Author:William Dwight Whitney

William Dwight Whitney
(1827–1894)

William Dwight Whitney

Works

• Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science (1867)
• On Material and Form in Language (1872)
• Oriental and Linguistic Studies - First Series: The Veda, The Avesta, The Science of Language (1872)
• Oriental and Linguistic Studies - Second Series: The East and West, Religion and Mythology, Hindu Astronomy (1874)
• Darwinism and Language (1874)
• The Life and Growth of Language: An Outline of Linguistic Science (1875)
• Essentials of English Grammar for the Use of Schools (1877)*
• Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older Dialects, of Veda and Brahmana (1879)
  • The Roots, Verb-Forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language (A Supplement to His Sanskrit Grammar) (1885)
• Language and its Study: with Special Reference to the Indo-European (lectures) (1880)*
• Logical Consistency in Views of Language (1880)
• Mixture in Language (1881)
• The Roots, Verb-forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language (supplement to Sanskrit Grammar) (1885)
• Practical French Grammar (1887)*
• A Compendious German and English Dictionary (1887)*
• The Century Dictionary (editor) (1889-1891)
• Introductory French Reader (1891)*
• Max Müller's Science of Language (1893)
• Atharva-Veda Samhita, 2 volumes (translator)
• The History of Sanskrit Grammar (Indian reprint edition of Sanskrit Grammar)
• Manuscript Diary (photo reprint)

Articles

• "Turanian Race and Languages," in The American Cyclopædia (1879) (in part)
• "Are Languages Institutions?" in Popular Science Monthly, 7 (June 1875)

Contributions to EB1911

• "Philology," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Works about Whitney

• "Whitney, William Dwight," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Whitney, Josiah Dwight," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889), entry includes a section on Willian Dwight Whitney, brother of the subject.
• William Dwight Whitney (Thomas Day Seymour) - a biography published in 1895
• The Whitney Memorial Meeting, ed. Charles Rockwell Lanman (1897)
• "Whitney, William Dwight," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Whitney, William Dwight," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Whitney, William Dwight," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Whitney, William Dwight," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Whitney, William Dwight”, in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York, 1920
• "Whitney, William Dwight," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)