William Cornyn

William Stewart Cornyn (1906-1971) was a linguist who graduated from and was employed at Yale, where he served as a professor of Slavic and South East Asian Linguistics and chair of both the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Russian Area Program. ["William Stewart Cornyn" "Slavic Review," Vol. 30, No. 3 (Sep., 1971), pp. 716-721]

His research focused on the description of and preparation of pedagocialy materials for Burmese and Russian. In 1941, while working as an Assistant in Germanic Languages at Univeresity of California, Los Angeles Cornyn became a member of the Linguistic Society of America. ["Language," Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1941), pp. 278-279] He died on March 15, 1971, at the age of sixty-four. ["William Stewart Cornyn" "Slavic Review," Vol. 30, No. 3 (Sep., 1971), pp. 716-721]

Publications

* (1939) "Hotel Slang" "American Speech" 14.3: 239-240.
* (1944) "Outline of Burmese Grammar" "Language" 20.4:5-34. (Language Dissertation No. 38).
* (1957) "Burmese chrestomathy." (American Council of Learned Societies. Program in Oriental Languages. Publications Series A, No. 4.). Washington: American Council of Learned Societies.
* (1958) with John K. Musgrave. "Burmese Glossary" (American Council of Learned Societies. Program in Oriental Languages. Publications. Series A. No. 5.). Washington: American Council of Learned Societies.
* (1959) "Beginning Russian". New Haven: Yale University Press.