Robert A. Hall

Robert A. Hall (* 4. April 1911 i​n Raleigh, North Carolina; † 2. Dezember 1997 i​n Ithaca, New York) w​ar ein US-amerikanischer Linguist, Romanist u​nd Italianist.

Leben und Werk

Robert Anderson Hall, Jr. k​am 1919 m​it seiner Familie n​ach New York. Er studierte a​n den Universitäten Princeton, Rom u​nd Chicago. Von 1937 b​is 1939 lehrte e​r an d​er Universität v​on Puerto Rico, anschließend a​n der Princeton University u​nd an d​er Brown University. 1946 g​ing er a​n die Cornell University u​nd war d​ort zuerst Associate Professor, d​ann von 1950 b​is zu seiner Emeritierung 1976 Full Professor für Linguistik u​nd Italienisch.

Hall w​ar 1954 u​nd 1970 Guggenheim Fellow.

Hall w​ar in zweiter Ehe verheiratet m​it der Romanistin Alice M. Colby Hall.

Werke

Italianistik
  • Bibliography of Italian linguistics, Baltimore 194; Bibliografia della linguistica italiana, Florenz 1958, Primo supplemento decennale 1956-1966, Florenz 1969; Secondo supplemento decennale 1966-1976, Florenz 1980; Terzo supplemento decennale 1976-1986, Pisa 1988
  • The Italian questione della lingua. An interpretative essay, Chapel Hill 1942
  • Descriptive Italian grammar, Ithaca 1948, Westport 1974
  • A short history of Italian literature, Ithaca 1951
  • The Italian vest pocket dictionary Italian-English, English-Italian, New York 1957; The Random House basic dictionary Italian-English, English-Italian, 1981, 1983, 1996, 1998
  • Italian for Modern Living, New York 1961, Ithaca 1974
  • Applied linguistics Italian. A guide for teachers, Boston 1961 (Vorwort durch Simon Belasco)
  • (Hrsg.) Italian stories, New York 1961; Italian stories = Novelle italiane, New York 1989
  • (mit Cecilia M. Bàrtoli) Basic conversational Italian, New York 1963, 1979
  • La struttura dell’italiano, Rom 1971 (Vorwort durch Luigi Heilmann)
  • Bibliografia essenziale della linguistica italiana e romanza, Florenz 1973
  • Antonio Fogazzaro, Boston 1978
  • (mit Frances Adkins Hall und Susan Z. Garau) 2001 Italian and English idioms = 2001 locuzioni italiane e inglesi, Woodbury, N. Y. 1981, 1991, 1996

Weitere Sprachen
  • An Analytical Grammar of the Hungarian Language, Baltimore 1938
  • (mit François Denoeu) Spoken French, 2 Bde., Boston 1943, Ithaca 1973
  • Melanesian Pidgin English. Grammar. Texts. Vocabulary, Baltimore 1943, New York 1980
  • Hungarian grammar, Baltimore 1944, New York 1966
  • Haitian Creole. Grammar. Texts. Vocabulary, Philadelphia 1953
  • Idealism in Romance Linguistics, Ithaca 1963
  • Pidgin and Creole Languages, Ithaca 1966
  • External History of the Romance Languages, New York/London/Amsterdam 1974
  • Proto-Romance Phonology, New York/London/Amsterdam 1976
  • The Kensington Rune-Stone is Genuine. Linguistic, practical, methodological considerations, Coumbia, S. C. 1982, 1994

Linguistik allgemein
  • Leave Your Language Alone!, Ithaca 1950; Linguistics and your language, Garden City 1960
  • Hands Off Pidgin English!, Sydney 1955
  • Cultural symbolism in literature, Ithaca 1963
  • Introductory Linguistics, Philadelphia 1964
  • New ways to learn a foreign language, New York 1966
  • An Essay on Language, Philadelphia 1968
  • The Comic Style of P. G. Wodehouse, Hamden, Conn. 1974
  • Stormy Petrel in Linguistics. Essays, Ithaca 1975
  • American linguistics, 1925-1969. Three essays, Darmstadt 1976
  • Language, Literature, and Life, Lake Bluff, Ill. 1978
  • Stormy petrel flies again, Watkins Glenn, N.Y. 1980
  • Papers on Wodehouse, Ithaca 1985
  • (Hrsg.) Leonard Bloomfield. Essays on his life and work, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 1987
  • Linguistics and pseudo-linguistics. Selected essays 1965-1985, Amsterdam 1987
  • A Life for Language. A Biographical Memoir of Leonard Bloomfield, Amsterdam 1990

Literatur
  • Homenaje a Robert A. Hall, Jr. Ensayos lingüísticos y filológicos para su sexagésimo aniversario, hrsg. von David Feldman, Madrid 1977
  • Frank Nuessel, [Nachruf] in: Italica 75, 1998, S. 284–286
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