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Morris Swadesh

1909 - 1967

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Morris Swadesh ( SWAH-desh; January 22, 1909 – July 20, 1967) was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics, and developed his mature career at UNAM in Mexico. Swadesh was born in Massachusetts to Bessarabian Jewish immigrant parents. He completed bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Chicago, studying under Edward Sapir, and then followed Sapir to Yale University where he completed a Ph.D. in 1933. Swadesh taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1937 to 1939, and then during World War II worked on projects with the United States Army and Office of Strategic Services. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Morris Swadesh is the 80th most popular linguist (up from 87th in 2019), the 3,634th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,500th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Morris Swadesh ranks 80 out of 214. Before him are Alexander Gode, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Carl Brockelmann, Đuro Daničić, Vasili Eroshenko, and Robert Morrison. After him are Max Nettlau, Eugenio Coșeriu, Holger Pedersen, Anne Dacier, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, and Gustaf John Ramstedt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Morris Swadesh ranks 128. Before him are Anthony Mamo, Ryszard Siwiec, Atsushi Nakajima, Barry Goldwater, Gordon Bunshaft, and Gerhard Gentzen. After him are André Cayatte, Dean Rusk, Milena Pavlović-Barili, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Hendrik Casimir, and Kinuyo Tanaka. Among people deceased in 1967, Morris Swadesh ranks 114. Before him are Martine Carol, Iona Nikitchenko, Joseph Cardijn, George S. Robertson, George Lincoln Rockwell, and George Kelly. After him are Paul Löbe, Geraldine Farrar, Alice B. Toklas, Pavlo Tychyna, Greta Schröder, and Varian Fry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Morris Swadesh ranks 3,634 out of 20,380. Before him are Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977), Dylan McDermott (1961), Harold Perrineau (1963), Tyler, the Creator (1991), Geoffrey Lewis (1935), and Alexander Cartwright (1820). After him are Maxie Long (1878), George Koval (1913), Royal Rife (1888), John Anderson (1907), Barry Manilow (1943), and Terence McKenna (1946).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Morris Swadesh ranks 10. Before him are Leonard Bloomfield (1887), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Joseph Greenberg (1915), Joshua Fishman (1926), William Labov (1927), and George Lakoff (1941). After him are Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), William Stokoe (1919), Alice Kober (1906), William Dwight Whitney (1827), and Robert Blust (1940).

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