Theodore B. Fernald is a linguist and the chair of the Department of Linguistics at Swarthmore College. He is a specialist in semantics and the Navajo language. As of 2012, he was collaborating with Ellavina Perkins under the auspices of Swarthmore and the Navajo Language Academy to produce a reference grammar of Navajo,[1][2] a project which has received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.[3] He has also served as vice-chair of the Navajo Language Academy.[4]
Theodore B. Fernald (θiədoʊɹ fɚnɑɫd) | |
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| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
| Education |
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| Known for | Work on Navajo reference grammar with Ellavina Perkins |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics, semantics and the Navajo language |
| Institutions | Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Swarthmore College |
| Thesis | On the Nonuniformity of the Individual and Stage Level Effects |
| Doctoral advisor | William A. Ladusaw |
| Website | swarthmore |
References
edit- ^ "Navajo Reference Grammar for Sentence Structure". Navajo Language Academy. 2007. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ^ "Navajo Conversations". Navajo Language Academy. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ^ "National Endowment for the Humanities: FY 2008 Grant Obligations" (PDF). National Humanities Alliance. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
- ^ "Ted Fernald". Swarthmore News. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
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