Murray Barnson Emeneau (February 28, 1904, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada – August 29, 2005, Berkeley, California) was an emeritus professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he also founded.[1]
Emeneau may have been the last surviving student of the eminent linguist Edward Sapir.[2]
He was prominent in the field of sociolinguistics research in India, being the first to do fieldwork on non-literary Dravidian languages in India, and also initiated the field of areal linguistics. Among such languages were Toda, Badaga, Kolami, and Kota.[3]
In addition to the Department of Linguistics, Emeneau also founded the Survey of California Indian Languages (later renamed the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages), which has cataloged and documented indigenous languages of the Americas for several decades. [4]
He was president of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 1949.
Bibliography
- Jambhaladatta's Version of the Vetālapañcavinśati: A Critical Sanskrit Text in Transliteration (1934)
- A Course in Annamese: Lessons in the Pronunciation and Grammar of the Annamese Language (1943)
- The Sinduvāra Tree in Sanskrit Literature (1944)
- Kota Texts (3 vols, 1944-46)
- An Annamese Reader (with Lý-duc-Lâm and Diether von den Steinen, 1944)
- Annamese-English Dictionary (with Diether von den Steinen, 1945)
- The Strangling Figs in Sanskrit Literature (1949)
- Studies in Vietnamese (Annamese) Grammar (1951)
- Kolami, a Dravidian Language (1955)
- A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary (with Thomas Burrow, 1961; 2nd ed. 1984)
- Brahui and Dravidian Comparative Grammar (1962)
- Abhijñāna-Śakuntala: Translated from the Bengali Recension (1962)
- Dravidian Borrowings from Indo-Aryan (with T. Burrow, 1962)
- India and Historical Grammar (1965)
- Sanskrit Sandhi and Exercises (1968)
- Dravidian Comparative Phonology: A Sketch (1970)
- Toda Songs (1971)
- Ritual Structure and Language Structure of the Todas (1974)
- Language and Linguistic Areas: Essays (1980)
- Toda Grammar and Texts (1984)
- Dravidian Studies: Selected Papers (1994)
References
- ^ "Professor Murray Emeneau Remembered". http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/emeneau/. Retrieved on 2009-06-08.
- ^ Bright, William (June 2006). "Murray B. Emeneau: 1928-2006". Language 82 (2): 411-422. doi:.
- ^ "Murray Emeneau, 101; Founded UC Berkeley Linguistics Department - Los Angeles Times". http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/13/local/me-passings13.1. Retrieved on 2009-06-08.
- ^ "Murray Emeneau -- famed UC Berkeley linguist". http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/12/BAGCKEM6UU1.DTL. Retrieved on 2009-06-08.
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