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Herbert Newhard Shenton (1884 – 1937) was a professor of Sociology at
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and later at
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in New York. He was executive secretary of the
International Auxiliary Language Association The International Auxiliary Language Association, Inc. (IALA) was an American organisation founded in 1924 to "promote widespread study, discussion and publicity of all questions involved in the establishment of an auxiliary language, together wi ...
(IALA) from 1924 until his death in 1937. The interlinguistic work of IALA culminated in the publication of the '' Interlingua–English Dictionary'' and ''
Interlingua Grammar This article is an informal outline of the grammar of Interlingua, an international auxiliary language first publicized by IALA. It follows the usage of the original grammar text (Gode & Blair, 1951), which is accepted today but regarded as con ...
'' in 1951. Through these historic works, IALA first presented
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to the general public. In 1931, Shenton wrote the essay "A Social Problem" in ''International Communication: A Symposium on the Language Problem'', published by IALA and the Orthological Institute. This small volume also included works by eminent linguist
Edward Sapir Edward Sapir (; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguistics, linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States ...
and professor of English
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. Shenton organized an extensive research project on the use of auxiliary languages at international conferences. The results were published under the rubric ''Cosmopolitan Conversation'' by
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in 1933.


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Historia de Interlingua: Communication Sin Frontieras. Biographia, Herbert N. Shenton
1884 births 1937 deaths Interlingua {{US-sociologist-stub American sociologists Linguists from the United States