Days with CHINO Eiichi
He led me the present study on language
TANAKA Akio
I first met CHINO Eiichi at his Russian language class in 1969. He was 37 and I was 21 years old.
He returned to Japan from Czechoslovakia in December 1967. It was only one and half years
after. In Czech at Carrel university he studied Ancient church Slavic and the Prague School.
We met again at his linguistic course in 1979 when I returned to study. He was 47 and I was 31.
Ten years passed by. From that year to March 1986 I had learnt from him on linguistics,
especially The Linguistic Circle of Prague.
We time to time walked together to the station after the lecture, and sometimes at the small
coffee shop named "California" near the station, where we talked on the various themes from
the daily trivial things to abstract linguistic agenda. The room was almost always vacant and
dim light was threw over us.
They were irreplaceable days and recently more and more have become dear in my life.
He wrote more than ten books and my favourite one is Opened the Door to Linguistics,
Janua Linguisticae reserata, 1994. In the book he only crowned Genius to Sergej Karcevskij.
He died by disease in 2002 at age 70.
Under the Dim Light
Linguistic Circle of Prague
From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi-Distance
Tokyo
16 November 2012
TANAKA Akio
I first met CHINO Eiichi at his Russian language class in 1969. He was 37 and I was 21 years old.
He returned to Japan from Czechoslovakia in December 1967. It was only one and half years
after. In Czech at Carrel university he studied Ancient church Slavic and the Prague School.
We met again at his linguistic course in 1979 when I returned to study. He was 47 and I was 31.
Ten years passed by. From that year to March 1986 I had learnt from him on linguistics,
especially The Linguistic Circle of Prague.
We time to time walked together to the station after the lecture, and sometimes at the small
coffee shop named "California" near the station, where we talked on the various themes from
the daily trivial things to abstract linguistic agenda. The room was almost always vacant and
dim light was threw over us.
They were irreplaceable days and recently more and more have become dear in my life.
He wrote more than ten books and my favourite one is Opened the Door to Linguistics,
Janua Linguisticae reserata, 1994. In the book he only crowned Genius to Sergej Karcevskij.
He died by disease in 2002 at age 70.
Under the Dim Light
Linguistic Circle of Prague
From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi-Distance
Tokyo
16 November 2012
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