Fwd: Dr. Robert Young, lexicographer and grammarian of Navajo language, has passed away

[Susan Penfield]

Sorry for any cross posts...
Language Log posted the following: *In memoriam Robert Young*

[image: Dr. Robert W. Young]

We are deeply saddened to report that Dr. Robert W. Young, who devoted his
life to the Navajo language and people, passed away peacefully on Tuesday
February 20th at the age of 95. Among his many accomplishments was the
compilation, together with William Morgan, Sr., of The Navajo Language: a
Grammar and Colloquial
Dictionary<http://www.amazon.com/Navajo-Language-Grammar-Colloquial-Dictionary/dp/0826310141/ref=ed_oe_h/102-4023778-4902562>and
the Analytical
Lexicon of Navajo<http://www.amazon.com/Analytical-Lexicon-Navajo-Robert-Young/dp/0826313566>,
which together are widely considered to have made Navajo the best documented
of any native American language. He was a great linguist, a fluent speaker
of Navajo, and a kind and generous man.
*The University of New Mexico site states the following: * *
*Robert W. Young (1912-2007)

We are deeply saddened to say that Dr. Robert W. Young passed away on
February 20, 2007. At this time there is no service planned. Dr. Young's
daughter requests that if people want to send a remembrance it should be in
the form of a donation to the Robert W. Young Scholarship
Fund<http://www.unm.edu/%7Elinguist/devel.html>.



Sincerely, Roseann Gonzalez





Dr. Roseann D. Gonzalez

Professor of English

Director, National Center for Interpretation Testing, Research & Policy

University of Arizona

Phone: (520) 621-3615-Office

Fax: (520) 624-8130-Office

Phone: (520) 293-6353-Home

Fax: (520) 888-6757-Home







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____________________________________________________________
Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language
and Literacy (CERCLL)
Department of English (Primary)
American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
Second Language Acquistion &Teaching Ph.D. Program (SLAT)
Department of Language,Reading and Culture
Department of Linguistics
The Southwest Center (Research)
Phone for messages: (520) 621-1836


"Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought,
an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities."

                                                          Wade Davis...(on a
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