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Donna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 1948) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, as well as a prominent linguist. She has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, the structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance. She has taught linguistics at Smith College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a professor of linguistics and social justice at Swarthmore College.

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  • دونا جو نابولي (بالإنجليزية: Donna Jo Napoli)‏ (28 فبراير 1948، ميامي في الولايات المتحدة)؛ كاتِبة مُتخصِّصة في أدب الأطفال، أستاذة جامعية وروائية أمريكية. درست في جامعة هارفارد. (ar)
  • Donna Jo Napoli (* 28. Februar 1948 in Miami) ist eine US-amerikanische Professorin für Linguistik und Autorin von Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. (de)
  • Donna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 1948) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, as well as a prominent linguist. She has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, the structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance. She has taught linguistics at Smith College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a professor of linguistics and social justice at Swarthmore College. Her children's books have been translated into many languages, including different sign languages. Many of her children's books are retellings of fairy tales, including The Magic Circle, Crazy Jack, Spinners, Zel, Breath, Bound, Beast, and The Wager for older children, and The Prince of the Pond, Ugly, and Mogo the Third Warthog for younger children. Other children's stories are historical fiction based in Italy, including Daughter of Venice, For the Love of Venice, and The Smile. 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 honor book Breath), the Sydney Taylor Award given by the Association of Jewish Libraries (for Stones in Water, and, honor book, The King of Mulberry Street and the Parents' Choice Gold Award (for Alligator Bayou and Silver awards for North and The King of Mulberry Street). 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), Linguistics: An introduction (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), Humour in sign languages: The linguistic underpinnings (with Rachel Sutton-Spence) (Dublin: Trinity Press, 2009), and L'animale parlante ("The speaking animal") (2004), written with Marina Nespor, along with dozens of articles in the scholarly journals. She is a former member of the editorial board of the journal Language (the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America). (en)
  • Donna Jo Napoli é uma linguista e escritora estadunidense, professora no Swarthmore College. Escreve principalmente livros de ficção infantil e para jovens adultos. (pt)
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  • دونا جو نابولي (بالإنجليزية: Donna Jo Napoli)‏ (28 فبراير 1948، ميامي في الولايات المتحدة)؛ كاتِبة مُتخصِّصة في أدب الأطفال، أستاذة جامعية وروائية أمريكية. درست في جامعة هارفارد. (ar)
  • Donna Jo Napoli (* 28. Februar 1948 in Miami) ist eine US-amerikanische Professorin für Linguistik und Autorin von Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. (de)
  • Donna Jo Napoli é uma linguista e escritora estadunidense, professora no Swarthmore College. Escreve principalmente livros de ficção infantil e para jovens adultos. (pt)
  • Donna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 1948) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, as well as a prominent linguist. She has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, the structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance. She has taught linguistics at Smith College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a professor of linguistics and social justice at Swarthmore College. (en)
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  • Donna Jo Napoli (en)
  • Donna Jo Napoli (de)
  • Donna Jo Napoli (pt)
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