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Renée Toole Kahane
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Renée Kahane, née Toole (* 9. Dezember 1907 in [[Argostoli|Argostolion]], Greece; † 10. Dezember 2002 in [[Chicago]]) was a Romance philologist and linguist.
== Career ==
Renée Toole Kahane studied Romance [[philology]] at the Universities of [[Leipzig]] and [[Berlin]], receiving her PhD. in 1931 under the supervision of [[:de:Ernst_Gamillscheg_(Romanist)|Ernst Gamillscheg]].<ref></ref> In 1931, she married [[Henry R. Kahane]], whom she had met in 1927 when they were fellow PhD students in [[Berlin]]. They became lifelong intellectual partners.<ref></ref>
After obtaining their PhDs, Henry and Renée Kahane moved to [[Florence]] where they spent several years collecting a large corpus of Venetian loanwords used in Greek dialects. Following Henry's brief imprisonment in Florence by [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]] as part of a general round up of immigrant Jews, the Kahanes moved to [[Cephalonia]], Greece, Renée Kahane's birthplace.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> From there they managed to emigrate to the US in 1939.<ref></ref> From 1939-1941 they lived in Los Angeles.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In 1941 they moved to the [[University of Illinois]] when Henry took up a position, first, in the department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and then in the department of Linguistics (which he founded). They stayed there for the remainder of their careers.<ref> Linguistics at Illinois|website=linguistics.illinois.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-09-01}}</ref> A [[Festschrift|Festschift]] in honor of Henry and Renée Kahane was published by the [[University of Illinois Press]] in 1973.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Henry and Renée Kahane are estimated to have had a scholarly output of at least a dozen books and well over one hundred and fifty other publications dealing with various aspects of literary history and linguistics, such as [[etymology]], Romance and Mediterranean [[lexicography]], [[stylistics]], [[Morphology (linguistics)|morphology]], and [[dialectology]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Beginning in the 1960s their particular focus became the investigation and recovery of the Hellenic heritage to the West, including a sociolinguistic study of the relations between [[Byzantium]] and the West told through the reciprocal borrowings of words.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Honors ==
Henry and Renee Kahane were awarded Bicentennial Gold Medals by the Georgetown University Linguistics Department in 1989 in recognition of their lifetime contributions to the field of Romance linguistics.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Henry and Renee Kahane were awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne in 1977 and the Freie Universität-Berlin in 1988. Renée Kahane's doctorate from the University of Berlin was restored to her in 1984.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Selected works ==
* Kahane, Renée. ''Wortgeschichtliche Studien, "toupin" und "bronze"'', Berliner Beiträge zur Romanischen Philologie, III, 4, Jena-Leipzig 1934.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, Italienische Ortsnamen in Griechenland, ''Texte und Forschungen zur byzantinisch-neugriechischen Philologie'' 36, Athen 1940.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, Ralph L. Ward, ''Spoken Greek'', 2 vols., New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1945 - 46.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. ''The Augmentative Feminine in the Romance Languages''. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 1949.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. The Position of the Actor Expression in Colloquial Mexican Spanish. ''Language'' 26, 236-263, 1950.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. ''The Mediterranean Term Surgere "to Anchor"''. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 1951.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. Mediterranean Words. ''Romance Philology'' V: 174-80. 1951-1952.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. ''The System of the Verb in the Western Languages''. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1957.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. ''Magic and Gnosticism in the "Chanson de Roland"''. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 1959.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, Andreas Tietze, ''The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin'', Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. ''Animalia Pyrricha''. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht, 1960.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, Angelina Pietrangeli: The Krater and the Grail: Hermetic Sources of the Parzival, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965 (new edition, 1984).
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, Lucille Bremner, ''Glossario degli antichi portolani italiani'', Florence: Olschki, 1967.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, ''Abendland und Byzanz: Sprache'', Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1976.
== Further reading ==
* Kachru, Braj B. 2005. Henry Kahane. ''Language'' 81 (1), 237244.
== References ==
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== Career ==
Renée Toole Kahane studied Romance [[philology]] at the Universities of [[Leipzig]] and [[Berlin]], receiving her PhD. in 1931 under the supervision of [[:de:Ernst_Gamillscheg_(Romanist)|Ernst Gamillscheg]].<ref></ref> In 1931, she married [[Henry R. Kahane]], whom she had met in 1927 when they were fellow PhD students in [[Berlin]]. They became lifelong intellectual partners.<ref></ref>
After obtaining their PhDs, Henry and Renée Kahane moved to [[Florence]] where they spent several years collecting a large corpus of Venetian loanwords used in Greek dialects. Following Henry's brief imprisonment in Florence by [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]] as part of a general round up of immigrant Jews, the Kahanes moved to [[Cephalonia]], Greece, Renée Kahane's birthplace.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> From there they managed to emigrate to the US in 1939.<ref></ref> From 1939-1941 they lived in Los Angeles.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In 1941 they moved to the [[University of Illinois]] when Henry took up a position, first, in the department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and then in the department of Linguistics (which he founded). They stayed there for the remainder of their careers.<ref> Linguistics at Illinois|website=linguistics.illinois.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-09-01}}</ref> A [[Festschrift|Festschift]] in honor of Henry and Renée Kahane was published by the [[University of Illinois Press]] in 1973.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Henry and Renée Kahane are estimated to have had a scholarly output of at least a dozen books and well over one hundred and fifty other publications dealing with various aspects of literary history and linguistics, such as [[etymology]], Romance and Mediterranean [[lexicography]], [[stylistics]], [[Morphology (linguistics)|morphology]], and [[dialectology]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Beginning in the 1960s their particular focus became the investigation and recovery of the Hellenic heritage to the West, including a sociolinguistic study of the relations between [[Byzantium]] and the West told through the reciprocal borrowings of words.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Honors ==
Henry and Renee Kahane were awarded Bicentennial Gold Medals by the Georgetown University Linguistics Department in 1989 in recognition of their lifetime contributions to the field of Romance linguistics.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Henry and Renee Kahane were awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne in 1977 and the Freie Universität-Berlin in 1988. Renée Kahane's doctorate from the University of Berlin was restored to her in 1984.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Selected works ==
* Kahane, Renée. ''Wortgeschichtliche Studien, "toupin" und "bronze"'', Berliner Beiträge zur Romanischen Philologie, III, 4, Jena-Leipzig 1934.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, Italienische Ortsnamen in Griechenland, ''Texte und Forschungen zur byzantinisch-neugriechischen Philologie'' 36, Athen 1940.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, Ralph L. Ward, ''Spoken Greek'', 2 vols., New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1945 - 46.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. ''The Augmentative Feminine in the Romance Languages''. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 1949.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. The Position of the Actor Expression in Colloquial Mexican Spanish. ''Language'' 26, 236-263, 1950.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. ''The Mediterranean Term Surgere "to Anchor"''. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 1951.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. Mediterranean Words. ''Romance Philology'' V: 174-80. 1951-1952.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. ''The System of the Verb in the Western Languages''. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1957.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. ''Magic and Gnosticism in the "Chanson de Roland"''. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 1959.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, Andreas Tietze, ''The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin'', Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée. ''Animalia Pyrricha''. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht, 1960.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, Angelina Pietrangeli: The Krater and the Grail: Hermetic Sources of the Parzival, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965 (new edition, 1984).
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, Lucille Bremner, ''Glossario degli antichi portolani italiani'', Florence: Olschki, 1967.
* Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée, ''Abendland und Byzanz: Sprache'', Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1976.
== Further reading ==
* Kachru, Braj B. 2005. Henry Kahane. ''Language'' 81 (1), 237244.
== References ==
<references />
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