{"id":14561,"date":"2022-02-28T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14561"},"modified":"2022-02-28T19:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:01:02","slug":"a-statement-from-mit-linguistics-faculty-post-docs-and-staff-concerning-the-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/02\/28\/a-statement-from-mit-linguistics-faculty-post-docs-and-staff-concerning-the-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"A statement from MIT Linguistics faculty, post-docs, and staff <br> concerning the war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">The field of linguistics is international in its very essence: studying the common humanity of all people by studying the fundamental structures of human language\u00a0 \u0097 in active collaboration with speakers, students, and colleagues from every corner of the globe.\u00a0 In this context, and as human beings ourselves, we view with horror the brutal attack by the government of Russia on the people of Ukraine, and condemn it.\u00a0 We also note that this war is being publicly condemned by steadily increasing numbers of brave citizens within Russia, including colleagues and dear friends, who are risking their own safety to stand in open solidarity with the people of Ukraine and in opposition to the actions of their own government.\u00a0 We salute their courage and offer our fullest support for their brave efforts.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Adam Albright<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Amir Anvari<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Athulya Aravind<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Noam Chomsky<\/div>\n<div>Michel DeGraff<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Kai von Fintel<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Edward Flemming<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Suzanne Flynn<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Danny Fox<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Mary Grenham<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Martin Hackl<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">James W. Harris<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Irene Heim<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Sabine Iatridou<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Michael Kenstowicz<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Samuel Jay Keyser<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Shigeru Miyagawa<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">David Pesetsky<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Jennifer Purdy<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Norvin Richards<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Leo Rosenstein<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Donca Steriade<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Abdul-Razak Sulemana<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"> Sheelah Ward <\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Ken Wexler<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The field of linguistics is international in its very essence: studying the common humanity of all people by studying the fundamental structures of human language\u00a0 \u0097 in active collaboration with speakers, students, and colleagues from every corner of the globe.\u00a0 In this context, and as human beings ourselves, we view with horror the brutal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14561"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14567,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561\/revisions\/14567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}