Theodore B. Fernald
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 |
| Alma mater | B.A., Economics, Ohio State University, 1981; M.A., Linguistics, Ohio State University, 1989; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994 |
| 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 | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tfernal1/tf.html |
References
- "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.
External links
- "Ted Fernald CV" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-08-06.
- Works on Microsoft Academic Search
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