# Mary Haas

|  Mary Haas |
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| president of the Linguistic Society of America (en)  |
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| Rayuwa |
| Haihuwa |
Richmond (mul) , 12 ga Janairu, 1910 |
| ƙasa |
Tarayyar Amurka |
| Mutuwa |
Alameda (mul) , 17 Mayu 1996 |
| Ƴan uwa |
| Abokiyar zama |
Morris Swadesh (en)   (1931 -  1937) |
| Karatu |
| Makaranta | Jami ar Yale 1935) Ph.D. (mul)  secondary school (en)  Jami ar Yale 1935) Ph.D. (mul)  Richmond High School (en)  UChicago (mul)  Earlham College (en)  Earlham College (en)  Bachelor of Arts (mul)  |
| Dalibin daktanci |
Karl V. Teeter (en)  Margaret Langdon (mul)  |
| Harsuna |
Turanci Harshen Tunica |
| Sana'a |
| Sana'a |
linguist (en)  da marubuci |
| Employers | University of California, Berkeley (mul)  |
| Kyaututtuka |

gani
* Guggenheim Fellowship  (1964) Wilbur Cross Medal  (1977) Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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| Mamba |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (en)  National Academy of Sciences (en)  |

**Mary Rosamond Haas** (/hɑːs/ HAHSS; 23 ga Janairu, 1910 - 17 ga Mayu, 1996) masanin harshe ne na Amurka wanda ya kware a harsunan asalin Arewacin Amurka, Thai, da ilimin harshe na tarihi. Ta yi aiki a matsayin shugabar kungiyar Linguistic Society of America . An zabe ta a matsayin abokiyar Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka kuma memba na Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Kasa.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi

An haifi Haas a Richmond, Indiana . Ta halarci makarantar sakandare da Kwalejin Earlham a Richmond .

Ta kammala digirinta na PhD a fannin ilimin harshe a Jami'ar Yale a 1935 tana da shekaru 25, tare da rubutun da ake kira A Grammar of the Tunica Language . A cikin shekarun 1930, Haas ya yi aiki tare da mai magana da harshen Tunica na ƙarshe, Sesostrie Youchigant, yana samar da matani da ƙamus masu yawa.

## Ayyuka da bincike

### Ayyuka na farko a cikin ilimin harshe

Haas ya gudanar da aikin digiri na biyu a kan ilimin lissafi a Jami'ar Chicago . Ta yi karatu a karkashin Edward Sapir, wanda daga baya ta bi shi zuwa Yale. Ta fara aiki na dogon lokaci a fannin ilimin harshe ta hanyar nazarin harsuna daban-daban a lokacin watanni na rani.

A cikin shekaru goma daga 1931 zuwa 1941, Haas ya yi nazarin yaren Wakashan Nitinat (Ditidaht), da kuma harsuna da yawa waɗanda aka fi Magana da su a kudu maso gabashin Amurka: Tunica, Natchez, Muskogee (Creek), Koasati, Choctaw, Alabama, Cherokee da Hichiti. Takardar farko da ta buga, A Visit to the Other World, a Nitinat Text, wanda aka rubuta tare da Morris Swadesh, an buga shi a cikin 1933.

Ba da daɗewa ba, Haas ya gudanar da aikin gona tare da Watt Sam da Nancy Raven, masu magana da Harshen Natchez na ƙarshe a Oklahoma. Bayanan da ba a buga ba sun zama tushen tushen bayanai mafi mahimmanci game da harshen da ya mutu yanzu. Ta gudanar da aiki mai zurfi a kan Harshen Muskogee, kuma ita ce masanin harshe na zamani na farko da ya tattara matani masu yawa a cikin harshen. An buga matani na Muskogee bayan mutuwarta a cikin wani kundin da Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin, da Juanita McGirt suka gyara kuma suka fassara.

### Ayyuka a Jami'ar California, Berkeley

A lokacin yakin duniya na biyu, gwamnatin Amurka ta kalli nazarin da koyar da harsunan kudu maso gabashin Asiya a matsayin mahimmanci ga kokarin yaki, kuma a karkashin jagorancin Shirin Horar da Sojoji na Musamman a Jami'ar California a Berkeley, Haas ya kirkiro shirin don koyar da Harshen Thai. Har yanzu ana amfani da ƙamus na Thai-English Students' Dictionary, wanda aka buga a 1964, .

A shekara ta 1948, an nada ta mataimakiyar farfesa a fannin Thai da Harshe a Jami'ar California, Berkeley Department of Oriental Languages, wani alƙawari da ta danganta ga Peter A. Boodberg, wanda ta bayyana a matsayin "kafin lokacinsa a hanyar da ya bi da mata masu ilimi - masanin ya kasance masanin a cikin littafinsa". Ta zama ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa Sashen Harshe na UC-Berkeley lokacin da aka kafa shi a 1953. Ta kasance shugabar sashen na dogon lokaci, kuma ta kasance Darakta na Binciken Harsunan Indiya na California a Berkeley daga 1953 zuwa 1977. Ta yi ritaya daga Berkeley a 1977 kuma a 1984 an zabe ta a matsayin Berkeley Fellow .

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