John Haiman

John Michael Haiman (31 Jan 1946 – 7 April 2025)[1] was an American linguist and professor emeritus at Macalester College.[2] He did fieldwork on the Hua language of Papua New-Guinea and published on Khmer, Rhaeto-Romance and Germanic linguistics. In 1989 he received a Guggenheim fellowship[3] for the study of sarcasm.

He graduated from the University of Toronto (BA) and Harvard University (PhD).

References

  1. ^ "John Haiman Obituary - Paramus, NJ".
  2. ^ "John Haiman".
  3. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation: John Haiman". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 10 January 2016.


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