Archibald A. Hill

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Archibald Anderson Hill (born July 5, 1902 in New York City , † March 29, 1992 in Austin (Texas) ) was an American linguist .

Life

Archibald A. Hill, who grew up in San Diego and was the son of the late Dr. Alexander Hill and Mary Dorsey Anderson Hill, after graduating from Pomona College in California in 1923 with a Bachelor of Arts in English, studied linguistics with a focus on English at Stanford University , where he obtained a master's degree in 1924 of Arts in English, then at Yale University , where he received his Ph.D. PhD in English.

Archibald A. Hill started his academic career in 1926 at the University of Michigan , where he initially held a lectureship and from 1930 an assistant professor. In the same year he followed a call to the extraordinary professorship in English at the University of Virginia , until he moved to Georgetown University in 1952 , where he was appointed vice director of the Institute of Languages ​​and Linguistics. In 1955 Hill was finally given the chair of English studies at the University of Texas , which he held until his retirement in 1972.

Archibald A. Hill - he married Muriel Louise née Eyard in 1928 - died on March 29, 1992 a few months before he would turn 90 in Austin.

In addition to his practical language pedagogical work, Hill's main research interests were structural linguistics, dialects , the history of the English language and the use of linguistics in literary studies .

Fonts

  • English phonetics for the interpretation of poetry, 1948
  • Survey of accomplishments and trends in research in present day English, 1948
  • Linguistics since Bloomfield, In: Volume 45 of the Bobbs-Merrill reprint series in language and linguistics. Language, Bobbs-Merrill, 1955
  • Pippa's song: two attempts at structural criticism, In: Volume 35 of University of Texas studies in English, University Press, 1956
  • Introduction to linguistic structures: from sound to sentence in English, Harcourt, Brace, 1958
  • ELEC English course, Taishukan, 1961
  • Essays in literary analysis, 1966
  • Linguistics today, Basic Books, 1969
  • Linguistics, reprint, Voice of America, 1973
  • Constituent and pattern in poetry, University of Texas Press, 1976

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SURNAME Hill, Archibald A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Archibald Anderson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1992
Place of death Austin (Texas)