Word: adepartmental
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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"The administration doesn't get it straight,"said Treasurer-Secretary of the LinguisticsSociety of America (LSA) Frederick Newmeyer. "Itis true that linguistics has implications in otherfields, but that doesn't mean [it] is not adepartment on its own."
According to current University rules, if adepartment is dissolved, it must be replaced by anundergraduate degree committee, a graduate degreecommittee, or an interdisciplinary degreecommittee.
The problem with a committee instead of adepartment, said Horn, is that it will not havethe power to make its own administrative decisionsor to appoint its own professors.
"The administration doesn't seem to get it straight," said Newmeyer, who is a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington. "It is true thatlinguistics has implications in other fields butthat doesn't mean that linguistics is not adepartment on its own."