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Mary Rosamond Haas [1] (January 23, 1910 – May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics. She served as president of the Linguistic Society of America. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences .
May 13, 2024 · Mary R. Haas (born Jan. 12, 1910, Richmond, Ind., U.S.—died May 17, 1996, Alameda county, Calif.) was a U.S. linguist. She studied with Edward Sapir at Yale University , where her dissertation was on Tunica, a moribund American Indian language .
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Mary Rosamund Haas (January 12, 1910, Richmond, Indiana - d. May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics. At the University of Chicago she undertook graduate work on comparative philology.
May 26, 1996 · Mary Rosamond Haas, a professor of linguistics whose interests ranged from American Indian languages that were dying to the prehistory of languages and modern Thai, died on May 17 at her home...
Mary Rosamond Haas (1910-1996) was a leading contributor to documentary, historical and comparative linguistics in North America. Born in Richmond, Indiana, she attended Richmond College pursuing her primary love of piano, and at the age of 20 enrolled at the University of Chicago to study comparative philology.
January 12, 1910–May 17, 1996. BY KENNETH L. PIKE. T HE WORK OF MARY HAAS has a special fascination for me, since she finished her doctoral dissertation on Tunica, an American Indian language, in 1935, the same year that I started my studies of linguistics (with the Summer Institute of Linguistics) and went to Mexico to study an Indian lan ...
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Sep 22, 1992 · Mary Haas taught at Berkeley from 1948 to 1977 in a professorial capacity, and during that time trained scores of young linguists in the art and science of linguistic data collection and analysis.
