William Freeman Twaddell | |
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| Born | (1906-03-22)March 22, 1906 |
| Died | March 1, 1982(1982-03-01) (aged 75) |
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| Education | Duke University,Harvard University |
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| Discipline | Linguist |
| Institutions | Brown University,Linguistic Society of America,University of Wisconsin |
| Notable works | The English Verb Auxiliaries |
William Freeman Twaddell (1906–1982) was a professor of German and linguistics, who worked atBrown University as alinguist during the 1950s and 1960s. He also served as president of theLinguistic Society of America in 1957.[1]
Twaddell was born in Rye, New York, in March 22, 1906.[2] He spent his early life in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina. He attended graduate studies at Harvard, and metJohn Albrecht Walz, then a fellow graduate student, who introduced him to the field of linguistics. In 1926 he graduated fromDuke University. FromHarvard University he earned his master's degree in 1927 and he received a doctorate in 1930. In 1929,[3] Twaddell published his first linguistic work, "New Light on Phonetic Change." A few years later, in 1935, he published "On Defining the Phoneme," in the collection "Language Monographs," which is described as being a supplement toLanguage, Journal of the Linguistics Society of America. Between 1929 and 1946 he worked in the University of Wisconsin. Later, he headed as chairman of the German department of University of Wisconsin.
In 1946, he became professor of Brown university of Germanic languages in 1946. In 1960, he founded and headed a separate Linguistic department.[4] In 1963 he published "The English Verb Auxiliaries."
Twaddell taught for his entire career of 30 years at Brown University. He died on 1 March 1982.[5]
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