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Morris Swadesh
Morris H. Swadesh
American linguist (1909–1967).
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Statements about
Morris Swadesh
Country of Citizenship
United States
Place of Birth
Holyoke
Place of Death
Mexico City
Spouse
Mary Haas
(1931 - 1937)
Start Time
:
1931
End Time
:
1937
Date of Birth
1/22/1909
Date of Death
7/20/1967
Instance Of
Human
Occupation
Linguist
University Teacher
Award Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
(1946)
Point in Time
:
1946
Point in Time
:
1947
Educated At
Yale University
University of Chicago
Given Name
Morris
Employer
Office of Strategic Services
National Polytechnic Institute
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sex or Gender
Male
Field of Work
Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Languages Spoken, Written or Signed
Spanish
Described by Source
On the Lexico-Statistical Theory of Morris Swadesh
Morris Swadesh
Notable Work
Perspectives and Problems of Amerindian Comparative Linguistics
The Phonemic Structure of Proto-Zapotec
A Visit to the Other World, a Nitinat Text (With Translation and Grammatical Analysis)
On the Analysis of English Syllabics
The Phonemic Principle
SOME ORTHOGRAPHIC RECOMMENDATIONS
Sociologic Notes on Obsolescent Languages
The Phonetics of Chitimacha
Two Views of Otomi Prosody
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