Morris Swadesh
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 57 years ago |
Date of birth | January 22,1909 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Holyoke |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Date of died | July 20,1967 |
Died | Mexico City |
Mexico | |
Academic advisor | Edward Sapir |
Education | Yale University |
The University of Chicago | |
Books | Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States |
The origin and diversification of language | |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada |
Known for | Swadesh list |
Interests | Historical Linguistics |
Glottochronology | |
Lexicostatistics | |
The Americas | |
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ID | 1353874 |
Morris Swadesh Life story
Morris Swadesh was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics. Swadesh was born in Massachusetts to Bessarabian Jewish immigrant parents.