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William G. Moulton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2026

Mark L. Louden
Mark L. Louden*
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University of Wisconsin-Madison*
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William Gamwell Moulton, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Germanic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, passed away on June 2, 2000, in Exeter, New Hampshire, at the age of eighty-six. Professor Moulton served as a member of the executive committee of the Linguistic Society of America, as well as its vice president, and, in 1967, its president.

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Language , Volume 84 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 161 - 169
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Copyright © 2008 by the Linguistic Society of America

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I am grateful to Michael Curschmann (emeritus, Princeton University), Jack Hall (University of Houston), Herb Kufner (emeritus, Cornell University), and especially Jenni Karding Moulton for invaluable assistance in the preparation of this obituary article.

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