The name Emeneau won't mean much to non-linguists, but he was a giant in the field, and I'm glad he made it to 101. You can find out more about him here; I was reminded to post this by reading Sally Thomason's touching tribute at Language Log, and I originally got the news at Noncompositional.
Posted by languagehat at September 16, 2005 06:10 PMProf MB Emeneau was teacher of Teachers.
His contribution to Dravidian Linguistics is widely recognised.