User:Babbage/Bios of linguists

Bios of linguists

Many of these are just stubs but I enjoy writing them...

1. Robert A. Hall, Jr. - 20 May 2009
2. George L. Hart - 21 May
3. Adele Goldberg (linguist) - 21 May
4. Adolphe Cohn - 22 May
5. Louis Herbert Gray - 23 May
6. James Curtis Hepburn - 24 May
7. John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt - 25 May
8. Lesley Milroy - 26 May
9. Gregory Guy - 27 May
10. Ellavina Perkins - 28 May
11. Paul Platero - 28 May
12. Douglas Q. Adams - 28 May
13. Edward P. Dozier - 29 May
14. Andrew Nelson - 30 May
15. Robert W. Young - 31 May
16. James W. Pennebaker - 1 June
17. Theodore B. Fernald - 1 June
18. Irene Heim - 2 June
19. Marianne Mithun - 3 June
20. Washington Matthews - 4 June
21. Benjamin Ide Wheeler - 5 June
22. Junko Itō - 6 June
23. Murray Barnson Emeneau - 7 June
24. Andrew Garrett (linguist) - 7 June
25. Leanne Hinton - 5 Nov
26. Abraham M. Halpern - 13 May

everything up to here was 2009

1. Franz Nikolaus Finck - 12 Nov 2010
2. Henry Allan Gleason (linguist) - 12 Jun 2011
3. E.M. Uhlenbeck - 16 Nov 2011
4. Gottlob Krause - 5 Jan 2012
5. Michael Noonan (linguist) - 10 Apr 2012

Some desiderata I've come up with so far to guide my efforts:

• Well-linked description of interests
• Home page, if available
• A list of important works, with references, if available
• Academic history
• Degree history

Some good academic bios:

• Floyd Lounsbury