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User:Rikker

2008-09-18T06:06:32Z

Rikker:

'''Rikker Dockum''' 
Center for Research in Computational Linguistics 
Fulbright recipient, linguistics, Thailand

Research interests: [[Thai language]], [[etymology]], [[lexicography]]

[http://www.sealang.net/dictionary/jones/ Jones Thai-English Dictionary], a critical online edition of the earliest extant Thai-English dictionary (under ongoing development). 
[http://rikker.blogspot.com ''Thai 101''], my blog on Thai language, media and culture. 
[http://www.sealang.net ''SEAlang''], a suite of language tools I have contributed to.

User:Rikker

2008-09-18T06:05:31Z

Rikker:

'''Rikker Dockum''' 
Center for Research in Computational Linguistics
Fulbright recipient, linguistics, Thailand

Research interests: [[Thai language]], [[etymology]], [[lexicography]]

[http://www.sealang.net/dictionary/jones/ Jones Thai-English Dictionary], a critical online edition of the earliest extant Thai-English dictionary (under ongoing development). 
[http://rikker.blogspot.com ''Thai 101''], my blog on Thai language, media and culture.

Mary R. Haas

2007-10-30T18:22:10Z

Rikker: /* Life */

'''Mary Rosamond Haas''' (January 12, 1910 — May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in [[North American Indian]] languages, [[Thai]], and [[historical linguistics]]. She was a student of [[Edward Sapir]] and [[Franz Boas]].

=== Life ===
Haas was born in Richmond, Indiana, where she grew up and attended both high school and college. In 1930-1931 she undertook graduate work at the University of Chicago in [[comparative philology]]. She published her first paper in 1933, ''A Visit to the Other World, a [[Nitinat]] Text'', a collaboration with [[Morris Swadesh]] (to whom she would later be married for a time). She went on to get her Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale (1931-1935), writing her doctoral dissertation on the [[Tunica]] American Indian language, entitled ''A Grammar of the Tunica Language''. Haas worked with the last fluent speaker of Tunica, [[Sesostrie Youchigant]], producing extensive texts and vocabularies.

Shortly afterwards, she conducted fieldwork with the last two speakers of the [[Natchez]] language in Oklahoma, [[Watt Sam]] and [[Nancy Raven]], resulting in extensive unpublished field notes that constitute the most reliable source of information on the language. Shortly after this, she conducted extensive fieldwork on the [[Creek]] language as well, and was the first modern linguist to collect extensive texts in the language. Most of her notes on Creek and Natchez remain unpublished, though they have begun to be used by contemporary linguists.

Haas was noted for her dedication to teaching linguistics, and to the role of the linguist in language instruction. Her student [[Karl V. Teeter]] pointed out in [http://www.ogmios.org/310.htm his obituary of Haas] that she trained more [[Americanist]] linguists than her former instructors Edward Sapir and Franz Boas combined: she supervised fieldwork in Americanist linguistics by more than 100 Ph.D. students.

Mary Haas was a pioneer in the study of the Thai language. World War II caused a need for speakers of Asian languages, so in 1941 Haas began work on the phonology and syntax of Thai at the University of Michigan. In 1942-1943, while continuing her research in Thai, she was also an instructor of oriental languages there.

Haas died on May 17, 1996 in Alameda County, California, at the age of 86.

=== Works ===
* 1932, with Morris Swadesh. "A visit to the other world; a Nitinat text". [[IJAL]] 7:195-208.
* 1941. "Tunica". ''[[Handbook of American Indian Languages]]'', vol. 4. New York: Augustin Publishers.
* 1943. "The linguist as a teacher of languages". ''[[Language (journal)|Language]]'' 19:203-208.
* 1950. "Tunica texts". ''[[University of California Publications in Linguistics]]'', vol. 6. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
* 1953. "The application of linguistics to language teaching". ''Anthropology Today'', ed. Kroeber, pp. 807-18. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* 1954. ''Thai Reader'', Washington, D.C.: American Council of Learned Societies.
* 1955. "Thai vocabulary". ''Program in Oriental Languages'', A:2. Washington, D. C.: American Council of Learned Societies.
* 1958. "The tones of four [[Tai]] dialects". ''[[Bull. Inst. Hist. Philol.]]'' 29:817-26.
* 1962. "What belongs in a bilingual dictionary? In Problems in Lexicography, eds. F. W. Householder and S. Soporta. IJAL 28:45-50
* 1964. ''Thai-English Student's Dictionary''. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
* 1969. ''The Prehistory of Languages''. Paris: Mouton.
* 1969, with [[H. R. Subhanka]]. ''Spoken Thai'', books I and II. Ithaca, N.Y.: Spoken Language Services.

