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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

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

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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