30.845, All: Obituary: Eric Hamp (1920-2019)

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Subject: 30.845, All: Obituary: Eric Hamp (1920-2019)

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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:30:14
From: Wayles Browne [ewb2 at cornell.edu]
Subject: Obituary: Eric Hamp (1920-2019)

 
The family of the historical linguist Eric Hamp has reported Eric’s death on
Sunday, February 17. Eric Hamp was an Indo-Europeanist. He made contributions
to the study of Slavic and Celtic as well as of many smaller IE branches such
as Albanian, many of these based on his own dialect field work.  He added to
our knowledge of the Balkan Sprachbund. Further, he was a scholar of American
Indian languages and an editor of the International Journal of American
Linguistics.
His Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_P._Hamp states that
he was born in London on November 16, 1920, so that he lived to the age of 98.
The same article cites his long service at the University of Chicago, a tiny
selection of his 3500-plus publications, the six Festschrifts that were
dedicated to him, and the unique honor of receiving a commemorative stamp
(from the Albanian post office) while still living: see
https://www.stampworld.com/en_US/stamps/stamp_info_popup2/?id=685053.
May he be long and warmly remembered among colleagues and friends.
Wayles Browne, at the request of Victor Friedman
Wayles Browne, Prof. emeritus, Cornell University
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Ithaca, New York 14850, U.S.A.

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Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable

Subject Language(s): Aimol (aim)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European



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