H.C. Wolfart

H. Christoph Wolfart (born 1943) is a German-born Canadian researcher, editor, translator^[1] and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics^[2] at the University of Manitoba.^[3] He is a graduate of the University of Freiburg (German: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) as well as Cornell University. He completed a Ph.D. in 1969 at Yale,^[4] and has since written and edited a corpus of over one-hundred books, articles and reference grammars.^[5] In 2008, John D. Nichols and Arden C. Ogg edited a collection of Algonquian and Iroquoian language studies in honour of Wolfart.^[6] Prof. Wolfart was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in 1995,^[7] and his 1973 thesis is still considered the definitive work of Plains Cree grammar.^[8] Over the last 20 years, Wolfart has recorded, transcribed and edited a host of culturally-significant texts by Cree elders. Some of his students have included Cree linguist and cultural preservationist Freda Ahenakew, and authority on the Algonquian languages David Pentland.

References

1. ^ http://books.google.ca/books?id=MQ7r80lP7tkC&lpg=PR8&ots=GwYSSe6cRb&dq=killam%20research%20wolfart&pg=PR8#v=onepage&q&f=false
2. ^ http://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/they-knew-both-sides-of-medicine
3. ^ http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/linguistics/people/index.html
4. ^ http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/linguistics/media/HCW_0802.html
5. ^ http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/linguistics/media/HCW_0802.html
6. ^ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/jlin.1998.8.1.115/abstract
7. ^ http://www.rsc.ca/submitallsearch.php?pageNum_rsResults=38&totalRows_rsResults=1961
8. ^ http://moniyawlinguist.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/another-good-anthropologist-h-c-wolfart/

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Name	Wolfart, H. Christoph
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Short description	Professor of linguistics
Date of birth	1943
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