[Lgpolicy] Recognizing Hal Schiffman

Tue May 2 15:38:39 UTC 2023

Dear Francis,

It’s wonderful to see this – great that the Linguist List archives are restored (which I know took your sustained back-and-forthing to accomplish!) and so good to have this bibliography of Hal Schiffman’s published works.  Many thanks to you and to Sara Clement.

The lasting impact of Hal Schiffman’s long-term interest and research in language policy is visible through this forum and his publications.  I had first learned of Hal’s work when I started teaching my language policy in education seminar in 1987 and soon after found his working paper series out of the University of Washington, where he served as professor in Asian Languages from 1967-1995, Chair of the Department 1982-1987 and Director of the Language Center there 1994-1995.

Schiffman, H. F. (1990). The balance of power in multiglossic languages: Implications for language shift. University of Washington Language and Society Papers Series.  Later published in International Journal of the  Sociology of Language 103, 115-148 (1993).

Schiffman, H. F. (1990). Typologies of multilingualism and typologies of language policy: Incorporating register and repertoire. University of Washington Language and Society Papers Series.   See also http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/popcult/handouts/register/regrep/node1.html

Schiffman, H. F. (1991). Swiss-German diglossia: Who holds the decision-making power? University of Washington Working Papers Series.  Later published in Southwest Journal of Linguistics (10) 1 ? but I can’t find it – not digitized.

Schiffman, H. F. (1991). Resisting arrest in status planning: Structural and covert impediments to status change. University of Washington Language and Society Papers Series.   Later published in Language and Communication 12(1), 1-15 (1992).

So I was thrilled when Hal became my colleague at Penn in 1995, as were my students in the following years including you 😊  Recruited by a Penn search committee including my colleague Professor Teresa Pica, Hal served as the first Director of Penn Language Center, which went from strength to strength and continues to thrive under the leadership of Professor Christina Frei and administrative director Lada Vassilieva http://plc.sas.upenn.edu/ . Hal was simultaneously appointed Luce Professor of Language Learning in the Department of South Asia Regional Studies at Penn.

Hal and I – and our mutual students in language policy – enjoyed many collaborations over the years, including the Consortium for Language Policy seminars and LgPolicy listserve which Hal initiated – and fittingly passed on to you https://clpp.umbc.edu/
https://lists.mail.umbc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy
One of my favorite memories is the celebratory Joshua A. Fishman 80th Birthday Symposium, held at Penn Hillel on September 10, 2006, a full, lively and distinguished program of speakers, audience, and graduate students, and an event which you were key in helping to put together, including a lovely website which thankfully remains accessible today http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/fishman80/
Five of us colleagues, an informal ‘organizing committee’ for the Symposium, including Hal and me as well as Ofelia García at Teachers College at the time, Rakhmiel Peltz at Drexel University, and Martin Pütz at University of Koblenz-Landau, launched our two co-edited festschrift volumes in Fishman’s honor that day, with Multilingual Matters publishers Mike and Marjukka Grover also present, as I recall.

García, O., Peltz, R., & Schiffman, H. F. (2006). Language loyalty, continuity and change: Joshua A. Fishman’s contributions to international sociolinguistics. Multilingual Matters.
Hornberger, N. H., & Pütz, M. (Eds.). (2006). Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman. Multilingual Matters.

But I also savor with gratitude and deep appreciation the many informal and thought-provoking exchanges, conversations, emails, and seminars Hal and I shared together.  Ever-inquisitive and encyclopedic in his knowledge, Hal was a gentle and courteous human being, a true scholar in every sense.

Thanks again for taking up and sustaining the CLPP mantle,

Nancy

Nancy H. Hornberger<https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/faculty-directory/hornberger>, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
University of Pennsylvania

On 5/2/23, 6:58 AM, "Lgpolicy" <lgpolicy-bounces at lists.mail.umbc.edu> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

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Best,
Francis

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Bibliography of the Works of Harold F. Schiffman

Dissertation

Schiffman, H. F. (1969). A transformational grammar of the Tamil aspectual system (Order No. T-17459). [Doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (302514527).

Books

Schiffman, H. F. (1971). Reader for advanced spoken Tamil, parts 1 and 2. Institute of International Studies, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Schiffman, H. F. & Eastman, C. (Eds.). (1975). Dravidian phonological systems. South Asian Studies Program, Institute for Comparative and Foreign Area Studies, and University of Washington Press.

