Norbert wins Bloomfield Book Award

LSA honors "The Merge Hypothesis".

Huge congratulations to Norbert Hornstein, co-founder of our Department, who has been awarded the Linguistic Society of America's 2026 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, for "The Merge hypothesis: A theory of aspects of syntax". Writes the LSA, "the Bloomfield Award is the highest honor for a single work that our field possess, and its recipients are those works that make the most significant contributions to our science, exhibiting exemplary scholarship, empirical import, and theoretical acumen." Right on! Bloomfield never saw it coming. 

The honor will be bestowed publicly at the LSA's Annual Meeting, January 8-11, in New Orleans.