Chomskian linguistics

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:36 PM -0400 9/9/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Robin Hamilton
><robin.hamilton3 at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>
>>  M.A.K.Halliday
>
>He held the primary visiting-professorship (the proper title escapes
>me, buh chawl gnome sane)

Sapir Professorship
unless it was historical, in which case it's the
Collitz Professorship

LH

>at the 1971 LSA Summer Linguistic Institute.
>I still have the souvenir booklet with his picture and that of his
>Institute girlfriend.
>
>Back in the day, those Summer Institutes *swung*! That may still be
>the case, but I haven't attended one since '74.
>
>--
>-Wilson
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