REVISED MOTU GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
First edition of this work on the language of the Motu people of Papua New Guinea, owned by a linguist of ill repute.
Very good plus.
Price: $250.00
REVISED MOTU GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
"Balliol College confirms that Lanyon-Orgill was a student there, but has no record of his taking final examinations or a degree. Nevertheless, the use of 'PhD' after his name, and 'Dr' before had begun as early as 1944."
Peter Antony Lanyon-Orgill was, depending on the source, an academic and field researcher, or "some sort of bizarre linguistic charlatan" (Murphy). Despite his purported credentials as Lecturer in Far Eastern languages at the École Supérieure de Linguistique in Alexandria and Special Lecturer at Saigon University, "Lanyon-Orgill never held a verifiable academic position, and never presented a paper at a linguistics conference," and his fieldwork is "unverified" (Clark, 168). Nevertheless, he published widely in academic journals, though these works have been called into question academically and stylistically – one of his papers contained "jaw-dropping" statements about what he considered a lack of sophistication in certain languages, and he repeatedly published "fictive" accounts of vocabularies supposedly gleaned from manuscripts in his personal collection which had, conveniently, been lost (Clark, 170). Whether or not he truly had the knowledge to do so, he sprinkled manuscript "corrections" throughout this copy of the REVISED MOTU GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY.
Read more: Joseph W. Murphy, "Peter A. Lanyon-Orgill," sci.lang message board; Ross Clark, "On the Margins of Pacific Linguistics: P. A. Lanyon-Orgill," Language & History, 54(2).
The Object
Port Moresby: Edward George Baker, [circa 1930]. 9.75'' x 6''. Armorial bookplate of Peter Antony Lanyon-Orgill to front pastedown, with his signature to front flyleaf. Scattered corrections to text in Lanyon-Orgill's hand.
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