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In:First Person Singular II: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 61] 1991
► pp. ix–x

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Published online: 12 July 1991

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Table of contents

Forewordvii

From Languages to Philology to Linguistics1

Frederick B. Agard

First Person, Not Singular19

Dwight Bolinger

My Linguistic Autobiography47

American Linguistics in Peace and at War67

A Nova Scotian Becomes a Linguistic Indologist83

Murray B. Emeneau

My Life through My Work; My Work through My Life103

Joshua A. Fishman

Six Decades of a Linguistic Audience125

On Being a Linguistic Anthropologist139

Joseph H. Greenberg

Layers of Linguistics167

A Linguist's Vita as Historiography187

How I Discovered Linguistics205

Stanley S. Newman

My Linguistic Odyssey227

Must Linguists Also Be Philologists?239

From Philology to Language and Culture255

Edgar C. Polomé

A Personal Journey through Linguistics273

Allan Walker Read

Index of Biographical Names289

Index of Subjects and Languages299

Location of photographs

Frederick B. Agard (1974)2

Dwight Bolinger (in front of his house in Palo Alto, Calif., 1989)20

Yuen Ren Chao (picture taken in Berkeley, Calif., in 1977)48

J Milton Cowan (1990)68

Murray B. Emeneau (c.1965)84

Joshua A. Fishman (c.1975)104

Paul L. Garvin (photograph taken by Antoinette Mucilli, Buffalo, N.Y., in October 1990)126

Joseph H. Greenberg (1990)140

Robert A. Hall, Jr. (1989)168

Henry Kahane (1989)188

Stanley S. Newman (c.1980)206

Eugene A. Nida (c.1975)228

Herbert Penzl (in his office at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1990)240

Edgar C Polomé (1987)256

Allen Walker Read (picture taken on 12 November 1987)274