Query: Courses in Etymology

[Eric Nielsen]

In addition to being one of my favorite teachers ever, she is one of the
nicest people I've ever known. She and her husband, Lance, used to put up
needy students in their house, gratis--and threw great parties. Her father
was the songwriter, Jimmy Eaton: "Turn Back the Hands of Time", etc.

Eric

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Oct 31, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Eric Nielsen wrote:
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> > Cecilia A. E. Luschnig used to teach a class called "English Word
> Origins"
> > at the Univ. of Idaho. She retired some years ago, and I don't know
> whether
> > her successor took over for her.
> > It is still listed in their course catalog and as an independent study
> > course.
> >
> > http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/isi/Syllabi/flen243.pdf
> >
> > She authored several books on the subject:
>
>
> These (the three just below) look great from the brief description on
> amazon, but not having an extra $50-$65 of disposable income with which to
> dispose I was hoping to find copies in the Yale library, which turns out to
> possess 14 of her actual classics books, including my favorite, _Gorgon's
> Severed Head_.
>
> LH
>
>
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/Etyma-C-Luschnig/dp/0819125717/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4
> >
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Etymidion-Students-Workbook-Vocabulary-Building/dp/0819148385/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_8
> >
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Etymidion-II-C-Luschnig/dp/0819193879/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_5
> >
> > As well as one of the standard texts for learning ancient Greek:
> >
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Ancient-Greek-Literary-Approach/dp/0872208893/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
> >
> > I went to the U. of Idaho to study Systematic Botany, Geology, and
> Forestry
> > and ended up majoring in Classics and Microbiology. Of all the subjects I
> > studied, I found Classics to have the best teachers, IMHO. I didn't take
> a
> > Linguistics class until I went to the Univ. of Wisc., and then I was
> > thoroughly hooked: I've been a language dilettante ever since.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu>
> wrote:
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> >> At U. Minnesota Anatoly Liberman's Courses Taught list includes
> >> Honors Course: The Origin of English Words.
> >>
> >> http://gsd.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=aliber
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> >> Stephen Goranson
> >> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
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> >> From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of
> >> Laurence Horn [laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
> >> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 2:32 PM
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> >> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Query: Courses in Etymology
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> >> My course called "Structure and History of English Words" (and its
> >> predecessor, "Words and Meaning") has a lot of etymology (and
> etymythology)
> >> in it, but it's not an etymology course per se.  Other courses with
> similar
> >> coverage, such as those taught by Suzanne Kemmer at Rice and (if he's
> still
> >> doing it) Will Leben at Stanford are similar in this respect.
> >>
> >> LH
> >>
> >> On Oct 29, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
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> >>>
> >>> This is just for curiosity:  Does anyone know of any college courses in
> >> etymology taught in the U.S.?
> >>> I know that various scholars are interested in etymology, but does
> >> anyone actually teach a course
> >>> in it?
> >>>
> >>> I've been teaching one for some years now but am wondering if there's
> >> anyone else out there doing likewise.
> >>>
> >>> Gerald Cohen
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