An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Samuel Hoyt Elbert (8 August 1907 – 14 May 1997) was an American linguist who made major contributions to Hawaiian and Polynesian lexicography and ethnography. Born on a farm in Des Moines, Iowa, to Hugh and Ethelind Elbert, Sam grew up riding horses, one of his favorite pastimes well into retirement. After graduating from Grinnell College with an A.B. in 1928, he earned a certificate in French at the University of Toulouse and traveled in Europe before returning to New York City, where he waited tables, clerked for a newspaper, reviewed books, and studied journalism at Columbia University. Wanderlust took him to French Polynesia, first to Tahiti and then to the Marquesas, where he quickly became proficient in Marquesan.In 1936, he went to work for the United States Geological Survey in Ha

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • صموئيل هويت إلبيرت (بالإنجليزية: Samuel Hoyt Elbert)‏ هو لغوي أمريكي، ولد في 8 أغسطس 1907 في دي موين في الولايات المتحدة، وتوفي في 14 مايو 1997. (ar)
  • Samuel Hoyt Elbert (8 August 1907 – 14 May 1997) was an American linguist who made major contributions to Hawaiian and Polynesian lexicography and ethnography. Born on a farm in Des Moines, Iowa, to Hugh and Ethelind Elbert, Sam grew up riding horses, one of his favorite pastimes well into retirement. After graduating from Grinnell College with an A.B. in 1928, he earned a certificate in French at the University of Toulouse and traveled in Europe before returning to New York City, where he waited tables, clerked for a newspaper, reviewed books, and studied journalism at Columbia University. Wanderlust took him to French Polynesia, first to Tahiti and then to the Marquesas, where he quickly became proficient in Marquesan.In 1936, he went to work for the United States Geological Survey in Hawaiʻi. There he met researchers on Pacific languages and cultures at the Bishop Museum, chief among them Mary Kawena Pukui, from whom he learned Hawaiian and with whom he worked closely over a span of forty years. When war broke out in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy employed him as an intelligence officer studying the languages of strategically important islands. He was posted to Samoa in 1943, then to Micronesia, where he collected and published wordlists for several island languages. After the war, encouraged by academics at the Bishop Museum and the University of Hawaiʻi, he studied at Yale and at Indiana University, where he earned a Ph.D. in folklore in 1950, writing his thesis on 'The Chief in Hawaiian Mythology'. He was hired by the University of Hawaiʻi in 1949, and taught classes in Hawaiian language and linguistics until he retired in 1972, introducing new teaching methods and new levels of rigor into Hawaiian language classes, which until then had a reputation for being easy. In 1957, he began a longtime collaboration with the Danish scholar, , on the Polynesian outliers of Rennell and Bellona in the Solomon Islands, making four trips to the islands. He spent a year in Denmark on a Fulbright scholarship in 1964–64 collaborating with Monberg on a monograph on the oral traditions of Rennell and Bellona. In 1988, he published a grammar of the language. In 1972, he published a dictionary of the Puluwatese language followed by a grammar book of the language in 1974. (en)
dbo:birthDate
  • 1907-08-08 (xsd:date)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 16246617 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 9519 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1089203388 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:almaMater
dbp:birthDate
  • 1907-08-08 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
  • Des Moines, Iowa (en)
dbp:deathDate
  • 1997-05-14 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
  • Honolulu, Hawaii (en)
dbp:influenced
  • Torben Monberg (en)
dbp:influences
dbp:mainInterests
  • Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages (en)
dbp:majorWorks
  • Hawaiian Grammar (en)
  • Hawaiian Dictionary; (en)
dbp:name
  • Samuel H. Elbert (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • صموئيل هويت إلبيرت (بالإنجليزية: Samuel Hoyt Elbert)‏ هو لغوي أمريكي، ولد في 8 أغسطس 1907 في دي موين في الولايات المتحدة، وتوفي في 14 مايو 1997. (ar)
  • Samuel Hoyt Elbert (8 August 1907 – 14 May 1997) was an American linguist who made major contributions to Hawaiian and Polynesian lexicography and ethnography. Born on a farm in Des Moines, Iowa, to Hugh and Ethelind Elbert, Sam grew up riding horses, one of his favorite pastimes well into retirement. After graduating from Grinnell College with an A.B. in 1928, he earned a certificate in French at the University of Toulouse and traveled in Europe before returning to New York City, where he waited tables, clerked for a newspaper, reviewed books, and studied journalism at Columbia University. Wanderlust took him to French Polynesia, first to Tahiti and then to the Marquesas, where he quickly became proficient in Marquesan.In 1936, he went to work for the United States Geological Survey in Ha (en)
rdfs:label
  • صموئيل هويت إلبيرت (ar)
  • Samuel Hoyt Elbert (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Samuel H. Elbert (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License