Hayward Keniston (July 5, 1883 – August 10, 1970) was a

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

who served as

president of the Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for linguistics founded in December 1924. At the first meeting, the LSA membership elected Hermann Collitz as their first president. Since then, there have been presidencies, with dif ...

in 1948 and as dean of the

University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) is the liberal arts and sciences school of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Established in 1841 with seven students and two teachers, the college is currentl ...

from 1945 to 1951. He received his PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. His work focused predominantly on

Spanish syntax Spanish is a grammatically inflected language, which means that many words are modified ("marked") in small ways, usually at the end, according to their changing functions. Verbs are marked for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number (resulting ...

and 16th century Spanish history.

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* * 1883 births 1970 deaths University of Michigan faculty Harvard University alumni Linguists of Spanish Linguists from the United States Linguistic Society of America presidents 20th-century linguists Presidents of the Modern Language Association {{linguist-stub