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His leadership included serving as president of the Linguistic Society of America, president of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, and from 1942 to 1979 president of the Summer Institute of Linguistics 287
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He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985. Ken Pike's contributions to the field of linguistics combined with his dedication to the minority peoples of the world brought him numerous honors.
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K E N N E T H L E E P I K E 289 University. He was actively lecturing and writing until 1997 when his health required him to slow down.
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290 B I O G R A P H I C A L M E M O I R S American linguistics until the paradigm shift toward Noam Chomsky's transformational grammar theory in the 1960s. Pike's magnum opus on tagmemic theory was first published in three volumes in 1954, 1955, and 1960, and then in a second edition in 1967.
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K E N N E T H L E E P I K E 291 method that he demonstrated countless times in his legendary monolingual demonstrations over the decades. (The method is explained by Pike [1999b]
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292 B I O G R A P H I C A L M E M O I R S including Janet and me and our two Agta "informants" (as we called them then)
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K E N N E T H L E E P I K E 293 partly because of their unique ability to make the distinction between emic and etic. The highlight of Pike's role in the American Anthropological Association came in 1988.
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Ken Pike never had any internal conflict integrating his personal faith in God with his scholarship, nor his call to missions with his professorship at Michigan. But this was a problem for some academics who wondered whether Pike left his brains at the door when he went to church.
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Your book Ken Pike: Scholar and Christian [Eunice Pike, 1981] is especially dear to me now as it depicts the ideal of the Christian gentleman in work and life.
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296 B I O G R A P H I C A L M E M O I R S Kenneth Pike, dated November 20, 1990, from Russia; the original letter was written in English, and is archived in the Pike Special Collection; the spelling here remains as in the original. Words added for clarification are in square brackets.]
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* Ken Pike was an extraordinary man.
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298 B I O G R A P H I C A L M E M O I R S three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; and one sister, Eunice V
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K E N N E T H L E E P I K E 299 Sapir (18841939) , Leonard Bloomfield (18871949)
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5 vols. Huntington Beach, Calif.: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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57-81. Dallas: SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Glendale, Calif.: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Phonetics: A Critical Analysis of Phonetic Theory and a Technic for the Practical Description of Sounds.
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Summer Institute of Linguis tics Publications in Linguistics 53. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Huntington Beach, Ca lif.: Summer Institute of linguistics. 1998 A linguistic pilgrimage.
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