Emmon Bach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emmon Bach

American linguist

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1929

Place of Birth: Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 28-Nov-2014

Profession: president, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Emmon Bach (June 12, 1929 – November 28, 2014) was an American linguist.
He was Professor Emeritus at the Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), part of the University of London.
He was born in Kumamoto, Japan.His interests included syntax, phonology, the languages of British Columbia (especially Haisla), problems of tense and aspect in semantics, and formal problems and semantic issues in the morphology of polysynthetic languages.
In November 2014, he died in Oxford.