Warren Cowgill

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Warren Cowgill (1929 — 1985) / ˡkowgɪl/ was a professor of linguistics at Yale University and the Encyclopædia Britannica’s authority^[1] on Indo-European linguistics. He was unusual among Indo-European linguists in believing that Indo-European should be classified as a branch of Indo-Hittite, with Hittite as a sister language of the Indo-European languages, rather than a daughter language.

Dr. Cowgill was born near Grangeville, Idaho. He graduated from Stanford University in 1952 and received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1957. He was a member of the Yale faculty in the Department of Linguistics until his death in 1985.^[2][3]

[edit] Notes

1. ^ “Indo-European languages,” Encyclopædia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite, Chicago 2007.
2. ^ Dr. Warren C. Cowgill. Retrieved on 2007-03-23.
3. ^ Linguistics at Yale University. Retrieved on 2007-03-23.

[edit] External links

• Table of contents for The Collected Writings of Warren Cowgill, Jared Klein, editor.

• Publisher’s page