User:Babbage/Bios of linguists

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Bios of linguists[edit]

Many of these are just stubs but I enjoy writing them...

  1. Robert A. Hall, Jr. - 20 May 2009
  2. George L. Hart - 21 May
  3. Adele Goldberg (linguist) - 21 May
  4. Adolphe Cohn - 22 May
  5. Louis Herbert Gray - 23 May
  6. James Curtis Hepburn - 24 May
  7. John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt - 25 May
  8. Lesley Milroy - 26 May
  9. Gregory Guy - 27 May
  10. Ellavina Perkins - 28 May
  11. Paul Platero - 28 May
  12. Douglas Q. Adams - 28 May
  13. Edward P. Dozier - 29 May
  14. Andrew Nelson - 30 May
  15. Robert W. Young - 31 May
  16. James W. Pennebaker - 1 June
  17. Theodore B. Fernald - 1 June
  18. Irene Heim - 2 June
  19. Marianne Mithun - 3 June
  20. Washington Matthews - 4 June
  21. Benjamin Ide Wheeler - 5 June
  22. Junko Itō - 6 June
  23. Murray Barnson Emeneau - 7 June
  24. Andrew Garrett (linguist) - 7 June
  25. Leanne Hinton - 5 Nov
  26. Abraham M. Halpern - 13 May

everything up to here was 2009

  1. Franz Nikolaus Finck - 12 Nov 2010
  2. Henry Allan Gleason (linguist) - 12 Jun 2011
  3. E.M. Uhlenbeck - 16 Nov 2011
  4. Gottlob Krause - 5 Jan 2012
  5. Michael Noonan (linguist) - 10 Apr 2012

Some desiderata I've come up with so far to guide my efforts:

  • Well-linked description of interests
  • Home page, if available
  • A list of important works, with references, if available
  • Academic history
  • Degree history

Some good academic bios: