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Freeman Lecture October 4

Geoff Nunberg will deliver the Freeman Lecture at 4:00 pm on October 4 in Bartlett 65.

What words can teach

Over the last century, "philology" has gone from the name of a central historical method in the humanities to an antiquated name for historical linguistics. Now, the advent of extensive online corpora promises to breathe new life into the philological enterprise. We can track the origin and development of words more accurately, rapidly, and in greater detail than was ever possible before and capture nuances of meaning that we could previously talk about only impressionistically.