Schiffman, H. F. (1979). A grammar of spoken Tamil. Christian Literature Society.

Schiffman, H. F. (1983). A reference grammar of spoken Kannada (Vol. 39). University of Washington Press and School of International Studies Publications on Asia.

Shapiro, M. C., & Schiffman, H. F. (1983). Language and society in South Asia. Foris Publications.

Breton, R. (1991). Geolinguistics: Language dynamics and ethno-linguistic geography. (H. F. Schiffman, Trans.)  Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa. (Original work published 1983)

Schiffman, H. (1996). Linguistic culture and language policy. Routledge.

Blanchet, P., Breton, R., & Schiffman, H. F. (Eds.). (1999). Les langues régionales de France: Un état des lieux à la veille du XXIe siècle [The regional languages of France: An inventory on the eve of the 21st century]. Louvain-la-Neuve: Éditions Peeters: Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain.

Schiffman, H. F. (1999). A reference grammar of spoken Tamil. Cambridge University Press.

Blanchet, P., Schiffman, H. F. & Fishman, J. (Eds.). (2004). The sociolinguistics of southern “Occitan” France, Revisited. Mouton de Gruyter.

García, O., Peltz, R., & Schiffman, H. F. (2006). Language loyalty, continuity and change: Joshua A. Fishman’s contributions to international sociolinguistics. Multilingual Matters.

Schiffman, H. F., & Renganathan, V. (2008). An English dictionary of the Tamil verb. Linguistic Data Consortium.

Schiffman, H. F. (Ed.). (2012). Language policy and language conflict in Afghanistan and its neighbors: The changing politics of language choice. Brill.

Articles

Schiffman, H. F., & Messick, S. (1963). Chapter VII: Scaling and measurement theory. Review of Educational Research, 33(5), 533-542.

Schiffman, H. F. (1976). Causativity and the Tamil verbal base. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 5(2), 238-248.

Schiffman, H. F. (1982). Negation in Tamil: Semantic and syntactic aspects. South Asian Review, 6(3), 104-116.

Schiffman, H. F. (1987). Losing the battle for balanced bilingualism: The German-American case. Language Problems and Language Planning, 11(1), 66-81.

Dillon, G., Doyle, A., Eastman, C., Schiffman, H., Silberstein, S., Toolan, M., Kline, S., & Philipsen, G. (1989). Analyzing a speech event: The Bush-Rather exchange - a (not very) dramatic dialogue. Cultural Anthropology, 4(1), 73-94.

Schiffman, H. F. (1989). Language loyalty in South Asia: Some problems and approaches. Berliner Indologische Studien, 4, 215-228.

Schiffman, H. F. (1991). Swiss-German diglossia. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 10(1), 173-188.

Schiffman, H. F. (1992). 'Resisting arrest' in status planning: Structural and covert impediments to status change. Language and Communication, 12(1), 1-15.

Schiffman, H. F. (1993). Intervocalic -v- deletion in Tamil: Evidence for aspect as a morphological category. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 113(4), 513-528.

Schiffman, H. F. (1993). The balance of power in multiglossic languages: Implications for language shift. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 103, 115-148.

Schiffman, H. F. (1995). Desiderata for a modern English dictionary of Tamil. South Asian Language Review, 5(1), 1-22.

Schiffman, H. F. (1995). Language shift in the Tamil communities of Malaysia and Singapore: The paradox of egalitarian language policy. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 14(1-2), 151-165.

Schiffman, H. F. (1998). Standardization or restandardization: The case for "standard" spoken Tamil. Language in Society, 27(3), 359-385.

Schiffman, H. F. (2002). Malaysian Tamils and Tamil linguistic culture. Language and Communication, 22(2), 159-169.

Schiffman, H. F. (2003). Tongue-tied in Singapore: A language policy for Tamil? Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2(2), 105-125.

Schiffman, H. F. (2005). Deverbal nominal derivation in Tamil.  International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 34(2), 159-166.

Schiffman, H. F. (2005). Verbal nouns in Tamil. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 34(2), 159-166.

Schiffman, H. F. (2007). Is Kannada endangered? Apagrasta Kannada.

Schiffman, H. F. (2008). The ausbau issue in the Dravidian languages: The case of Tamil and the problem of purism. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 191, 45-63.

Schiffman, H. F., & Weiner, R. E. (2012). The language policy of state drivers' license testing: Expediency, symbolism, or creeping incrementalism. Language Policy, 11(2), 189-196.

