The Philomathean Society presents: Tea with Professor Anthony Kroch (Linguistics)
4th floor College Hall | Friday, April 8th, 4 PM
Anthony Kroch is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in theoretical and historical syntax. He received his Ph. D. in Linguistics from MIT in 1974 and was a postdoctoral research fellow with William Labov from 1977 to 1979. His historical work has focused on the use of statistical methods to trace the time course of language change and to tease apart the contributions of competing grammars in mixed texts, of which Middle English provides the most extensive extant corpus. He and his collaborators are responsible for the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English (2000) and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (2004).
Come banter, chatter, converse, and cogitate with baked goods and a cup of Earl Grey in the Philomathean Library at Philo Afternoon Tea. All Philo events are free and open to the public.
