Paul Geraghty has asked me to post the following announcement to the list:<br><br>Austronesianists will be saddened to hear of the passing away of George
Milner last week, at his home in Somerset, England. He spent most of his
career at SOAS (University of London) and is perhaps best known for his
work on Samoan (Samoan Dictionary) and Fijian
(Fijian grammar), and was the keynote speaker at the Fourth
International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, held in Suva in
1984. He retired from SOAS in 1990, and continued to work on Pacific
languages in his retirement, though sadly was unable to complete
his projected Fijian-English dictionary.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John Lynch, FAHA<br>Emeritus Professor of Pacific Languages, and Editor "Oceanic Linguistics"<br>University of the South Pacific<br>PMB 9072<br>
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