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Hans Kurath

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Richard W. Bailey
Richard W. Bailey*
Affiliation:
The University of Michigan
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Department of English, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
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Obituary
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Language , Volume 68 , Issue 4 , December 1992 , pp. 797 - 808
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Copyright © 1992 by Linguistic Society of America

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I am grateful to the following for comments on a draft of this essay: Frederic G. Cassidy, William J. Gedney, Eric Hamp, Herbert Penzi, Warner G. Rice, Michael Silverstein, James Sledd, and Sarah G. Thomason. While I was writing this essay, Gertrude Kurath was unable to meet with me; she died on August 2, 1992.

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