Email: w.bennett@ru.ac.za
Comps Title: Evaluating Optimality Theory as a Method of Language Description
Current Employment: Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Rhodes University
“I’m not great at words of inspiration, but here’s an attempt at something quotable: Humans are, fundamentally, linguistic animals; very little we do that doesn’t involve language in at least some way. A deep understanding of how language works gives us a useful lens to examine nearly anything we may need to understand about ourselves, and each other.”