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==Academic career== |
==Academic career== |
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His first regular academic job was at the [[University of Texas |
His first regular academic job was at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] where he taught from 1959 to 1972. He started in the German department and gradually switched to linguistics. He was part of the newly-formed linguistics department.<ref name="legacy_2014" /> After spending a year teaching at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the [[City University of New York]] he began teaching at the University of Massachusetts.<ref name="legacy_2014" /> |
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He began teaching as professor of linguistics at the [[University of Massachusetts]] Amherst in 1973.<ref name="umass_2014" /><ref name="umass_CV_2008" /><ref name="legacy_2014" /> "He taught syntax, semantics, typology and field methods, and supervised 12 doctorate dissertations in semantics, syntax and phonology."<ref name="legacy_2014" /> Following his retirement in 1992, he continued to be active in academia. |
He began teaching as professor of linguistics at the [[University of Massachusetts]] Amherst in 1973.<ref name="umass_2014" /><ref name="umass_CV_2008" /><ref name="legacy_2014" /> "He taught syntax, semantics, typology and field methods, and supervised 12 doctorate dissertations in semantics, syntax and phonology."<ref name="legacy_2014" /> Following his retirement in 1992, he continued to be active in academia. |
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Bach held a visiting position at the [[University of Northern British Columbia]]. He taught linguistics and co-taught [[Haisla]] and [[Coast Tsimshian]] for several years in the 1980's and 1990's.<ref name="legacy_2014" /> |
Bach held a visiting position at the [[University of Northern British Columbia]]. He taught linguistics and co-taught [[Haisla]] and [[Coast Tsimshian]] for several years in the 1980's and 1990's.<ref name="legacy_2014" /> |
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Bach was a prolific writer.<ref name="umass">{{cite web | url=http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=linguist_faculty_pubs | title=Publications in Linguistics by Emmon Bach | publisher=University of Massachusetts | date=2008 | accessdate=8 January 2016}}</ref> |
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Once retired Bach was able to devote even more time to field work.<ref name="umassmag_2003">{{cite web | url=http://www.umassmag.com/Summer_2003/At_risk_Native_Talk_510.html | title=At-risk Native Talk | publisher=University of Massachusetts Magazine | date=2003 | accessdate=8 January 2016 | author=Allen, Terry Y.}}</ref><ref name="umass_2014_autobiography" /> |
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==Associations== |
==Associations== |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Both his first wife, Jean Bach, and his daughter predeceased him.<ref name="legacy_2014" /> He was married to the linguist [[Wynn Chao]] with whom he co-authored academic publications. <ref name="Bach_Chao_2008">{{citation |last1=Bach |first1=Emmon |first2=Wynn |last2=Chao |date=2008 |title=On semantic universals and typology |editor1=Chris Collins |editor2=Morten Christiansen |editor3=Shimon Edelman |series=Language Universals |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://core.ac.uk/download/files/103/2788708.pdf |format=PDF}}</ref> |
Both his first wife, Jean Bach, and his daughter predeceased him.<ref name="legacy_2014" /> He was married to the linguist [[Wynn Chao]] with whom he co-authored academic publications. <ref name="Bach_Chao_2008">{{citation |last1=Bach |first1=Emmon |first2=Wynn |last2=Chao |date=2008 |title=On semantic universals and typology |editor1=Chris Collins |editor2=Morten Christiansen |editor3=Shimon Edelman |series=Language Universals |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://core.ac.uk/download/files/103/2788708.pdf |format=PDF}}</ref> He moved to London, England in 2002. |
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==Selected publications== |
==Selected publications== |
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Revision as of 18:52, 8 January 2016
Emmon Bach Professor Emeritus | |
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| Born | June 12, 1929[1] |
| Died | November 28, 2014[1] Oxford, England |
| Cause of death | pneumonia |
| Nationality | American[3] |
| Occupation | American linguist |
| Spouse(s) | Jean Bach Wynn Chao[1] |
| Children | Meta Elizabeth Bach (d. 1984) Carl Eric Bach [4] |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago[1] |
| Thesis | Patterns of Syntax in Hoelderlin’s Poems[2] (1959) |
| Academic work | |
