December 5, 2024 from 7:00-8:30 pm

Harry van der Hulst, PhD

Join me in welcoming Harry van der Hulst, PhD on

Language and the Human Condition

What is human language? Why do we have? Where did it come from? (Do other animals have language?) What does it do for us? What role does it play in human lives? Does language contribute to the potential to be happy or does it the opposite sometimes? How different would we be if we did not have language?.

BIOGRAPHY

Harry van der Hulst (PhD 1984, University of Leiden, the Netherlands) specializes in ‘phonology’ which is the study of the sounds systems of languages, as well as the visual aspects of sign languages.  He has published 4 books and over 170 articles; he has edited over 32 books and 6 journal theme issues in the above-mentioned areas. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the international linguistic journal The Linguistic Review since 1990 and he is co-editor of the series ‘Studies in generative grammar’ (Mouton de Gruyter).

He is currently (since 2000) professor of linguistics at the University of Connecticut. He is married to the linguist Nancy Ritter and has seven children. His most recent books are Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony – A Representational Account (2018, Oxford University Press) and Radical CV Phonology – A Theory of Segmental and Syllabic Structure (2020, Edinburgh University Press). A Mind for Language – An Introduction to the Innateness Debate (Cambridge University Press). In press: Genes, Brains and Evolution – The Innateness Debate Continued (Cambridge University Press).

Website: https://harry-van-der-hulst.uconn.edu/publications/

Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_van_der_Hulst

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