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Academic Background
Adrian Akmajian attended and studied at the University of Arizona where he was awarded a B.A for Oriental studies in 1966 In 1970 Adrian completed his thesis titled: 'Aspects of the Grammar of Focus in English' and was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy with the Institute of Technology. He wrote about the grammatical analysis of syntactic and semantic inner relations.

Career
Akamajian taught at the University of Arizona in the Linguistic department where he aided on a students thesis on analysing complex Japanese verb forms using an English based framework and promotes cross-linguistic study. During his time as a professor, Akmajian wrote several prefaces for the student Academic Journal; Coyote Papers. Akmajian's key publication was the consistently revised text;An Introduction to Language and Communication. The text broadly covered key linguistic theories and topics including; morphology, syntax, phonetics, language acquisition and language phycology. Additionally, Akmajian discussed several advanced theories such as; distinctive feature theory, Foot based prosody and tone contour. In 1977 Adrian Akmajian was awarded the Senior Full Bright Hays Awards for study and teaching abroad

Books

 * Linguistics: an introduction to language and communication by Akmajian, Adrian 2017, Seventh Edition
 * Linguistics: An introduction to language and communication 1990 3rd ed
 * Linguistics an introduction to language and communication 2001 5th ed
 * Linguistics an introduction to language and communication 1995 4th ed
 * Linguistics an introduction to language and communication 1979: Adrian, Akmajian Demers, Harnish
 * An Introduction to the Principles of Transformational Syntax 1975 Adrian Akmajian and Frank Henry MIT Press
 * The Category AUX in Universal Grammar 1979
 * Pronominalization, Relativization, and Thermalization: Interrelated Systems of Conference in Japanese and English Adrian Akmajian, Chisato Kitagava 1975

Articles
Language (Baltimore), 03/1976, Volume 52, Issue 1
 * Deep-Structure Binding of Pronouns and Anaphoric Bleeding by Adrian Akmajian; Chisato Kitagava