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Robert E. Longacre

Robert E. Longacre (August 13, 1922–April 20, 2014) was an American linguist and missionary who worked on the Triqui language and a text-based theory and method of discourse analysis. He is well known for his seminal studies of discourse structure (text linguistics), but he also made significant contributions in other linguistic areas, especially the…

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Discourse analysis
Alma mater
University of Pennsylvania
Born
August 13, 1922 (1922-08-13) Akron, Ohio
Died
April 20, 2014(2014-04-20) (aged 91) California
Doctoral advisor
Zellig Harris and Henry Hoenigswald
Fields
Linguistics

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Robert E. Longacre → University of Pennsylvania
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Robert E. Longacre → August 13, 1922 (1922-08-13) Akron, Ohio
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Robert E. Longacre → April 20, 2014(2014-04-20) (aged 91) California
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