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Catford was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. After his secondary and university studies, he studied phonetics. He taught English abroad (in Greece, in Palestine and in Egypt), including during World War II. He met his wife, Lotte, while he was living in Jerusalem. Lotte was from Vienna and spoke German.
John C. (Ian) Catford was born March 26, 1917 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He described himself, in his 1998 paper "60 years in linguistics", as "a normal boy" of the period who, in his pre-teen years had a passion for steam locomotives and who developed some expertise in the dynamics of steam flow through pipes and valves.
Nov 5, 2012 · Professor Emeritus J. C. Ian Catford was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1917 and died peacefully in Seattle, Washington, in 2009. Ian's father was English and his mother was Scottish. He grew up in Edinburgh and considered himself more Scottish than English.
- Jimmy G. Harris, John H. Esling
- 2012
J. C. Catford, known as Ian, was born in Edinburgh in 1917. He died in Seattle in October 2009. His contribution to phonetic studies was one of indisputable greatness.
John ("Ian") Cunnison Catford was born on March 26, 1917 in Edinburgh, Scotland and studied at the University of Edinburgh and the Institut de Phonétic of the University of Paris in the late 1930s.
For questions or more information, please contact the Bentley Historical Library's Division of Reference and Access Services. J. C. Catford (1917-2009) was a professor of linguistics at the University of Michigan from 1964-1986.
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Catford establishes his theory of translation within a specific general theory of lin-guistics: an early version of Halliday’s systemic grammar (set out e.g. in Halliday 1961), itself much influenced by Firth. Halliday’s framework is taken mostly as given, with only a few minor modifications.
