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	Sample Entry: Swadesh, Morris / Encyclopedia of Linguistics
		Swadesh’s contribution was to develop a set of principles to help the phonologist discover phonemes on the basis of the distribution of sounds in a given language.
		Even more controversially, Swadesh claimed that the “decay” of basic vocabulary could be used for “glottochronology,”; the dating of ancestor languages analogous to determining the age of fossils on the basis of radioactive decay.
		Swadesh came to believe that basic vocabulary decays with a rate of 14 percent over 1000 years, so languages would retain on average about 86 percent of their basic vocabulary over this time span.
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	Morris Swadesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morris Swadesh (January 22, 1909 - July 20, 1967) was an American linguist.
		He is famous for compiling the often varied Swadesh list, a list of common words which are essential to most languages, and used to determine the closeness of any pair of languages by so-called lexico-statistical techniques.
		For his proposal to use this list to compute the time-depth of languages, see glottochronology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morris_Swadesh (99 words)

	Morris Swadesh -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Morris Swadesh (January 22, 1909 - July 20, 1967) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A specialist in linguistics) linguist.
		Swadesh studied with (Anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939)) Edward Sapir.
		He is famous for compiling the controversial (additional info and facts about Swadesh list) Swadesh list, a list of common words which are essential to most languages, and used to determine the closeness of any pair of languages.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/morris_swadesh.htm (127 words)

	Morris Swadesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Morris Swadesh was born on January 22, 1909 in Holyoke, Massachusetts and died on July 20, 1967 in Mexico City, Mexico.
		The pronunciation is dependent on the placement of the “p” in the word and Swadesh said that the sound variants should be regarded as the same sound type.
		Morris Swadesh believed that language will decay 14% over the next 1,000 years and thus we have retained only 70%-86% of language.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/swadesh_morris.html (399 words)

	physics - Swadesh list
		The use of Swadesh lists in glottochronology was most popular during the 1960s and 1970s, after which enthusiasm waned and the discussion of the method's merit became emotional, leading to a temporary demise of the method.
		A recent example of the use of Swadesh lists for absolute dating is the study of Gray and Atkinson (2003), calculating a tree of Indo-European with absolute dates for its nodes, using Bayesian principles, dating the Proto-Indo-European language to ca.
		The study is based on Swadesh lists of modern Indo-European languages (and three extinct languages) alone, and its result is not generally accepted to contain any degree of accuracy.
	physicsdaily.com /physics/Swadesh_list (432 words)

	Learn more about Glottochronology in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The method presumes that the basic vocabulary may be used as a sort of clock, on the assumption that basic vocabulary changes at a more-or-less constant rate through time.
		Morris Swadesh compiled a list of concepts for a basic vocabulary, the Swadesh list.
		The method is highly controversial and many linguists argue that there is no evidence that language change occurs at a steady rate.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/gl/glottochronology.html (292 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The process makes use of the Swadesh list, a list of basic lexical terms compiled by Morris Swadesh.
		The main approach to assigning dates to linguistic divergence events is known as glottochronology or lexicostatistics, proposed in the early 1950s.
		The Swadesh word list is used in glottochronology to determine the approximate date of first separation of genetically related languages.
	glottochronology.iqexpand.com (470 words)

	sun2
		A linguist named Morris Swadesh, who worked a lot with Edward Sapir, believed that lexical items like "sun" --- those that were supposedly not culture-bound and were universal --- could be gathered together and put to use in comparative linguistic studies.
		The Swadesh list is often used in comparative or historical linguistics because, not only do almost all languages have words to denote these 100 or so entities or actions, but these particular words have been shown to change very little over time while other parts of the language evolve.
		Linguistics as an instrument of prehistory /, Morris Swadesh.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jlawler/ask/sun.html (905 words)

	LINGUIST List 13.2622: Swadesh query (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Summary: Swadesh query "In the chapter on glottochronology in the posthumously published The Origin and Diversification of Language 1972, Swadesh presents a 100-word Basic List.
		I published an article on the glottochronology of the Turkic languages in an issue of IJAL dedicated to Swadesh in the early 1960s.
		He argued that many of the concepts that SAE languages use one word for are often expressed in complex phrases in Amerindian languages Lameen S: I understand Jackendoff later produced an even smaller 35-word 'core' list which supposedly contains the most stable terms of all.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/13/13-2622.html (372 words)

	Regions Central Asia - IIAS Newsletter Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1962, Morris Swadesh (1907-1967), the linguist, anthropologist and prominent McCarthy era victim best remembered for his much-debated theory of dating linguistic divergence by a cognate count on a word list of 'core vocabulary' known as 'glottochronology', wrote a paper entitled 'Linguistic relations across Bering Strait' (American Anthropologist, 64).
		Slightly altering Swadesh's title, Fortescue sets out on a full-fledged study of the linguistic typology and prehistory of the languages clustering around the Beringian bottleneck.
		The US ancestor, crystallizing through lexical correspondences detailed in several hundred cognate sets, is thus not conceived of as a proto-language sensu stricto, but as a 'mesh' a cover term for anything ranging from Sprachbunds, to mixed languages to 'conventional' proto-languages.
	iias.leidenuniv.nl /iiasn/24/regions/24CA1.html (1336 words)

