Desmond C. Derbyshire
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1924 – 2007
Who was Desmond C. Derbyshire?
Desmond Cyril Derbyshire was a linguist who specialized in Carib languages.
He is best known for his work on Hixkaryana, known for its object–verb–subject word order. Derbyshire's study of the language resulted in the first description in the linguistics literature of a language with this word order as its default.
The most surprising story Derbyshire told of the long period of work in the Hixkaryana village of remote northern Brazil concerned a day in November 1965, during the visit by then New York's US Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The recounting of that three-day visit included how Senator Kennedy declared his decision to run for President of the United States.
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