Warren Cowgill

Warren Cowgill

Warren Cowgill (1929 — 1985) / ˡkowgɪl/ was a professor of linguistics at Yale University and the Encyclopædia Britannica’s authority [“Indo-European languages,” Encyclopædia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite, Chicago 2007.] on Indo-European linguistics. He was unusual among Indo-European linguists 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.

Dr. Cowgill was 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.cite web
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* [http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0613/2006013733.html Table of contents for "The Collected Writings of Warren Cowgill,"] Jared Klein, editor.:* [http://beechstave.com/cowgill.htm Publisher’s page]


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