dirtnapp / died in 2025 / is john r. ross alive or dead?

John R. Ross

American linguist

dead

born: 1938
died: 2025
age at death: 87
known for: linguist

tell everyone

who john r. ross is

John Robert "Haj" Ross was an American poet and linguist. He played a part in the development of generative semantics along with George Lakoff, James D. McCawley, and Paul Postal. He was a professor of linguistics at MIT from 1966 to 1985 and worked in Brazil, Singapore and British Columbia. Until spring 2021, he taught at the University of North Texas.

from wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA.

where this comes from

wikidata records a date of death for John R. Ross in 2025, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.

read wikipedia →wikidata record (Q720664) →something wrong? →