Hoenigswald, Henry M.

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HOENIGSWALD, Henry M.

HOENIGSWALD, Henry M. American (born Germany), b. 1915. Genres: Language/Linguistics. Career: Yale University, New Haven, CT, lecturer, Research assistant, and Instructor, 1939-42, 1945-46; U.S. Dept. of State, Staff member, Foreign Service Institute, 1946-47; University of Texas, Austin, associate professor, 1947-48; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, lecturer, 1943-44, associate professor, 1948-59, professor, 1959-85, professor Emeritus, 1985-. Publications: Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction, 1960-63; Studies in Formal Historical Linguistics, 1973. EDITOR: (with G. Cardona and A. Senn) Indo-European and Indo-Europeans, 1970; (with T.A. Sebeok and R. Longacre) Current Trends in Linguistics, XI, 1973; The European Background of American Linguistics, 1979; (with L.F. Wiener) Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification, 1987; (with M.R. Key) General and Amerindian Ethnolinguistics, 1989. Died 2003.