Warren Cowgill
Male, Deceased Person
1929 – 1985
Who was Warren Cowgill?
Warren Cowgill was a professor of linguistics at Yale University and the Encyclopædia Britannica's authority on Indo-European linguistics. He was unusual among Indo-European linguists of his time 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. He was also a supporter of the Indo-Uralic hypothesis.
Warren Cowgill and his twin brother, anthropologist George Cowgill, were 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.
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- Born
- 1929
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Stanford University
- Yale University
- Employment
- Yale University
- Died
- 1985
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on July 23, 2013
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