D écès de Nick Clements

[Sophie Wauquier]

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> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:05:56
> From: Elizabeth Hume [ehume at ling.osu.edu]
> Subject: Obituary: G. Nick Clements
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> It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of G. Nick
> Clements, who died on Sunday, August 30, 2009 in Chatham,  
> Massachusetts
> from cancer.
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> Nick Clements's career as a linguist spanned nearly forty years,  
> during
> which time he contributed to our understanding of phonetics, of
> phonological theory, and of a range of languages of Africa and Europe.
> After receiving his PhD from the School of African and Oriental  
> Studies in
> 1973 for a study of Ewe syntax, he spent nine years in Cambridge,
> Massachusetts, working first at MIT and then at Harvard. He moved to
> Cornell University in 1982, where he was professor of Linguistics and
> director of the phonetics laboratory. In 1992, he became Directeur de
> Recherche at the CNRS in Paris, France, which became the home of his  
> work
> from that time forward. He was an invited professor and lecturer  
> around the
> world, and taught at many linguistics institutes both in the United  
> States
> and abroad. Nick's contributions to the field of linguistics were
> innovative and influential, and an inspiration to many. Guided by keen
> insights and a rigorous scientific method, his search for the truth  
> about
> aspects of language advanced our understanding of the categorization  
> and
> organization of phonological features, of African syntax and tone,  
> of vowel
> harmony systems, of the phonetics-phonology interface, among many  
> others
> topics. His studies were always the epitome of careful research and  
> elegant
> argumentation.
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> Those among us who were honored to have been associated with Nick will
> forever remember him as a man of tremendous humility, a sincere and  
> careful
> listener, and a creative thinker with the ability to masterfully  
> synthesize
> ideas and data so as to bring clarity to some long-standing problem.  
> His
> kind and fun-loving spirit touched many, but none more so than the  
> family
> he loved: his life partner, Annie Rialland, his children, William and
> Célia, and his brothers, sisters and their families.
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> I know that I speak for so many in saying that it was an honor and a
> privilege to have been associated with such a great man.
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> Elizabeth Hume
> Professor and Chair
> Department of Linguistics
> The Ohio State University
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> Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable
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