Ives Goddard
Born
Robert Hale Ives Goddard III

1941 (age 82–83)
NationalityAmerican
Education
Occupations
  • Linguist
  • curator
Known forWork with Algonquian and Algic languages

Robert Hale Ives Goddard III (born 1941) is a linguist and a curator emeritus in the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. He is widely considered the leading expert on the Algonquian languages and the larger Algic language family.

Early life and education

Goddard received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University 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 Smithsonian Institution. His own field research in linguistics has concentrated on the Delaware languages and Meskwaki (Fox). He is also known for work on the Algonquian Massachusett language, and the history of the Cheyenne language. He has also published on the history of the Arapahoan branch of Algonquian: its two current lines that are extant are Arapaho 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.[1]
  • Goddard and Thomas Love received the Joel Palmer Award in 2005 for their article "Oregon the Beautiful".[2]

Publications

  • Kiyana, Alfred. (2022) Masahkamikohkwêwa (Grandmother Earth), Thomason, Lucy G. and Goddard, Ives, editors. Petoskey, Michigan: Mundart Press. ISBN 9798986545004
  • Goddard, Ives (2021). A Grammar of Southern Unami Delaware (Lenape). Mundart Press. ISBN 0990334430.
  • Goddard, Ives; Bragdon, Kathleen Joan (1988). Native Writings in Massachusett. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 087169185X.

References

  1. ↑ "Kenneth L. Hale Award | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  2. ↑ "2005 Joel Palmer Award". Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
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