Welmers, William Everett, 1916-

Welmers was born on Apr. 4, 1916 in Orange City, IA; AB, Hope College, 1936; ThB and Th, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1939; Ph. D, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1943; member, Lutheran Mission, Liberia, 1946-48 and 1954-55; linguistic research in Africa as fellow in the American Council of Learned Societies, 1948-50; visiting asst. professor of linguistics (1950-51) and acting assoc. professor (1951-54), Cornell Univ.; assoc. professor, Kennedy School Missions, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1955-60; in 1960 became professor of linguistics and African languages at UCLA, becoming emeritus professor in 1982; publications include Igbo : a learner's dictionary (1968), African language structures (1973), and A grammar of Vai (1976); he died in 1988.

From the description of Papers, 1944-1980. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 40933474

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