Lionel Bender
Marvin Lionel Bender (born August 18, 1934 in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania , † February 19, 2008 in Cape Girardeau , Missouri ) was an American linguist who mainly worked in the field of African languages .
In 1958 he received a Masters Degree in Mathematics from Dartmouth College . He then taught mathematics in Ghana and Ethiopia and received his doctorate in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968 with a dissertation on Amharic verbal morphology. He then researched various modern languages in Ethiopia and worked with Joseph Greenberg at Stanford University , among others . In 1971 he became a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale , where he remained until his retirement. In his work, Bender dealt with all language families widespread in Ethiopia and did significant pioneering work in the field of the poorly researched omotic and Nilo-Saharan languages. Lionel Bender died on February 19, 2008 of complications from a stroke and a cerebral haemorrhage.
Book publications (selection)
- Amharic verb morphology: a generative approach (1968) (dissertation)
- The Ethiopian Nilo-Saharans (1975)
- Omotic: a new Afroasiatic language family (1975)
- et al .: Language in Ethiopia (1976)
- (Ed.): The Non-Semitic languages of Ethiopia (1976)
- with Malik Agaar Ayre: Preliminary Gaam-English-Gaam dictionary (1980)
- (Ed.): Peoples and cultures of the Ethio-Sudan borderlands (1981)
- with Thilo C. Schadeberg (Ed.): Nilo-Saharan (1981)
- (Ed.): Nilo-Saharan language studies (1983)
- (Ed.): Topics in Nilo-Saharan linguistics (1989)
- (Ed.): Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo-Saharan Conference [...] 1989 (1991)
- Kunama (1996)
- with Thomas J. Hinnebusch (Ed.): Proceedings of the Sixth International Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference 1995 (1996)
- The Nilo-Saharan languages: a comparative essay. 2nd edition (1997)
- Comparative morphology of the Omotic languages (2000)
Web links
- Obituary of Grover Hudson (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bender, Lionel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bender, Marvin Lionel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 2008 |
| Place of death | Cape Girardeau , Missouri |