He was quickly promoted to Associate Secretary for Versions, then worked as Executive Secretary for Translations until his retirement.Nida retired in the early 1980s, although he continued to give lectures in universities all around the world, and lived in Madrid, Spain andÃ Brussels,Ã Belgium. He began his career as aÃ linguistÃ with theÃ American Bible SocietyÃ (ABS). dissertation,Ã A Synopsis of English Syntax, was the first full-scale analysis of a major langu age according to the Ã¢â¬Å'immediate-constituentÃ¢â¬ theory. in Linguistics from theÃ University of Michigan, His Ph.

Later Nida became a founding charter member ofÃ Wycliffe Bible Translators, a sister organization of theÃ Summer Institute of Linguistics.In 1937, Nida undertook studies at theÃ University of Southern California, where he obtained a MasterÃ¢â¬â¢s Degree in New Testament Greek in 1939. After graduating he attended Camp Wycliffe, where Bible translation theory was taught. He became a Christian at a young age, when he responded to the altar call at his church Ã¢â¬Å'to accept Christ as my SaviourÃ¢â¬ He graduated from theÃ University of CaliforniaÃ in 1936. Nida was born inÃ Oklahoma City,Ã OklahomaÃ on November 11, 1914. NidaÃ (NovemÃ¢â¬â August 25, 2011) was aÃ linguistÃ who developed theÃ dynamic-equivalenceÃ Bible-translationÃ theory.

Nida functional equivalence theory