Word: english
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ASSOCIATE Professor Bert Vaux, best known on campus as professor of Linguistics 80, "Dialects of English," teaches teaches phonology and field methods. But his real interest, he says, is endangered languages, such as Abxaz, Tigrinya, and Homshetsma, some of which are spoken by only one tribe or even one person and are in danger of dying out. But even with all of the classes he teaches, he says his work with endangered languages has to be done on the side, cautioning, "Once you choose a profession, you'll probably have to confine what you enjoy to the weekends...
...really ensure that these faltering governments survive the loans must be erased. Or else, the dangerous murmurs will rise again from their populace: Na democracy man go chop? To those not versed in Pidgin English (a miscegenous legacy of the colonial era) the literal translation of this statement means, "is it democracy that we will...
...served as master of Eliot House from 1968 through 1991, in addition to chairing the English department, the history and literature concentration and the graduate program in American civilization at various times during his career...
...role model of rigor and high expectations. He set a lofty standard and challenged students to do their best," said Lawrence Buell, Marquand professor of English and Heimert's longtime colleague...
Last year, Heimert also taught English 71, "The Literature of American Religion...