George W. Grace | |
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.jpg) George W. Grace (right) in Houaïlou, New Caledonia, in 1955. | |
| Born | George William Grace September 8, 1921 Corinth, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | January 17, 2015 (aged 93) |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Thesis | The Position of the Polynesian Languages within the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) Language Family (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Greenberg |
| Influences | Alfred L. Kroeber |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Southern Illinois University, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| Doctoral students | Robert Blust |
| Main interests | Austronesian languages |
George William Grace (8 September 1921 in Corinth, Mississippi – January 17, 2015)[1] was an American linguist who specialized in historical and comparative linguistics, ethnolinguistics, and Austronesian languages, especially the Oceanic languages of Melanesia. He joined the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1964, serving three years as chair (1966–1969) and three decades as editor of Oceanic Linguistics (1962–1991), a journal he founded while teaching anthropology at Southern Illinois University (1960–1964).