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gptkbp:instanceOf
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Linguist
Scholar
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gptkbp:almaMater
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gptkb:Yale_University
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gptkbp:associatedWith
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gptkb:American_Philological_Association
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gptkbp:awards
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Honorary degrees from various universities
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gptkbp:born
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February 9, 1827
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gptkbp:children
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William_Dwight_Whitney_III
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gptkbp:contribution
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Establishment of the field of comparative linguistics
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gptkbp:died
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January 7, 1894
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gptkbp:field
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Linguistics
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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William Dwight Whitney Jr.
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Noam_Chomsky
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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Rasmus_Rask
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gptkbp:knownFor
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Contributions_to_Indo-European_linguistics
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gptkbp:language
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gptkb:Sino-Tibetan
gptkb:Afro-Asiatic
gptkb:Latin
gptkb:Spanish
gptkb:Tai-Kadai
gptkb:Celtic
gptkb:Indo-European
gptkb:Niger-Congo
gptkb:Dravidian
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Italian
Russian
Sanskrit
Austronesian
Austroasiatic
Slavic
Semitic
Turkic
Uralic
Hmong-Mien
Kra-Dai
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gptkbp:nationality
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American
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gptkbp:notableWork
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Language and the Study of Language
The_Life_and_Growth_of_Language
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gptkbp:occupation
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Professor
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Mary_Whitney
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