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Honorary Degree
Recipients
Thanks to the generous endowment of the Vice-Chancellor,
each year we have the pleasure of awarding the Degree of Doctor of Letters
(honoris causa) to a linguist of high international standing.
Following the award ceremony a public lecture
is presented by the degree recipient.
Below is a list of the Honorary Degree Recipients
we have had and the title of the public lecture each presented (click
on the link to see the citation for each scholar):
| 2003 |
Professor
Marianne Mithun
- University of California at Santa
Barbara
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Alternative worlds
in peril: What do we lose when a language disappears? |
| 2004 |
Professor
Bernard Comrie
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology & University of California at Santa Barbara
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Languages, Genes, and Prehistory |
| 2005 |
Professor
Peter Trudgill
- University of Fribourg & University
of East Anglia |
Koinés and creoloids:
on the world-wide loss of linguistic complexity |
| 2006 |
Professor Brian D. Joseph
- Ohio State University |
Life lessons from historical linguistics: Language change and the time dimension |

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