<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">This notice of change of the editorial team at Oceanic Linguistics is an opportune moment to make a further announcement about Emeritus Professor John Lynch, one of the retiring editors.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">The </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">ARC Centre for Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and University of the South Pacific will be hosting the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">Vanuatu Languages Conference</span></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(July 25 - 27, 2018, USP, Vanuatu).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1">The c</span>onference is being held in honour of John, who has been a pioneer of Vanuatu and Oceanic linguistics. John will be a keynote speaker, reflecting on his 50-year involvement in the field.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class=""><a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/news-and-media/events/article/?id=vanuatu-languages-conference-25-27-july-2018-port-vila" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/news-and-media/events/article/?id=vanuatu-languages-conference-25-27-july-2018-port-vila</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">Most of the researchers currently working on Vanuatu languages are intending to attend this conference, and a volume of proceedings will be published, as a festschrift in John's honour. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">We would like to invite colleagues who have been associated with John and his academic contributions in any way to consider two opportunities to express their appreciation of/to him:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">1. Provide a short note of acknowledgement and appreciation that can be shared with John at an appropriate occasion during the Vanuatu Languages Conference, and/or<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">2. Indicate your interest in receiving further information about contributing a paper, research note or squib to the published volume to be prepared in John's honour.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">Kind regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">Robert Early<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">(for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">Vanuatu Languages Conference<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: black;" class="">co-organisers Nick Thieberger and Mary Walworth) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">====================<br class="">Dr Robert Early<br class="">Pacific Languages Unit<br class="">University of the South Pacific<br class="">VANUATU<br class=""><a href="mailto:robert.early@usp.ac.fj" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">robert.early@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj</a><br class="">+678 7740240<br class="">====================</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>