First Person Singular III
Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 1998
X, 267 pages
978-90-272-7559-2 (ISBN)
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This sequel to the First Person Singular volumes published in 1980 and 1991, respectively (SiHoLS 21 and 61) presents autobiographical accounts by major North American linguists. This material provides an important primary source for the history and development of the discipline during the 20th century. The volume includes photographs of all contributors and is completed by a full index of biographical names and a detailed index of subjects and languages which turn it into a useful research tool.
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- FIRST PERSON SINGULAR III: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES BY NORTH AMERICAN SCHOLARS IN THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- EDITOR'S FOREWORD
- Table of contents
- Location of pictures and photographs:
- SIXTY YEARS IN LINGUISTICS
- REFERENCES
- LONG-TERM COMMITMENTS AND LUCKY EVENTS
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Early interest in the field
- 2. University of Pennsylvania and the War Years
- 3. The Intensive Language Program
- 4. Contacts with Roman Jakobson
- 5. Tension between 'pure' and 'applied'
- 6. Center forApplied Linguistics
- 7. Stanford University
- 8. Envoi
- REFERENCES
- A PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: FROM PHILOLOGY TO LINGUISTICS
- REFERENCES
- BETWEEN LOGIC AND LINGUISTICS
- REFERENCES
- A LINGUISTIC ROUND TRIP: FROM PRACTICE TO THEORY AND BACK
- REFERENCES
- LINGUISTICS TO THE BEAT OF A DIFFERENT DRUMMER
- 1. Background
- 2. Learning about Linguistics
- 3. Branching out
- 4. Eariy Stratificationd Grammar
- 5. Returning to Yale
- 6. Trying to explain networks
- 7. Further recollections and remarks
- REFERENCES
- LINGUISTICS FROM THE BOTTOM UP
- REFERENCES
- A LINGUISTIC PILGRIMAGE
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Dreams toward a linguistic impact on the next generation
- 1.1 A procedural leap in historical reconstuction
- 1.2 Discourse variation as an experimental aid to analysis
- 1.3 Mind plus matter matters
- 2. Joy and stress as pushing my first linguistic decade, 1935-1945
- 2.1 Starting new dreams-from sadness
- 2.2 Writing -from a hospital bed
- 2.3 Tone (after failure) - and a phonetics dissertation
- 2.4 English pronunciation and intonation
- 2.5 A two-page phonetic-phonemic procedural syllabus
- 2.6 Plus, simultanously, New Testament translation
- 3. From then (1945) to now (1993): Travels, consulting, teaching, and a variety of other foci of interests
- 3.1 Grammar and Anthropology
- 3.2 Ernies, linguistics and anthropology
- 3.3 Consulting
- 3.4 People above logic
- REFERENCES
- . . .QVEMLEGIS VT NORIS . . .
- REFERENCES
- C'EST PASSIONNANT D'ÊTRE PASSIONNÉ
- 1. The beginning
- 2. The middle: language
- 3. Our 'Bloomfieldian' heritage
- 4. The linguist
- 5. Who am I? What am I?
- 6. A scholar's ethic
- I. BE RESPONSIBLE
- II. BE VULNERABLE
- III. BE CHARITABLE
- IV. BE CONSIDERATE AND GRATEFUL
- 7. Continuing on
- 8. Awards and Distinctions
- REFERENCES
- FROM ENGLISH PHILOLOGY TO LINGUISTICS AND BACK AGAIN
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX
- THE STORY OF A LINGUIST MALGRÉ LUI
- REFERENCES
- KARL V. TEETER BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1958-1998
- INDEXOF BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES
- INDEXOF SUBJECTS, TERMS, AND LANGUAGES
