official website
- Author Profile and Interview, 2000.
- Phillips, Scott. Donna Jo Napoli: A Hunger for Words, Sept. 19, 2006.
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