John C. McLaughlin
{{Short description|American philologist}}
John Cameron McLaughlin (December 1, 1921 − June 16, 2013) was an American philologist who for many years served as Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Iowa.{{r|ob1|ob2}}
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Biography
John Cameron Mclaughlin was born in Albany, New York, on December 1, 1921 to Allan A. and Ethel M. (MacDonald) McLaughlin. From 1942 to 1946 McLaughlin served in World War II as a heavy machine gun platoon leader of the 43rd Infantry Division in the Solomon Islands and the Philippines. During this time he received a Purple Heart and four battle stars.{{r|ob1|ob2}}
After the war McLaughlin pursued a career in academia. He earned a master's degree in 1952 at the University of Toledo with the thesis Joseph Conrad: Persistent Stylistic Habits and Meaning,{{r|ms}} and completed his Ph.D. in 1960 at Indiana University with the dissertation A Graphemic-Phonemic Study of a Middle English Manuscript,{{r|diss}} later published as a book.{{r|graphemic}}
He then served for 35 years as Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Iowa. He died at his home in Portage, Michigan, on June 16, 2013.{{r|ob1|ob2}}
Books
McLaughlin was the author of:
- A Graphemic-Phonemic Study of a Middle English Manuscript, 1963{{r|graphemic}}
- Aspects of the History of English, 1970{{r|aspects}}
- Old English Syntax: A Handbook, 1983{{r|oes}}
References
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Reviews of Aspects of the History of English:
- {{cite journal|last=Cameron|first=Angus|doi=10.1017/s000841310000668x|issue=1|journal=Canadian Journal of Linguistics|pages=55–57|title=none|volume=16|year=1970|s2cid=148730047 }}
- {{cite journal|last=Kane|first=Harold|date=February 1971|doi=10.2307/356538|issue=1|journal=College Composition and Communication|jstor=356538|pages=74–77|title=none|volume=22}}
- {{cite journal|last=Algeo|first=John|date=March 1971|doi=10.1177/007542427100500109|issue=1|journal=Journal of English Linguistics|pages=122–129|title=none|volume=5}}
- {{cite journal|last=Carlton|first=Charles|date=Summer 1971|issue=2|journal=General Linguistics|page=119|title=Review|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/8edfb89f9c94e7c157a4e7b178992c5d/1|volume=11}}
- {{cite journal|last=Johnson|first=J. A.|date=September 1971|doi=10.2307/412386|issue=3|journal=Language|jstor=412386|pages=703–708|title=none|volume=47}}
- {{cite journal|last=Ball|first=C. J. E.|date=September 1972|issue=2|journal=Journal of Linguistics|jstor=4175166|pages=340–342|title=none|volume=8|doi=10.1017/S0022226700003431|s2cid=143397522 }}
Reviews of A Graphemic-Phonemic Study of a Middle English Manuscript:
- {{cite journal|last=Dobbie|first=Elliott V. K.|date=January–March 1965|doi=10.2307/411866|issue=1|journal=Language|jstor=411866|pages=151–154|title=none|volume=41}}
- {{cite journal|last=Panse|first=M. G.|issue=3/4|journal=Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute|jstor=42929821|page=48|title=none|volume=26|year=1965–1966}}
Reviews of Old English Syntax:
- {{cite journal|last=Weiss|first=Corinna|journal=Studia Anglica Posnaniensia|pages=293–298|title=Review|url=https://wa.amu.edu.pl/sap/files/17/25_REVIEWS.pdf|volume=17|year=1984}}{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- {{cite journal|last=Mitchell|first=Bruce|date=May 1984|doi=10.1093/res/xxxv.138.217|issue=138|journal=The Review of English Studies |series=New Series|jstor=516169|pages=217–218|title=none|volume=35}}
- {{cite journal|last=Stevick|first=Robert D.|date=October 1984|issue=4|journal=The Journal of English and Germanic Philology|jstor=27709400|pages=551–553|title=none|volume=83}}
- {{cite journal|last=Kilpiö|first=Matti|date=April 1986|doi=10.2307/2854073|issue=2|journal=Speculum|jstor=2854073|pages=442–444|title=none|volume=61}}
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