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Robert W. Young (May 18, 1912 – February 20, 2007), professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, was an American linguist known for his work on the Navajo language. From the late 1930s, Young cooperated with the Navajo William Morgan, publishing a "practical orthography" in 1937. From the 1940s through the 1950s, they published three major works, including ''The Navajo Language'' (1943), a compiled dictionary. That year Young and Morgan served as editors and began publication of ''Ádahooníłígíí,'' the first newspaper written in Navajo and the second Native American-language newspaper in the United States, after the ''Cherokee Phoenix'' of 1828-1834. Its publication contributed to standardization of Navajo orthography. The men continued their work of analysis and documentation of Navajo; in 1980, 1987 they published ''The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary,'' representing "a huge increase in descriptive coverage" of the language.〔(Sharon Hargus, "Review: ''Analytical Lexicon of Navajo'' by Robert W. Young; William Morgan; Sally Midgette" ), ''Anthropological Linguistics'', Vol. 38, No. 2, Summer, 1996, JSTOR, accessed 2 October 2014 〕 The 1987 edition included new appendices and grammar sections. It established itself as the major reference grammar of the Navajo language. Young, Morgan and Sally Midgette also produced the ''Analytical Lexicon of Navajo'' (1992), which re-organizes the lexicon by root, one of the principle elements in verbs and nouns of Athabaskan languages. ==Early life and education== Robert Young was born in 1912 in Chicago. He became interested in Native American languages, learning both the Spanish language and Nahuatl, an indigenous language, from Mexican immigrant railroad workers. After earning a liberal arts degree from the University of Illinois in 1935, he moved to New Mexico for Native American studies. He enrolled in graduate school in anthropology at the University of New Mexico and began his study of Navajo. While working at the Southwestern Range and Sheepbreeding Laboratory in Fort Wingate, New Mexico, he became acquainted with William Morgan, a Navajo fellow worker and native of the city. Together in 1937 they published a practical orthography of Navajo.〔(James Kari and Jeff Leer, "Review: ''The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary'' by Robert W. Young; William Morgan ), ''International Journal of American Linguistics,'' Vol. 50, No. 1, Jan., 1984, accessed 2 October 2014 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert W. Young」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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