User:EPHamp

Name

Eric Pratt Hamp

Occupation:

Linguist

Born:

London, November 16, 1920 Education

BA, Amherst College, 1942, MA, Harvard University, 1948, PhD in Linguistics, Harvard University, 1954, LHD (hon.), Amherst College, 1972, DLitt (hon.), University Wales, 1987, University Calabria,(Italy) 2000, and Felicitation, University Delhi, 1989. For Honorary Memberships see below.

Career

Chief lend-lease, government of Union South Africa, 1942-46; member faculty University Chicago, 1950—, professor linguistics, 1962-91, professor behavioral scis. and psychology, 1971-91, professor Slavic languages, 1980-91, Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service professor, 1973-91, Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service professor emeritus, 1991—, director Center Balkan and Slavic Studies, 1965-91, chairman department linguistics, 1966-69; research associate School Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland, 1989—; member department Albanian language University Shkodër, Albania, 1994—; visiting lecturer University Michigan, 1953, University Washington, summer 1962; member staff Gaelic Dialect Survey, University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1956, 57, 58, 84—; Collitz professor University Texas, summer 1960; Thurneysen lecturer University Bonn., Federal Republic Germany, 1989; Poultney lecturer Johns Hopkins University, 1990; University Shkodër, Albania, 1993.

Career Related

Visiting professor linguistics University Beograd, Yugoslavia, 1964, 67, Indiana University, summer 1964, University Copenhagen, 1966, University of Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR 1968, University Bucharest, Romania, 1975, University Salzburg, Austria, 1979, 82, University Calabria, Italy, 1989, 91, 93, 96, 99-2009, University Shkodër, Albania, 1993, 96; U.S. cultural exch. lecturer Romania, summer 1966, USSR, spring 1975, 88; Armenia 1982, 88, associate director Linguistic Institute University Illinois, summer 1968; visiting scholar Institute for Humanities, Pennsylvania State University, 1969, University Vilnius, Lithuania, 1990; chairman subcom. linguistics Committee Instnl. Cooperative, 1963-66; member committee automatic language processing NAS-NRC, 1964; member committee linguistic information Center Applied Linguistics, 1964-68; chairman committee language programs. Am. Council Learned Societies, 1963-69; member international adv. board University Leiden Institute Language Description and Comparision, 1987—, committee linguistic atlas Scotland (Gaelic section), 1986—*; member linguistic committee Ind. University Press, 1965-73; chairman Committee for Illinois Place-Name Survey, 1966—; member area adv. committee for E. Europe, Council International Exchange Scholars, 1966-78; member adv. subcom. for linguistics National Science Foundation, 1977-79; member Am. committee Association International d'Etudes du Sud-Est Européen, 1968—, chairman 1979-85; member U.S. National Commission for UNESCO (representing Linguistic Society of America (LSA)), 1972-77; member International Committee Study Celtic Cultures, 1983—*; member committee International English Braille Linguistics, 1994— (active 1974-96).

Creative Works

Author: A Glossary of American Technical Linguistic Usage, 3d rev. ed., 1966, Vaccarizzo Albanese Phonology, 1993; (with others) Language and Machines, 1966; co-editor Readings in Linguistics I & II, abridged ed., 1995, Languages and Areas: Studies presented to George V. Bobrinskoy, 1967, Themes in Linguistics: The 1970s, 1973; advisory editor: Foundations of Language 1964-74, Studies in Language, 1974-79, General Linguistics, 1966-91, Papers in Language and Lit., 1965-92, Journal Linguistics, 1971-81, Journal Indo-European Studies, 1972—, Folia Linguistica Historica, 1978-98, Ann. of Armenian Linguistics, 1978—, Anthropological Linguistics, 1981—, Etudes Celtiques, 1982—, Journal Historical Linguistics and Philology, 1982-90, Glossologia (Athens), 1983-99, Jewish Language Rev. (Haifa), 1983, Medieval Language Rev., 1991—*, Linguistics Abstracts, 1985, 95, Voprosy Jazykoznanija (Moscow), 1988-92, Studia Indogermanica, 1990—, Albanica, 1991-93; associate editor: International Journal Am. Linguistics, 1967-92, emeritus editor, 1992—, Native American Texts Series, 1974—, founding editor; Atlas Linguarum Europae, 1984—; section head comparative and hist. linguistics: Celtic and Albanian sections Modern Language Association Ann. Bibliography, 1969-82; advisor: Encyclopedia Brit., 1969-2000, member advisory committee, 1985-2000; member adv. board and contributor Pergamon-Aberdeen Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 1988-94; member Advisory Board Slavia Centralis, 2009—; adv. and project linguist Braille Reading and Language Programs and Braille Research Center, American Printing House for the Blind,(Louisville KY) 1977-96, member International English Braille Linguistics committee, 1994—; editor for etymologies: Random House Unabridged Dictionary (rev. ed.); Participant in Yeniseic-Tlingit-Athabaskan Familial Proof, Tokyo, Leipzig and Alaska 2004,-06, 08, 10; author ca. 1,500 articles in field.

