Obscure Ceremonies
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Wed Nov 9 17:47:07 UTC 2005
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Carolyn Quintero wrote:
> 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.
That's such a wonderful thing to have said! I believe Ken Hale encouraged
a great many students to do descriptive linguistics, with equal emphasis
on descriptive and linguistics, from what I've seen. This might be a good
moment to remember Josie White Eagle, too: also unfortunately no longer
with us. She was one of Ken's students and another fellow Siouanist.
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