LARRY M. HYMAN Professor, Department of Linguistics & Executive Director, France-Berkeley Fund University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
[email protected] http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=19 BIRTHDATE PLACE OF BIRTH NATIONALITY September 26, 1947 Los Angeles U.S.A. EDUCATION University of California, Los Angeles B.A. (Linguistics) 1969 University of California, Los Angeles M.A. (Linguistics) 1969 University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. (Linguistics) 1972 HONORS/AWARDS Honors at Entrance, UCLA, 1965 Kiwanis Club Scholarship, Fall 1965 President’s and University Scholarships, 1965-1968 Honors Program, UCLA, 1966-1969 Education Abroad Program, Bordeaux, France, 1966-1967 N.D.E.A. Title VI Fellowships (to study Igbo, Hausa, Bamileke), 1968-1970 Departmental Scholar, Department of Linguistics, 1968-1969 Phi Beta Kappa, graduated Summa cum Laude, June 1969 UCLA Alumni Award for Distinguished Service in the Humanities, 1972 Cultural Exchange, Affaires Etrangères, France, January 1976 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1977-1978 Albert S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award, University of Southern California, 1987 Chancellor’s Professor, UC Berkeley, 1996-1999 Distinguished Service Award, Social Sciences Division, UC Berkeley, 2002 Médaille d’Or, Collège de France, January 2004. Elected Fellow, Linguistic Society of America, January 2007 GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Year Fellowship, Nigeria-Cameroon, 1970-1971, approx. $5000 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1973- 1975, approx. $15,000 each year National Science Foundation Travel Grant No. GS41702, Cameroon, June-October 1974, $1500 Social Science Research Council Grant, Cameroon, June-October 1974, $2000 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant, Cameroon, June-October 1974, $1950 National Science Foundation Grant No.