death_date birth_place ethnicity name field work_institutions birth_date known_for article_title citizenship alma_mater
23 february 2009 auburn , new york irish american michael paul `` mickey '' noonan linguistics suny buffalo csula university of wisconsin -- milwaukee 14 september 1947 tibeto-burman languages documentary linguistics nilotic languages michael noonan -lrb- linguist -rrb-
 american ucla
michael noonan -lrb- linguist -rrb-

michael noonan -lrb- linguist -rrb- -lrb- september 12 , 1947 -- february 23 , 2009 -rrb- , was an american linguist specializing in functional and typological linguistics .
he graduated from ucla with a phd in linguistics in 1981 .
he specialized in particular in tibeto-burman , nilotic -lrb- lango language -rrb- , the chantyal language , and the nar phu language .
