Warren Cowgill (; December 19, 1929 – June 20, 1985) was an American linguist. He was a professor of linguistics at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

and the

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's authority on

Indo-European linguistics Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...

. Cowgill was unusual among Indo-European linguists of his time in believing that Indo-European should be classified as a branch of

Indo-Hittite In Indo-European linguistics, the term Indo-Hittite (also Indo-Anatolian) refers to Edgar Howard Sturtevant's 1926 hypothesis that the Anatolian languages may have split off a Pre-Proto-Indo-European language considerably earlier than the separat ...

, with Hittite as a sister language of the Indo-European languages, rather than a daughter language. Warren Cowgill and his twin brother, anthropologist

George Cowgill George L. Cowgill (; December 19, 1929 – July 31, 2018) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist. He was a professor of anthropology at Arizona State University from 1990-2005, and research professor emeritus from 2005 until his death. ...

, were born near

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. Along with his brother, he graduated from

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in 1952 and received a Ph.D. from

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...

in 1957. He was a member of the Yale faculty in the Department of Linguistics until his death in 1985.

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External links

Table of contents for ''The Collected Writings of Warren Cowgill,''
Jared Klein, editor.

Linguists from the United States Historical linguists 1929 births 1985 deaths Indo-Europeanists Linguists of Indo-European languages Stanford University alumni Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Yale University faculty Paleolinguists 20th-century linguists {{US-linguist-stub