ERIC ED366200: Twenty-Five Years of Linguistic Research and Teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate Research by Doctoral and Master's Degree Students.

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TITLE
Twenty-Five Years of Linguistic Research and Teaching
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Graduate Research by Doctoral and Master's Degree
Students.
INSTITUTION
Illinois Univ., Urbana. Coll. of Liberal Arts and
Sciences.
PUB DATE
92
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DESCRIPTORS
Educational History; Graduate Study, Higher
Education; *Language Research; *L1nguistic Theory;
*Program Development; *Researchers; *Student
Research
IDENTIFIERS
*Institutional History; *University of Illinois
Urbana Champaign
ABSTRACT
A special issue of the journal, dedicated to Henry B.
Kahane, the late founder of the Department of Linguistics st the
University of Illinois at Champaign, celebrates the department's
first 25 years. It contains three parts. The first consists of
specifically commissioned papers originally written in 1973-74 and
meant for a specific project, including: an introduction (Henry
Kahane, Braj B. Kachru); "Linguistics in the Midwestern Region:
Beginnings to 1973" (Kachru); "History of the Department of
Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"
(Kahane); "The Europsan Emigree" (Kahane); "Tales of
an Eager then
Lonely then Contented Dinosaur" (Charles E. Osgood); "How To Find the
Right Tree To Bark Up" (Robert B. Lees); "Three Linguistic
Reincarnations of a Kashmiri Pandit" (Kachru); and "A Sense of
Perspective" (Charles W. Kisseberth)
The second part contains
.
memorial tributes to Henry Kahane. Part 3 consists of abstracts of
the dissertations and theses of doctoral and master's degree
candidates in the department, including research in progress up to
August 1992. These works are also indexed by author, language,
region, area of concentration, and advisor. (MSE)
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Rajeshwari Pandharipande, James H. Yoon, Ladislav Zgusta, and Alessandro
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BEST COPY AVAILABLE
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF
LINGUISTIC RESEARCH AND TEACHING
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Graduate Research by Doctoral and Master's Degree Students
with Autobiographical Vignettes
by Five Founders of the Department
EDITOR
Braj B. Kachru
With the assistance of
Amy C. Cheatham
and
Frances Vavrus
Special Issue of
STUDIES IN THE LINGUISTIC SCIENCES
VOLUME 22, NUMBER 2
FALL .1992
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
URBANA, ILLINOIS 61801
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CONTENTS
vii
Foreword
Preface
xiii
xv
Acknowledgements
the Midwest and at
Part I: Perspectives on
Linguistics
in
Illinois
Introduction: Henry Kahane and Braj B. Kachru
3
Linguistics in the Midwestern Region: Beginnings to 1973:
Braj B. Kachru
7
History of the Department of Linguistics at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Henry Kahane
3 7
The European Emigree: Henry Kahane
3 9
The Tale of an Eager then Lonely then Contented Dinosaur:
42
Charles E. Osgood
How to Find the Right Tree to Bark Up: Robert B. Lees
5 9
Three Linguistic Reincarnations of a Kashmiri Pandit:
65
Braj B. Kachru
A Sense of Perspective: Charles W. Kisseberth
7 5
Part II: Memorial Tributes to a Builder: Henry R. Kahane
85
Introduction
87
Memorial Tribute to Henry R. Kahane
87
Elmer H. Antonsen
89
Roberta Kahane Garner
91
Charles Kahane
92
Morton W. Weir
Larry R. Faulkner
9 4
Ladislav Zgusta
9 5
97
13raj B. Kachru
Research
Graduate
Student
III:
Part
1964-1992
103
Introduction
Ph.D. Dissertation Abstracts
1 0 5
Master's Thesis Abstracts
23 9
Research in Progress up to August 1992
25 9
263
Author Index
267
Language Index
273
Regional Index
27 7
Arca of Concentration
Index of Advisors
2 8 1
5
This volume is dedicated to the memory of
Henry Kahane
September 11, 1992
November 2, 1902
Foreword
In the academic year 1990-91, the Department of Linguistics at
at Urbana-Champaign celebrated the 25th
the University of Illinois
anniversary of its founding. Among the commemorative events was a
series of lectures presented by eight nationaliy and internationally
the Depart-
prominent scholars who had received
training
their
in
ment. These lectures have now been published as Linguistics
the
in
Nineties: Papers from a Lecture Series in Celebration of the Depart-
Anniversary, edited by Hans Henrich Hock
ment's
Twenty-Fifth
19901). Other events
the Linguistic Sciences 20:2 [Fall
(Studies in
were state-of-the-art conferences on "The Organizaton of Phonology:
Features and Domains", and on "Linguistics and Computation: Com-
putational Linguistics and the Foundations of Linguistic Theory", the
of
Asian
South
thirteenth
meeting
the
of national
hosting
the
the University
Languages Analysis Roundtable, and an exhibition
in
representative works by
faculty
members
Department
of
Library
(for details of the entire program, see SLS 20:2 x-xii). This year-long
of the
celebration now reaches
publication
culmination
its
the
in
the hi'story of the Department
present volume outlining highlights in
University of Illinois
linguistic research
and cataloguing
at
the
at
of master's theses and
the form of abstracts
Urbana-Champaign in
the De-
doctoral dissertations by students who received degrees in
partment over the first quater-century of its existence.
