Alan Stewart Kaye (1944-2007) was an American linguist and professor at

California State University, Fullerton California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton) is a public research university in Fullerton, California, United States. With a total enrollment of more than 41,000, it has the largest student body of the California State ...

. He is best known for his works on Semitic and other language families. He died of cancer on May 31, 2007.

Books

* ''Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau'', A. Kaye, ed.(1991) * '' The Persian Contributions to the English Language: A Historical Dictionary'', Garland Cannon and Kaye S. Alan, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001 * ''Afroasiatic Linguistics, Semitics, and Egyptology: Selected Writings of Carleton T. Hodge'', Co-edited with Scott Noegel. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2004 * ''Chadian and Sudanese Arabic in the Light of Comparative Arabic Dialectology'', De Gruyter Mouton 1976 * ''Pidgin and creole languages : a basic introduction'', with Alan S.l Tosco, 2001 * '' A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic''. California: Undena Publications. 1982. *''Morphologies of Asia and Africa'' (ed.), Penn State University Press 2007

References

1944 births Linguists from the United States Phonologists from the United States 2007 deaths University of California, Berkeley alumni California State University, Fullerton faculty Morphologists Historical linguists Linguists of pidgins and creoles Arabists Linguists of Persian Lexicographers of Persian Lexicographers of Arabic Linguists of Arabic {{US-linguist-stub