About Robert Rodman
Lived 1940 – 2017 (aged 76–77). Robert Rodman was an American linguist.
Robert Rodman (1940–2017) was a lifelong academic, serving on the faculty of the University of North Carolina and Duke University before becoming an associate professor of computer science at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Rodman attended UCLA where he attained graduate degrees in mathematics linguistics. At UCLA, he met and later worked with linguist Victoria Fromkin and authored the bestselling linguistics textbook An Introduction to Language. He was also a novelist, his work published by Boson Books in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Dr. Rodman died on 15 January 2017 from complications related to inclusion body myositis.
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Who was Robert Rodman?
American linguist (1940–2017)
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Robert Rodman was born in 1940.
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Robert Rodman died on 15 January 2017.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Robert Rodman. https://biography.guide/robert-rodman/
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