Michael Brame

Michael Brame has taught at the university level in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa for more than three decades. He is a full professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington, a member of the Jackson School of International Studies, author of several books and numerous articles in which he has developed a revolutionary algebraic approach to natural language syntax, one that is being successfully used for the development of natural language interaction with modern digital computers. He is a coauthor of Shakespeare's Fingerprints in which linguistic methods are brought to bear in resolving the Shakespeare authorship controversy. He is also a coauthor of THE WHITE DEATH and editor-in-chief of LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS, a leading scholarly journal with international circulation. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied linguistics under Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle.

Galina Popova

Galina Popova is a linguist and affiliate professor at the University of Washington in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature. She has taught language and literature for more than a decade at several American universities. She acquired a love for Shakespeare’s sonnets in the former Soviet Union where she studied language and literature at Leningrad State University. Leaving her native land after a lengthy confrontation with Soviet authorities, she lived in Italy before coming to the United States where she earned a Ph. D. Her primary scholarly interest while in the USSR was the field of literary forgeries. Her research in the U.S. has included formal language properties relating to phonology, morphology, and syntax and applications of linguistic methods to literary questions. She is a coauthor of Shakespeare's Fingerprints .

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Never and For Ever
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