William Dwight Whitney

William Dwight Whitney (9 Februari 1827 – 7 Juni 1894) adalah seorang linguis, filologis dan leksikografer Amerika Serikat yang dikenal karena karyanya tentang tata bahasa Sanskerta dan filologi Weda serta pandangan bahasa berpengaruhnya sebagai lembaga sosial. Ia adalah presiden pertama American Philological Association dan kepala penyunting The Century Dictionary.

William D. Whitney
Potret Whitney
Lahir	William Dwight Whitney (1827-02-09)9 Februari 1827 Northhampton, Massachusetts
Meninggal	7 Juni 1894(1894-06-07) (umur 67) New Haven, Connecticut
Pendidikan	Williams College Universitas Humboldt Berlin Universitas Tübingen
Pekerjaan	Linguis, filologis
Tempat kerja	Universitas Yale
Suami/istri	Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin
Anak	Edwin Baldwin Williston Clapp Marian Parker Roger Sherman Baldwin Emily Henrietta Margaret Dwight
Tanda tangan

Referensi

• Stephen G. Alter (9 March 2005). William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8020-9. 
•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Whitney, William Dwight". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (edisi ke-11). Cambridge University Press. hlm. 611–612. 
• John Earl Joseph (1 January 2002). "'The American Whitney' and his European Heritages and Legacies". From Whitney to Chomsky: Essays in the History of American Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing. hlm. 19–47. ISBN 90-272-4592-4. 

Pranala luar

• William Dwight Whitney at the Database of Classical Scholars
• Seymour, Thomas Day (1895). William Dwight Whitney. Yale University. hlm. 28. 
• William Dwight Whitney, (1827-1894), Whitney Research Group
• William Dwight Whitney Diarsipkan 2007-09-27 di Wayback Machine.
• William Dwight Whitney at Yale
• American National Biography Online of William Dwight Whitney
• The Descendants of John Whitney, pages 486 - 490
• Full biography : Lanman, C. R. (1898). "Appendix III.: Chronological Bibliography of the Writings of William Dwight Whitney". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 19: 121–150. doi:10.2307/592466. JSTOR 592466. 
• The Century Dictionary gratis online and they are "planning a CD version".
• Judith Ann Schiff, "Advice for the language-lorn," Yale Alumni Magazine, March/April 2010 (description of life and career).
• William Dwight Whitney family papers (MS 555). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. [1]
• Guide to the Marian Parker Whitney Papers, 1842-1945 (bulk 1871-1945) Diarsipkan 2021-06-14 di Wayback Machine.