Stephen Robert Anderson (born 1943) is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

. He is the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

and was the 2007 president of the

Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

. He received a B.S. in linguistics from the

Illinois Institute of Technology The Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the m ...

in 1966 and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

in 1969. Anderson taught at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

from 1969 until 1975. He joined the faculty of the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

in 1975. In 1988, he became a professor of cognitive science at

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

. Since 1994, he has been at Yale University; he retired from teaching in 2017. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1988–89. Anderson was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1993, the

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in 1999, the

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in 2006, and the

in 2008. He was an early member of

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. From 2009 to 2013 he was Vice President of CIPL, the Permanent International Committee of Linguists. In January, 2014, he was awarded the Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award of Linguistic Society of America. A

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in his honor on his retirement was edited in 2017 by Claire Bowern,

Laurence Horn Laurence Robert Horn (born 1945) is an American linguist. He is professor emeritus of linguistics in the department of linguistics at Yale University with specialties in pragmatics and semantics. He received his doctorate in 1972 from UCLA and for ...

and Raffaella Zanuttini.

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Stephen R. Anderson
Living people 1943 births Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Harvard University faculty Illinois Institute of Technology alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty Linguistic Society of America presidents MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Morphologists 20th-century American linguists 21st-century American linguists University of California, Los Angeles faculty Yale University faculty {{US-linguist-stub