George Sherman Lane
George Sherman Lane (28 September 1902 in Wayne County, Iowa – 18 September 1981 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) 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.
Further reading[edit]
- Walter W. Arndt: Studies in Historical Linguistics in Honor of George Sherman Lane. Chapel Hill 1967
References[edit]
- ^ a b c 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.
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