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George Leonard Trager

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Charles F. Hockett
Charles F. Hockett*
Affiliation:
Cornell University and Rice University
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Type
Obituary
Information
Language , Volume 69 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 778 - 788
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 Linguistic Society of America

Footnotes

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At this late date, so long after George Trager's professionally active years, the collecting of reliable facts for this account has not been easy. It would have been impossible without the assistance of the people I am about to mention—none of whom is to be blamed for any errors of fact that may remain. George's former wife, now Edith Trager Johnson, deserves first mention. Two of his former students at Buffalo, M. Estellie Smith and Joan G. Fickett, were of special help. My thanks also to Harold C. Conklin; J Milton Cowan; Robert A. Hall Jr; Barbara M. Henning, Executive Assistant to the President, American Council of Learned Societies; Mary Ritchie Key; Penny Lee; Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz; Martha L. Mitchell, University Archivist at the Brown University Library; G. Thomas Tanselle, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; and members of the Secretariat and Editorial Staff of our Society.

I have also drawn freely on my own correspondence files and, of course, on my personal memories.

References

In 1971, Felicia, H. Trager prepared a complete annotated bibliography of George's writings to that date, published as SiL Occasional Paper 12. It seems unnecessary to be equally complete here.Google Scholar
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