Re: Learning a language

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:36:21 GMT

Eugene Holman wrote:
>
> In article <40CAFC8D.14B8@worldnet.att.net>, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> > Eugene Holman wrote:
>
> <deltions>
> > >
> > > Having earned my living teaching and publishing in (historical, computer,
> > > Baltic-Finnic, sociolinguistics) linguistics for more than thirty years,
> > > and being the former student of several linguists of renown, including
> > > Frederick Agard, Charles Hockett, James Marchand, Herbert Kufner,
> >
> > You were at Cornell about the same time I was???
>
> Class of '66 [I graduated a term early, in January '66].
>
> > (Then how did you
> > manage to avoid Robert A. Hall, Jr.,
>
> I knew and was on good terms with Bob Hall due to our Friday afternoon
> linguistics colloquium, but, specializing in Germanic (Marchand, Kufner)
> and Slavic (Liston, the Samilovs) linguistics, as well as general
> linguistics (Hockett, Kelly, Franklin, Durbin), I never took any courses
> from him.
>
> >the first linguist to take an interest in pidginization?)
>
> What?! Have you never heard of Hugo Schuchardt, the father of
> pidgin/creole studies?

I said linguist, not philologist, and IIRC his major work was not
published during his lifetime.

Hall's book was published in 1966, so he must have been doing intensive
seminars on the topic during your time. To us (BA '72), he handed out
the chapters of External History of the Romance Languages as they came
off the ditto-machine. 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net