Isidore Dyen [SEP] date of death
Isidore Dyen
Isidore Dyen (16 August 1913 in Philadelphia – 14 December 2008 in Newton, Massachusetts) was an American linguist, Professor Emeritus of Malayo-Polynesian and Comparative Linguistics at Yale University. He was one of the foremost scholars in the field of Austronesian linguistics, publishing extensively on the reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian phonology and on subgrouping within the language family, the latter principally by means of lexicostatistics.
The youngest son of a rabbi and his wife who had immigrated from Kiev, Ukraine, "Iz" (
, Annette and Black, Paul (1979). Multidimensional Scaling of some Lexicostatistical Data. Mathematical Scientist 1979/4, 55-61.
- Dyen, Isidore (1962). The Lexicostatistically Determined Relationship of a Language Group. International Journal of American Linguistics 28/3.
- Dyen, Isidore (1963). Lexicostistically Determined Borrowing and Taboo. Language 39, 60-66.
- Dyen, Isidore (1965). A Lexicostatistical Classification of the Austronesian Languages. International Journal of American Linguistics, Memoir 19.
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