Background
Cannon, Garland was born on December 5, 1924 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
Cannon, Garland was born on December 5, 1924 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
Bachelor of Arts English, University Texas, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy in English Linguistics, University Texas, 1954; Master of Arts in English, Stanford University, 1952.
Instructor, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1949-1952;
instructor, University Texas, Austin, 1952-1954;
instructor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1954-1955;
assistant professor speech, University of California-Berkeley, 1955-1956;
academic director, American U. Language Center, Bangkok, Thailand, 1956-1957;
assistant Professor of English, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1957-1958;
visiting professor linguistics, U. P.R., 1958-1959;
assistant professor linguistics, Columbia University, New York City, 1959-1962;
director English language program for Afghanistan, Columbia University, Kabul, 1960-1962;
associate professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, 1962-1963;
associate professor, Queens College, CUNY, 1963-1966;
associate Professor of English, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1966-1968;
Professor of English, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., since 1968;
visiting professor humanities, University of Michigan, 1970-1971;
visiting professor linguistics, Kuwait U., 1979-1981. Visiting professor linguistics Institute Teknologi Mara, Kuala Lumpur, 1987. Vis.summer professor Cambridge U., 1980, University of Oxford, 1974, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969, U. Washington, 1967.
Lecturer throughout world.
Member Modern Language Association (executive committee general linguistics discussion group 1982-1985, chairman 1984, 85, executive committee present-day-English 1986-1989, 94-97, executive committee lexicography 1986-1989, chairman 1989, representative to delegate assembly 1985-1988), American Dialect Society (executive council 1989-1993), Dictionary Society North America, South Asian Literature Association (president 1979-1985).
Married Patricia Richardson, 1947. Children– Margaret, Elizabeth, Jennifer.