=== Sources ===
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Haas English Wikipedia]
* [http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/mhaas.html Biographical memoir by Kenneth L. Pike]

[[Category:En]]
[[Category:BIOG|Haas, Mary]]

User:Rikker

2007-10-30T18:12:54Z

Rikker:

'''Rikker Dockum''' 
Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok

Research interests: [[Thai language]], [[etymology]], [[lexicography]]

[http://www.sealang.net/dictionary/jones/ Jones Thai-English Dictionary], a critical online edition of the earliest extant Thai-English dictionary (under ongoing development). 
[http://rikker.blogspot.com ''Thai 101''], my blog on Thai language, media and culture. 
[http://languagescraps.blogspot.com ''Language Scraps''], another blog I contribute to.

User:Rikker

2007-10-30T18:11:58Z

Rikker:

'''Rikker Dockum''' 
Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok

[http://www.sealang.net/dictionary/jones/ Jones Thai-English Dictionary], a critical online edition of the earliest extant Thai-English dictionary (under ongoing development). 
[http://rikker.blogspot.com ''Thai 101''], my blog on Thai language, media and culture. 
[http://languagescraps.blogspot.com ''Language Scraps''], another blog I contribute to.

User:Rikker

2007-10-30T18:11:29Z

Rikker:

'''Rikker Dockum''' 
Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok

[http://www.sealang.net/dictionary/jones/ Jones Thai-English Dictionary], a critical online edition of the earliest extant Thai-English dictionary.
[http://rikker.blogspot.com ''Thai 101''], my blog on Thai language, media and culture. 
[http://languagescraps.blogspot.com ''Language Scraps''], another blog I contribute to.

User:Rikker

2007-10-30T18:08:23Z

Rikker:

'''Rikker Dockum''' 
Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok

[http://rikker.blogspot.com ''Thai 101''], my blog on Thai language, media and culture. 
[http://languagescraps.blogspot.com ''Language Scraps''], another blog I contribute to.

User:Rikker

2007-10-30T18:05:15Z

Rikker: New page: '''Rikker Dockum''' Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok

'''Rikker Dockum'''
Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok

Mary R. Haas

2007-10-30T17:58:36Z

Rikker: /* Life */

'''Mary Rosamond Haas''' (January 12, 1910 — May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in [[North American Indian]] languages, [[Thai]], and [[historical linguistics]]. She was a student of [[Edward Sapir]] and [[Franz Boas]].

=== Life ===
Haas was born in Richmond, Indiana, where she grew up and attended both high school and college. In 1930-1931 she undertook graduate work at the University of Chicago in [[comparative philology]]. She published her first paper in 1933, ''A Visit to the Other World, a [[Nitinat]] Text'', a collaboration with [[Morris Swadesh]] (to whom she would later be married for a time). She went on to get her Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale (1931-1935), writing her doctoral dissertation on the [[Tunica]] American Indian language, entitled ''A Grammar of the Tunica Language''. Haas worked with the last fluent speaker of Tunica, [[Sesostrie Youchigant]], producing extensive texts and vocabularies.

Shortly afterwards, she conducted fieldwork with the last two speakers of the [[Natchez]] language in Oklahoma, [[Watt Sam]] and [[Nancy Raven]], resulting in extensive unpublished field notes that constitute the most reliable source of information on the language. Shortly after this, she conducted extensive fieldwork on the [[Creek]] language as well, and was the first modern linguist to collect extensive texts in the language. Most of her notes on Creek and Natchez remain unpublished, though they have begun to be used by contemporary linguists.

Haas was noted for her dedication to teaching linguistics, and to the role of the linguist in language instruction. Her student [[Karl V. Teeter]] pointed out in [http://www.ogmios.org/310.htm his obituary of Haas] that she trained more [[Americanist]] linguists than her former instructors Edward Sapir and Franz Boas combined: she supervised fieldwork in Americanist linguistics by more than 100 Ph.D. students.

Mary Haas was a pioneer in the study of the Thai language. World War II caused a need for speakers of Asian languages, so in 1941 Haas began work on the phonology and syntax Thai at the University of Michigan. In 1942-1943, while continuing her research in Thai, she was also an instructor of oriental languages there.

Haas died on May 17, 1996 in Alameda County, California, at the age of 86.

