Table of contents
Forewordvii
From Languages to Philology to Linguistics1
First Person, Not Singular19
My Linguistic Autobiography47
American Linguistics in Peace and at War67
A Nova Scotian Becomes a Linguistic Indologist83
My Life through My Work; My Work through My Life103
Six Decades of a Linguistic Audience125
On Being a Linguistic Anthropologist139
A Linguist's Vita as Historiography187
How I Discovered Linguistics205
Must Linguists Also Be Philologists?239
From Philology to Language and Culture255
A Personal Journey through Linguistics273
Index of Biographical Names289
Index of Subjects and Languages299
Location of photographs
Frederick B. Agard (1974)2
Dwight Bolinger (in front of his house in Palo Alto, Calif., 1989)20
Yuen Ren Chao (picture taken in Berkeley, Calif., in 1977)48
J Milton Cowan (1990)68
Murray B. Emeneau (c.1965)84
Joshua A. Fishman (c.1975)104
Paul L. Garvin (photograph taken by Antoinette Mucilli, Buffalo, N.Y., in October 1990)126
Joseph H. Greenberg (1990)140
Robert A. Hall, Jr. (1989)168
Henry Kahane (1989)188
Stanley S. Newman (c.1980)206
Eugene A. Nida (c.1975)228
Herbert Penzl (in his office at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1990)240
Edgar C Polomé (1987)256
Allen Walker Read (picture taken on 12 November 1987)274
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