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Terrence Kaufman | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 14, 1937 |
| Died | March 3, 2022 (aged 84) |
| Title | Professor emeritus |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California at Berkeley |
| Thesis | Grammar of Tzeltal (1963) |
| Academic advisors | William F. Shipley, Mary Haas |
| Academic work | |
| Era | 21st century |
| Discipline | Linguistics and anthropology |
| Sub-discipline | Mesoamerican |
| Institutions | University of Pittsburgh, University of California at Berkeley |
Terrence Kaufman (1937[1] – March 3, 2022) was an American linguist specializing in documentation of unwritten languages, lexicography, Mesoamerican historical linguistics and language contact phenomena. He was an emeritus professor of linguistics and anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.