Morris Hall

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Morris Hall in 2011

Morris Halle (born July 23, 1923 in Liepāja as Moriss Pinkovics ; † April 2, 2018 ) was a Latvian - American linguist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Halle was best known for his pioneering work on generative phonology . He wrote On Accent and Juncture in English together with Noam Chomsky and Fred Lukoff in 1956 and The Sound Pattern of English together with Chomsky in 1968 .

In the early 1990s, he and Alec Marantz wrote some papers that led to the family of theories of distributed morphology , which is very influential in theoretical morphology .

Life

Halle was born in Liepāja in 1923 and came to Riga with his family in 1929 . In 1940 they went to the USA. From 1941 to 1943 he studied mechanical engineering at the City College of New York . In 1943 Halle was drafted into the army and released in 1946, whereupon he studied linguistics at the University of Chicago and graduated in 1948 with a master's degree. He then studied at Columbia University with Roman Jakobson , became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951 and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955. -Title. He worked u. a. with Juri Lotman . In 1963 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1988 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1996 he was at MIT emeritus , researched and published, however, continue. Halle spoke German , Yiddish , Latvian , Russian , Hebrew and English . He lived in Cambridge with his wife Rosamond . The two had three sons: David, John and Timothy.

Works

  • From Memory to Speech and Back. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 2002.
  • Fundamentals of Language. Mouton, The Hague 1956 (²1971; with Roman Jakobson). German translation by Georg Friedrich Meier: Basics of the language . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1960.
  • For Roman Jakobson. Mouton, The Hague 1956.
  • The Sound Pattern of English. Harper & Row, New York 1968 (with Noam Chomsky).
  • Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality. MIT Press, Cambridge 1978 (ed., With Joan Bresnan).
  • The Sound Pattern of Russian. Mouton, The Hague 1959.
  • Problem Book in Phonology. MIT Press, Cambridge 1983 (with George N. Clements).
  • Preliminaries to Speech Analysis. MIT Press, Cambridge 1961 (with C. Gunnar M. Fant and Roman Jakobson).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=37517
  2. ^ Morris Halle and Alec Marantz: Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection. In: K. Hale & SJ Keyser (Eds.) The View from Building 20 , MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., Pp. 111-176. 1993.
  3. ^ Morris Halle and Alec Marantz: Some Key Features fo Distributed Morphology. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 21, pp. 275-288. 1994.
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Morris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinkovics, Moriss (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian-American linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Liepāja
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2018