Chapters in Books

Schiffman, H. F. (1974). Language, linguistics and politics in Tamilnad. In E. Gerow & M. D. Lang (Eds.), Studies in the language and culture of South Asia (pp. 125-34). University of Washington Press.

Schiffman, H. F.  (1978). Diglossia and purity/pollution in Tamil.  In C. Maloney (Ed.), Contributions to Asian studies, Vol. II: Language and civilization change in South Asia (pp. 98-110). Brill.

Schiffman, H. F. (1979). The Coimbatore dialect. In B. Beck (Ed.), Perspectives on a regional culture: Essays about the Coimbatore district of South India (pp. 111-128). Carolina Academic Press and Vikas Publishing House.

Schiffman, H. F. (1980). The Tamil liquids. In B. R. Caron, M. A. B. Hoffman, M. Silva, J. Van Oosten, D. K. Alford, K. A. Hunold, M. Macaulay, & J. Manley-Buser (Eds.), Proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, (pp. 100-110). Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California.

Schiffman, H. F. (1981). Handling variation in South Asian dialectology: Is there a forest among the trees?" In M. Arumachalam (Ed.), Proceedings of the 5th international conference-seminar of Tamil studies (pp. 29-36). International Association of Tamil Research.

Schiffman, H. F. (1985). Diglossic variation in Tamil film and fiction (with S. Arokianathan). In B. Krishnamurti, C. Masica, & A. K. Sinha (Eds.), South Asian languages: Structure, convergence, and diglossia (pp. 371-381). Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House.

 Schiffman, H. F. (1985). South Indian linguistics today. In R. Frykenberg & P. Kolenda (Eds.), Studies of South India: An anthology of recent research and scholarship (pp. 295-307). New Era Publications.

Schiffman, H. F.  (1986). Deferential speech acts and the pragmatics of politeness in Tamil: From case to aspect. In J. A. Fishman, A. Tabouret-Keller, M. Clyne, B. Krishnamurti, & M. Abdulaziz (Eds.), The Fergusonian impact. Vol. II, sociolinguistics and the sociology of language (pp. 23-33). Mouton de Gruyter.

Schiffman, H. F. (1988). The role of the Tamil film in social and political change. In M. Jayazery & W. Winter (Eds.), Languages and cultures: Studies in honor of Edgar C. Polomé (pp. 581-590). Mouton de Gruyter.

Schiffman, H. F. (1989). The Malayalam-Tamil relationship and the abstractness of phonological representations. In B. G. Nair (Ed.), Proceedings of the first international seminar on Dravidian linguistics and the 14th All-India conference of Dravidian linguistics (pp. 9-27). Dravidian Linguistics Association.

Schiffman, H. F. (1991). Kannada. In W. Bright (Ed.), Oxford international encyclopedia of linguistics, vol. II (pp. 266-268). Clarendon Press.

Schiffman, H. F. (1994). Diglossia, linguistic culture and language policy in Southeast Asia. In K. L. Adams & T. J. Hudak (Eds.), Papers from the second annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 1992 (pp.279-307). Arizona State University.

Schiffman, H. F. (1997). Diglossia as a sociolinguistic situation. In F. Coulmas (Ed.), The handbook of sociolinguistics (pp. 205-216). Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Schiffman, H. F. (1999). Language, primordialism and sentiment. In G. Palmer & D. Occhi (Eds.), Languages of sentiment (pp. 25-38). John Benjamins.

Schiffman, H. F. (1999). South and Southeast Asia. In J. A. Fishman (Ed.), Handbook of language and ethnic identity (pp. 431-443). Oxford University Press.

Schiffman, H. F. (2002). French language policy: Centrism, Orwellian dirigisme, or economic determinism?. In L. Wei, J. -M. Dewaele, & A. Housen (Eds.), Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism (pp. 89-104). De Gruyter Mouton.

Schiffman, H. F. (2002). Linguistic tolerance policies: Can a viable model be constructed for Moldova? In A. Gremalschi (Ed.), Educating tolerance in multicultural societies: Roundtable discussion materials (pp. 251-259). Chisinau: Soros Foundation Moldova and ARC Publishing House.

Schiffman, H. F. (2004). The Tamil case system. In J. -L. Chevillard and E. Wilden (Eds.), South-Indian horizons: Felicitation volume for François Gros on the occasion of his 70th birthday (pp. 301-313). Institut Français de Pondichéry and École Française d'Extrême-Orient.

