莫里斯·斯瓦迪士
美国语言学家(1909—1996)
莫里斯·斯瓦迪士(英语:Morris Swadesh,1909年1月22日—1967年7月20日)是一位有影响却充满争议的美国语言学家。他曾把历史语言学的基本概念应用于美洲土著语言之中。他认为存在一种可以适用于所有语言的规则。他将其一生主要用于对比美洲语言以发现其中的相关性。他曾对语言年代学做出很大贡献,发明了斯瓦迪士核心词列表。
莫里斯·斯瓦迪士 Morris Swadesh | |
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出生 | 美国马萨诸塞州霍利奥克 | 1909年1月22日
逝世 | 1967年7月20日 墨西哥墨西哥城 | (58岁)
知名于 | 斯瓦迪士核心词列表 |
学术背景 | |
教育程度 | |
论文 | The Internal Economy of the Nootka Word(1933) |
博士导师 | 爱德华·萨丕尔 |
学术工作 | |
学科 | 语言学 |
研究机构 | |
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参考文献
- Esterhill, Frank. 2000. Interlingua Institute: A History. New York: Interlingua Institute.
- Newman, Stanley. 1967. "Morris Swadesh (1909-1967)." Language 43.
- Price, David H. 1997. "Anthropologists on trial" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 1997
- Price, David H. 2004. Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3326-0
- Ruhlen, Merritt. 1994. On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
延伸阅读
- Anttila, Raimo, An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics, New York: Macmillan, 1972; 2nd edition, as Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1989
- Harris, Zellig, Methods in Structural Linguistics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951; as Structural Linguistics, 1960
- Lounsbury, Floyd G. "Recollections of the Works Progress Administration's Oneida Language and Folklore Project, 1938-41." in The Oneida Indian Experience, Two Perspectives. Jack Campisi and Laurence M. Hauptman, eds. 1988.
- Hymes, Dell H., editor, Language in Culture and Society, New York: Harper and Row, 1964
- Hymes, Dell H., "Morris Swadesh: From the First Yale School to World Prehistory", in The Origin and Diversification of Language, by Morris Swadesh, Chicago: Aldine Atherton, 1971
- Lamb, Sidney M., and E. Douglas Mitchell, editors, Sprung from Some Common Source: Investigations into the Prehistory of Languages, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991
- Newman, Stanley, "Morris Swadesh (1909-1967)", Language 43 (1967)
外部链接
查看维基词典中的词条“Swadesh list”。
- Morris Swadesh, Minnesota State University, Mankato