George L. Trager
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George Leonard Trager was an American linguist
. He was born March 22, 1906, in Newark, New Jersey; he died on August 31, 1992, in Pasadena, California. He was the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1960.
During his years at Yale in the 1930s and '40s he was a close associate of Edward Sapir
, Morris Swadesh
, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Charles Hockett, and after 1941, Leonard Bloomfield
. From 1937, he collaborated with Benjamin Whorf on historical-comparative Azteco-Tanoan, but further planned collaboration was cut short by Whorf's death in 1941. He wrote the entries on Language and Linguistics for the 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Like Sapir and Swadesh, he was a consultant of the International Auxiliary Language Association
, which presented Interlingua
in 1951.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
. He was born March 22, 1906, in Newark, New Jersey; he died on August 31, 1992, in Pasadena, California. He was the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1960.
During his years at Yale in the 1930s and '40s he was a close associate of Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist-linguist, widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics....
, Morris Swadesh
Morris Swadesh
Morris Swadesh was an influential and controversial American linguist. In his work, he applied basic concepts in historical linguistics to the Indigenous languages of the Americas...
, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Charles Hockett, and after 1941, Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. His influential textbook Language, published in 1933, presented a comprehensive description of American structural linguistics...
. From 1937, he collaborated with Benjamin Whorf on historical-comparative Azteco-Tanoan, but further planned collaboration was cut short by Whorf's death in 1941. He wrote the entries on Language and Linguistics for the 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Like Sapir and Swadesh, he was a consultant of the International Auxiliary Language Association
International Auxiliary Language Association
The International Auxiliary Language Association was founded in 1924 to "promote widespread study, discussion and publicity of all questions involved in the establishment of an auxiliary language, together with research and experiment that may hasten such establishment in an intelligent manner and...
, which presented Interlingua
Interlingua
Interlingua is an international auxiliary language , developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association...
in 1951.