Byron W. Bender

Byron W. Bender
Born	Bryron Wilbur Bender (1929-08-14)August 14, 1929 Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania
Died	January 4, 2020(2020-01-04)(aged 90) Honolulu,Hawaii
Occupation	Linguist
Academic background
Education	Goshen College(B.A.) Indiana University(M.A., PhD)
Thesis	A linguistic analysis of the place-names of the Marshall Islands(1963)
Academic work
Discipline	Micronesian languages

Byron W. Bender(August 14, 1929 – January 4, 2020) was a professor oflinguisticsat theUniversity of Hawaiʻispecializing inMicronesian languages,primarilyMarshallese,andOceanic languagesmore generally. He joined the Department of Linguistics in 1965, serving as its chair (1969–1995) and as editor of its journalOceanic Linguistics(1991–2007). He also served the University as president of its faculty union (1983–1988) and as a member of theBoard of Regents(2003–2020).

Born inRoaring Spring, Pennsylvania,Bender received aB.A.in English fromGoshen CollegeinIndianain 1949, and anM.A.in linguistics fromIndiana Universityin 1950. After spending 1953–1959 teaching in theMarshall Islandsin what was then theTrust Territory of the Pacific Islandsunder U.S. administration, he returned to teach linguistics and anthropology at Goshen College in 1960–1962 before completing aPh.D.in linguistics from Indiana University in 1963. Hisdissertationanalyzed Marshallese place names. In 1962–1964, he served as English Program Supervisor for the Trust Territory, then taught English at the University of Hawaiʻi before joining the Department of Linguistics.

Bender died on January 4, 2020, at the age of 90.

References

• George W. Grace (2001), "Byron" inIssues in Austronesian morphology: A Focusschrift for Byron W. Bender,ed. by Joel Bradshaw and Kenneth L. Rehg, pp. 3–10 (Canberra: Pacific Linguistics).ISBN0-85883-485-5.

External links

• University of Hawaiʻi Department of Linguistics