Henry Allan 'Al' Gleason, Jr. (April 18, 1917 – January 13, 2007), was a linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He taught at the university for many years and retired in the 1980s.[1]
Gleason began studying at Hartford Seminary in 1938 and received his PhD in 1946.[2]
His text "Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics" (with an accompanying workbook) [3] was positively reviewed in Language.[4] The review described the book as a suitable update to Leonard Bloomfield's well-known text Language
Gleason was a member of the American Bible Society,[3] and a pastor in Fancy Gap, Virginia.[5]