| LC control no. | n 50078530 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hamp, Eric P. |
| Variant(s) | Khėmp, Ėrik |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Traverse City (Mich.) Chicago (Ill.) |
| Birth date | 1920-11-16 |
| Death date | 2019-02-17 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | Traverse City (Mich.) |
| Field of activity | Linguistics Historical linguistics Balkan Peninsula--Languages Indo-European languages--Research Albanian language--Research Celtic languages--Research |
| Affiliation | University of Chicago Harvard University |
| Profession or occupation | Linguists College teachers |
| Found in | His A glossary of American technical linguistic usage, 1957. Scritti in onore di Eric Pratt Hamp, c2010: p. xviii (celebrated his 90th birthday in 2010) Albanian historic syllabics, 2015: title page (Eric P. Hamp) page xiii (Eric Pratt Hamp; Robert Maynard Hutchins distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago; one of the world's leading Balkanists, Indo-Europeanists, and historical linguists; PhD from Harvard, 1954; research interests in Celtic, Albanian, Greek, and various other languages of the Balkans) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, June 1, 2016: Eric P. Hamp page (Eric Pratt Hamp; born November 16, 1920 in London, is an American linguist widely respected as a leading authority on Indo-European linguistics, with particular interests in Celtic languages and Albanian) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_P._Hamp> Chicago tribune WWW site, viewed March 13, 2019 (in obituary dated March 1, 2019: Eric Hamp; Hamp, 98, died Feb. 17 in Traverse City, Mich.; he and his wife moved to Traverse City from their longtime home in Chicago's Hyde Park in 2006; born in London in 1920; by 1947 was working on a master's degree in linguistics at Harvard University, where he later got a doctorate in the field; working on his doctorate in linguistics when he joined the University of Chicago as an instructor in 1950; continued to do important research and writing on languages long after his 1991 retirement; continued to publish conclusions from his work until about three years ago) |
| Associated language | eng |
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