Guy Sumner Lowman, Jr.

Guy Somner Lowman, Jr. (born in Columbia, Missouri, 1909; died in 1941) was an American linguist who received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1929 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of London in 1931. From 1931 to 1933 he was a Sterling Fellow at Yale University. He worked as chief field investigator for the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada from 1931 to 1941, interviewing more than a thousand informants along the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada. He also conducted field interviews in Southern England to find correspondences in English and American dialects. He was a member of the Modern Language Association and served as chairman of the phonetics section.

After his death in 1941, the University of Wisconsin-Madison established the Guy S. Lowman Scholarship to further research in linguistics.

Literature

* Kurath, Hans, with Miles L. Hanley, Bernard Bloch, Guy S. Lowman Jr. and Marcus L. Hansen. 1939-1941. "Linguistic Atlas of New England." 2 volumes, Providence, RI: Brown University. Reprint edition, 3 volumes, New York: AMS Press, 1972.
* Kurath, Hans and Guy S. Lowman, Jr. 1961. "The Dialectal Structure of Southern England: Phonological Evidence." University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press.(= Publications of the American Dialect Society 54)
* Viereck, Wolfgang. 1975. "Lexikalische und grammatische Ergebnisse des Lowman-Survey von Mittel- und Südengland." 2 volumes. München: Wilhelm Fink.

ources

* Voices from the Days of Slavery - Interviewer Biographies (American Memory from the Library of Congress) [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/vfsbio.html]