From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Tue Apr 27 17:32:26 2004 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:32:26 EDT Subject: Studies in the History of the English LAnguage II: Unfolding Conversations, edited by Anne Curzan & Kimberly Emmons (2004) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- New from Mouton de Gruyter >From the Series TOPICS IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS Series Editors: Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Bernd Kortmann STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE II Unfolding Conversations Edited by Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons 2004. xii, 500 pages. Cloth. EURO 94.00 / sFr 150.00 / approx. US$ 113.00 ISBN 3-11-018097-9 (Topics in English Linguistics 45) Studies in the History of the English Language II contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English linguistics, including new theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and traditional fields such as phonology and syntax. In each of the four sections - Philology and linguistics; Corpus- and text-based studies; Constraint-based studies; Dialectology - a key article provides the focal point for a discussion between leading scholars, who respond directly to each other's arguments within the volume. In Section 1, Donka Minkova and Lesley Milroy explore the possibilities of historical sociolinguistics as part of a discussion of the distinction between philology and linguistics. In Section 2, Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Erik Smitterberg provide new research findings on the history and usage of progressive constructions. In Section 3, Geoffrey Russom and Robert D. Fulk reanalyze the development of Middle English alliterative meter. In Section 4, Michael Montgomery, Connie Eble, and Guy Bailey interpret new historical evidence of the pen/pin merger in Southern American English. The remaining articles address equally salient problems and possibilities within the field of historical English linguistics. The volume spans topics and time periods from Proto-Germanic sound change to twenty-first century dialect variation, and methodologies from painstaking philological work with written texts to high-speed data gathering in computerized corpora. As a whole, the volume captures an ongoing conversation at the heart of historical English linguistics: the question of evidence and historical reconstruction. Anne Curzan is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Kimberly Emmons is Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. FROM THE CONTENTS: Section 1: Linguistics and philology Introduction: Linguistics and philology Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w] Donka Minkova An essay in historical sociolinguistics?: On Donka Minkova's "Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w]" Lesley Milroy A brief response Donka Minkova Why we should not believe in short diphthongs David L. White Extended forms (Streckformen) in English Anatoly Liberman Linguistic change in words one owns: How trademarks become "generic" Ronald R. Butters and Jennifer Westerhaus Section 2: Corpus- and text-based studies Introduction: Corpus- and text-based studies Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network Susan M. Fitzmaurice Investigating the expressive progressive: On Susan Fitzmaurice's "The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network" Erik Smitterberg A brief response Susan M. Fitzmaurice Modal use across registers and time Douglas Biber The need for good texts: The case of Henry Machyn's Day Book, 1550-1563 Richard W. Bailey The perils of firsts: Dating Rawlinson MS Poet. 108 and tracing the development of monolingual English lexicons Ian Lancashire Section 3: Constraint-based studies Introduction: Constraint-based studies Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter Geoffrey Russom Old English poetry and the alliterative revival: On Geoffrey Russom's "The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter" Robert D. Fulk A brief response Geoffrey Russom A central metrical prototype for English iambic tetrameter verse: Evidence from Chaucer's octosyllabic lines Xingzhong Li Early English clause structure change in a stochastic optimality theory setting Brady Z. Clark The role of perceptual contrast in Verner's Law Olga Petrova Section 4: Dialectology Introduction: Dialectology Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble Digging up the roots of Southern American English: On Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble's "Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English" Guy Bailey A brief response Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble Vowel merger in west central Indiana: A naughty, knotty problem Betty S. Phillips The spread of negative contraction in early English Richard M. Hogg Of further interest Studies in the History of the English Language A Millennial Perspective Edited by Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell 2002. vi, 496 pages. Cloth. EURO 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 118.00 ISBN 3-11-017368-9 (TiEL 39) 2003. vi, 496 pages. Paperback. EURO 36.95 / sFr 59.00 / approx. US$ 44.00 ISBN 3-11-017591-6 SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER AT WWW.DEGRUYTER.DE/NEWSLETTER. 