r.i.p. Lesia Stavytska

[Maria Dmytriyeva]

Dear colleagues,

I have sad news -- 
http://www.unian.net/ukr/news/news-390793.html 
on August 7, 2010, died Lesia Oleksiyivna Stavytska, a prominent Ukrainian sociolinguist, author of several monographs and dictionaries, including the one on slang and jargon (http://book-ye.com.ua/shop/product_8763.html)

and the one on obscenities (http://book-ye.com.ua/shop/product_3339.html).

she was only 47.
today there was a farewell ceremony at the Institute of Ukrainian language, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

for me she was a dear colleague and someone to look up to, for two years she took care as of the seminar in gender linguistics that I organized and acted as its official head. 
we had plans on future joint research in gender linguistics and in study of surzhyk. it is truly heart-wrenching to know they will now never be brought to life. 

With best regards,
Maria

--
Mariya M. Dmytriyeva 
Fulbright Scholar, 
California State University, Northridge 
Linguistics Program, 2007-2009

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