| Doctoral students | Ellen Broselow George Horn Deborah Nanni Mark Stein Jean Lowenstamm Deirdre Wheeler Charles Jones Wynn Chao Carolyn Quintero Joyce McDonough Gert Webelhuth Jim Blevins[1] |
| Website | http://people.umass.edu/ebach |
Emmon Bach (June 12, 1929 – November 28, 2014) was an American linguist. He was Professor Emeritus at the Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), part of the University of London. He was born in Kumamoto, Japan.[3]
His interests included syntax, phonology, the languages of British Columbia (especially Haisla), problems of tense and aspect in semantics, and formal problems and semantic issues in the morphology of polysynthetic languages. In November 2014, he died in Oxford.[5]
Early years
Bach's parents, Ditlev Gotthard Monrad Bach and Ellen Sigrid Bach - originally from Copenhagen, Denmark - were Lutheran missionaries in Japan.[6][4] Bach – and all but the oldest of his five siblings – was born in Kumamoto on the island of Kyushu.[6] Since his father taught Japanese to the American Navy language officers during the World War II, they were considered to be American nationals, and received warnings to leave Japan in 1941. As a child Bach spoke Danish and some Japanese.[6] When he was ten, Bach was sent to the International Canadian Academy in Kobe. In Fresno, California his father was a "pastor to Japanese-Americans interned during the war."[4] Bach attended Boulder High School in Boulder, Colorado and Roosevelt High School in Fresno, CA.[4][1]
Education
He "did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Chicago, with a Ph.D. in Germanic Studies[2] in 1959."[1][3][4] He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Tuebingen from 1955-56.[3][6]
Academic career
His first regular academic job was at the University of Texas at Austin where he taught from 1959 to 1972. He started in the German department and gradually switched to linguistics. He was part of the newly-formed linguistics department.[4] After spending a year teaching at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York he began teaching at the University of Massachusetts.[4]
He began teaching as professor of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1973.[1][3][4] "He taught syntax, semantics, typology and field methods, and supervised 12 doctorate dissertations in semantics, syntax and phonology."[4] Following his retirement in 1992, he continued to be active in academia.
Bach held a visiting position at the University of Northern British Columbia. He taught linguistics and co-taught Haisla and Coast Tsimshian for several years in the 1980's and 1990's.[4]
Bach was a prolific writer.[7]
Once retired Bach was able to devote even more time to field work.[8][6]
Associations
Bach was elected president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1996.[4]
Personal life
Both his first wife, Jean Bach, and his daughter predeceased him.[4] He was married to the linguist Wynn Chao with whom he co-authored academic publications. [9] He moved to London, England in 2002.
Selected publications
- Bach, Emmon (1964). An Introduction to Transformational Grammars. New York.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|work=ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Bach, Emmon (1974). Syntactic Theory. New York.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|work=ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Bach, Emmon (1989). Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics. Albany.
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References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Emmon Bach 1929-2014". Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ a b Bach, Emmon (1959). Patterns of Syntax in Hoelderlin’s Poems (Thesis). Chicago. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Bach, Emmon (2008). "Emmon W. Bach curriculum vitae 25 March 2008". Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Emmon Bach (1929 - 2014) Obituary". Gazette. 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ Partee, Barbara, ed. (5 December 2014). "R.I.P. Emmon Bach". Language Log, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Bach, Emmons (2014). "Me and the German Language: Excerpts from an Autobiography". University of Massachusetts. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ "Publications in Linguistics by Emmon Bach". University of Massachusetts. 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ Allen, Terry Y. (2003). "At-risk Native Talk". University of Massachusetts Magazine. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ Bach, Emmon; Chao, Wynn (2008), Chris Collins; Morten Christiansen; Shimon Edelman (eds.), On semantic universals and typology (PDF), Language Universals, Oxford: Oxford University Press
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