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A Chadic Cornucopia — by Prof. Russell G. Schuh

October 04

03:01 2020

A Chadic Cornucopia

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Russell Schuh passed away on November 8, 2016. At the time of his death he was deeply
involved in a comprehensive study of the Chadic language family, a massive work that in
book form could easily have exceeded a thousand pages. How long had he been working
on it? The answer, along the lines of what I had indicated when I was asked a similar
question some time back when I was completing my Hausa reference grammar, was
either 5 years or 50 years, depending on how one looked at it. Schuh had formally
undertaken to do a comparative Chadic book for a major publisher some 5 years earlier,
but his involvement with languages of the family went back some 50 years when he first
went to Niger as a Peace Corps volunteer. This book represents the accumulation of
knowledge gained in that half century since. In fact one of the reasons Schuh was having
so much trouble finishing the book was that he knew too much! Even when dealing with
Chadic languages about which he supposedly knew nothing, his first-hand experience
with a wide array of Chadic languages allowed him to view the materials in a new and
insightful way. Another factor holding the book back was that he had a large amount of
unpublished materials from fieldwork trips he had carried out at different periods and,
being the conscientious person that he was, he felt he had a professional obligation to
make those materials available by incorporating them in this volume.

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