Ivan Sag

[Kaplan, Ronald]

Hi everyone,

I am very sorry to report that Ivan Sag passed away earlier this week, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Ivan was a great linguist, and a great friend and colleague from the earliest days of LFG.  His openness and enthusiasm, and his deep linguistic insights, made his interactions and collaborations with many of us in the LFG community richly rewarding both personally and intellectually. The contrast between LFG and HPSG was a wonderful stimulus for improvements to both theoretical approaches.

Some of us were present at the Ivan Fest celebration at Stanford this Spring, a very meaningful and emotional event.  It was amazing to see all of the people that Ivan had worked with over the years, and to hear how much he meant to them and how much he had influenced their careers.

We will miss him very much.

--Ron