Nils Holmer

Nils Holmer
Born	1904
Died	1994
Nationality	Swedish
Fields	linguistics, Celtic studies
Known for	work in Scottish Gaelic linguistics

Nils Holmer (1904–1994) was a Swedish linguist who carried out significant fieldwork into the Scottish Gaelic, in particular the southern dialects of Kintyre, Arran and Argyll and published several key books and articles on the topic.^[1] He was professor of linguistics at the Lund University between 1949-1969 and is renowned to be the only Swede to have ever published three articles in the magazine Language.^[2]

Unusually, he carried out fieldwork across a wide range of languages across several continents, including Irish, Basque, Siouan languages, Algonquian languages, Iroquoian languages, the Central American language Kuna and the South American language of Choco and Wayuu and Australian Aboriginal languages.^[1]

References

1 2 Chelliah, S. and de Reuse, Willem The History of Linguistic Fieldwork (2011) Springer ISBN 978-90-481-9025-6
↑ Sigurd, Bengt Svensk språkforskning under 1900-talet Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

Scottish Gaelic linguists

Michael Bauer Carl Borgstrøm Andrew Carnie Richard Cox Henry Dieckhoff Nancy Dorian Nils Holmer Will Lamb Ken MacKinnon Alexander MacBain Gordon MacLennan Magne Oftedal Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh Máirtín Ó Murchú T. F. O'Rahilly Elmar Ternes Roy Wentworth

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