Honoring Stephen Anderson

By Yiding Hao | Monday, May 29, 2017
Stephen Anderson poses holding a copy of his festschrift. Also in the picture are Claire Bowern, Larry Horn, Raffaella Zanuttini, and Bob Frank.

The Department of Linguistics recently held a symposium, entitled Taking the Langue View, celebrating the retirement of Professor Emeritus Steve Anderson. As a longtime faculty member and department chair, Steve’s career has had a lasting impact not only on the Department, but on the field of linguistics as a whole. Steve is known for contributing fundamental ideas to all aspects of linguistic theory, including phonology, syntax, and especially morphology.

The symposium, held on May 18, began with remarks from department chair Bob Frank and dean Tamar Gendler of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Invited talks were given by friends and colleagues of Steve. These invited speakers are listed below.

Titles and abstracts from the talks are available on the symposium website.

At the conclusion of the symposium, Steve was presented with a Festschrift entitled On looking into words (and beyond): Structures, Relations, Analyses. This volume, available from Language Science Press, consists of twenty-six papers covering topics relating to Steve’s work, from morphological gaps to issues of language learnability.

We thank Steve for his service to our department and our field, and we wish him all the best!