Hayward Keniston (July 5, 1883 – August 10, 1970) was a

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

who served as

president of the Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for linguistics founded in December 1924. At the first meeting, the LSA membership elected Hermann Collitz as their first president. Since then, there have been presidencies, with diff ...

in 1948 and as dean of the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts from 1945 to 1951. He received his PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. His work focused predominantly on

Spanish syntax Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

and 16th century Spanish history.

References

* * 1883 births 1970 deaths University of Michigan faculty Harvard University alumni Linguists of Spanish Linguistic Society of America presidents 20th-century American linguists Presidents of the Modern Language Association {{linguist-stub