Background
EMENEAU, Murray was born on February 28, 1904 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Son of Archibald and Ada Emeneau.
EMENEAU, Murray was born on February 28, 1904 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Son of Archibald and Ada Emeneau.
Dalhousie, Oxford and Yale Universities.
Assistant Professor, of Sanskrit and General Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley 1940-1943, Association Professor 1943-1946, Professor 1946-1971, Professor Emeritus since 1971, Faculty Research Lecturer 1955-1956, Chairman Department, of Linguistics 1953-1958, Chairman Department, of Classics 1959-1962. Guggenheim Fellowship 1949, 1956-1957, 1958. Vice-President Linguistic Society of America 1949, President 1950.
Association.
President 1954-1955, Western Branch 1964-1965. Hermann Collitz Professor, of Indo-European Comparative Linguistics, Indiana University 1953. President Institute Association for Tamil Research 1966.
Honorary President 6th World Sanskrit Conference 1984.
Presented with Studies in Indian Linguistics by Centres of Advanced Study in Linguistics, Deccan College, and Annamalai University, and Linguistic Society of India 1968. Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (Chicago) 1968, Honorary Doctor of Laws (Dalhousie) 1970, Honorary Doctorate. Litt (Hyderabad) 1987.
Berkeley Citation 1971. Lucius Wilbur Cross.
American Philosophical Society 1952. National Institute of Humanistic Sciences, Vietnam 1957, Linguistic Society of India 1964, Linguistic Research Group of Pakistan 1971. American Academy, of Arts and Sciences 1970.
Married Katharine Fitch Venter in 1940.