The 25th Anniver.ary Lecture Series was introduced by the
late
Henry R. Kahane with a talk entitled "The Establishment of Linguis-
this volume along with auto-
presenteJ in
Illinois", which
tics
at
is
biographical vignettes by Henry R. Kahane, Charles E. Osgood, Robert
B. Lees, Braj B. Kachru, and Charles W. Kisseberth, all of whom played
in establishing the Department and in determining its
crucial roles
quarter-century. These vignettes were solicited
course over the
first
in 1974 for a book planned by Thomas Sebeok, but for certain rea-
here seems par-
sons, the book never materialized.
Their inclusion
appropriate, since they provide unusual and delightful
in-
ticularly
sights into the human side of the history of a linguistics department
birth, and on
from its conception, through the gestation period, to
its
to the
its coming of age. While these vignettes refer specifically
to
Department of Linguistics at Illinois, they cast interesting light on the
personalities and thinking of some of the most prominent linguists of
the founders of the
the second half of the twentieth century, since
or were
Department were themselves ensconced among these
their
early colleagues or students. Of general human interest are the man-
ner in which these five scholars were attracted to the field of linguis-
tics and the quirks of fate that led them to their own specific des-
Central Europe or South
tinies, whether thcir
started
out
paths
in
is perhaps a pity that the
Asia, in Massachusetts or the Midwest.
It
it seems to me that
book planned by Seheok did not materialize, but
these vignettes from almost twenty years ago now make even better
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reading than they would have then, for they have taken on a certain
patina with time) and we can now judge them with greater objec-
In any case, they are valuable testimonies not only
tivity.
to the
formative years of the Department, but also to a critical period in the
development of the field of linguistics. We can all delight in t.he fact
that they have at
last found a fitting repository for the edification
of future
generations. The Department had
inspiration
and
been
looking forward to a celebration of Henry Kahane's 90th birthday in
November of 1992.
Instead, his unexpected death in September led
to a Memorial Tribute held in the Krannert Center for the Performing
Arts on 14 November 1992.
The texts of these tributes are also pre-
sented in this volume.
While Henry Kahane's personal recollections of the events and
personalities leading up to the founding of the Department in
1965
are presented here,
to mention a few other
seems appropriate
it
the Department's history,
milestones
fact that
including the
in
the
actual proposal submitted to the University was worked out in 1963
by a committee chaired by Robert B. Lees (then of English and Com-
munications Research, and Director of the Program in Linguistics) and
consisting further of Joseph H. Allen (Spanish,
Italian, and Portu-
guese), Katherine Aston (English), Frank G. Banta (German), Joseph B.
Casagrande (Anthropology), Kenneth L. Hale (Anthropology), Lee S.
Hultzén (Speech), Henry R. Kahane (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese),
Frederic K. Lehman (Anthropology), Rado LenCek (Russian), Howard
S. Mac lay (Communications Research), Charles E. Osgood (Communica-
tions Research), Angelina R. Pietrangeli (Spanish, Italian, and Portu-
guese), Victor Terras (Russian), and Willard R. Zemlin (Speech).
From its
very inception, the Department assumed a leading role
the development of linguistics
the United States and currently
in
in
ranks among the top five departments in the nation. Only three years
founding, however, the Department was faced with a grave
after
its
internal crisis when its first head, Robert B. Lees, emigrated to Israel,
and two of
most prominent younger faculty members, Arnold
its
Zwicky and Thdore Lightner, were lured away to other institutions.
Compounding the difficulties was the collapse of the post-Sputnik era
of national educational enlightenment. To the great good fortune of
the Department, the helm was taken over by an energetic scholar of
vision, Braj B. Kachru, first as Acting Ilead in 1968-69 and then as
1969-79. Under his
Ilead
from
Department made
leadership,
the
great strides
position not only within
in enhancing
the campus
its
also on the
community, but
national and international
scenes.
Ile
initiated the journal Studies
in the Linguistic Sciences (SLS),
whi.-.h
has since attained such stature as to be included among the journals
surveyed by the Bibliographic
linguistiquelLinguistic Bibliography
.
Thc time-warp becomes
obvious
particularly
blatantly
from
the
nos%
obvious absence of &ender-neutral modes
of expresioo. There
no need
is
Co
instances, since they arc
apparent. They serve
an indication of
point Out
so
as
thc progress that has been made over a less sensitive agc.
