Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all those other anti-linguists

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> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 10:47 AM
> Subject: [tied] For MKelkar, Kishore and all those
> other anti-linguists
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> from Roy Andrew Miller:
> Languages and History
> Japanese, Korean, and Altaic,
> Acknowledgments
>
> >On 15 December 1989 I terminated my employment at
> the University of
> >Washington in Seattle. During most of the ca. two
> decades that I
> >worked there, several circumstances had made it
> increasingly difficult
> >for me to conduct research on the history of
> Japanese and Korean. In
> >particular, studies that, like those which
> interested me, involved
> >issues of historical linguistics and philological
> investigation
> >confronted an increasingly hostile reception from
> both university
> >administration and colleagues, and the resulting
> atmosphere of
> >distrust and jealousy mitigated against the
> accomplishment of most
> >scientific work, my own included.
>

. . .
That definitely sounds like Mc Carthyism. Keep in
mind, however that linguistics not just the preserve
of Linguistics Departments but also Anthropology and
various Language departments. I took linguistics
courses in Spanish & Portuguese and Anthropology
Departments and my Spanish Historical Linguistics
course had nothing to do with Chomsky. In fact, the
professor was a friend of Trask. But I did see some
brilliant Linguistics and Anthropological Linguistics
professor run out --although, like Miller, they all
ended up in better institutions