Morris Halle (1923–2018)

A letter from Morris Halle Comments on Luigi Burzio

I write to comment on a number of issues raised in the recent paper by Luigi Burzio “The Rise of Optimality Theory” (Glot International 6). Burzio begins his paper by recalling that in his classes of ca. 1976 Chomsky “would argue that writing a rule does not constitute a solution to a problem, but merely a statement of it.” He finds this position incompatible with Chomsky’s more recent statemen...

3 Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection Morris Halle and

1 Morphology with or without Affixes The last few years have seen the emergence of several clearly articulated alternative approaches to morphology. One such approach rests on the notion that only stems of the so-called lexical categories (N, V, A) are morpheme "pieces" in the traditional sense—connections between (bundles of) meaning (features) and (bundles of) sound (features). What look like...

Beiträge zur Geschichte des Gesundheitswesens der Stadt Halle und der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Halle

little volume to English readers'. The most important part of the book is that which deals with the nineteenth-century attempts to control the practice of midwifery and to improve its standards. Little is now known of the attempt by the Society of Apothecaries in 1815 to incorporate into the Apothecaries Act, which controlled the standards of education of the general practitioners, a section to...

The University of Halle through the centuries.

Morris Bacon

Decoherence, Control, and Symmetry in Quantum Computers