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I was exposed to methods of fieldwork on non-literary languages, including intensive phonetic practice and analysis of material, but especially to Sapir's approach to anthropological linguistics, in which language is only part of the total culture, but a most important part, since in it the community
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He was also the visiting professor at The Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh. Well into his 90s, Emeneau was known to visit the Departments of Linguistics and South and Southeast Asian studies at Berkeley, posing interesting and difficult linguistic questions to new generations of students of Indian
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Emeneau contributed study of the lesser known, non-literary languages of the Dravidian family. His work on the Toda language remains essential reading for students of Dravidian. His phonetic descriptions of the language, based on impressionistic data collection without the aid of recording devices,
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Emeneau was named the Collitz Professor of the Linguistic Society of America in 1953, and at Berkeley he gave the Faculty Research Lecture in 1957. The recipient of four honorary degrees — from the
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His linguistic descriptions of Dravidian languages were often accompanied by sociolinguistic, folkloric, and ethnographic description. Emeneau is also credited with the study of
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Given the dire employment situation in the early 1930s, Emeneau stayed on at Yale after completing his dissertation, taking courses in the "new linguistics" being taught by
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In addition to the Department of Linguistics, Emeneau also founded the Survey of California Indian Languages (later renamed the
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from Yale and the Medal of Merit of the American Oriental Society. Emeneau was also a Fellow of the
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to further his classical studies. On obtaining his B.A. degree from Dalhousie, Emeneau was awarded a
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Jambhaladatta's Version of the Vetālapañcavinśati: A Critical Sanskrit Text in Transliteration
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A Course in Annamese: Lessons in the Pronunciation and Grammar of the Annamese Language
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in 1926, where he took a teaching appointment in Latin. While at Yale, Emeneau began
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Emeneau's contribution to Dravidian linguistics includes detailed descriptions of
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Spajic', S., Ladefoged, P., Bhaskararao, P. (1996). "The Trills of Toda".
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University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
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Perhaps Emeneau's greatest achievement in Dravidian studies is the
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was corroborated some 60 years later by the eminent phoneticians
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It was Sapir who suggested that Emeneau take up a study of the
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Bright, William (June 2006). "Murray B. Emeneau: 1928-2006".
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in South India with an aim toward a comparative study of the
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Ritual Structure and Language Structure of the Todas
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phenomena in linguistics, with his seminal article,
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and Peri Bhaskararao using modern phonetic methods.
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M. B. Emeneau

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Berkeley, California
American
Dravidian
linguistic areas
Dalhousie University
Yale University
Franklin Edgerton
Yale University
University of California, Berkeley
William Bright
Ram Karan Sharma
Bh. Krishnamurti
Linguistics
Dravidian
Sanskrit
Indology
Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
Lunenburg
Dalhousie University
Halifax
Rhodes Scholarship
Balliol College
Oxford University
Yale University
Sanskrit
Indo-European studies

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