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Smalley, William A. (William Allen), 1923-1997


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    • William Allen

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    • Smalley, William Allen

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    • found: Outline of Khmu structure, 1956.
    • found: Outline of Khmu structure, 1961:title page (William A. Smalley)
    • found: Larson, D.N. Becoming bilingual, 1984, c1972:CIP t.p. (William A. Smalley)
    • found: Linguistic diversity and national unity, 1994:title page (William A. Smalley)
    • found: Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1923)
    • found: Wang, Lorain. Register to the Papers of William A. Smalley, 2008 (in National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, viewed online November 13, 2013)p. 3, Biographical note (William A. Smalley was born April 4, 1923 in Jerusalem, PalestineHis parents were American missionaries for the Christian and Missionary Alliance, working among Arabs in Jerusalem and Transjordan. In 1934, Smalley and his family moved back to the United States. Smalley attended Houghton College, where he developed an interest in anthropology, which he saw as relevant to missionary work. In 1950, Smalley was sent to Vietnam by the Christian and Missionary Alliance. There, he worked on language analysis problems in the southern region of the country. The following year, he was sent to Luang Prabang, Laos to analyze the Khmu' language and prepare language lessons for other missionaries to learn the language. With the outbreak of civil war in Laos, Smalley and his wife were forced to return to the United States in 1954. He completed his dissertation on the Khmu' language and was awarded his doctorate in 1956. Over the next several years, Smalley worked primarily in Southeast Asia as a translation consultant for the American Bible Society (1954-1969) and as a regional translations coordinator (1969-72) and translation consultant (1972-77) with the United Bible Societies. Due to his work, he resided in Thailand from 1962 to 1967 and from 1969 to 1972. In 1978, Smalley relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota to accept a position as professor of linguistics at Bethel University (1978-87). In addition to his work on the Hmong, Smalley researched the different languages and dialects of Thailand. In 1997, Smalley died of a heart attack at the age of 74) - http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fa/smalley.pdf

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    • 1980-04-11: new
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