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Frans Van Coetsem
Belgian-American linguist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frans (Camille Cornelis) Van Coetsem[1] (14 April 1919 – 11 February 2002) was a Belgian (Flemish) linguist. After an academic career in Flanders and the Netherlands he was appointed professor at Cornell University in 1968, and consequently he emigrated to the US, where, after a few years, he chose to become a naturalized American citizen.
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