William Freeman Twaddell

William Freeman Twaddell
William Freeman Twaddell
Born	March 22, 1906; Rye, New York, United States
Died	March 1, 1982 (aged 75)
Academic background
Education	Duke University, Harvard University
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Institutions	Brown University, Linguistic Society of America, University of Wisconsin
Notable works	The English Verb Auxiliaries

William Freeman Twaddell (1906–1982) was a professor of German and linguistics, who worked at Brown University as a linguist during the 1950s and 1960s. He also served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1957.^[1]

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Twaddell was born in Rye, New York, in March 22, 1906.^[2] He spent his early life in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina. He attended graduate studies at Harvard, and met John Albrecht Walz, then a fellow graduate student, who introduced him to the field of linguistics. In 1926 he graduated from Duke University. From Harvard University he earned his master's degree in 1927 and he received a doctorate in 1930. In 1929,^[3] Twaddell published his first linguistic work, "New Light on Phonetic Change." A few years later, in 1935, he published "On Defining the Phoneme," in the collection "Language Monographs," which is described as being a supplement to Language, Journal of the Linguistics Society of America. Between 1929 and 1946 he worked in the University of Wisconsin. Later, he headed as chairman of the German department of University of Wisconsin.

In 1946, he became professor of Brown university of Germanic languages in 1946. In 1960, he founded and headed a separate Linguistic department.^[4] In 1963 he published "The English Verb Auxiliaries."

Twaddell taught for his entire career of 30 years at Brown University. He died on 1 March 1982.^[5]

References[edit]

^ Welmers, William Everett (1974). African Language Structures. University of California Press. p. 53.
^ Archibald A. Hill, “William Freeman Twaddell,” Language 59, no. 2 (1983): 347–54.
^ Reinhard Köhler; Gabriel Altmann; Rajmund G. Piotrowski (2005). Quantitative Linguistik / Quantitative Linguistics: Ein internationales Handbuch / An International Handbook. Walter de Gruyter. p. 151.
^ Koerner, E.F.K. (1998). First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 90.
^ "From Martha Mitchell's Encyclopedia Brunoniana". Retrieved 7 June 2014.

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