Johanna Nichols

She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973 with a dissertation titled, "The Balto-Slavic predicate instrumental: a problem in diachronic syntax."^[2]

Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory, and languages of the Caucasus, chiefly Chechen and Ingush.^[3] She has made fundamental contributions to these fields.^[4]

Afestschrift in her honor, Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, was published in 2013.^[5]

Nichols's best known work, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time, won the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 1994.^[6]

In 2013 Nichols was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.^[7] In 2023 she was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.^[8]

• Predicate Nominals: A Partial Surface Syntax of Russian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. ISBN 0-520-09626-6.
• Grammar Inside and Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the Field. Edited by Johanna Nichols and Anthony C. Woodbury. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-521-26617-3.
• Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology. Edited by Wallace Chafe and Johanna Nichols. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1986. ISBN 0-89391-203-4
• Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0-226-58056-3.
• Sound Symbolism. Edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. Cambridge [England]; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-45219-8.
• Chechen–English and English–Chechen Dictionary / Noxchiin–ingals, ingals–noxchiin deshnizhaina. London; New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004. ISBN 978-0-203-56517-9. Johanna Nichols, Ronald L. Sprouse, and Arbi Vagapov.
• Ingush Grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 0-520-09877-3.

• Biography of Johanna Nichols
• The Chechen Language
• The Ingush Language
• An overview of languages of the Caucasus
• Typology in the service of classification: Alternative approaches to language classification Stanford, July 17–19, 2007
• World Atlas of Language Structures