Eric P. Hamp

Eric Pratt Hamp is an American linguist. Born November 16 1920, he received his PhD from Harvard University in 1950s and since then he taught at the University of Chicago where he is Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Departments of Linguistics, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Psychology (Cognition and Communication) and the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World. His field is Indo-European linguistics, particularly Celtic languages and Albanian. He is known for his interest in and expertise on the smaller Indo-European languages. Unlike many Indo-Europeanists, who work entirely on the basis of written materials, he has conducted extensive fieldwork on lesser-known Indo-European languages and dialects, such as Albanian, Breton, Welsh, Irish, and Scots Gaelic. His wide-ranging interests, however, included American Indian languages. He served for many years as editor of the International Journal of American Linguistics and did field work on Quileute and Ojibwa.

In 1960 he held the Hermann and Klara H. Collitz Professorship for Comparative Philology at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. He has received two festschriften. In 1981 he was honored with "Studies in Balkan Linguistics to Honor Eric P. Hamp on his Sixtieth Birthday", Folia Slavica 4, 2-3, edited by Howard I. Aronson and Bill J. Darden.In 1990 he was honored with "Celtic Language, Celtic Culture: A Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp",edited by A.T. E. Matonis and Daniel F. Melia. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy and the Albanian Academy of Sciences, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Calabria.

In spite of his advanced age, he continues to write and speak at conferences and remains an Associate Editor of the journal "Anthropological Linguistics".

Bibliography

Among the more than 3500 articles, reviews and other works Eric Hamp has produced, some notable ones are:

*Hamp, Eric P., Martin Joos, Fred W. Householder, and Robert Austerlitz, editors Readings in Linguistics I & II. With a new Preface by Eric Hamp. Abridged edition. 302 p. 8-1/2 x 11 1957, 1966, 1995
*Hamp, Eric P. "Mabinogi." "Transactions of the Honourable Society of the Cymmrodorion" . 1974-75. 243-49.
*Hamp, Eric. 1979. "Toward the history of Slavic scholarship," "Slovene Studies" 1/2: 61-62.
*Hamp, Eric. 1988. "Indo-European o-grade deverbal thematics in Slovene," "Slovene Studies" 10/1: 65-70
*Hamp, Eric. 1989. "On the survival of Slovene o-grade deverbal thematics in Resian," "Slovene Studies" 10/2: 171-173.
*Hamp, Eric. 1989. "Chronological marriage patterns in Resia," "Slovene Studies" 10/2: 201-202.
*Hamp, Eric. 1996. On the Indo-European origins of the retroflexes in Sanskrit." "The Journal of the American Oriental Society", October 21, 1996: 719-724.

External links

* [http://press-dhcp1.uchicago.edu/search?q=Eric+Hamp&client=press_main_collectio&site=press_main_collectio&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=press_main_collectio&ie=&oe=&filter=0 Books]
* [http://www.lsadc.org/info/inst-past.cfm Linguistic Society of America Summer Institutes]
* [http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/geninfo.html Anthropological Linguistics]
* [http://languages.uchicago.edu/archives.shtml#eric_hamp University of Chicago archives]
* [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/linguistics/faculty.html University of Chicago Linguistics faculty]