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Extract. William Bright, friend and colleague, died on October 15, 2006, near Boulder, Colorado. Bill received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Berkeley in 1955. He taught linguistics and anthropology at UCLA for 29 years until his retirement in 1988. Up to the time of his death he was adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado.
- Joel Sherzer
- 2007
William Bright (1824–1901) was an English ecclesiastical historian and Anglican priest. Life. He was born at Doncaster on 14 December 1824. He was the only son of ...
William Bright, friend and colleague, died on October 15, 2006, near Boulder, Colorado. Bill received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Berkeley in 1955. He taught linguistics and anthropology at UCLA for 29 years until his retirement in 1988. Up to the time of his death he was adjunct Professor at the University of Colo-rado.
Language in Society 36, 151–155. Printed in the United States of America DOI: 10.10170S004740450707008X IN MEMORIAM William Bright by Joel Sherzer Anthropology, University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 jsherzer@mail.utexas.edu With one lip, with two lips, A metaphorical couplet from classical Nahuatl oratory, signifying “indirectly poetic speech”; also the title of William Bright’s Linguistic Society of America presidential address (Language, 1990) William Bright, friend and colleague ...
- Joel Sherzer
- 2007
Oct 23, 2006 · William Oliver Bright was born on Aug. 13, 1928, in Oxnard, Calif. He received a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1949.
Linguist, educator, and author. Bright was a leading scholar of dying indigenous languages who was especially well known for documenting the native languages and cultures of California's Native Americans. Source for information on Bright, William 1928-2006 (William Oliver Bright): Contemporary Authors dictionary.
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International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. William Bright. Oxford University Press, 1992 - History - 429 pages. A four-volume reference comprising approximately seven hundred alphabetically ordered entries, the IEL provides detailed and up-to-date information on all branches of linguistics. The IEL encompasses the full range of the contemporary ...
