George Sherman Lane
George Sherman Lane | |
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 Lane in his 1967 Festschrift | |
| Born | September 28, 1902 Wayne County, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | September 18, 1981 (aged 78) |
| Children | Eugene N. Lane |
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| Education | University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Words for clothing in the principal Indo-European languages (1930) |
George Sherman Lane (September 28, 1902 – September 18, 1981) was an American linguist. His research focus was the Tocharian language.
Life
[edit]Lane began his studies in 1922 at the University of Iowa, where he studied under Henning Larsen[1] and received his first award, the Early English Text Society Prize.[2] In 1926, he graduated first of his class,[3] and in 1927 obtained a Master of Arts in English. This was followed by studies in Reykjavík, where he learned Sanskrit, as well as in Paris, where he studied under Meillet, Vendryes and Benveniste.[1] At the University of Chicago he collaborated with Carl Darling Buck on the latter's Dictionary of selected synonyms in the principal Indo-European languages. After his dissertation, he joined the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he conducted further research on the Tocharian language, particularly the grammar of Tocharian B.[1] In 1952, he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4]
His son, Eugene N. Lane (1936–2007), became a professor in classical philology.
Selected works
[edit]- Words for clothing in the principal Indo-European languages. Chicago, 1930.
- Vocabulary to the Tocharian Puṇyavantajātaka. Baltimore, 1948.
- Studies in Kuchean grammar. Baltimore, 1952.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Davis, Boyd H.; O'Cain, Raymond K. (1980-01-01). First Person Singular: Papers from the Conference on an Oral Archive for the History of American Linguistics. (Charlotte, N.C., March 1979). John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 9789027281005.
- ↑ Scholarship Prizes and Awards Announced. (1925, June 9). Iowa City Press-Citizen, p. 6. Retrieved from https://www.newspapers.com/article/iowa-city-press-citizen/16451830/
- ↑ Davis, Boyd (June 1983). "George Sherman Lane". Language. 59 (2). Linguistic Society of America: 355–359. JSTOR 413578.
- ↑ "Book of Members - American Academy of Arts & Sciences". Archived from the original on 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
Further reading
[edit]- Arndt, Walter W.; Brosman Jr., Paul W.; Coenen, Frederic E.; Frederich, Warner P., eds. (1967). Studies in Historical Linguistics in Honor of George Sherman Lane: Festschrift for George S. Lane. UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures. Vol. 58. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press
. doi:10.17615/80s0-5046. ISBN 978-1-4696-5703-5.
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