27.1581, Featured Linguist: Jaklin Kornfilt

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Subject: 27.1581, Featured Linguist: Jaklin Kornfilt

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:08:49
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Jaklin Kornfilt

 
Dear LINGUIST List Readers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist, Jaklin Kornfilt, for
Fund Drive 2016.

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The Istanbul of my childhood was so multilingual that not to become a linguist
would have been impossible for anyone with an ear for language and an interest
in figuring out puzzles posed by all those languages and dialects. In my own
case, it was German, French, Russian and Yiddish that I was exposed to at
home, in addition to the Greek of my nanny and of many neighbors. My cousins
had an Armenian nanny. Many acquaintances spoke Ladino at home. It was
wonderful to be taken along to my mother’s shopping expeditions, because,
depending on the merchant, she would speak a different language: Turkish,
Greek, Ladino—and with some, even Russian. It was fun to listen to the two
rather different-sounding Yiddish dialects of my grandmothers, one of whom
lived with us and the other used to come for a day-long visit once a week.
They didn’t like each other very much and so they used to sit and have very
polite but very poisonous conversations for hours. Once I learned to write, I
devised an alphabet for transcribing those conversations, and when I ran out
of topics for my letters to my father, who used to be away a lot on business,
I would include some of those transcriptions; they amused him very much, or so
he claimed.

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