Murray B
Emeneau(1904-2005) (MBE) was a renowned scholar in Dravidian Linguistics,
Sanskrit and General Linguistics. Prof.B.H. Krishnamurti one of
his students explained MBE as –the longest living western
Indologist of great distinction. His areas of research were Comparative
Dravidian, Historical and Sociolinguistic study of Indian languages,
Areal Linguistics, Ethnography, etc. His publications include his
extensive work on Sanskrit, Dravidian Linguistics, and India as
a linguistic area, including the volumes such as Toda Songs, Toda
Grammar and Texts, Kota Texts, Kolami: a Dravidian Language, A Dravidian
Etymological Dictionary (with T Burrow), and, most recently, Sanskrit
studies: Selected Papers (edited by B A van Nooten), and Language
and Linguistic Area (essays: selected by Anwar S Dil). He is one
of the editors of Sebeok, Thomas A.(ed.) Current Trends in Linguistics,
V: Linguistics in South Asia. The Hague: Mouton.
Major of his articles in books and
journals have been reprinted and are mentioned in the bibliography.
From books containing some of his collections, few chapters have
been selected and reprinted in other book without any change and
in some cases condensed. For example: “Brahui Volumes”
pp.7-20 the second Chapter in the book ‘Brahui and Dravidian
Comparative Grammar” 1962, has been condensed to four page
article and reprinted in “Language and Linguistic Area”,
1980 p.329-32. Out of 308 papers 73 papers are reprinted out of
which, 31 are reprinted in “Dravidian Linguistics, Ethnology
and Folktales” 1967, 24 are reprinted in “Dravidian
Studies” 1994, and 10 papers are reprinted in “Language
and Linguistic Area” 1980, etc.
Citation Indexing
Citation
Indexing studies are done to find the influence and impact of an
author. The output will be an organized list of cited articles identified
by a source citation. The idea behind citation index is that a research
article makes an impact only if it is read and used by others for
their research. It is thus an index of recognition too.
This answers two main questions such as:
1. How many times has each of Emeneau’s work been cited?
2. Who has cited and in which article?
As a preliminary step a complete bibliography was compiled from
many sources such as books, journals and internet and the data entered
in index cards and later keyed into MS Access file. In the second
phase, citing articles were identified both in books and journals
manually and noted on the overleaf of each card prepared for the
bibliography. The main bibliography file consists of entire contribution
of MBE using MS Access at the backend. At the front end, cited articles
are displayed on the webpage af ter ASP coding.
Each
record in the bibliography was given a unique identification number
preceded by the letter ‘E’ which helped as a primary
key for creating relation code to the citing documents. Complete
data was made to get the output in the web page: http://www.ciil.org/Main/Emeneau/mainindex.htm
The
present bibliography in the above webpage, consists of all the bibliographical
details including the Id number and Times cited arranged in chronological
order. Times cited column gives the total number of citations to
each item. The items that had citations were selected and submitted
in the database. The retrieved documents were listed under respective
cited documents.
Hope that this bibliography
with citation indexing will be helpful to linguists.
