Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
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ne11Native accounts of Nootka ethnography
Native accounts of Nootka ethnographybook chapter 1955
- Summary
- Morris Swadesh was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics, and developed his mature career at UNAM in Mexico. Swadesh was born in Massachusetts to Bessarabian Jewish immigrant parents. He completed bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Chicago, studying under Edward Sapir, and then followed Sapir to Yale University where he completed a Ph.D. in 1933. Swadesh taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1937 to 1939, and then during World War II worked on projects with the United States Army and Office of Strategic Services. He became a professor at the City College of New York after the war's end, but was fired in 1949 due to his membership in the Communist Party. He spent most of the rest of his life teaching in Mexico and Canada. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Born
- 1909-01-22 [2][6]
- Birth Place
- Holyoke, Mass. [2]
- Holyoke [6]
- Died
- 1967-07-20 [2][6]
- Death Place
- Mexiko (Stadt) [2]
- Mexico City [6]
- Country
- Mexico [2]
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- linguist [6]
- university teacher [6]
- Employer
- Office of Strategic Services [6]
- National Polytechnic Institute [6]
- University of Wisconsin–Madison [6]
- Educated at
- Yale University [6]
- University of Chicago [6]
- Country of Education
- United States [6]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [6]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [6]
- Oxford Reference
- Overview [6]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. National Library of Korea
- 6. Wikidata
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