Birth Name: | Wickliffe Raper Miller |
Birth Date: | 6 January 1932 |
Birth Place: | San Ysidro, New Mexico, U.S. |
Death Place: | Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. |
Nationality: | American |
Spouse: | Joanne Miller |
Children: | 2 |
Thesis Title: | The Acoma Language |
Thesis Year: | 1962 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Mary Haas |
Discipline: | Linguist |
Workplaces: | University of Utah |
Wickliffe Raper Miller (January 6, 1932May 9, 1994)[1] [2] was an American linguist most well known for his work on Keresan languages and Uto-Aztecan, especially Shoshoni and Guarijio. He worked both on synchronic description and historical linguistics.
His extensive unpublished field notes on Shoshoni are now being used for a language revitalization program.