Sydney Lamb
- Sydney Bishop Lamb (father)
- Jean MacDonald (mother)
- University of California, Berkeley (PhD; 1957)
- Yale University (BA; 1951)
Mono Grammar (1957)
- Rice University (1981–present)
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (1973–1974)[2]
- Yale University (1964–1977)
- University of California, Berkeley (1956–1964)
Biography[edit]
Lamb's paternal great-grandfather immigrated from England to Illinois in the United States in the 19th century. Later, his grandfather, along with his grandmother and father (as a child), then moved from Illinois to Denver, Colorado in 1889. Lamb's mother's family arrived in Denver from Scotland in 1910. Sydney Lamb was born in Denver in 1929.[9]
Lamb earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1958 and taught there from 1956 to 1964. Lamb did research in North American Indian languages, specifically those geographically centered in California. His dissertation was a grammar of the Uto-Aztecan language Mono, under the direction of Mary Haas and Murray B. Emeneau.[10] In 1964, he began teaching at Yale University, where he remained until leaving Yale in 1977 and founding Semionics Associates, an electronics firm, in Berkeley, California.[11] His work at Semionics Associates led to patented designs of content-addressable memory (CAM) hardware for microcomputers based on his Relational Network Theory.[12]
By 1980, Lamb was in negotiations to sell his CAM design to another company, and he was invited to join the Department of Linguistics at Rice University by James E. Copeland.[13]
See also[edit]
"Linguistic and Cognitive Networks" in Cognition: A Multiple View (ed. Paul Garvin) New York: Spartan Books, 1970, pp. 195–222. Reprinted in Makkai and Lockwood, Readings in Stratificational Linguistics (1973), pp. 60–83.