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• W812757948 abstract "Remembering Mary Haas’ s Work on Thai James A. Matisoff University of California. Berkeley Mary R. Haas belonged to the heroic generation that established the study of Southeast Asian languages and linguistics in the United States. Before World War II the region had been virtually the exclusive domain of scholars from the European countries that had colonized it politically -- Britain. France. and the Netherlands. Hardly a soul in the USA knew anything about the rich profusion of languages and cultures of Indochina, Thailand, Burma. or the Indonesian archipelago. With Japan&#39;s incursions into Southeast Asia in the 1940&#39;s. some knowledge of the languages of the area came to be viewed as essential to the war effort. The nation&#39;s linguists were recruited to study Far Eastern languages. and ordered to produce practical handbooks. teaching grammars and vocabularies. as quickly as possible. How well they succeeded in this enterprise is now a matter of historical record. The brightest stars in that new constellation of Orientalists included such scholars as William S. CORNYN, who was assigned Burmese. and ended up at Yale with the ecumenical title of “Professor of Slavic and Burmese°&#39;;‘ and Murray B. EMENEAU. the eminent Sanskritist and Dravidianist. who was channeled into the study of Vietnamese. and eventually published the first great grammar of that language to appear in English? Emeneau, as of this writing still going strong at age 93, was co-founder of the Berkeley Linguistics Department. along with Mary Haas. in 1953.3 To Mary Haas fell the task of describing the national language of the only country of Southeast Asia that had escaped colonization. Thailand. Given the near total dearth of teaching materials on Thai in those days. Haas. like Comyn and Emeneau. had to learn her language from scratch. through direct elicitation from native speakers. This was no big problem for her. since she had merely to apply the classic fieldwork techniques honed to such perfection in her Amerindian work to this new language of utterly different phonological and grammatical structure: from the Southeast United States, where she had worked on Tunica and Natchez. to Southeast Asia -- an effortless intellectual leap. Mary Haas eventually became one of the leading Thai specialists in the world outside of Thailand. taking her place in a select group that included three other towering scholars of her generation. Needless to say. each of these four possessed unique strengths and pursued complementary interests. The late Andre-Georges HAUDRICOURT was a quintessential French scholar of the old school. a botanist and ‘Comyn produced a series of invaluable teaching materials on the language: see Comyn I944. I947. 1957. 1958. 1968. 2See I-Zmeneau 1951. 3Erneneau and Haas had previously held positions in Berkeley&#39;s Oriental Languages Department [which has recently changed its name to qEast Asian Languagesq). 105" @default.
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