{"id":11147,"date":"2018-05-14T06:25:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11147"},"modified":"2018-05-15T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T18:13:46","slug":"memorial-for-morris-halle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/05\/14\/memorial-for-morris-halle\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial for Morris Halle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">Our memorial for Morris Halle took place on the afternoon of Saturday May 5. <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0772.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11152 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0772.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"319\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0775.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11151 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0775.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11154\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_3323.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11156\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_3268.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Though the loss of our friend, colleague, and guiding spirit, is unutterably sad, the memorial was \u0097 quite\u00a0appropriately \u0097 a celebration. \u00a0One by one, Morris&#8217;s three children, two grandchildren, former students, co-authors and intellectual fellow travelers spoke, painting a vivid picture of who\u00a0Morris was and what he contributed to our lives. \u00a0The event was presided over by Jay Keyser (left), and the last speaker was Noam Chomsky (right), with whom Morris founded our linguistics program,\u00a0and (many would say) our field in its modern form.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0768.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11155 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>About 240 people attended in person, and the event was webcast.\u00a0\u00a0We have received numerous messages from colleagues around the world who watched the event live (some waking up in the\u00a0middle of the night to do so), and from others who watched it later.\u00a0\u00a0The webcast can still be viewed at <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/webcast\/linquistics\/halle\/\">http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/webcast\/linquistics\/halle\/<\/a>\u00a0\u0097 skip to 48 minutes in, the actual\u00a0beginning. When we find a permanent home for a properly edited version of the video, we will let you know.\u00a0\u00a0Every speech was wonderful.\u00a0\u00a0Do watch.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_3314.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11153\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_3314.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"195.2\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_3267.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11150\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_3267.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"155.2\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_3277.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11149\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_3277.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"155.2\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>(<small>left to right:\u00a0 Cecilia Halle and Casey Rose Halle; John Halle; Donca Steriade<\/small>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our memorial for Morris Halle took place on the afternoon of Saturday May 5. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Though the loss of our friend, colleague, and guiding spirit, is unutterably sad, the memorial was \u0097 quite\u00a0appropriately \u0097 a celebration. \u00a0One by one, Morris&#8217;s three children, two grandchildren, former students, co-authors and intellectual fellow travelers spoke, painting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11147"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11179,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions\/11179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}