George Sherman Lane

George Sherman Lane (28 September 1902 - 18 September 1981 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American linguist. His research focus was the Tocharian language.

Life

Lane began his studies in 1922 at the University of Iowa, where he received his first award, the Early English Text Society Prize. In 1926, he graduated first of his class,[1] and in 1927 obtained a Master of Arts in English. This was followed by studies in Reykjavík, where he learnt Sanskrit, as well as in Paris. In Chicago he collaborated with Carl Darling Buck on the latter's Dictionary of selected synonyms in the principal Indo-European languages. After his dissertation, he joined the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he conducted further research on the Tocharian language, particularly the grammar of Tocharian B.[2] In 1952, he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His son, Eugene N. Lane (1936–2007), became a professor in classical philology.

Selected works

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Davis, Boyd (June 1983). "George Sherman Lane". Language. Linguistic Society of America. 59 (2): 355–359. JSTOR 413578.
  2. ↑ Person Singular: Papers from the Conference on an Oral Archive for the History of American Linguistics (Charlotte, NC, 1979), Amsterdam 1980 , p. 64f.
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