Theodore B. Fernald

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Theodore B. Fernald
Born1960 (age 60–61)
Education
Known forWork on Navajo reference grammar with Ellavina Perkins
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics, semantics and the Navajo language
InstitutionsChair of the Department of Linguistics, Swarthmore College
ThesisOn the Nonuniformity of the Individual and Stage Level Effects
Doctoral advisorWilliam A. Ladusaw
Websiteswarthmore.edu/profile/ted-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]

References[]

  1. ^ "Navajo Reference Grammar for Sentence Structure". Navajo Language Academy. 2007. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
  2. ^ "Navajo Conversations". Navajo Language Academy. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Ted Fernald". Swarthmore News. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2013-08-06.

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