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<BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma">How very sad! I've missed Regina at the last few conferences; hoped she might rejoin us some time. <BR><BR>>>> Marianne Mithun <mithun@LINGUISTICS.UCSB.EDU> 10/15/2013 1:55 PM >>><BR>What a terrible, terrible shame. Thank you for telling us, David.<BR><BR>Marianne<BR><BR>--On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 12:50 PM -0600 ROOD DAVID S <BR><david.rood@COLORADO.EDU> wrote:<BR><BR>> It is with deep sadness that I report that Regina Pustet passed away last<BR>> February. Many of you knew her from our conferences or from the large<BR>> number of papers that she wrote about Lakota grammar. I only learned of<BR>> this about 10 days ago. I didn't report it until I could confirm what to<BR>> me was second or third hand news.<BR>> According to the best current information I have, she got some kind of<BR>> food poisoning in a restaurant and was unable to recover. For about a<BR>> year, I'm told, she simply got weaker and weaker.<BR>> A friend of mine from the Univ. of Cologne is in contact with Regina's<BR>> mother. She (my friend) and I hope to be able to prepare a proper<BR>> memorial essay before long, acknowledging and honoring Regina's<BR>> considerable contributions to several areas of linguistics, including<BR>> Lakota studies.<BR>> Best wishes to all of you.<BR>> David<BR>><BR>><BR>> David S. Rood<BR>> Dept. of Linguistics<BR>> Univ. of Colorado<BR>> 295 UCB<BR>> Boulder, CO 80309-0295<BR>> USA<BR>> rood@colorado.edu<BR></BODY></HTML>