William Dwight Whitney
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William Dwight Whitney (1827 – 1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution.
He was the first president of the American Philological Association and editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary.
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