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<x-tab> </x-tab>Yes,
Jakobson was there, but with some footnotes. Boas was an important
undergraduate impetus. As I remember Jakobson's description,
he arrived in New York (and met with Boas) after Greenberg would already
have left for Northwestern. Sapir already was
publishing in Europe and participating in European developments before
WWII (see his Collected Writings)--and Jakobson always made clear (in
writings and in a course of his that I audited as an undergrad) the
importance of Sapir to his work. Greenberg, in his inagural
"Distinguished Lecture" for the American Anthropological Assn.
in Nov. 1970, delineated the importance of Saussure for his
thinking.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Greenberg
went to Northwestern (and Herskovitz) for his Ph. D., I was told,
basically in order to be able to construct his own program without being
told what to do. As Dil noted (p. xi) in his introduction to
his Stanford UP collection of Greenberg's papers, Greenberg
spent a year before his Ph. D. (1940) and some time after at Yale with
Bloomfield, Sapir, Bloch and others. <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Trubetzkoy's
influence seems important, and seems separable from Jakobson's.
Unlike Jakobson who never let data get in the way of a good idea,
Greenberg was always exceedingly careful and rigorous about his
data. Also important seems Sapir. I should go back to look at
my old class notes from the mid 1960s, but I remember learning about both
Prague and Sapir in Greenberg's classes. Many of my friends and I
have seen Greenberg as the modern successor to both Trubetzkoy and
Sapir. <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>I hope
these observations are of some interest and use.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>David<br><br>
At 03:35 PM 5/12/01 -0500, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>As for
the possible influences received by Joseph Greenberg, who has one way or
another influenced almost every one of us, shouldn't we <i>chercher
l'homme</i> somewhere near Jakobson (among many others, of course), who,
in his turn, brought to America an awesome European legacy? <br>
Max E. Figueroa-Esteva<br>
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