Herbert Newhard Shenton (1884 – 1937) was a professor of Sociology at

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and later at

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in New York. He was executive secretary of the

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(IALA) from 1924 until his death in 1937. The interlinguistic work of IALA culminated in the publication of the ''

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'' and ''

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'' in 1951. Through these historic works, IALA first presented Interlingua to the general public. In 1931, Shenton wrote the essay "A Social Problem" in ''International Communication: A Symposium on the Language Problem'', published by IALA and the Orthological Institute. This small volume also included works by eminent linguist Edward Sapir and professor of English Otto Jespersen. Shenton organized an extensive research project on the use of auxiliary languages at international conferences. The results were published under the rubric ''Cosmopolitan Conversation'' by

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in 1933.

External links

Historia de Interlingua: Communication Sin Frontieras. Biographia, Herbert N. Shenton
1884 births 1937 deaths Interlingua {{US-sociologist-stub American sociologists Linguists from the United States