About William Dwight Whitney

William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution. He was the first president of the American Philological Association and editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary.

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William Dwight Whitney

American orientalist, linguist and lexicographer (1827–1894)

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