Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. From Languages to Philology to Linguistics 1
5. First Person, Not Singular 19
6. My Linguistic Autobiography 47
7. American Linguistics in Peace and at War 67
8. A Nova Scotian Becomes a Linguistic Indologist 83
9. My Life through My Work; My Work through My Life 103
10. Six Decades of a Linguistic Audience 125
11. On Being a Linguistic Anthropologist 139
12. Layers of Linguistics 167
13. A Linguist's Vita as Historiography 187
14. How I Discovered Linguistics 205
15. My Linguistic Odyssey 227
16. Must Linguists Also Be Philologists? 239
17. From Philology to Language and Culture 255
18. A Personal Journey through Linguistics 273
19. Index of Biographical Names 289
20. Index of Subjects and Languages 299