Schiffman, H. F. (2005). Bilingualism in South Asia: Friend or foe?. In J. Cohen, K. T. McAlister, K. Rolstad, & J. MacSwan (Eds.), Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on bilingualism (pp. 2104-2114). Cascadilla Press.

Schiffman, H. F. (2005). The grammaticalization of aspect in Tamil and its semantic sources.  In S. Mufwene, E. Francis, & R. Wheeler (Eds.) Polymorphous linguistics: Jim McCawley’s legacy (pp. 83-108). MIT Press.

Renganathan, V., & Schiffman, H. F. (2006). The impact of technological advances on Tamil language use and planning. In A. Saxena,& L. Borin (Eds.) Lesser known languages of South Asia: Status and policies, case studies and applications of information technology (pp. 203-210). Mouton de Gruyter.

Schiffman, H. F. (2006). Language policy and linguistic culture. In T. Ricento (Ed.),  An introduction to language policy: Theory and method (pp. 111-126). Blackwell Publishing.

Schiffman, H. F. (2007). Tamil language policy in Singapore: The role of implementation. In V. Vaish, S. Gopinathan, & Y. Liu (Eds.), Language, capital, culture: Critical studies of language and education in Singapore (pp. 209-226). Sense Publishers.

Schiffman, H. F. (2009). Language, language policy, and citizenship: Three views compared. In J. V. Ciprut (Ed.), The future of citizenship (pp. 75-95). MIT Press.

Schiffman, H. F. (2010). Language contact in South Asia. In R. Hickey (Ed.), The handbook of language contact (pp. 738-756). Blackwell Publishing.

Book Reviews

Schiffman, H. F. (1978). [Review of the book Linguistic composition of the nations of the world: Vol. I, central and western South Asia, by H. Kloss & G. C. McConnell (Eds)]. The Modern Language Journal, LXII(4), 216-217.

Schiffman, H. F. (1982). [Review of the book Language and linguistic area: Essays, by M. B. Emeneau]. Language, 58(1), 185-193.

Schiffman, H. F. (1990). [Review of the book Council from the ancients: A study of Badaga proverbs, prayers, omens and curses, by P. Hockings]. Language in Society, 19(4), 607-609.

Schiffman, H. F. (1990). [Review of the book Reduplizierte Verbstämme im Tamil, by T. Malten]. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 53(3), 537-538.

Schiffman, H. F. (1990). [Review of the book The serial verb formation in the Dravidian languages, by S. Steever]. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 110(1), 148-149.

Schiffman, H. F. (1992). [Review of the book The Indo-Aryan languages, by C. P. Masica]. American Anthropologist, 94(4), 1017-1018.

Schiffman, H. F. (1999). [Review of the book English in new cultural contexts, by  J. A. Foley, T. Kandiah, B. Zhiming, A. F. Gupta, L. Alsagoff, H. C. Lick, L. Wee, I. S. Talib, & W. Bokhorst-Heng]. Language and Education, 13(3), 228-331.

Schiffman, H. F. (2000). [Review of the book Language, society and education in Singapore, by S. Gopinathan, A. Pakir, H. W. Kam, & V. Saravanan]. Language and Eduction, 14(1), 64-68.

Schiffman, H. F. (2001). [Review of the book Atlas of the languages and ethnic communities of South Asia, by R. J.-L. Breton]. Language in Society, 30(2), 331-332.

Schiffman, H. F. (2001). [Review of the book Language, education and culture, by T. Rahman]. Language in Society, 30(2), xvi, 318.

Schiffman, H.F. (2002). Response to Sanford B. Steever's Review of A reference grammar of spoken Tamil. Language 78(3), 556-558.

Schiffman, H. F. (2003). [Review of the book Language, ideology and power: Language-learning among Muslims of Pakistan and North India, by Tariq Rahman]. Language Policy, 2(2), 203-205.

Schiffman, H. F. (2004). [Review of the book  Fighting words: Language policy and ethnic relations in Asia, by M. E. Brown & Š. Ganguly (Eds)]. Journal of Asian Studies 63(4), 1069-1071.

Schiffman, H. F. (2009). [Review of the book Linguistic inequality in scientific communication today, by H. A. Carli & U. Ammon (Eds.)]. Language Policy 8, 303-305.

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