Foreword
i x
During his headship, the annual departmental Newsletter, now in its
promising young
year, was
He recruited
initiated.
twenty-fourth
scholars, encouraged members of the faculty to launch a conference
on African linguistics, and was himself co-organizer of a conference
on South Asian linguistics and director of a summer Linguistics Insti-
themselves, these conferences were the
While significant
tute.
in
stimuli for the development of permanent national and international
traditions of regular conferences attended by the leading authorities
the Twentieth Annual
fields. We have recently witnessed
these
in
Conference on African Linguistics (proceedings edited by Eyamba
Bokamba in SLS 19:2 [Fall 1989] and 20:1 [3pring 1990]), and the
Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable
(meeting
Thirteenth
South
handbook edited by Hans Henrich Hock in SLS 20:3 [Spring 1991]).
In 1976, the Division of Applied Linguistics was established as a
research unit within the Department of Linguistics with a cross-cul-
coordinates and initiates research
tural and cross-linguistic focus.
It
in the areas of bilingualism/multilingualism, language and
activities
a global context. The Division
development, literacy, and English in
supported numerous international con-
has organized and partially
activities
ferences, colloquia, and seminars, and collaborates
re-
in
initiated by Larry E.
to English in
the international context
lated
Smith of the East-West Center in Honolulu. The Division has interna-
tional academic contacts with scholars and institutions in such coun-
tries as India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Singapore, which facilitates the
various areas of applied
linguistics,
exchange of research
par-
in
the study and analysis of English in non-native contexts.
ticularly in
of Applied
Linguistics
Among other
at
Division
the
projects,
is
the establishment of a databank for
present taking a leading role in
various types of non-native Englishes, and with the support of other
campus units, sponsored a conference on World Englishes in April
Division have been sup-
initiated by the
1992. Research projects
ported in the past by the Ford Foundation, the American Institute of
Indian Studies, the Research Board of the University of Illinois
at
Urbana-Champaign, among other agencies. Professor Braj B. Kachru is
Coordinator of the Division.
1979-1986) and
Under the leadership of Chin-W. Kim (Chair,
Charles W. Kisseberth (Chair, 1986-1989; Acting Head, 1989-1990),
positien of eminence
the Department maintained and consolidated
its
linguistics, and
the fields of phonology, syntax, and historical
in
in
linguistics and non-Western language teaching
the areas of applied
sought and
and West Asian).
(particularly African and South
It
semantics
position
formal
faculty
received
eventually
in
in
a
conjunction with the Program in Cognitive Science/Artificial
Intelli-
for Advanced Science and Tech-
gence and the Beckman Institute
nology.
without doubt to he
A particular strength of the Department
is
programs, ranging from the most theo-
the breadth of
found in
retical to the most practical. Because of the wide scope of its
activ-
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the Department
intimately bound together with numerous
ities,
is
other campus units through formally organized joint programs, e.g.
in
Department of Spanish,
linguistics
P.oinance
with
Italian,
the
and
Portuguese, and the Department of French; in teacher education with
the College of Education; in psycholinguistics with the Department of
Psychology; and in applied linguistics with the Division of English as
has both formal and
an International Language.
less
formal
It
ar-
rangements with units such as the Beckman Institute,
the Center for
African Studies, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies,
the
Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies, the Center for Rus-
sian and East European Studies, and the programs in Cognitive Sci-
ence/Artificial Intelligence, in the Study of Religion, and in South and
West Asian Studies. In addition, the Department shares faculty mem-
bers through joint
and/or adjunct appointments with
following
the
departments or programs: African Studies; Anthropology; the Center
for Advanced Study; Classics; Communications Research; Comparative
Literature; East Asian Languages and Cultures; English; English as an
International Language; French; Germanic Languages and Literatures;
Language Learning Laboratory;
Languages and
Psychology;
Slavic
Literatures; Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; and Speech and Hearing
Sciences. The centrality of the Department of Linguistics within the
University of Illinois
evident and
Urbana-Champaign
clearly
at
is
accounts to some extent for the fact that an unusually large number
of its
faculty members have been appointed to administrative posi-
campus units
the Department: Eyamba Bokamba,
tions
outside
in
Director of the Division of English as an International Language, suc-
ceeding Braj B. Kachru; C. C. Cheng, Director of the Language Learning
Laboratory; Chin-W. Kim, Director of the
East Asian
Program
in
Studies (1990-91) and Director of the Program in
Japan (1993-94);
Jerry Morgan, Associate Director of the Beckman Institute
for Ad-
vanced Science and Technology; and Ladislav Zgusta, Director of the
Center for Advanced Study.
of the Department's programs was of particular
The diversity
the recent review of thc allocation of resources within
importance in
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The Advisory Committee on
Financial Policy to the Dean wrote in its report, LAS Resources, 1993-
2000, Priorities and Principles for Allocations in the College of Lib-
eral Arts and Sciences (p. 13):
one of
The Department of Linguistics
College's
best
the
is
departments, with a consistently excellent faculty, and
qual-
its
ity deserves protcction. The Advisory Committee recognizes in-
of combining
trinsic
strength
Department's
tradition
our
in
formal and applied areas (including training
less com-
the
in
monly taught languages) within a single
unit. We note
that
in
units devoted wholly
universities,
other
linguistics
formal
to
have not been able to maintain
vitality and have been slated
for closure. We congratulate our Department fot
using a differ-
ent approach and for its success in sustaining iis strength.
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