Larry Hyman | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | September 26, 1947
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Education | University of California, Los Angeles (B.S., M.A., Ph.D.) |
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Institutions | University of California,Berkeley |
Website | linguistics |
Larry M. Hyman (born September 26,1947,in Los Angeles,California) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California,Berkeley. [1] He specializes in phonology and has particular interest in African languages. [2]
He received his B.S.,M.A,and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California,Los Angeles. His 1972 Ph.D. dissertation,"A Phonological Study of Fe’fe’-Bamileke," was supervised by Victoria Fromkin. [3]
Hyman taught at the University of Southern California from 1971 to 1988. There he edited and contributed to many volumes in the Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics (SCOPIL) series. [4] He took up a position in UC-Berkeley's Department of Linguistics in 1988,where he served as chair of the department from 1991 to 2002. [5] [6] He remained at Berkeley until his retirement in 2022.
Hyman's widely cited and influential research focuses on phonological theory,language typology,and African languages,particularly Bantu languages and other Niger-Congo languages. [2] His passion for linguistic research was contagious. This is evident in the last lines of his Linguist of the Day profile on the LinguistList from 2007,sharing with students how he got into the field:“Linguistics is an international field which still provides great opportunities for teaching,research,travel,collegiality,and friendship. I was very lucky to find my field as early in my life as I did and do not take for granted how good linguistics and so many in it have been to me.” [7]
He has received numerous grants for his research,mostly from the National Science Foundation. [8] [9] [10] In addition,he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979. [11]
Hyman was the President of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 2017 and delivered his presidential address on "What tone teaches us about language". [12] [13] He is also a Fellow [14] of the LSA and served on the LSA Executive Committee from 2003-2005. [15] He received the Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award from the LSA in 2021. [16]
He became a Chevalier (Knight) of the prestigious Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2021. [17] This award honors Hyman's longtime commitment to educational exchanges and cooperative academic projects between France and the University of California,notably as Director of the France-Berkeley Fund. In 2004 he was awarded the Collège de France medal. [18]
A Festschrift in his honor,Revealing Structure,was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018. [19]
He has been chair of the Editorial Board,University of California Publications in Linguistics since 1999. He has been editor or on the editorial board of many linguistic journals,including Linguistic Inquiry ,Journal of African Languages &Linguistics, Language , Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ,Lingua Descriptive Series, Phonology (Yearbook), Linguistic Typology and Africana Linguistica (Musée royal de l'Afrique central).
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