Byron W. Bender
Byron W. Bender | |
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| Born | Bryron Wilbur Bender August 14, 1929 |
| Died | January 4, 2020 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Goshen College (B.A.) Indiana University (M.A., PhD) |
| Thesis | A linguistic analysis of the place-names of the Marshall Islands (1963) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Micronesian languages |
Byron W. Bender (August 14, 1929 – January 4, 2020) was a professor of
Board of Regents
(2003–2020).
Born in
dissertation
analyzed Marshallese place names. In 1962–1964, he served as English Program Supervisor for the Trust Territory, then taught English at the University of Hawaiʻi before joining the Department of Linguistics.
Bender died on January 4, 2020, at the age of 90.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ "A Mentor Remembered".
- ^ "BYRON W. BENDER Obituary | Honolulu Star-Advertiser".
- ^ Rehg, Kenneth L., and Joel Bradshaw. 2020. "In Memoriam, Byron W. Bender, 1929–2020." Oceanic Linguistics 59, no. 1: 493-506.
- George W. Grace (2001), "Byron" in Issues in Austronesian morphology: A Focusschrift for Byron W. Bender, ed. by Joel Bradshaw and Kenneth L. Rehg, pp. 3–10 (Canberra: Pacific Linguistics). ISBN 0-85883-485-5.
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