莫里斯·斯瓦迪士

莫里斯·斯瓦迪士（，）是一位有影响却充满争议的美国语言学家。他曾把历史语言学的基本概念应用于美洲土著语言之中。他认为存在一种可以适用于所有语言的规则。他将其一生主要用于对比美洲语言以发现其中的相关性。他曾对语言年代学做出很大贡献，发明了斯瓦迪士核心词列表。

參考文獻 

 Esterhill, Frank. 2000. Interlingua Institute: A History. New York: Interlingua Institute.
 Newman, Stanley. 1967. "Morris Swadesh (1909-1967)." Language 43.
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 Ruhlen, Merritt. 1994. On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

延伸閱讀 

Anttila, Raimo, An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics, New York: Macmillan, 1972; 2nd edition, as Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1989
Harris, Zellig, Methods in Structural Linguistics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951; as Structural Linguistics, 1960
Lounsbury, Floyd G. "Recollections of the Works Progress Administration's Oneida Language and Folklore Project, 1938-41." in The Oneida Indian Experience, Two Perspectives. Jack Campisi and Laurence M. Hauptman, eds. 1988.
Hymes, Dell H., editor, Language in Culture and Society, New York: Harper and Row, 1964
Hymes, Dell H., "Morris Swadesh: From the First Yale School to World Prehistory", in The Origin and Diversification of Language, by Morris Swadesh, Chicago: Aldine Atherton, 1971
Lamb, Sidney M., and E. Douglas Mitchell, editors, Sprung from Some Common Source: Investigations into the Prehistory of Languages, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991
Newman, Stanley, "Morris Swadesh (1909-1967)", Language 43 (1967)

外部連結 

 Morris Swadesh, Minnesota State University, Mankato

美国语言学家
芝加哥大学校友
耶鲁大学校友
美國猶太人
战略情报局人物