Theodore B. Fernald

Theodore B. Fernald is a linguist and the chair of the Department of Linguistics at Swarthmore College. He is a specialist in semantics and the Navajo language. As of 2012, he was collaborating with Ellavina Perkins under the auspices of Swarthmore and the Navajo Language Academy to produce a reference grammar of Navajo,^[1][2] a project which has received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.^[3] He has also served as vice-chair of the Navajo Language Academy.^[4]

Theodore B. Fernald (θiədoʊɹ fɚnɑɫd)
Born	1960 (age 64–65)
Education	Ohio State University (B.A., 1981; M.A., 1989) University of California, Santa Cruz (Ph.D., 1994)
Known for	Work on Navajo reference grammar with Ellavina Perkins
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics, semantics and the Navajo language
Institutions	Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Swarthmore College
Thesis	On the Nonuniformity of the Individual and Stage Level Effects
Doctoral advisor	William A. Ladusaw
Website	swarthmore.edu/profile/ted-fernald