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In:First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 88] 1998
► pp. ix–x

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Published online: 15 December 1998

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Table of contents

Editor's Forewordvii

Sixty Years in Linguistics1

John C. Catford

Long-Term Commitments and Lucky Events39

Charles A. Ferguson

A Pilgrim's Progress: From philology to linguistics59

W. Nelson Francis

Between Logic and Linguistics71

A Linguistic Round Trip: From practice to theory and back81

Linguistics to the Beat of a Different Drummer97

Linguistics from the Bottom up131

A Linguistic Pilgrimage143

Kenneth L. Pike

… quem legis ut noris159

C'est passionnant d'être passionné187

William J. Samarin

From English Philology to Linguistics and Back Again227

Robert P. Stockwell

The Story of a Linguist malgré lui247

Index of Biographical Names257

Index of Subjects, Terms, and Languages263

Location of pictures and photographs

John C. Catford (photograph dating from ca.1970)2

Charles A. Ferguson (photograph dating from ca.1996)40

W. Nelson Francis (picture apparently dating from the 1980s)60

Henry Hiż (photograph taken on 20 December 1995)72

Henry Kučera (picture apparently dating from ca.1995)82

Sydney M. Lamb (picture taken September 1996)98

James W. Ney (picture apparently dating from 1997)132

Kenneth L. Pike (picture taken by David Duncan in 1982)144

Ernst Pulgram (picture taken Ann Arbor, Mich., 16 May 1994)160

William J. Samarin (from an original wood engraving by Nancy Ruth Jackson, 1997; see page 222 for explanation of inscription)188

Robert P. Stockwell (photograph taken in August 1998 by Don Lewis, Hollywood, Calif.; reproduced with permission)228

Karl V. Teeter (photograph taken by Koby-Antupit Studio, Cambridge, Mass., June 1994; reproduced with permission)248