William Edward Collinson

William Edward Collinson

William Edward Collinson (4 January 1889-5 June 1969) was an eminent British linguist and, from 1914 to 1954, Chair of German at the University of Liverpool. Like Edward Sapir and Otto Jespersen, he collaborated with Alice Vanderbilt Morris to develop the research program of the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). From 1936 to 1939, he was Research Director of IALA. Under Collinson's guidance, methods of compiling international word material were tested at Liverpool. In 1939 IALA moved from Liverpool to New York and E. Clark Stillman succeeded Collinson as Research Director, because Collinson was forced by british government to abandon his job because he was native of a enemy country. Alexander Gode, editor of the first English-Interlingua dictionary published in 1951, remained in contact with Collinson which had collected lot of linguistic material in the University of Liverpool. [http://www.interlingua.com/historia/diverse/historia-2.htm History of Interlingua, F.P. Gopsill, Panorama, march-april 1991.] .

Collinson wrote a vulgarization book in Esperanto about linguistics : "La Homa Lingvo" ("The Human Language") in 1927. [ [http://www.freeweb.hu/eventoj/steb/gxenerala_naturscienco/enciklopedio-1/encikl-c.htm Enciklopedio de Esperanto] , 1933.] . He also was a collaborator of "Centro por Esploro kaj Dokumentado" and "Internacia Scienca Universitato" where he gave 7 lectures. He was chairman of" Internacia Scienca Asocio Esperantista" 1959-1965 and a long time member of the "Akademio de Esperanto". [Esperanto en Perspektivo, Faktoj kaj analizoj pri la internacia lingvo, Ivo Lapenna, 1974, UEA, Centro de Esploro kaj Dokumentado pri la Monda Lingvo-Problemo, pp 270, 513, 671, 683.]

References

* Falk, Julia S. "Words without grammar: Linguists and the international language movement in the United States," "Language and Communication", 15(3): pp. 241-259. Pergamon, 1995.

External links

* [http://www.liv.ac.uk/commsec/calendar/chairsarts.htm University of Liverpool: Chairs]


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