Henry Allan Gleason (linguist)

This article is about the linguist. For his father, the botanist, see Henry A. Gleason (botanist).
Henry Allan Gleason

With his brother, mathematician Andrew Mattei Gleason (left), in Toronto, 1969
Born April 18, 1917
Died January 13, 2007 (aged 89)
Fields Linguistics
Institutions University of Toronto
Alma mater Hartford Seminary

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 textbook Language.

Gleason was a member of the American Bible Society,[3] and a pastor in Fancy Gap, Virginia.[5]

His father was the botanist Henry Gleason, and mathematician Andrew Gleason was his brother.

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  1. ↑ Summer Newsletter: 1. August 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ Praxis: News from Hartford Seminary XIX (1): 10. April 2007. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gleason, Henry Allan (1961). An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 503. ISBN 978-0-03-010465-7.
  4. ↑ Agard, Frederick B.; William G. Moulton (1956-07-01). "Review of "An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics"". Language 32 (3): 469–477. doi:10.2307/410568. ISSN 0097-8507. JSTOR 410568.
  5. ↑ "Gleason, H. Allan Jr.". Hartford Courant. 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2011. Gleason, H. Allan Jr. January 18, 2007