=== Works ===
* 1932, with Morris Swadesh. "A visit to the other world; a Nitinat text". [[IJAL]] 7:195-208.
* 1941. "Tunica". ''[[Handbook of American Indian Languages]]'', vol. 4. New York: Augustin Publishers.
* 1943. "The linguist as a teacher of languages". ''[[Language (journal)|Language]]'' 19:203-208.
* 1950. "Tunica texts". ''[[University of California Publications in Linguistics]]'', vol. 6. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
* 1953. "The application of linguistics to language teaching". ''Anthropology Today'', ed. Kroeber, pp. 807-18. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* 1954. ''Thai Reader'', Washington, D.C.: American Council of Learned Societies.
* 1955. "Thai vocabulary". ''Program in Oriental Languages'', A:2. Washington, D. C.: American Council of Learned Societies.
* 1958. "The tones of four [[Tai]] dialects". ''[[Bull. Inst. Hist. Philol.]]'' 29:817-26.
* 1962. "What belongs in a bilingual dictionary? In Problems in Lexicography, eds. F. W. Householder and S. Soporta. IJAL 28:45-50
* 1964. ''Thai-English Student's Dictionary''. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
* 1969. ''The Prehistory of Languages''. Paris: Mouton.
* 1969, with [[H. R. Subhanka]]. ''Spoken Thai'', books I and II. Ithaca, N.Y.: Spoken Language Services.

=== Sources ===
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Haas English Wikipedia]
* [http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/mhaas.html Biographical memoir by Kenneth L. Pike]

[[Category:En]]
[[Category:BIOG|Haas, Mary]]

Portal:Biography

2007-10-30T08:32:53Z

Rikker: /* 20th century */

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Mary Rosamund Haas

2007-10-30T08:27:04Z

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Mary Rosamond Haas

2007-10-30T08:26:48Z

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Mary Haas

2007-10-30T08:26:29Z

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Mary R. Haas

2007-10-30T08:24:57Z

Rikker:

'''Mary Rosamond Haas''' (January 12, 1910 — May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in [[North American Indian]] languages, [[Thai]], and [[historical linguistics]]. She was a student of [[Edward Sapir]] and [[Franz Boas]].

== Life ==
Haas was born in Richmond, Indiana, where she grew up and attended both high school and college. In 1930-1931 she undertook graduate work at the University of Chicago in [[comparative philology]]. She published her first paper in 1933, ''A Visit to the Other World, a [[Nitinat]] Text'', a collaboration with [[Morris Swadesh]] (to whom she would later be married for a time). She went on to get her Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale (1931-1935), writing her doctoral dissertation on the [[Tunica]] American Indian language, entitled ''A Grammar of the Tunica Language''. Haas worked with the last fluent speaker of Tunica, [[Sesostrie Youchigant]], producing extensive texts and vocabularies.

Shortly afterwards, she conducted fieldwork with the last two speakers of the [[Natchez]] language in Oklahoma, [[Watt Sam]] and [[Nancy Raven]], resulting in extensive unpublished field notes that constitute the most reliable source of information on the language. Shortly after this, she conducted extensive fieldwork on the [[Creek]] language as well, and was the first modern linguist to collect extensive texts in the language. Most of her notes on Creek and Natchez remain unpublished, though they have begun to be used by contemporary linguists.

Haas was noted for her dedication to teaching linguistics, and to the role of the linguist in language instruction. Her student [[Karl V. Teeter]] pointed out in [http://www.ogmios.org/310.htm his obituary of Haas] that she trained more [[Americanist]] linguists than her former instructors [[Edward Sapir]] and [[Franz Boas]] combined: she supervised fieldwork in Americanist linguistics by more than 100 Ph.D. students.

Mary Haas was a pioneer in the study of the Thai language. World War II caused a need for speakers of Asian languages, so in 1941 Haas began work on the phonology and syntax Thai at the University of Michigan. In 1942-1943, while continuing her research in Thai, she was also an instructor of oriental languages there.

Haas died on May 17, 1996 in Alameda County, California, at the age of 86.

