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'''Fred Walter Householder, Jr.''' (February 1, 1913{{spaced ndash}}January 4, 1994) was an American linguist and professor of [[classics]] and [[linguistics]] at [[Indiana University]]. His best known works include ''Linguistic Speculations'' (Cambridge, 1971) and his contributions to ''Readings in Linguistics II'' (University of Chicago, 1966).

== Life and work ==
Fred Walter Householder, Jr. was an American linguist at [[Indiana University]] at [[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington]], [[Indiana]]. He received his training in classics from [[Columbia University]], completing a PhD there in 1941. Householder held joint appointments in the departments of classics and linguistics at [[Indiana University]] from 1948 to 1983, and chaired the Department of Linguistics from 1974 to 1980.<ref name="bender">{{cite journal|last=Bender|first=Byron W.|title=Fred Walter Householder.|journal=Language|date=Sep 1997|volume=73|issue=3|pages=560–570|jstor=415884}}</ref>

Householder received the [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 1958, teaching at [[London University]] 1958-1959.<ref>{{cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: Fred W. Householder Jr.|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/fred-w-householder-jr/|accessdate=23 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="bender">{{cite journal|last=Bender|first=Byron W.|title=Fred Walter Householder.|journal=Language|date=Sep 1997|volume=73|issue=3|pages=560–570|jstor=415884}}</ref> He was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1977. He was elected Vice President of the [[Linguistic Society of America]] in 1980, and President of the LSA in 1981.<ref>{{cite web|title=Presidents {{!}} Linguistics Society of America|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/presidents|accessdate=28 November 2013}}</ref>

Householder specialized in the study and theory of [[syntax]], in languages from Greek and Latin to Chinese and Azerbaijani.<ref name="bender">{{cite journal|last=Bender|first=Byron W.|title=Fred Walter Householder.|journal=Language|date=Sep 1997|volume=73|issue=3|pages=560–570|jstor=415884}}</ref> In 1965, the first issue of the ''[[Journal of Linguistics]]'' published Householder's criticism of the work of [[Noam Chomsky]] and [[Morris Halle]], challenging their work on [[phonology]], in particular their methodology. Chomsky and Halle responded in the second issue, defending their work on the potential for phonology to unlock universal meanings in sound and speech.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Chomsky|first=Noam|author2=Halle, Morris|title=Some Controversial Questions in Phonological Theory|journal=Journal of Linguistics|date=Oct 1965|volume=1|issue=2|pages=97–138|doi=10.1017/s0022226700001134}}</ref>

He retired in 1983, and after his death in 1994, Indiana University established the Fred W. Householder Memorial Fund to provide scholarships to students specializing in [[Kurdish languages|Kurdish]] linguistics, one of the focuses of his research.<ref>{{cite web|last=Veselinova|first=Ljuba|title=LINGUIST List 7.246, FYI: Fred W. Householder Memorial Fund, Kurdish Linguistics|url=http://linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-246.html|work=Email|accessdate=28 November 2013}}</ref><ref name="bender">{{cite journal|last=Bender|first=Byron W.|title=Fred Walter Householder.|journal=Language|date=Sep 1997|volume=73|issue=3|pages=560–570|jstor=415884}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
* Householder, ''Fred W. Literary Quotation and Allusion in Lucian.'' New York: King's Crown Press, 1941.
* —. ''English for Greeks''. Washington: American Council of Learned Societies, 1954.
* — and Sol Saporta, eds. ''Problems in Lexicography''. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1962.
* — [with D. Axexander and P.H. Matthews]. ''Adjectives Before That-clauses In English''. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1964 (reprinted 1977).
* —, Kostas Kazazis, and Andreas Koutsoudas. ''Reference Grammar of Literary Dhimotiki''. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1964.
* —, and D. Alexander, W. J. Kunz. ''Some Classes Of Verbs In English''. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1964.
* — [with Mansour Lofti]. ''Basic Course in Azerbaijani''. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1965.
* — and Loraine Bridgeman. ''More Classes of Verbs in English''. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1965.
* — and Wolfgang Wölck, P H. Matthews, eds. ''A Preliminary Classification Of Adverbs In English''. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1965.
* — and Eric Hamp, Robert Austerlitz, Martin Joos, eds. ''Readings in Linguistics II''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966 (reprinted 1995).
* —. ''Linguistic Speculations''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971 (reprinted 2011).
* — and Gregory Nagy. ''Greek: a survey of recent work''. from "Janua linguarum: Series practica v. 211". The Hague: Mouton, 1972.
* —, ed. ''Structuralist: selected readings''. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
* — [with Costas Kazazis]. ''Greek triglossia''. from "Studies in modern Greek for American students". Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1974.
* —. ''Universe-scope relations in Chinese and Japanese''. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1980.
* —. ''The syntax of Apollonius Dyscolus''. Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1981.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.indiana.edu/~lingdept Department of Linguistics, Indiana University at Bloomington]
* [http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?brand=general&docId=InU-Ar-VAC2017&doc.view=print Fred W. Householder papers, 1945-1994, bulk 1950-1989, Indiana University Archives]

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