Morris Swadesh

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Morris Swadesh is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Morris Swadesh was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics. 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. He became a professor at the City College of New York after the war's end, but was fired in 1949 due to his membership in the Communist Party. He spent most of the rest of his life teaching in Mexico and Canada.

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Towards Greater Accuracy in Lexicostatistic Dating (1955) (462)
Lexico-Statistical Dating of Prehistoric Ethnic Contacts (1952) (342)
Salish Internal Relationships (1950) (191)
The origin and diversification of language (1971) (165)
The Phonemic Principle (1934) (128)
Nootka Internal Syntax (1938) (83)
Diffusional Cumulation and Archaic Residue as Historical Explanations (1951) (72)
Sociologic Notes on Obsolescent Languages (1948) (61)
Linguistics as an Instrument of Prehistory (1959) (53)
Perspectives and Problems of Amerindian Comparative Linguistics (1954) (47)
Indian linguistic groups of Mexico (1959) (38)
The Phonetics of Chitimacha (1934) (33)
Nootka Texts: Tales and Ethnological Narratives (1940) (31)
A Problem in Phonological Alternation (1939) (31)
American Indian Grammatical Categories (1946) (31)
The Phonemic Structure of Proto-Zapotec (1947) (29)
Mosan I: A Problem of Remote Common Origin (1953) (23)
Jicaque as a Hokan Language (1953) (21)
Linguistic Relations Across Bering Strait (1962) (20)
Motivations in Nootka Warfare (1948) (20)
A Visit to the Other World, a Nitinat Text (With Translation and Grammatical Analysis) (1933) (17)
The Oto-Manguean Hypothesis and Macro Mixtecan (1960) (16)
A Structural Trend in Nootka (1948) (16)
Kleinschmidt Centennial V: Eskimo Aleut Correspondences (1951) (15)
The Phonemic Interpretation of Long Consonants (1937) (15)
On the Analysis of English Syllabics (1947) (14)
Problems of Long-Range Comparison in Penutian (1956) (14)
On Aboriginal Languages of Latin America (1963) (13)
Salish Phonologic Geography (1952) (12)
Time Depths of American Linguistic Groupings (1954) (11)
The Linguistic Approach to Salish Prehistory (1949) (11)
Songs of the Nootka Indians of Western Vancouver Island (1955) (11)
The expression of the ending-point relation in English, French, and German (1932) (11)
The Grammatical Structure of Oaxaca Chontal. Viola Grace Waterhouse (1963) (11)
Coos-Takelma-Penutian Comparisons (1953) (9)
Kleinschmidt Centennial III: Unaaliq and Proto Eskimo (1951) (9)
On the Penutian Vocabulary Survey (1954) (9)
Mosan II: Comparative Vocabulary (1953) (8)
Kalapuya and Takelma (1965) (7)
Archeological and Linguistic Chronology of Indo‐European Groups (1953) (6)
Two Views of Otomi Prosody (1949) (6)
Phonologic Formulas for Atakapa-Chitimacha (1946) (6)
A METHOD FOR PHONETIC ACCURACY AND SPEED (1937) (6)
A Punchcard System of Cognate Hunting (1963) (6)
The Vowels of Chicago English (1935) (5)
Some Findings on Oaxaca Language Classification and Culture Terms (1959) (4)
Twaddell on Defining the Phoneme Lang. Monograph No. 16 (1935) (4)
Language universals and research efficiency in descriptive linguistics (1965) (3)
Unaaliq and Proto Eskimo V: Comparative Vocabulary (1952) (3)
Chemakum Lexicon Compared with Quileute (1955) (3)
The Problem of Consonantal Doublets in Indo-European (1970) (3)
GENERAL: The Psycho-biology of Language. An Introduction to Dynamic Philology. George Kingsley Zipf. (1936) (3)
Chitimacha Verbs of Derogatory or Abusive Connotation with Parallels from European Languages (1933) (2)
Unaaliq and Proto Eskimo III: Synchronic Notes (1952) (2)
Unaaliq and Proto Eskimo II: Phonemes and Morphophonemes (1952) (2)
Unaaliq and Proto Eskimo IV: Diachronic Notes (1952) (2)
Athapaskan and Sino-Tibetan. Robert Shafer (1952) (2)
Comment on Hockett's Critique (1953) (2)
Salish-Wakashan Lexical Comparisons Noted by Boas (1953) (2)
Talking Russian before You Know It (1946) (1)
LINGUISTICS: The Rate of Linguistic Change: Limits of the Application of Mathematical Methods in Linguistics. István Fodor (1967) (1)
Review article of Athapaskan and Sino-Tibetan, by R. Shafer. (1952) (1)
Conversational Chinese for Beginners (Formerly Titled: Chinese in You Pocket) (1965) (1)
Problems in language salvage for prehistory (1960) (1)
Atakapa-Chitimacha *kw (1947) (0)
Conversational Chinese for beginners (1948) (0)
American Indian Linguistics in the Southwest: Comments (1954) (0)
South Greenlandic Paradigms (1948) (0)
Bibliography of American Indian Linguistics 1936-1937 (1938) (0)
An American Phonetic Dictionary Comments and Suggestions: VII (1937) (0)
Conversational Chin [sic] for beginners (1964) (0)
Pro and Contra Darlington: The Sounds of Language . An inquiry into the role of genetic factors in the development of sound systems. L. F. Brosnahan. Heffner, Cambridge, England, 1961. 250 pp. 25s. (1961) (0)
Quileute. Manuel J. Andrade (1935) (0)
The Sounds of Language. An inquiry into the role of genetic factors in the development of sound systems. L. F. Brosnahan. Heffner, Cambridge, England, 1961. 250 pp. 25s (1961) (0)

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