John Haiman
John Michael Haiman (b. 31 Jan 1946, d. 7 April 2025) [1] was an American linguist and professor emeritus at Macalester College.[2] He did fieldwork on the Hua language of Papua New-Guinea and published on Khmer, Rhaeto-Romance and Germanic linguistics. In 1989 he received a Guggenheim fellowship[3] for the study of sarcasm.
He graduated from the University of Toronto (BA) and Harvard University (PhD).
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- ^ "John Haiman".
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation: John Haiman". Archived from the original on 10 January 2016.
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