William Dwight Whitney

Whitney, William Dwight

Born Feb. 9,1827, in Northampton, Mass.; died June 9,1894, in New Haven, Conn. American linguist.

Whitney graduated from Williams College, Northampton, in 1845. In 1854 he was appointed a professor at Yale University, where he taught until 1894. He was a member of the American Oriental Society, serving as its secretary from 1857 to 1884 and as its president from 1884 to 1890. Whitney helped found several other scholarly societies, including the American Philological Association (1869); he was also the association’s first president.

Whitney did most of his work in the field of Indology. In his Sanskrit Grammar he made use of original texts and statistical data to show the productivity and stylistic variations of linguistic forms. The first American theoretical linguist, Whitney upheld the principle of historicism in the study of languages, demonstrating the regularity of linguistic changes and their dependence on social factors.

Whitney was a member or corresponding member of several academies and scholarly societies.

WORKS

The Life and Growth of Language [new ed.]. New York, 1902.
Language and the Study of Language, 6th ed. New York, 1901.
Sanskrit Grammar, new ed. Delhi, 1969.

REFERENCE

Whitney on Language. Edited by M. Silverstein. Cambridge, Mass., 1971.

单词	william dwight whitney
释义	William Dwight Whitney Whitney, William Dwight Born Feb. 9,1827, in Northampton, Mass.; died June 9,1894, in New Haven, Conn. American linguist. Whitney graduated from Williams College, Northampton, in 1845. In 1854 he was appointed a professor at Yale University, where he taught until 1894. He was a member of the American Oriental Society, serving as its secretary from 1857 to 1884 and as its president from 1884 to 1890. Whitney helped found several other scholarly societies, including the American Philological Association (1869); he was also the association’s first president. Whitney did most of his work in the field of Indology. In his Sanskrit Grammar he made use of original texts and statistical data to show the productivity and stylistic variations of linguistic forms. The first American theoretical linguist, Whitney upheld the principle of historicism in the study of languages, demonstrating the regularity of linguistic changes and their dependence on social factors. Whitney was a member or corresponding member of several academies and scholarly societies. WORKS The Life and Growth of Language [new ed.]. New York, 1902. Language and the Study of Language, 6th ed. New York, 1901. Sanskrit Grammar, new ed. Delhi, 1969. REFERENCE Whitney on Language. Edited by M. Silverstein. Cambridge, Mass., 1971.
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