About John Haiman
Lived 1946 – 2025 (aged 78–79). John Haiman was a linguist.
John Michael Haiman (31 Jan 1946 – 7 April 2025) was an American linguist and professor emeritus at Macalester College. He did fieldwork on the Hua language of Papua New-Guinea and published on Khmer, Rhaeto-Romance and Germanic linguistics. In 1989 he received a Guggenheim fellowship for the study of sarcasm.
He graduated from the University of Toronto (BA) and Harvard University (PhD).
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American linguist
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John Haiman was born in 1946.
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John Haiman died on 7 April 2025.
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John Haiman was a linguist.
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