Background
Teeter, Karl van Duyn was born on March 2, 1929 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Charles Edwin and Lura May (Shaffner) Teeter.
Teeter, Karl van Duyn was born on March 2, 1929 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Charles Edwin and Lura May (Shaffner) Teeter.
Bachelor of Arts in Oriental Langs. with highest honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1962; AM (honorary), Harvard University, 1966.
From instructor to professor linguistics, Harvard University, 1962-1989;
professor emeritus, Harvard University, since 1989;
department chairman linguistics, Harvard University, 1966-1969, 70-71, 77-78. Associate Kirkland House, Harvard University, 1977-1982, fellow, 1983-1989, honorary associate, since 1989. Guest research fellow Research Institute Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo U., 1969-1970.
Member summer faculty University of Michigan,1962, University of California at Los Angeles, 1966, U. North Carolina, 1972.
Board directors Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy, 1984-1990, executive committee, 1985-1989. Board directors New England Foundation for Humanities, 1986-1993. Active New England Native American Institute, since 1992.
Served with Army of the United States, 1946, 51-54. Member Linguistic Society of America (life member, long range planning committee 1969-1973, language review committee 1980-1982), Society Study Indigenous Languages of the American mathematical society (vice president 1998, president 1999), North America Association for the Historiography of Linguistics (nominating committee since 1998), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Anita Maria Bonacorsi, August 25, 1951. Children— Katharine Emilie, Judith Ann, Teresa Maria, Martha Elisabeth.