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Cloth. Euro 118.00 / sFr 189.00 / approx. US$ 142.00 ISBN 3-11-017840-0 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 157) This volume comprises contributions from different disciplines (cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, neuro-science) concerned with the generation of natural speech. It summarizes the outcome of a six-year long priority program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) that aimed at bringing together colleagues with different viewpoints but sharing a principal interest in the cognitive processes underlying language production. The result is a state-of-the-art discussion of one of the most fascinating branches of human behavior taking into account a particularly rich multidisciplinary empirical data base. Thomas Pechmann is Professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Christopher Habel is Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany. >From the Contents: THOMAS PECHMANN AND CHRISTOPHER HABEL Preface MERRILL GARRETT Introduction GERHARD BLANKEN, FLORIAN KULKE, BRITTA BIEDERMANN, TOBIAS BORMANN, JÜRGEN DITTMANN, AND CLAUS-W. WALLESCH The dissolution of word production in aphasia: Implications for normal functions JENS BÖLTE, PIENIE ZWITSERLOOD, AND PETRA DOHMES Morphology in experimental speech production research MARY CARROLL, CHRISTIANE VON STUTTERHEIM, AND RALF NÜSE The language and thought debate: A psycholinguistic approach GRZEGORZ DOGIL, HERMANN ACKERMANN, WOLFGANG GRODD, HUBERT HAIDER, HANS KAMP, JÖRG MAYER, AXEL RIECKER, DIETMAR RÖHM, DIRK WILDGRUBER, AND WOLFGANG WOKUREK Brain dynamics induced by language production CLAIRE GARDENT, HÉLÈNE MANUÉLIAN, KRISTINA STRIEGNITZ, AND MARILISA AMOIA Generating definite descriptions, non-incrementality, inference, and data MARKUS GUHE, CHRISTOPER HABEL, AND LADINA TSCHANDER Incremental generation interconnected preverbal messages SILKE HAMM AND JÜRGEN BREDENKAMP Working memory and slips of the tongue KARIN HARBUSCH AND JENS WOCH Integrated natural language generation with schema-tree adjoining grammars BERNADETTE M. JANSMA, ANTONI RODRIGUEZ-FORNELLS, JÜRN MÖLLER, AND THOMAS F. MÜNTE Electrophysiological studies of speech production DIRK JANSSEN, DENISA BORDAG, AND THOMAS PECHMANN Morphological encoding and morphological structures in German GERARD KEMPEN AND KARIN HARBUSCH A corpus study into word order variation in German subordinate clauses: Animacy affects linearization independently of grammatical function assignment RALF KLABUNDE AND DANIEL GLATZ On the production of focus HELEN LEUNINGER, ANNETTE HOHENBERGER, EVA WALESCHKOWSKI, ELKE MENGES, AND DANIELA HAPP The impact of modality on language production: Evidence from slips of the tongue and hand THOMAS PECHMANN AND DIETER ZERBST Syntactic constraints on lexical access in language production ULRICH SCHADE The benefits of local-connectionist production HEIKE TAPPE, HOLDEN HÄRTL, AND SUSAN OLSEN Thematic information, argument structure, and discourse adaptation in language production RÜDIGER WEINGARTEN, GUIDO NOTTBUSCH, AND UDO WILL Morphemes, syllables, and graphemes in written word production SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER AT WWW.DEGRUYTER.DE/NEWSLETTER. 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Steve Long --------------------------------------------------------- IN MEMORIAM: Larry Trask Leading linguist who made the subject accessible to a wide range of readers and became an expert on the Basque language Richard Coates Thursday April 8, 2004 The Guardian Larry Trask, who has died of motor neurone disease aged 59, was one of the world's leading experts on the Basque language. A professor of linguistics at Sussex University, he wrote the outstanding The History Of Basque (1997), a superb vindication of the methods of classical historical linguistics, about which he also wrote a fine textbook, Historical Linguistics (1996). And Larry was not just scholarly. His books are fun: witty, occasionally partisan, beautifully clear and readable. An interest in Basque often heralds a descent into obsessiveness; the world is full of amateurs - and others - determined to prove that Basque is not historically isolated but is related to some other language, or to all of them. Larry patiently crushed all such attempts with a secure grasp of all the literature. His training in hard science also made him well-placed to flay ill-informed efforts in the field of Basque studies to find parallels between genetic trees and linguistic trees. His involvement in this science of the origin and evolution of language brought him prominence, for instance as the co-editor with archaeologist Colin Renfrew and linguist April McMahon of the two-volume Time Depth In Historical Linguistics (2000), but Larry never sought the front of the stage; he arrived there and stayed there because others recognised his authority and his gifts as a communicator. He was born in Cattaraugus County, New York State, and in the 1960s took degrees in chemistry at Rensselaer College, New York State and Brandeis University, Massachusetts, before ditching his PhD and becoming a chemistry teacher with the United States Peace Corps. He taught at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara but, having left his job in Turkey in 1970 to the sound of gunfire, found himself in London. There he met and married, his first wife, Esther Barrutia, a Basque chemist. Having shown himself already to be a talented practical linguist, he discovered linguistics and graduated in the subject from what was then Central London Polytechnic - while still teaching science in a school. He then worked on his PhD, specialising in Basque, under Professor CE Bazell at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies. He taught at Liverpool University from 1979 until his department was abolished in 1988 and its members were enthusiastically recruited by Sussex. He was awarded a personal chair by Sussex in 1998. Larry was a dedicated and versatile teacher as well as a researcher, generous with his time to students and to anyone else who might benefit from his knowledge, as witness his participation in the online Ask-a-Linguist service for the general public. He wrote many books for students and for general readers. These included Language: The Basics (1995), Key Concepts In Language And Linguistics (1999), and the cheerfully illustrated Introducing Linguistics (2000). There were also the comprehensive and rigorous Dictionary Of Comparative And Historical Linguistics (2000), Dictionary Of Phonetics And Phonology (1996) and Dictionary Of Grammatical Terms (1993). In 1997 came the Penguin Guide To Punctuation; a still unpublished guide to netiquette followed, as did the famous Mind The Gaffe (2001) about common errors in written Standard English. The only things he could not tolerate were pop music - or so he said - and incompetent and non-empirical speculation. He counted among the latter not only most attempts to find cousins for Basque and to prove all human languages related, but also some key aspects of the linguistic arguments of Noam Chomsky which still represents the dominant position in linguistic theory, especially through the idea that some sort of specifiable universal grammar is hard-wired into the brains of all humans. Larry gave a withering outline of this stand in a Guardian interview with Andrew Brown (June 26 2003), in which the reporter set out why Larry deserved to join that small flock of rare birds, Famous Linguists. Larry was gregarious, much-befriended, passionately interested in wine, baseball and board-games, devoted to pub quizzes and University Challenge, and passionately uninterested in holidays. Anything that Larry was interested in brough t out not just casual engagement but full-blooded devotion. For the two years of illness he was sustained by the devotion of his wife Jan Lock, to whom he was equally devoted. With ironic cruelty, that illness first robbed him of his speech; then it broke his health in stages while leaving his mental powers intact. We, his colleagues and friends, are deeply grateful that he could be with us intellectually to the end. Characteristically, his own last academic activity was to try to complete an article for a memorial volume to another scholar. He was still entertaining us with comments on his reading, emailed from his bed, two days before he died. His own festschrift, loaded with contributions from all the leading scholars in his field, including some with whom he profoundly disagreed, will now be a memorial volume. His other memorials are within the many who loved him. His wife survives him, as do his sister and two brothers. · Robert Lawrence (Larry) Trask, linguist, born November 10 1944 ; died March 27 2004 **************************************************************** Fwd from the Mother Tongue List Michael Witzel