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Ives Goddard
Robert Hale Ives Goddard III (June 12, 1941 – August 6, 2025) was an American linguist and curator in the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. He is widely considered the leading expert of his time on the Algonquian languages and the larger Algic language family.
Goddard received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. From 1966 to 1969 he was a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.
After earning his doctorate, Goddard taught for several years at Harvard as a junior professor.
In 1975, he moved to the Smithsonian Institution. His own field research in linguistics concentrated on the Delaware languages and Meskwaki (Fox). He is also known for work on the Algonquian Massachusett language, and the history of the Cheyenne language. He also published on the history of the Arapahoan branch of Algonquian: its two current lines that are extant are Arapaho and Gros Ventre, spoken by tribal members in the West.
Goddard is a prominent figure in the study of the methodology of historical linguistics. He played a significant role in critiquing crank historical linguistic work.
He was the linguistic and technical editor of the Handbook of North American Indians.
Goddard died on August 6, 2025.
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Ives Goddard
Robert Hale Ives Goddard III (June 12, 1941 – August 6, 2025) was an American linguist and curator in the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. He is widely considered the leading expert of his time on the Algonquian languages and the larger Algic language family.
Goddard received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. From 1966 to 1969 he was a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.
After earning his doctorate, Goddard taught for several years at Harvard as a junior professor.
In 1975, he moved to the Smithsonian Institution. His own field research in linguistics concentrated on the Delaware languages and Meskwaki (Fox). He is also known for work on the Algonquian Massachusett language, and the history of the Cheyenne language. He also published on the history of the Arapahoan branch of Algonquian: its two current lines that are extant are Arapaho and Gros Ventre, spoken by tribal members in the West.
Goddard is a prominent figure in the study of the methodology of historical linguistics. He played a significant role in critiquing crank historical linguistic work.
He was the linguistic and technical editor of the Handbook of North American Indians.
Goddard died on August 6, 2025.