David Whitehorn Arnott

British linguist

David Whitehorn Arnott
Born	(1915-06-23)23 June 1915 London, England
Died	10 March 2004(2004-03-10) (aged 88) Bedale, North Yorkshire, England
Spouse	Kathleen Arnott (nee Coulson)
Scientific career
Thesis	The Tense System in Gombe Fula (1960)

David Whitehorn Arnott (23 June 1915 – 10 March 2004) was a British linguist who was Professor of West African Languages at School of Oriental and African Studies. He is known for his works on Fulani and Tiv.^[1]^[2]

Works

His works are the following:^{[citation needed]}

Dictionnary of verb roots in Fulfulde dialects
Fula language studies : present position and future prospects
The languages of West Africa
The nominal and verbal system of Fula
The parent and the teacher: a grammatical analysis of a Fula text
Particles in Fula : their behaviour and meanings
Proverbial lore and word-play of the Fulani

See also

Kathleen Arnott

References

^ "Remembering Hausa teaching and research at SOAS". SOAS Blog. 9 July 2020.
^ "Professor D. W. Arnott". The Independent. 10 October 2011.

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