	Glottochronology - TheBestLinks.com - Cognate, Half-life, Linguistics, C14 dating, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Glottochronology, Cognate, Half-life, Linguistics, C14 dating, Morris Swadesh...
		In linguistics, the technique of glottochronology is used to estimate the time of divergence of two related languages.
		The basic vocabulary was selected as to pick only concepts common to every human language and not subject to cultural changes.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Glottochronology.html (315 words)

	The paper focuses not so much on the travails of five Fellows of the American Anthropological Association as they ...
		Between 1947 and 1953 five Fellows of the American Anthropological Association—Melville Jacobs, Morris Swadesh, Richard Morgan, Bernhard Stern and Gene Weltfish—were brought before a variety of public and private forums where their loyalties, political affiliations, private views and academic research were questioned and attacked.
		Swadesh: In May of 1949 Morris Swadesh was abruptly notified that his teaching contract at City College of New York would not be renewed—this unanticipated news came five months after “the Department’s Appointments Committee had voted for his reappointment”.
		To get a flavor of the change in approaches between the first and second waves of attacks on academic freedom, it is useful to contrast the association’s response to Morgan’s firing in 1949 with that of Weltfish’s firing in 1952.
	homepages.stmartin.edu /fac_staff/dprice/AAA97.htm (2734 words)

	Wiktionary:Swadesh list - Wiktionary
		The below list of words was devised by the beloved linguist Morris Swadesh.
		He used it as a means of determining the closeness of any pair of languages.
		This sorting feature could be particularly useful if and when the categories of the Swadesh Template and/or Basic English Template are fleshed out.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Swadesh_List (306 words)

	Mid-Hudson Library System /Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Swadesh Maurice 1909 1967 -- See Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
		Swadesh Mauricio 1909 1967 -- See Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
		Swadesh T Mauricio 1909 1967 -- See Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
	gigcat.midhudson.org:90 /kids/10/search/a?Swadesh,Morris,1909-1967 (38 words)

	Author : works by West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Morris L Bierbrier Jon Woronoff - Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras No 1 - 0810836149
		Morris L Medley James E Conyers - Sociology for the Seventies: A Contemporary Perspective - 0471590150
		Morris Swadesh - Conversational Chinese for Beginners - 0486211231
	www.booksrating.com /688917_west_0026780402acquisitionstypewritingskillstestoutofprintgenealogybooks.html (151 words)

	American Indian Collections at the APS
		SWADESH, MORRIS, and ADRIÁN F. LEÓN. Vocabularies Nawatl [1940].
		A short vocabulary of the language of the Indians of the southern mouth of the Channel of Fuca [1792].
		Rough drafts of articles and various materials prepared by Swadesh in connection with his dissertation [No. 2421] and with work done while Swadesh served as assistant to Sapir.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/guides/indians/info/n.htm (3442 words)

	Stony Brook University Hosts Historic Symposium On The Evolution Of Language And Communication
		Alice Morris was in fact one of the 31 women Foundation Members at the LSA's creation in 1925, and remained active in the LSA for decades.
		Morris showed a particular interest in linguistic research that addressed underlying grammatical and conceptual uniformities between languages.
		She financially supported Edward Sapir's cross-linguistic semantic studies of totality (1930) and grading phenomena (1944); she also personally edited Sapir and Morris Swadesh's 1932 cross-linguistic study of ending-point phenomena, and William Edward Collinson's 1937 study of indication.
	commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu /artman/publish/article_937.shtml (564 words)

	Swadesh list - FrathWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Swadesh list is a list of about 207 words originally drawn up by Morris Swadesh for the purpose of glottochronology.
		Wiktionary:Swadesh template can be used to demonstrate the vocabulary of a conlang.
		Unless otherwise stated, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	wiki.frath.net /Swadesh_list (66 words)

	Hurst Academic Home
		Falk notes that ‘Nothing was more important to the early members of the LSA than the status of their field as a science’ (45), and, because of Morris’s intellectual leadership and her financial support, IALA became a vehicle for serious scholarly research in language.
		Sapir, Bloomfield, Boas, and Jespersen in the early days, Morris Swadesh and Mary Haas Swadesh in the 1930s, and later George Trager, Fred Householder, and Robert Austerlitz – these are but a few of the well-known researchers named by Falk as being associated with IALA.
		The culmination of IALA came in the development of a constructed language called Interlingua, but Alice Vanderbilt Morris died in 1950, and the endowment she left for IALA was mostly exhausted by the 1951 publication of the Dictionary and the Grammar of Interlingua, work that was little regarded by linguists at mid-century.
	www.faculty.english.ttu.edu /hurst/excerpts.html (2892 words)

