Robert A. Hall

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Robert A. Hall (born April 4, 1911 in Raleigh, North Carolina , † December 2, 1997 in Ithaca, New York ) was an American linguist, Romanist and Italianist.

life and work

Robert Anderson Hall, Jr. came to New York with his family in 1919. He studied at Princeton , Rome and Chicago Universities . From 1937 to 1939 he taught at the University of Puerto Rico , then at Princeton University and Brown University . In 1946 he went to Cornell University , where he was first associate professor, then from 1950 until his retirement in 1976 full professor of linguistics and Italian.

Hall was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1954 and 1970 .

Hall was married to the Romance writer Alice M. Colby Hall for the second time .

Works

Italian Studies

  • Bibliography of Italian linguistics , Baltimore 194; Bibliografia della linguistica italiana , Florence 1958, Primo supplemento decennale 1956-1966 , Florence 1969; Secondo supplemento decennale 1966-1976 , Florence 1980; Terzo supplemento decennale 1976-1986 , Pisa 1988
  • The Italian questione della lingua. An interpretative essay , Chapel Hill 1942
  • Descriptive Italian grammar , Ithaca 1948, Westport 1974
  • A short history of Italian literature , Ithaca 1951
  • The Italian vest pocket dictionary Italian-English, English-Italian , New York 1957; The Random House basic dictionary Italian-English, English-Italian , 1981, 1983, 1996, 1998
  • Italian for Modern Living , New York 1961, Ithaca 1974
  • Applied linguistics Italian. A guide for teachers , Boston 1961 (preface by Simon Belasco )
  • (Eds.) Italian stories , New York 1961; Italian stories = Novelle italiane , New York 1989
  • (with Cecilia M. Bàrtoli) Basic conversational Italian , New York 1963, 1979
  • La struttura dell'italiano , Rome 1971 (preface by Luigi Heilmann )
  • Bibliografia essenziale della linguistica italiana e romanza , Florence 1973
  • Antonio Fogazzaro , Boston 1978
  • (with Frances Adkins Hall and Susan Z. Garau) 2001 Italian and English idioms = 2001 locuzioni italiane e inglesi , Woodbury, NY 1981, 1991, 1996

Other languages

  • An Analytical Grammar of the Hungarian Language , Baltimore 1938
  • (with François Denoeu) Spoken French , 2 vols., Boston 1943, Ithaca 1973
  • Melanesian Pidgin English. Grammar. Texts. Vocabulary , Baltimore 1943, New York 1980
  • Hungarian grammar , Baltimore 1944, New York 1966
  • Haitian Creole. Grammar. Texts. Vocabulary , Philadelphia 1953
  • Idealism in Romance Linguistics , Ithaca 1963
  • Pidgin and Creole Languages , Ithaca 1966
  • External History of the Romance Languages , New York / London / Amsterdam 1974
  • Proto-Romance Phonology , New York / London / Amsterdam 1976
  • The Kensington Rune-Stone is Genuine. Linguistic, practical, methodological considerations , Coumbia, SC 1982, 1994

Linguistics in general

  • Leave Your Language Alone !, Ithaca 1950; Linguistics and your language , Garden City 1960
  • Hands Off Pidgin English !, Sydney 1955
  • Cultural symbolism in literature , Ithaca 1963
  • Introductory Linguistics , Philadelphia 1964
  • New ways to learn a foreign language , New York 1966
  • An Essay on Language , Philadelphia 1968
  • The Comic Style of PG Wodehouse , Hamden, Conn. 1974
  • Stormy Petrel in Linguistics. Essays , Ithaca 1975
  • American linguistics, 1925-1969. Three essays , Darmstadt 1976
  • Language, Literature, and Life , Lake Bluff, Ill. 1978
  • Stormy petrel flies again , Watkins Glenn, NY 1980
  • Papers on Wodehouse , Ithaca 1985
  • (Ed.) Leonard Bloomfield. Essays on his life and work , Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1987
  • Linguistics and pseudo-linguistics. Selected essays 1965-1985 , Amsterdam 1987
  • A Life for Language. A Biographical Memoir of Leonard Bloomfield , Amsterdam 1990

literature

  • Homenaje a Robert A. Hall, Jr. Ensayos lingüísticos y filológicos para su sexagésimo aniversario , ed. by David Feldman, Madrid 1977
  • Frank Nuessel, [Obituary] in: Italica 75, 1998, pp. 284-286

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personal data
SURNAME Hall, Robert A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Robert Anderson Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist, Romanist, and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Raleigh, North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1997
Place of death Ithaca (City, New York)