Sidney Herbert Ray

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Sidney Herbert Ray ( May 28, 1858 - January 1, 1939 ) was a British teacher and linguist. His research area were the Melanesian languages .

He was a participant in the famous Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits (1898-99) and published the volume on linguistics (1907) in their research report .

Works

  • "A study of the languages ​​of Torres Straits with vocabularies and grammatical notes: part 1", in: Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings., Series 3, Vol. II, No. 4. Dublin: Univ. Pr., 1893
  • The Languages ​​of British New Guinea. London 1893, Committee of the Congress. Extracted from the Transactions of the Ninth International Congress of Orientals, gray wrs., Pages 755-770.
  • A comparative vocabulary of the dialects of British New Guinea. Compil. by Sidney H. Ray, memb. Anthrop. Inst. ... W. pref. by R (obert) N (eedham) Cust. London: Soc. f. promoting Christ. Knowledge, 1895
  • Richard Phillips; Sidney H. Ray (1898). "Vocabulary of Australian Aborigines in the neighborhood of Cooktown, North Queensland". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 27: 144-147.
  • "Linguistics", Volume 3 of the Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits (1907)
  • "Polynesian Linguistics." In: The Journal of the Polynesian Society , 1917, 26 (101): 134-43. (part of a series.)
  • "The Polynesian Languages ​​in Melanesia." in: Anthropos, 1919-20, 14/15 (1/2/3: 146-96).
  • A comparative study of the Melanesian Island languages. Cambridge [u. a.]: Univ. Press [u. a.], 1926

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personal data
SURNAME Ray, Sidney Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British teacher and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1858
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1939