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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_Dwight_WhitneyWilliam Dwight Whitney - Wikipedia

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   William Dwight Whitney (February 9, 1827 – June 7, 1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution.

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   Jun 3, 2024 · William Dwight Whitney (born Feb. 9, 1827, Northampton, Mass., U.S.—died June 7, 1894, New Haven, Conn.) was an American linguist and one of the foremost Sanskrit scholars of his time, noted especially for his classic work, Sanskrit Grammar (1879).

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4. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentWilliam Dwight Whitney - Linguistics - Oxford Bibliographies

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   Jan 12, 2021 · The American Sanskritist and linguist William Dwight Whitney (b. 1827–d. 1894) was his country’s most important professional language scholar and linguistic theorist of the 19th century.

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   Learn about the life and achievements of William Dwight Whitney, a prominent American linguist and comparative philologist. He taught at Yale, edited Webster's dictionary, and wrote influential books on language and Sanskrit.

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   Jun 27, 2024 · William Dwight Whitney (1827–94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century. After studying in Germany, then at the forefront of linguistic scholarship, he assumed the chair of Sanskrit at Yale in 1854, with comparative philology added to his professorship in 1869.

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7. mitpress.mit.edu › 9780262190879Whitney on Language - MIT Press

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   Oct 15, 1971 · William Dwight Whitney, a commanding figure in nineteenth-century philology, may be considered the most important and wide-ranging precursor of modern lingui...

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   Who was William Dwight Whitney?

   • William Dwight Whitney (February 9, 1827 – June 7, 1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution.

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   • Whitney’s many important publications include Language and the Study of Language (1867), A Sanskrit Grammar (1879), and The Roots, Verb-forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language (1885). William Dwight Whitney was born in 1827 in Northampton, MA.

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   • Dr. William Whitney III, MD is a family medicine specialist in Roanoke, VA and has been practicing for 25 years. He graduated from SUNY Upstate Medical University (Syracuse) in 1994 and specializes in family medicine.

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   • John Whitney (27 June 1836–6 September 1932) was a New Zealand industrialist, who established the Colonial Ammunition Company. Born in England, he served as an officer in the British Army for several years, mainly in Ireland. In 1884 he and his family emigrated to New Zealand. The Panjdeh incident of 1885 saw him join the colonial militia.

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9. www.jstor.org › stable › 455068William Dwight Whitney - JSTOR

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   A review of a book that collects Whitney's writings on language and linguistics, with an introduction by Roman Jakobson. Whitney was a pioneer of historical linguistics and influenced Saussure, Neogrammarians, and Bloomfield.