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 | |
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Born | 1960 (age 61–62) |
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Known for | Work on Navajo reference grammar with Ellavina Perkins |
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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 |
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