In Memoriam

We lost our dear friend and colleague Emmon Bach on November 28th, 2014. The announcement from our departmental website is reproduced here, the WHISC announcement is here, Barbara Partee's language log announcement is here, and a memorial page set up by Jim Blevins, connecting to pages about the June 2014 Emmonfest in Frankfurt, can be found here. (...)

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(from Phonoloblog) I’m very sad to report that Laura Benua has died, just over a week ago, at her home in Nyack, NY. She was just 50 years old. Laura received her PhD in Linguistics at UMass, under the direction of John McCarthy, in 1997. She held a faculty position in Linguistics at the University of Maryland for a few years, then left the field to become a teacher in NYC. (...)

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Anne Vainikka Thomas passed away on June 11th. We have posted the obituary here, and a memorial written by Tom Roeper here. A guest book can be found here. Anne received her PhD from our department in 1989 with a dissertation on “Deriving Syntactic Representations In Finnish,” which was way ahead of its time. (...)

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(from UBC Linguistics)  It is with great sadness and disbelief that I have to share with the world that Michael Rochemont passed away peacefully on July 3rd 2018. On behalf of the Department of Linguistics I wish to extend our heartfelt condolences to those he left behind who loved him so dearly. (...)

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We are devastated by the news that our alum Shai Cohen (PhD 2009) passed away after a long struggle with cancer. (...)

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