== Works ==
* 1932, with Morris Swadesh. "A visit to the other world; a Nitinat text". [[IJAL]] 7:195-208.
* 1941. "Tunica". ''[[Handbook of American Indian Languages]]'', vol. 4. New York: Augustin Publishers.
* 1943. "The linguist as a teacher of languages". ''[[Language (journal)|Language]]'' 19:203-208.
* 1950. "Tunica texts". ''[[University of California Publications in Linguistics]]'', vol. 6. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
* 1953. "The application of linguistics to language teaching". ''Anthropology Today'', ed. Kroeber, pp. 807-18. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* 1954. ''Thai Reader'', Washington, D.C.: American Council of Learned Societies.
* 1955. "Thai vocabulary". ''Program in Oriental Languages'', A:2. Washington, D. C.: American Council of Learned Societies.
* 1958. "The tones of four [[Tai]] dialects". ''[[Bull. Inst. Hist. Philol.]]'' 29:817-26.
* 1962. "What belongs in a bilingual dictionary? In Problems in Lexicography, eds. F. W. Householder and S. Soporta. IJAL 28:45-50
* 1964. ''Thai-English Student's Dictionary''. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
* 1969. ''The Prehistory of Languages''. Paris: Mouton.
* 1969, with [[H. R. Subhanka]]. ''Spoken Thai'', books I and II. Ithaca, N.Y.: Spoken Language Services.

== Sources ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Haas English Wikipedia]
* [http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/mhaas.html Biographical memoir by Kenneth L. Pike]

Mary R. Haas

2007-10-30T08:23:23Z

Rikker: New page: '''Mary Rosamond Haas''' (January 12, 1910 — May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics. ...

'''Mary Rosamond Haas''' (January 12, 1910 — May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in [[North American Indian]] languages, [[Thai]], and [[historical linguistics]]. She was a student of [[Edward Sapir]] and [[Franz Boas]].

== Life ==
Haas was born in Richmond, Indiana, where she grew up and attended both high school and college. In 1930-1931 she undertook graduate work at the University of Chicago in [[comparative philology]]. She published her first paper in 1933, ''A Visit to the Other World, a [[Nitinat]] Text'', a collaboration with [[Morris Swadesh]] (to whom she would later be married for a time). She went on to get her Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale (1931-1935), writing her doctoral dissertation on the [[Tunica]] American Indian language, entitled ''A Grammar of the Tunica Language''. Haas worked with the last fluent speaker of Tunica, [[Sesostrie Youchigant]], producing extensive texts and vocabularies.

Shortly afterwards, she conducted fieldwork with the last two speakers of the [[Natchez]] language in Oklahoma, [[Watt Sam]] and [[Nancy Raven]], resulting in extensive unpublished field notes that constitute the most reliable source of information on the language. Shortly after this, she conducted extensive fieldwork on the [[Creek]] language as well, and was the first modern linguist to collect extensive texts in the language. Most of her notes on Creek and Natchez remain unpublished, though they have begun to be used by contemporary linguists.

Haas was noted for her dedication to teaching linguistics, and to the role of the linguist in language instruction. Her student [[Karl V. Teeter]] pointed out in [http://www.ogmios.org/310.htm his obituary of Haas] that she trained more [[Americanist]] linguists than her former instructors [[Edward Sapir]] and [[Franz Boas]] combined: she supervised fieldwork in Americanist linguistics by more than 100 Ph.D. students.

Mary Haas was a pioneer in the study of the Thai language. World War II caused a need for speakers of Asian languages, so in 1941 Haas began work on the phonology and syntax Thai at the University of Michigan. In 1942-1943, while continuing her research in Thai, she was also an instructor of oriental languages there.

Haas died on May 17, 1996 in Alameda County, California, at the age of 86.

== Works ==
* 1932, with Morris Swadesh. "A visit to the other world; a Nitinat text". [[IJAL]] 7:195-208.
* 1941. "Tunica". ''[[Handbook of American Indian Languages]]'', vol. 4. New York: Augustin Publishers.
* 1943. "The linguist as a teacher of languages". ''[[Language (journal)|Language]]'' 19:203-208.
* 1950. "Tunica texts". ''[[University of California Publications in Linguistics]]'', vol. 6. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
* 1953. "The application of linguistics to language teaching". ''Anthropology Today'', ed. Kroeber, pp. 807-18. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* 1954. ''Thai Reader'', Washington, D.C.: American Council of Learned Societies.
* 1955. "Thai vocabulary". ''Program in Oriental Languages'', A:2. Washington, D. C.: American Council of Learned Societies.
* 1958. "The tones of four [[Tai]] dialects". ''[[Bull. Inst. Hist. Philol.]]'' 29:817-26.
* 1962. "What belongs in a bilingual dictionary? In Problems in Lexicography, eds. F. W. Householder and S. Soporta. IJAL 28:45-50
* 1964. ''Thai-English Student's Dictionary''. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
* 1969. ''The Prehistory of Languages''. Paris: Mouton.
* 1969, with [[H. R. Subhanka]]. ''Spoken Thai'', books I and II. Ithaca, N.Y.: Spoken Language Services.