From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Tue Apr 27 17:32:26 2004 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:32:26 EDT Subject: Studies in the History of the English LAnguage II: Unfolding Conversations, edited by Anne Curzan & Kimberly Emmons (2004) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- New from Mouton de Gruyter >From the Series TOPICS IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS Series Editors: Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Bernd Kortmann STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE II Unfolding Conversations Edited by Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons 2004. xii, 500 pages. Cloth. EURO 94.00 / sFr 150.00 / approx. US$ 113.00 ISBN 3-11-018097-9 (Topics in English Linguistics 45) Studies in the History of the English Language II contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English linguistics, including new theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and traditional fields such as phonology and syntax. In each of the four sections - Philology and linguistics; Corpus- and text-based studies; Constraint-based studies; Dialectology - a key article provides the focal point for a discussion between leading scholars, who respond directly to each other's arguments within the volume. In Section 1, Donka Minkova and Lesley Milroy explore the possibilities of historical sociolinguistics as part of a discussion of the distinction between philology and linguistics. In Section 2, Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Erik Smitterberg provide new research findings on the history and usage of progressive constructions. In Section 3, Geoffrey Russom and Robert D. Fulk reanalyze the development of Middle English alliterative meter. In Section 4, Michael Montgomery, Connie Eble, and Guy Bailey interpret new historical evidence of the pen/pin merger in Southern American English. The remaining articles address equally salient problems and possibilities within the field of historical English linguistics. The volume spans topics and time periods from Proto-Germanic sound change to twenty-first century dialect variation, and methodologies from painstaking philological work with written texts to high-speed data gathering in computerized corpora. As a whole, the volume captures an ongoing conversation at the heart of historical English linguistics: the question of evidence and historical reconstruction. Anne Curzan is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Kimberly Emmons is Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. FROM THE CONTENTS: Section 1: Linguistics and philology Introduction: Linguistics and philology Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w] Donka Minkova An essay in historical sociolinguistics?: On Donka Minkova's "Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w]" Lesley Milroy A brief response Donka Minkova Why we should not believe in short diphthongs David L. White Extended forms (Streckformen) in English Anatoly Liberman Linguistic change in words one owns: How trademarks become "generic" Ronald R. Butters and Jennifer Westerhaus Section 2: Corpus- and text-based studies Introduction: Corpus- and text-based studies Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network Susan M. Fitzmaurice Investigating the expressive progressive: On Susan Fitzmaurice's "The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network" Erik Smitterberg A brief response Susan M. Fitzmaurice Modal use across registers and time Douglas Biber The need for good texts: The case of Henry Machyn's Day Book, 1550-1563 Richard W. Bailey The perils of firsts: Dating Rawlinson MS Poet. 108 and tracing the development of monolingual English lexicons Ian Lancashire Section 3: Constraint-based studies Introduction: Constraint-based studies Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter Geoffrey Russom Old English poetry and the alliterative revival: On Geoffrey Russom's "The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter" Robert D. Fulk A brief response Geoffrey Russom A central metrical prototype for English iambic tetrameter verse: Evidence from Chaucer's octosyllabic lines Xingzhong Li Early English clause structure change in a stochastic optimality theory setting Brady Z. Clark The role of perceptual contrast in Verner's Law Olga Petrova Section 4: Dialectology Introduction: Dialectology Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble Digging up the roots of Southern American English: On Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble's "Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English" Guy Bailey A brief response Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble Vowel merger in west central Indiana: A naughty, knotty problem Betty S. Phillips The spread of negative contraction in early English Richard M. Hogg Of further interest Studies in the History of the English Language A Millennial Perspective Edited by Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell 2002. vi, 496 pages. Cloth. EURO 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 118.00 ISBN 3-11-017368-9 (TiEL 39) 2003. vi, 496 pages. Paperback. EURO 36.95 / sFr 59.00 / approx. US$ 44.00 ISBN 3-11-017591-6 SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER AT WWW.DEGRUYTER.DE/NEWSLETTER. 