Desmond C. Derbyshire
Desmond Cyril Derbyshire (10 September 1924 – 19 December 2007) was a
Carib languages
.
Background
He is best known for his work on
Summer Institute of Linguistics) resulted in the first description in the linguistics
literature of a language with this word order as its default.
The most surprising story Derbyshire told of the long period of work in the Hixkaryana village of remote northern Brazil concerned a day in November 1965, during the visit by then New York's
US Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The recounting of that three-day visit included how Senator Kennedy declared his decision to run for President of the United States.[1]
References
- ^ "LINGUIST List 19.1: Obituary: Desmond Derbyshire (1924-2007)". 3 January 2008.
- LINGUIST List.
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