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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Natural Syntax, Cambodian: Khmer, The Rhaeto‑Romance languages, Hua - a Papuan language Similar Sandra Thompson, Joan Bybee, Pamela Munro |
John Michael Haiman (born 1946) is an American linguist and professor at Macalester College. He has done fieldwork on the Hua language of Papua New-Guinea and has published on Khmer, Rhaeto-Romance and Germanic linguistics. In 1989 he received a Guggenheim fellowship for the study of sarcasm.
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