Murray Barnson Emeneau (1904—2005)

Obituary sur le site Berkeley. Linguistics:

http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/emeneau/obit.html

http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/emeneau/

 

Los Angeles Times, Archive for Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Murray Emeneau, 101; Founded UC Berkeley Linguistics Department
September 13, 2005 in print edition B-11

“Murray Barnson Emeneau, 101, an expert in Sanskrit and Dravidian languages who founded the UC Berkeley Linguistics Department, died Aug. 29 in his sleep of natural causes at his Berkeley home. Born Feb. 28, 1904, in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada, Emeneau studied French, German and Latin in high school and Greek and Latin at Canada’s Dalhousie University. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in England and earned his doctorate in Sanskrit and classical languages at Yale. After teaching Sanskrit at Yale, he traveled to India in 1936 to study Dravidian languages, including Toda, Badaga, Kolami and Kota. His 21 books include grammar texts and other works on those languages.

He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1940, teaching Sanskrit and general linguistics until his retirement in 1971. In 1953, Emeneau persuaded UC Berkeley to establish a Department of Linguistics and became its first chairman. He also set up what became the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, which continues to document indigenous languages of California and the continental United States.”

 

bright_on_emeneau.pdf — William Bright, “Murray B. Emeneau” [Obituary], Language, Volume 82, Number 2, June 2006, pp. 411-422.

hill_on_bright.pdf — Jane Hill, “William Oliver Bright [1928-2006]” [Obituary], Language, Volume 83, Number 3, September 2007, pp. 628-641.

 

emeneau_bloomfield_panini.pdf — Murray B. Emeneau, Bloomfield and Panini, Language, Vol. 64, No. 4. (Dec., 1988), pp. 755-760.

emeneau_india_and_linguistics.pdf — Murray B. Emeneau, India and Linguistics, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 75, No. 3. (Jul. - Sep., 1955), pp. 145-153.

emeneau_style_meaning.pdf — Murray B. Emeneau, Style and Meaning in an Oral Literature, Language, Vol. 42, No. 2. (Apr. - Jun., 1966), pp. 323-345.

 

A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, 2nd ed. On line

Sur les Chants Toda:

http://ehess.tessitures.org/classics/5/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda_people

Cette entrée de Wikipedia est d'une richesse exceptionnelle.

 

Les textes d'Emeneau au format PDF disponibles sur notre serveur dédié ont été répartis entre deux de nos bibliothèques. On trouvera sur le site anthropologielinguistique.fr les textes d'intérêt général recensés ci-dessus, tandis que ceux qui intéressent plus particulièrement les indianistes sont accessibles sur le site philosophindia.fr, autrement dit dans la bibliothèque Ganapati:

http://ehess.philosophindia.fr/ganapati/