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<DIV>Publicado no <EM>SSILA Bulletin </EM>(Number 228: September 11, 2005)</DIV>
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<DIV>* Norman A. McQuown<BR> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<BR>From Michael Silverstein, 8 Sept 2005:<BR><BR>Norman A. McQuown, eminent anthropological linguist of the languages of Mexico and Guatemala, died on Wednesday, 7 September 2005, of natural causes. He was 91. Associated with The University of Chicago since 1946, at the time of his death he was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Linguistics, having also served as founding Director of the Language Laboratory and Archives. One of the last surviving members of the extraordinary group of students of Edward Sapir at Yale University in the 1930s, McQuown was early interested in the question of international auxiliary languages, especially Esperanto, but turned to a documentation and analysis of Totonac as his doctoral dissertation (Ph.D. 1940).</DIV>
<DIV><BR>During World War II, he was responsible for Turkish in the work of the Army Service Forces Language Section (''165 Broadway''). After the war, McQuown turned to a career of research and teaching of the indigenous languages of Mexico and Central America, compiling vast archives of documentation from the earliest times in an unparalleled collection of<BR>microforms now housed in the Joseph Regenstein Library at the university.<BR>During the 1950s and 1960s, he was a pioneer in the use of the then new technology of mainframe computers for documentary and pedagogical purposes, the archives of which are being rendered compatible for current computational hardwares and softwares.</DIV>
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<DIV>He is survived by his wife, Dolores, his daughter, Kathryn, and a grandson, Reed.</DIV>
<DIV><BR> --Michael Silverstein<BR> University of Chicago<BR><BR></DIV></DIV><BR><BR><DIV>
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