	High Strangeness: The "Language of Space"
		It seems to represent either a totally à priori "out of thin air" attempt to create a perfectly logical language with no dependence whatsoever on material from any natural languages, or else a language reflecting the natural psychology and intuitive sound symbolism of an alien, non-human race.
		If aUI is indeed a real language, it may be an outgrowth of a biology, physiology, and psychology, a background of sense- and speech-organs and of day-to-day and minute-to-minute bodily and environmental sensations, very different from the ones underlying human language.
		Negation (no, not, non-, un-, anti-), which is expressed by nasal grunts in the natural intuitive language described by linguists Otto Jespersen and Morris Swadesh, and by Esperanto ne, Loglan no, Lojban na, is expressed in aUI instead by y, the sound of German ü or French u.
	www.anomalist.com /reports/language.html (1185 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Written in news (http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~chao/info/gaean-language/gaean-top100.txt): "Here is the list of 100 [200] words of the Basic Core Vocabulary, as set out by Morris Swadesh, from "Archaeology and Language" by Colin Renfrew.
		It's meant to be a list of 100 [200] key concepts that all languages, irrespective of cultural differences, are most likely to have words for, and are least likely to have borrowed from other languages.
		Unfortunately, language, unlike C-14, does not seem to change at a constant rate.
	www.df.lth.se /~cml/swadesh.txt (141 words)

	Rediscovered native history notebooks donated to Oneida
		Professor Morris Swadesh of UW-Madison originated the Oneida Project in 1938.
		It was supported by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of the New Deal efforts to pull America out of the Great Depression.
		Though Swadesh proposed the project, he left Wisconsin just as it was about to begin.
	www.news.wisc.edu /wire/i060199/oneida.html (686 words)

	Style Guide / Encyclopedia of Linguistics
		(The following is an example for Swadesh, Morris):
		Sarles, Harvey B., After Metaphysics, Lisse, The Netherlands: Peter de Ridder Press, 1977; as Language and Human Nature, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985
		Swadesh, Morris, "The Phonemic Principle," Language 10 (1934)
	strazny.com /encyclopedia/style-guide.html (1766 words)

	American Indian Collections at the APS
		Introduction: study compiled by Morris Swadesh on the basis of Sapir's Wakashan comparative notes, No. 3836.
		A continuation of No. 3837:1-44, study compiled by Morris Swadesh on the basis of Sapir's Wakashan comparative notes Nc.
		Lecture notes taken by Morris Swadesh, Sapir's field work in 1905.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/guides/indians/info/w.htm (1444 words)

	Nuu-chah-nulth Material
		From: Sapir, Edward and Morris Swadesh, 1978, Native Accounts of Nootka Ethnography, First AMS edition.
		From: Roberts, Helen H., and Morris Swadesh, 1955, Songs of the Nootka Indians of Western Vancouver Island, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 45, Part 3.
		From: Sapir, Edward, and Morris Swadesh, 1939, Nootka Texts; Tales and Ethnological Narratives with Grammatical Notes and Lexical Materials, Linguistic Society of America, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
	www.geophys.washington.edu /SEIS/PNSN/HIST_CAT/STORIES/DRAFT2/nuuchahnulth.html (4751 words)

	OccultForums.com - View Single Post - The "Language of Space" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ultimately, the intuitive language discussed by linguists like Otto Jespersen, Edward Sapir, and Morris Swadesh is rooted in human biology and physiology.
		Intelligent creatures with a different biology, physiology, and evolutionary background from Homo sapiens might have a very different intuitive language from ours, one that would leave us cold, puzzled or irritated but would seem and feel "logical" and "natural" to them.
		Again, none of these sound too much like pronouns or demonstratives inspired by Swadesh's intuitive language.
	www.occultforums.com /showpost.php?p=69189&postcount=1 (1220 words)

	American Indian Collections at the APS
		SWADESH, MORRIS, and C. Notes on Penobscot and Malecite [1933].
		Typed D. and A.D. Contains a Penobscot alphabet, text, and carbon copy of texts from records with interlinear translations.
		A summary of Menomini inflections prepared by Bloomfield for Morris Swadesh.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/guides/indians/info/m.htm (2708 words)

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		A number of individual linguists have also contributed individually to the collection, including Edward Ahenakew, Morris Swadesh, Kenneth Croft, Norman A. McQuown, Gordon Marsh, and C. Voegelin.
		Classified list of languages and bands, showing which are extinct and which are extant and approximate number of speakers as of 1935.
		Attached note of Edward Sapir to Morris Swadesh on revision in classification of Wiyot and Yurok.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/a/acls.xml (5224 words)

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