Don Freeman, Joe Pater and Barbara Partee made a trip to the UMass Library Archives in June 2022 to take a look at their Linguistics holdings. Here is some of what was there. We’ll put more of it together as a contribution to the UMOP volume. (Thanks to Jeremy Smith for hosting our visit).
A grad program poster from 1972. Note that Chuck Clifton and Jim Cathey were already here.A grad program flyer from 1974 announcing the Linguistic Institute. The faculty had grown incredibly quickly! Bach, Bresnan, Keyser, Partee, Roeper and Selkirk had joined the the department’s ranks. The 1979 poster – another set of new faculty: Frazier, Kahn, Kayne, Prince, Vergnaud, and Williams.The Cognitive Science program handbook 1981Areas of research from the 1981 Cognitive Science program handbook From the 1981 Cognitive Science program handbookNews from 1987 published in the Campus ChronicleUndated, but maybe 1991? Borer, Higgins, Kingston, Kratzer, McCarthy, Speas and Woolford had joined the faculty by this point.From the 1992-93 graduate bulletinFrom the 1992-93 graduate bulletinFrom the 1992-93 graduate bulletinFrom the 1992-93 graduate bulletinFrom the 1997 Chronicle: the new Linguistics BA.