Awards

John Woodruff Simpson fellow Amherst College to University Pennsylvania for linguistics, 1946 for Sanskrit, to Johns Hopkins University, 1947, Sheldon Traveling fellow Harvard University for Breton, Celtic & Albanian, 1949-50, Fulbright Hays fellow in Yugoslavia, 1966-67, Guggenheim fellow for Albanian dialects, 1973-74; Fulbright senior research scholar University Athens and all mainland Greece, Greece, 1955-56; Social Scis. Research Coun.- American Council Learned Societies grantee in Albanian dialectology, 1960-61, American Philosophical Society grantee in conserving Quileute language, 1969-70, National Science Foundation grantee in Breton dialects, 1971-73; named honorary citizen Vaccarizzo Albanese, 1993; recipient Derek Allen Celtic prize, British Academy, 1994, and prizes for work with minorities in Levadhiá (Greece), and Ciro Marina Krotone, Calabria (Italy), 1998, Skopje (Makedonija), 2004; International prize (Tirana 2009) in Prishtina for best book in Albanology for reprint volume of translated 30 publications from 1955 to present, 2008; Festschriften for general, Balkan (twice), Native American, Indo-European and Celtic linguistic work, 1980-97.

Memberships (current unless otherwise specified)

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences (through 2004; membership committee 1982-84), American Anthropological Association (through 2005), Royal Society Edinburgh (hon.); member Modern Language Association (secretary Celtic section 1954, 78, also other positions), Royal Irish Academy (hon.), Am. Association Promotion of Bulgarian Culture (hon. chairman 1991—), Kosovë Academy Sciences and Arts (hon.), Foreign member Albanian Academy of Sciences and Arts (hon.), Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (hon.), Society Bulgarian Linguists (hon. member 1986—, Sofia), American Philosophical Society (member various committees), Linguistic Society America (executive committee 1954-56, vice president 1963, 70, president 1971, also other positions 1960—, Fellow 2006), Society European Anthroplogy, Society Linguistic Anthropological, Philological Society (London), Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, Medieval Academy Ireland, Forum on Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Society de Linguistique de Paris (through ca. 1992), Society Linguistica Europea, Society Italiana di Glottologia, Society Filologica Friulana, Acoustical Society of America, American Names Society (board managers 1969-72), Traditional Cosmology Society, Association Advancement of Baltic Studies (through 2004), North Central Name Society, American Association Southeast European Studies, Bulgarian Studies Association, Romanian Studies Association (director 1976-79, nominating committee 1984-85), Society Slovene Studies ( editorial committee 1979—), Society Albanian Studies (executive committee 1978—), Society Armenian Studies, Society for Study Caucasia, Celtic Studies Association, North America (permanent hon. member, chairman nominating committee 1986-87), Gypsy Lore Society, Society Study Indigenous Languages Ams. (hon. member, vice president 1985-86, president 1986-87), Phi Beta Kappa.

Immigration

came to U.S., 1925, naturalized, 1947.

Family

Son of William Pratt and Edith May (McConkey) Hamp; married Margot Faust, September 29, 1951; children: Julijana, Alexander; grandchildren 4, step-grandchildren 4.

Reviewed, updated, and approved by Eric P. Hamp, June 19, 2010, 11.30PM EST.


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