Roy Andrew Miller

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American linguist human linguist

Roy Andrew Miller was an American linguist renowned for his influential and controversial work on the proposed Altaic language family and for his broader contributions to East Asian linguistics.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American linguist → human → linguist →
areaOfActivity	comparative linguistics → historical linguistics → philology →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1924 →
dateOfDeath	2014 →
educatedAt	University of California, Berkeley → Yale University →
employer	International Christian University → University of Hawaii → University of Washington → Yale University →
familyName	Miller →
fieldOfWork	Altaic studies → East Asian linguistics → Japanese linguistics → Korean linguistics → Tibetan linguistics → linguistics →
gender	male →
givenName	Roy →
influenced	Altaic studies → Japanese linguistics → Korean linguistics →
knownFor	contributions to East Asian linguistics → research on the proposed Altaic language family → work on Japanese language → work on Korean language → work on Tibetan language →
languageWritten	English → German → Japanese →
memberOf	Linguistic Society of America →
name	Roy Andrew Miller →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableIdea	Altaic hypothesis involving Japanese → support for the Altaic language family hypothesis →
notableWork	Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages → Languages and History: Japanese, Korean, and Altaic → Prolegomena to the First Two Tibetan Grammatical Treatises → The Japanese Language →
placeOfBirth	United States of America →
placeOfDeath	United States of America →
positionHeld	linguistics professor → professor of Japanese →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Altaic languages (proposed) → Transeurasian languages →	proposedBy
Roy Andrew Miller →	name