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Cloth. Euro 118.00 / sFr 189.00 / approx. US$ 142.00 ISBN 3-11-017840-0 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 157) This volume comprises contributions from different disciplines (cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, neuro-science) concerned with the generation of natural speech. It summarizes the outcome of a six-year long priority program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) that aimed at bringing together colleagues with different viewpoints but sharing a principal interest in the cognitive processes underlying language production. The result is a state-of-the-art discussion of one of the most fascinating branches of human behavior taking into account a particularly rich multidisciplinary empirical data base. Thomas Pechmann is Professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Christopher Habel is Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany. >From the Contents: THOMAS PECHMANN AND CHRISTOPHER HABEL Preface MERRILL GARRETT Introduction GERHARD BLANKEN, FLORIAN KULKE, BRITTA BIEDERMANN, TOBIAS BORMANN, J?RGEN DITTMANN, AND CLAUS-W. WALLESCH The dissolution of word production in aphasia: Implications for normal functions JENS B?LTE, PIENIE ZWITSERLOOD, AND PETRA DOHMES Morphology in experimental speech production research MARY CARROLL, CHRISTIANE VON STUTTERHEIM, AND RALF N?SE The language and thought debate: A psycholinguistic approach GRZEGORZ DOGIL, HERMANN ACKERMANN, WOLFGANG GRODD, HUBERT HAIDER, HANS KAMP, J?RG MAYER, AXEL RIECKER, DIETMAR R?HM, DIRK WILDGRUBER, AND WOLFGANG WOKUREK Brain dynamics induced by language production CLAIRE GARDENT, H?L?NE MANU?LIAN, KRISTINA STRIEGNITZ, AND MARILISA AMOIA Generating definite descriptions, non-incrementality, inference, and data MARKUS GUHE, CHRISTOPER HABEL, AND LADINA TSCHANDER Incremental generation interconnected preverbal messages SILKE HAMM AND J?RGEN BREDENKAMP Working memory and slips of the tongue KARIN HARBUSCH AND JENS WOCH Integrated natural language generation with schema-tree adjoining grammars BERNADETTE M. JANSMA, ANTONI RODRIGUEZ-FORNELLS, J?RN M?LLER, AND THOMAS F. M?NTE Electrophysiological studies of speech production DIRK JANSSEN, DENISA BORDAG, AND THOMAS PECHMANN Morphological encoding and morphological structures in German GERARD KEMPEN AND KARIN HARBUSCH A corpus study into word order variation in German subordinate clauses: Animacy affects linearization independently of grammatical function assignment RALF KLABUNDE AND DANIEL GLATZ On the production of focus HELEN LEUNINGER, ANNETTE HOHENBERGER, EVA WALESCHKOWSKI, ELKE MENGES, AND DANIELA HAPP The impact of modality on language production: Evidence from slips of the tongue and hand THOMAS PECHMANN AND DIETER ZERBST Syntactic constraints on lexical access in language production ULRICH SCHADE The benefits of local-connectionist production HEIKE TAPPE, HOLDEN H?RTL, AND SUSAN OLSEN Thematic information, argument structure, and discourse adaptation in language production R?DIGER WEINGARTEN, GUIDO NOTTBUSCH, AND UDO WILL Morphemes, syllables, and graphemes in written word production SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER AT WWW.DEGRUYTER.DE/NEWSLETTER. 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Steve Long --------------------------------------------------------- IN MEMORIAM: Larry Trask Leading linguist who made the subject accessible to a wide range of readers and became an expert on the Basque language Richard Coates Thursday April 8, 2004 The Guardian Larry Trask, who has died of motor neurone disease aged 59, was one of the world's leading experts on the Basque language. A professor of linguistics at Sussex University, he wrote the outstanding The History Of Basque (1997), a superb vindication of the methods of classical historical linguistics, about which he also wrote a fine textbook, Historical Linguistics (1996). And Larry was not just scholarly. His books are fun: witty, occasionally partisan, beautifully clear and readable. An interest in Basque often heralds a descent into obsessiveness; the world is full of amateurs - and others - determined to prove that Basque is not historically isolated but is related to some other language, or to all of them. Larry patiently crushed all such attempts with a secure grasp of all the literature. His training in hard science also made him well-placed to flay ill-informed efforts in the field of Basque studies to find parallels between genetic trees and linguistic trees. His involvement in this science of the origin and evolution of language brought him prominence, for instance as the co-editor with archaeologist Colin Renfrew and linguist April McMahon of the two-volume Time Depth In Historical Linguistics (2000), but Larry never sought the front of the stage; he arrived there and stayed there because others recognised his authority and his gifts as a communicator. He was born in Cattaraugus County, New York State, and in the 1960s took degrees in chemistry at Rensselaer College, New York State and Brandeis University, Massachusetts, before ditching his PhD and becoming a chemistry teacher with the United States Peace Corps. He taught at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara but, having left his job in Turkey in 1970 to the sound of gunfire, found himself in London. There he met and married, his first wife, Esther Barrutia, a Basque chemist. Having shown himself already to be a talented practical linguist, he discovered linguistics and graduated in the subject from what was then Central London Polytechnic - while still teaching science in a school. He then worked on his PhD, specialising in Basque, under Professor CE Bazell at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies. He taught at Liverpool University from 1979 until his department was abolished in 1988 and its members were enthusiastically recruited by Sussex. He was awarded a personal chair by Sussex in 1998. Larry was a dedicated and versatile teacher as well as a researcher, generous with his time to students and to anyone else who might benefit from his knowledge, as witness his participation in the online Ask-a-Linguist service for the general public. He wrote many books for students and for general readers. These included Language: The Basics (1995), Key Concepts In Language And Linguistics (1999), and the cheerfully illustrated Introducing Linguistics (2000). There were also the comprehensive and rigorous Dictionary Of Comparative And Historical Linguistics (2000), Dictionary Of Phonetics And Phonology (1996) and Dictionary Of Grammatical Terms (1993). In 1997 came the Penguin Guide To Punctuation; a still unpublished guide to netiquette followed, as did the famous Mind The Gaffe (2001) about common errors in written Standard English. The only things he could not tolerate were pop music - or so he said - and incompetent and non-empirical speculation. He counted among the latter not only most attempts to find cousins for Basque and to prove all human languages related, but also some key aspects of the linguistic arguments of Noam Chomsky which still represents the dominant position in linguistic theory, especially through the idea that some sort of specifiable universal grammar is hard-wired into the brains of all humans. Larry gave a withering outline of this stand in a Guardian interview with Andrew Brown (June 26 2003), in which the reporter set out why Larry deserved to join that small flock of rare birds, Famous Linguists. Larry was gregarious, much-befriended, passionately interested in wine, baseball and board-games, devoted to pub quizzes and University Challenge, and passionately uninterested in holidays. Anything that Larry was interested in brough t out not just casual engagement but full-blooded devotion. For the two years of illness he was sustained by the devotion of his wife Jan Lock, to whom he was equally devoted. With ironic cruelty, that illness first robbed him of his speech; then it broke his health in stages while leaving his mental powers intact. We, his colleagues and friends, are deeply grateful that he could be with us intellectually to the end. Characteristically, his own last academic activity was to try to complete an article for a memorial volume to another scholar. He was still entertaining us with comments on his reading, emailed from his bed, two days before he died. His own festschrift, loaded with contributions from all the leading scholars in his field, including some with whom he profoundly disagreed, will now be a memorial volume. His other memorials are within the many who loved him. His wife survives him, as do his sister and two brothers. ? Robert Lawrence (Larry) Trask, linguist, born November 10 1944 ; died March 27 2004 **************************************************************** Fwd from the Mother Tongue List Michael Witzel