George Sherman Lane

Lane began his studies in 1922 at the University of Iowa, where he studied under Henning Larsen^[1] and received his first award, the Early English Text Society Prize.^[2] In 1926, he graduated first of his class,^[3] and in 1927 obtained a Master of Arts in English. This was followed by studies in Reykjavík, where he learned Sanskrit, as well as in Paris, where he studied under Meillet, Vendryes and Benveniste.^[1] At the University of Chicago he collaborated with Carl Darling Buck on the latter's Dictionary of selected synonyms in the principal Indo-European languages. After his dissertation, he joined the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he conducted further research on the Tocharian language, particularly the grammar of Tocharian B.^[1] In 1952, he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[4]

His son, Eugene N. Lane (1936–2007), became a professor in classical philology.

• Words for clothing in the principal Indo-European languages. Chicago, 1930.
• Vocabulary to the Tocharian Puṇyavantajātaka. Baltimore, 1948.
• Studies in Kuchean grammar. Baltimore, 1952.