Charles F. Hockett

Charles F. Hockett
Born	Charles Francis Hockett (1916-01-17)January 17, 1916 Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Died	November 3, 2000(2000-11-03) (aged 84) Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Spouse	Shirley Orlinoff
Children	5
Academic background
Education	Ohio State University (B.A., M.A.) Yale University (Ph.D.)
Thesis	The Potawatomi Language: A Descriptive Grammar (1939)
Influences	Leonard Bloomfield
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Institutions	Cornell University (1946–1982) Rice University (1986–2000)
Main interests	Structural linguistics Linguistic anthropology

Charles Francis Hockett (January 17, 1916 – November 3, 2000) was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics. He represents the post-Bloomfieldian phase of structuralism often referred to as "distributionalism" or "taxonomic structuralism". His academic career spanned over half a century at Cornell and Rice universities. Hockett was also a firm believer of linguistics as a branch of anthropology, making contributions that were significant to the field of anthropology as well.