Ian Catford

John Cunnison " Ian " Catford ( born March 26, 1917 in Edinburgh, Scotland, † October 6, 2009 in Seattle, Washington, United States ) was a Scottish linguist and phonetician.

Life

Catford had at a young age the talent to imitate phonetic features accurately, and so developed already as a student a passion for phonetics. At the age of 17 he began to work as a phonetician, linguist and radio speaker for the BBC. During his university studies at Edinburgh University, he completed one academic year in Paris, where he received a diploma from the Institut de phonetique.

During the Second World War, he taught English in Greece, Egypt and Palestine. In 1952 he returned to the University of Edinburgh, and devoted himself in the Survey of Scotland the cartographic collection of Scottish dialects.

In 1956 he founded the Edinburgh University's School of Applied Linguistics and became its leader. The school was the first institution that focused on the practical application of linguistic theories worldwide.

In 1964 he accepted an invitation from the University of Michigan, where he was a professor of linguistics and director of the Institute of English Language. In addition, he taught applied linguistics also phonetics and phonology, translation studies and comparative-historical linguistics.

After his retirement in 1985, he was still active as a visiting professor at Istanbul University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California at Los Angeles.

From 1988 to 1993 he worked as a senior editor for Translation Studies at the Encyclopedia of language and linguistics.

Research priorities

  • Phonetic taxonomy
  • Aerodynamic phonetics
  • Phonationstypen
  • Scottish dialectology
  • Caucasian phonetics
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Translation theory

Publications (selection )

  • Catford, JC: On the classification of stop consonants. In: Le Maître phonetique 1-3/1939, No. 65 International Phonetics Association, Paris 1939
  • Catford, J. C.: Vowel systems of Scots dialects. In: Transactions of the Philological Society, 107-117, 1957
  • Catford, J. C.: phonation types. In Jack D. et al. (Ed.): In honor of Daniel Jones. Longmans, 1964, p 26-37 (ISBN 5732502807 )
  • Catford, JC: A linguistic theory of translation. Oxford University Press, London 1965. (ISBN 9780194370189 )
  • Catford, JC: The Articulatory possibilities of man. In: B. Malmberg (ed.): Manual of Phonetics. North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1968 ( ISBN 9780720460292 )
  • Catford, JC: Ergativity in Caucasian Languages ​​. In: Actes du 6e Congrès de l' association linguistique du nord - est. Université de Montréal, Montreal 1976, p 1-57
  • Catford, JC: Fundamental problems in phonetics. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1977
  • Catford, JC: Observations on the recent history of vowel classification. In: Aster and Henderson (ed.): Towards a history of phonetics. Edinburgh Press, Edinburgh, 1981 ( ISBN 9780852244500 )
  • Catford, JC: Marking and frequency in the English verb. In: Language form and linguistic variation; current issues in linguistic theory, Volume 15, Benjamins, Amsterdam 1982, p 11-27
  • Catford, J. C.: Notes on the phonetics of Nias. In: R. McGinn (ed.): Studies in Austronesian linguistics. Ohio University Press, Athens, 1988a, pp. 151-172
  • Catford, JC: A practical introduction to phonetics. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1988b (ISBN 9780198242178 )
  • Catford, JC: Functional load and diachronic phonology. In Tobin Y. (ed.): The Prague School and its legacy. Benjamins, Amsterdam 1988c, pp. 3-19 (ISBN 9789027215321 )
  • Catford, JC: The classification of Caucasian languages ​​. In Lamb S. et al. (Ed.): Jump from some common source. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1991, pp. 232-268 (ISBN 9780804718974 )
  • Catford, JC: Caucasian phonetics and general phonetics. In: Paris, C. (ed.): Caucasologie et mythology comparé. Actes colloque international du CNRS, IVe Colloque de Caucasologie. Peeters, Paris 1992, p 193-216 (ISBN 9782877230421 )
  • Catford, J. C.: Sixty Years in linguistics. In: EFK Koerner (ed.): First person singular III, autobiographies by North American scholars in the language science. Benjamins, Amsterdam 1998, pp. 3-38 (ISBN 9781556196324 )
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