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Dell Hymes

1927 - 2009

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Dell Hathaway Hymes (June 7, 1927, in Portland, Oregon – November 13, 2009, in Charlottesville, Virginia) was a linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist who established disciplinary foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use. His research focused upon the languages of the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first to call the fourth subfield of anthropology "linguistic anthropology" instead of "anthropological linguistics". The terminological shift draws attention to the field's grounding in anthropology rather than in what, by that time, had already become an autonomous discipline (linguistics). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dell Hymes is the 181st most popular linguist (down from 175th in 2019), the 9,206th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,294th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Dell Hymes ranks 181 out of 214Before him are Gideon Toury, Robert Blust, Sergei Starostin, Oswald Szemerényi, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, and María Rosa Lida de Malkiel. After him are Ivan Kuratov, Alexander Melville Bell, Lev Shcherba, George Perkins Marsh, Ziad Fazah, and Kenneth Lee Pike.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Dell Hymes ranks 386Before him are Heini Walter, Nancy Dupree, Gerard Cieślik, Gábor Benedek, Vince Boryla, and Willy De Clercq. After him are Peter Mark Richman, Helmut Zilk, József Sákovics, Elio Morille, Henry Spira, and Igor Dmitriev. Among people deceased in 2009, Dell Hymes ranks 310Before him are Guillermo Ortiz, Shōichi Nakagawa, William Alston, Jaime Belmonte, Takashi Ishimoto, and Klára Fried-Bánfalvi. After him are Igor Starygin, Yevgeny Vesnik, József Sákovics, Nikolay Anikin, I. J. Good, and Hugh Hopper.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dell Hymes ranks 9,208 out of 20,380Before him are Julieta Venegas (1970), Wovoka (1856), Leo Burnett (1891), Grace Paley (1922), James J. Jeffries (1875), and Charles Grimes (1935). After him are Scott O'Dell (1898), J. B. Lenoir (1929), Avram Davidson (1923), Louise Erdrich (1954), Dave Navarro (1967), and Amy Yasbeck (1962).

Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Dell Hymes ranks 17Before him are Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), William Stokoe (1919), Alice Kober (1906), William Dwight Whitney (1827), and Robert Blust (1940). After him are George Perkins Marsh (1801), Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), Daniel Everett (1951), Charles F. Hockett (1916), Lyle Campbell (1942), and Mary Haas (1910).