The Creators of HALD

Daren Ray is an Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University where he specializes in the history of Africa. He received a Ph.D. in African History at the University of Virginia (2014) and has previously worked at the American University in Cairo, Connecticut College, and Auburn University.

Jim Law is an Assistant Professor of French at Brigham Young University where he specializes in semantic change. He received a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin (2020). In his research, he uses quantitative corpus methods to research semantic and pragmatic change in the Romance languages, working within the cognitive linguistic tradition, notably Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics.

Earl Kjar Brown is a Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University where he specializes in corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. He received a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of New Mexico (2008), and has previously worked at Kansas State University, California State University-Monterey Bay, and Auburn University.

Roger Harrison, Ben Carson, Emma Law, and Nils Young have provided immeasurable support as Research Assistant collecting the language resources and checking every entry.

Many thanks to Ben Rencher (Software Developer) and Jeremy Browne (Associate Research Professor) in the Office of Digital Humanities at Brigham Young University for their unfailing support and for the server space for this website and the backend database.