George W. Grace

George William Grace (8 September 1921 in Corinth, Mississippi – January 17, 2015) was an American linguist who specialized in historical and comparative linguistics, ethnolinguistics, and Austronesian languages, especially the Oceanic languages of Melanesia. He joined the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1964, serving three years as chair (1966–1969) and three decades as editor of ''Oceanic Linguistics'' (1962–1991), a journal he founded while teaching anthropology at Southern Illinois University (1960–1964). Provided by Wikipedia