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

Life [ edit ]

Lane began his studies in 1922 at the University of Iowa , where he studied under Henning Larsen ^[1] and received his first award, the Early English Text Society Prize . ^[2] In 1926, he graduated first of his class, ^[3] and in 1927 obtained a Master of Arts in English. This was followed by studies in Reykjavik , where he learned Sanskrit , as well as in Paris , where he studied under Meillet , Vendryes and Benveniste . ^[1] At the University of 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 . ^[1] In 1952, he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . ^[4]

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

Selected works [ edit ]

• Words for clothing in the principal Indo-European languages. Chicago, 1930.
• Vocabulary to the Tocharian Pu?yavantaj?taka. Baltimore, 1948.
• Studies in Kuchean grammar. Baltimore, 1952.

Further reading [ edit ]

• Walter W. Arndt: Studies in Historical Linguistics in Honor of George Sherman Lane . Chapel Hill 1967

References [ edit ]