Lionel Bender (linguist)

Marvin Lionel Bender ( born August 18, 1934 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, † February 19, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri) was an American linguist who worked mainly in the field of African languages ​​.

In 1958 he was in mathematics from Dartmouth College Master. He then taught in Ghana and Ethiopia Mathematics and received his doctorate in 1968 at the University of Texas at Austin in Linguistics with a dissertation on the Amharic verb morphology. He then explored in Ethiopia various modern languages ​​and worked with Joseph Greenberg at Stanford University. In 1971 he became a professor at the Department of Anthropology Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he remained until his retirement. In his work, Bender busy with all the popular Ethiopian language families and made important pioneering work in the little-studied omotischen and Nilo-Saharan languages. On 19 February 2008 Lionel Bender died of a stroke and a brain hemorrhage.

Book publishing ( in selection)

• Amharic verb morphology: a generative approach ( 1968) ( Dissertation)
• The Ethiopian Nilo- Saharans (1975 )
• Omotic: a new Afroasiatic language family ( 1975)
• Et al.: Language in Ethiopia (1976 )
• (Ed.): The Non - Semitic languages ​​of Ethiopia (1976 )
• Malik Agaar Ayre: Preliminary Gaam - English - Gaam dictionary ( 1980)
• (Ed.): Peoples and cultures of the Ethio - Sudan borderlands (1981 )
• Thilo C. Schade Berg ( ed.): Nilo- Saharan (1981 )
• (Ed.): Nilo- Saharan language studies (1983 )
• (Ed.): Topics in Nilo- Saharan linguistics (1989 )
• (Ed.): Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo- Saharan Conference [ ... ] 1989 ( 1991)
• Kunama (1996 )
• With Thomas J. Hinnebusch (ed.): Proceedings of the Sixth International Nilo- Saharan Linguistics Conference 1995 (1996 )
• The Nilo- Saharan languages ​​: a comparative essay. 2nd edition (1997)
• Comparative morphology of the Omotic languages ​​(2000)