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John Michael Haiman (born 1946) is an American linguist and professor at Macalester College. He has done fieldwork on the Hua language of Papua New-Guinea and has published on Khmer, Rhaeto-Romance and Germanic linguistics. In 1989 he received a Guggenheim fellowship [1] for the study of sarcasm.

He graduated from the University of Toronto (BA) and Harvard University (PhD).

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References

  1. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation: John Haiman". Archived from the original on 10 January 2016.