George Sherman Lane

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George Sherman Lane (born September 28, 1902 , † September 18, 1981 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina ) was an American linguist . The main focus of his work was the exploration of Tocharian .

Life

Lane studied from 1922 at the University of Iowa, where he received his first award with the Early English Text Society Prize , and graduated in 1927 with a master's degree in English. Guest studies in Reykjavík , where he learned Sanskrit , and Paris followed. In Chicago he worked on the dictionary of Indo-European synonyms. After completing his dissertation, he moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he continued to research the Tocharian language, especially the grammar of Tocharian B. In 1952 Lane was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

His son Eugene N. Lane (1936-2007) became a professor of classical philology.

Works (selection)

  • Words for clothing in the principal Indo-European languages. Diss. Chicago 1930. NDr. 1966 of the 1931 edition
  • Vocabulary to the Tocharian Puṇyavantajātaka. Baltimore 1948
  • Studies in Kuchean grammar. Baltimore 1952

literature

  • Walter W. Arndt: Studies in Historical Linguistics in Honor of George Sherman Lane. Chapel Hill 1967 (with reprints of several essays Lanes)
  • Sidney R. Smith: George Sherman Lane: Biography and Bibliography. In: Harro Stammerjohann: Lexicon Grammaticorum. Tubingen 1996
  • Boyd Davis: George Sherman Lane (1902-1981). In: Language 59/2, 1983, pp. 355 f., Bibliography pp. 357-359

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First Person Singular: Papers from the Conference on an Oral Archive for the History of American Linguistics (Charlotte, NC, 1979), Amsterdam 1980, online pdf, 420 kB, Biographische Notizen, p. 64 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Lane, George Sherman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lane, George S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1902
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1981
Place of death Chapel Hill , North Carolina