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The Absolute Participle In Anglo-Saxon
Morgan Callaway
Press of I. Friedenwald, 1889
Language Arts & Disciplines; General; Anglo-Saxon language; English language; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
Studies in the syntax of the Lindisfarne Gospels, with appendices on some idioms in the Germanic languages
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(Excerpt from The Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon
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To all these helpers and friends I tender my abiding gratitude. May they not have cause to regret their participation in the launching of this study!
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Morgan Callaway was an American philologist and university educator.
Background
Morgan Callaway was born on November 3, 1862 in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States; the third son and sixth of seven children of the Rev. Morgan and Eliza Mary (Hinton) Callaway. Of English lineage, both families had resided for several generations in Wilkes County, Georgia. The elder Callaway, a graduate of the University of Georgia and a Methodist minister, was president of two smaller colleges and afterward for twenty-five years professor of English at Emory College in Georgia. He served as artillery captain (1862 - 65) in the Confederate Army. When young Morgan was four years old his mother died, and he lived for eight years at the home of her friend Mrs. Amelia Pope Jordan in Tignan, Georgia, until he entered a neighboring academy. His foster mother, deeply religious and a strict disciplinarian, wished him to become a minister, but he preferred active laymanship.
Education
Mrs. Amelia Pope Jordan's bequest to Morgan of $2, 000 made possible later study at the Johns Hopkins University. Callaway graduated from Emory in 1881, delivering the salutatory oration in Greek. He remained there two years as adjunct professor of English.
He won a university scholarship, a teaching fellowship, and a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University. Southern Methodist University awarded him an honorary LL. D.
Career
In 1883-84 Callaway was principal of a school in Chireno, Texas. Having meanwhile taken an A. M. from Emory (1884), he served two years as professor of English in Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. He then pursued graduate studies at Johns Hopkins (1886 - 89), where he won a university scholarship, a teaching fellowship, and a Ph. D. (1889). His Hopkins preceptors, James W. Bright, Maurice Bloomfield, Herbert Baxter Adams, and Henry Wood, were all comparatively young men, lately returned from Germany. Callaway enrolled in Bright's first English seminar and became his first candidate for the doctorate. Their friendship was lifelong. Returning for one session to Southwestern, Callaway transferred in 1890 to the University of Texas as assistant professor of English. Successive promotions brought him in 1898 to a full professorship, a position he held until his death. A faculty vote in 1925 honored him as university research lecturer, and Southern Methodist University awarded him an honorary LL. D. in 1924. Callaway edited a small volume, Select Poems of Sidney Lanier (1895), but his most significant work is contained in six authoritative studies of Old English syntax: The Absolute Participle in Anglo-Saxon (1889, his dissertation), The Appositive Participle in Anglo-Saxon (1901), The Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon (1913), Studies in the Syntax of the Lindisfarne Gospels (1918), The Temporal Subjunctive in Old English (1931), and The Consecutive Subjunctive in Old English (1933). Heredity and environment drew Callaway into academic life; Hopkins years created the linguist. His standing as an eminent philologist seems secure. Habitually spending his summers in research, he gathered statistical records of each word and sentence concerned in the entire corpus of Old English writing, compared all other Indo-European usages, and finally reached objective conclusions. General principles thus established are not easily refuted. Characteristic thoroughness in his teaching evoked some resentment, but also enthusiastic response. Rigorously upholding standards while a struggling school grew into a large, well-endowed state university, he sometimes found self-adjustment irksome.
He died of uremia in Austin and was buried there, leaving no children.
Achievements
He is noted for his thorough studies of the Old English syntax. Callaway edited a small volume, Select Poems of Sidney Lanier (1895), but his most significant work is contained in six authoritative studies of Old English syntax: The Absolute Participle in Anglo-Saxon (1889, his dissertation), The Appositive Participle in Anglo-Saxon (1901), The Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon (1913), Studies in the Syntax of the Lindisfarne Gospels (1918), The Temporal Subjunctive in Old English (1931), and The Consecutive Subjunctive in Old English (1933).
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Personality
An ever-courteous Georgia gentleman, born in wartime, reared by Victorian standards, he knew Shakespeare, Milton, and Tennyson but had little relish for Walt Whitman's free verse and free life or for what he deemed crude American ballads. Of medium stature, frail body, and short mustache, carrying umbrella and briefcase, he was a distinctive campus figure.
Connections
Long a bachelor, he married in 1920 his former pupil Loru Hamah Smith.
