Obscure Ceremonies

[David Costa]

I never met Ken, being part of a West Coast linguistics circuit that had 
very little to do with MIT, but I have to say, that is a wonderful bit of
encouragement for a professor to give to a grad student. And of course, he
was right. :-)

David

> Ken Hale was the first  East Coast linguist who was enthusiastic about my
> working on Osage, years ago in Massachusetts.  I was very grateful for his
> guidance.  "It's not that you should do it, Carolyn, it's that you HAVE to
> do it,"  he said.
> Carolyn Quintero
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> [mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu] On Behalf Of Pamela Munro
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 7:59 AM
> To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> Subject: Re: Obscure Ceremonies
>
> I know just what you mean.
>
> Koontz John E wrote:
>
>>I have retired Ken Hale's email address from the list.  After many years
>>of functioning perfectly well, if suddenly stopped working.  No doubt this
>>is simply a matter of changes or cleanup in the MIT email facility, but I
>>feel nevertheless as if some milestone in Siouan studies has been passed.
>>
>>John E. Koontz
>>http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Pamela Munro,
> Professor, Linguistics, UCLA
> UCLA Box 951543
> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
> http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/munro/munro.htm
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