Victor Raskin

Victor Raskin (born April 17, 1944) is a distinguished professor of linguistics at Purdue University. He is the author of ''Semantic Mechanisms of Humor'' and ''Ontological Semantics'' and founding editor (now editor-at-large) of ''Humor'', the journal for the International Society for Humor Studies.

He is an associate director and founding faculty member of CERIAS at Purdue University along with Gene Spafford and Mikhail Atallah. Provided by Wikipedia