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Linguistics Professor Receives Research Award

Matthew S. Dryer, a professor in the Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which each year honors renowned scientists and scholars from abroad. The award will permit Dryer to continue his work with Martin Haspelmath and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig on a worldwide database of language structures. Read more.

Posted January 28, 2009 in Uncategorized