Editing Morris Halle (section)

==Life and career==
Halle was born - as '''Morris Pinkowitz''' ({{langx|lv|Moriss Pinkovics}}) - on July 23, 1923, in [[Liepāja]], [[Latvia]]. In 1929 he moved with his [[Jews|Jewish]] family to [[Riga]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Q8LAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Halle,+Morris%22+AND+%221923%22|title=E.K. Brown, R.E. Asher, and J.M.Y. Simpson, Encyclopedia of language & linguistics, Volume 1|year=2006}}</ref> He arrived in the United States in 1940 and graduated from [[George Washington Educational Campus|George Washington High School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/memoriam-sylvain-bromberger|access-date=2022-06-06|title=In memoriam: Sylvain Bromberger|date=2018-10-31|publisher=MIT Press|archive-date=2022-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607053855/https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/memoriam-sylvain-bromberger|url-status=dead}}</ref> From 1941 to 1943, he studied engineering at the [[City College of New York]]. He entered the [[United States Army]] in 1943 and was discharged in 1946, at which point he went to the [[University of Chicago]], where he got his [[master's degree]] in linguistics in 1948. He then studied at [[Columbia University]] under [[Roman Jakobson]], became a professor at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1951, and earned his [[PhD]] from [[Harvard University]] in 1955. He is considered to be, with Noam Chomsky, the founder of the modern linguistics department at MIT.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Marcus|first=Gary|title=Happy Birthday, Morris Halle|url=https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/happy-birthday-morris-halle|access-date=2021-03-31|magazine=The New Yorker|date=19 July 2013|language=en-us}}</ref> He retired from MIT in 1996, but he remained active in research and publication. He was fluent in [[German language|German]], [[Yiddish]], [[Latvian language|Latvian]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and [[English language|English]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Institute Professor Emeritus Morris Halle, innovative and influential linguist, dies at 94|url=https://news.mit.edu/2018/institute-professor-emeritus-morris-halle-innovative-and-influential-linguist-dies-94-0403|access-date=2021-03-31|website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology|date=3 April 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

Halle was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Morris Halle|work=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/morris-halle/|access-date=2021-03-31|language=en-US}}</ref> He was [[List of presidents of the Linguistic Society of America|President of the Linguistic Society of America]] in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Presidents {{!}} Linguistic Society of America|url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/presidents|access-date=2021-03-31|website=www.linguisticsociety.org}}</ref> He was also a fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], and a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Morris Halle|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/8935.html|access-date=2021-03-31|website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Halle, Morris {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/halle-morris|access-date=2021-03-31|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

Halle was married for fifty-six years to painter, artist and activist Rosamond Thaxter Halle (née Strong), until her death in April 2011. They had three sons: David, John and Timothy.

Halle resided in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. He died on April 2, 2018, at the age of 94.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.mit.edu/2018/institute-professor-emeritus-morris-halle-innovative-and-influential-linguist-dies-94-0403|title=Institute Professor Emeritus Morris Halle, innovative and influential linguist, dies at 94 |last=Dizikes |first=Peter |date=April 3, 2018 |website=MIT News|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}</ref>