Salvador Bucca (1920-2005) was professor of
linguistics
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at the
University of Buenos Aires
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. He was a
Guggenheim fellow
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in 1958. He was a specialist in the
Kitsai language
The Kitsai (also Kichai) language is an extinct member of the Caddoan language family. The French first record the Kichai people's presence along the upper Red River in 1701. By the 1840s Kitsai was spoken in southern Oklahoma, but by the 1930s ...
and the indigenous languages of Argentina. His papers and recordings relating to his work are stored in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the
University of Texas at Austin
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. He donated materials on Chorote, Irish and Thai to th
Laboratory of Documentation and Investigation of Linguistics and Anthropology in Buenos Aires
Selected publications
*Bucca, Salvador and Lesser, Alexander. 1969. "Kitsai Phonology and Morphophonemics". ''
International Journal of American Linguistics'' 35. 7-20.
See also
*
Alexander Lesser
Alexander Lesser (1902–1982) was an American anthropologist. Working in the Boasian tradition of American Cultural Anthropology, he adopted critical stances of several ideas of his fellow Boasians, and became known as an original and critical th ...
References
Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires
Languages of Argentina
1920 births
2005 deaths
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