Mark Hale is Associate Professor at Concordia University. His research interests are diachronic linguistic methodology, with special reference to its relationship to theoretical work in phonology and syntax, Indo-European linguistics, and Austronesian (especially Oceanic) linguistics. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1976, his M.A. from Indiana University in 1980, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987. Some representative publications are “Neogrammarian Sound Change,” in the Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Blackwell); “Marshallese Phonology, the Phonetics-Phonology Interface, and Historical Linguistics,” in Linguistic Review; and “Diachronic Syntax,” in Syntax.

Introduction to Historical Linguistics | LSA.304
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