Robert Hale Ives Goddard III (born 1941) is a linguist and a

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emeritus in the Department of

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of the

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at the

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. He is widely considered the leading expert on the

Algonquian languages The Algonquian languages ( ; also Algonkian) are a family of Indigenous languages of the Americas and most of the languages in the Algic language family are included in the group. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from ...

and the larger Algic language family.

Early life and education

Goddard received his B.A. from

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in 1963 and his Ph.D. from

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in 1969. From 1966–1969 he was a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Career

After earning his doctorate, Goddard taught for several years at Harvard as a junior professor. In 1975, he moved to the

. His own field research in linguistics has concentrated on the Delaware languages and Meskwaki (Fox). He is also known for work on the Algonquian

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, and the history of the

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. He has also published on the history of the Arapahoan branch of Algonquian: its two current lines that are extant are

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and Gros Ventre, spoken by tribal members in the West. Goddard is a prominent figure in the study of the methodology of historical linguistics. He has played a significant role in critiquing crank historical linguistic work. He is the linguistic and technical editor of the '' Handbook of North American Indians''.

Awards

* He received the Kenneth L. Hale Award from the LSA in 2002. * Goddard and Thomas Love received the Joel Palmer Award in 2005 for their article "Oregon the Beautiful".

Publications

* Kiyana, Alfred. (2022) Masahkamikohkwêwa (Grandmother Earth), Thomason, Lucy G. and Goddard, Ives, editors. Petoskey, Michigan: Mundart Press. ISBN 9798986545004 * *

References

External links

Ives Goddard homepage
National Museum of Natural History
Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goddard, Ives Historical linguists Harvard College alumni Harvard University faculty Living people 1941 births Smithsonian Institution people Linguists of Algic languages 20th-century American linguists 21st-century American linguists Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America