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Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
William Dwight Whitney
William Dwight Whitney
Born: February 9, 1827
Died: June 7, 1894 (aged 67)
Bio: William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution.
Known for:
- Century Dictionary (1889)
- Sanskrit grammar (1879)
- The life and growth of language (1875)
- Language and the study of language (1867)
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