Murray Barnson Emeneau
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Murray Barnson Emeneau (February 28, 1904 - August 29, 2005) was an emeritus professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he also founded. He was the first to do fieldwork on non-literary Dravidian languages in India, and also initiated the field of areal linguistics. He was president of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 1949.
[edit] 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)
[edit] External links
- UCB Linguistics Department memorial page
- L.A. Times obituary
- A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, 2nd ed.