27.1646, Featured Linguist: Daniel Everett

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Subject: 27.1646, Featured Linguist: Daniel Everett

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Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 10:17:30
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Daniel Everett

 
Dear LINGUIST List Readers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist, Daniel Everett, for
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I suppose that there are some linguists familiar with the fact that I began my
fieldwork as a missionary. When I decided to become a Bible translator with
Wycliffe Bible Translators/The Summer Institute of Linguistics (legally
distinct entities with the same membership and doctrinal allegiance required
to be a member of the former), I had no idea what linguistics in fact was. I
quickly got an idea, though, as my path took me to the University of Oklahoma
SIL summer courses, where I took my first-ever linguistics course with Kenneth
L. Pike.

Pike was a huge influence on me at the time. I watched him do monolingual
demonstrations in front of large audiences and make the case through personal
example that linguistics was a holistic enterprise, engaging the full mind,
personality and body of the linguist. I learned from him at the time what I
have only recently begun to think of as the most important insight of 20th
century linguistics, the etic-emic distinction.

But I was not thinking about linguistics any more than I had to at the time. I
realized that my courses in Koiné Greek and my experience with Spanish,
growing up on the California-Mexico border had first revealed to me my love
for languages and had prepared me to also enjoy linguistics. But my primary
objective was to build a church among an indigenous community somewhere in the
world.

(...)

Read more:

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