sad news about Suzanne Fleischman

[Elizabeth Traugott]

It is with great sorrow that I write to let you know that
Suzanne Fleischman died last night, Wed. Feb 2nd, at the age of 50.
She was a pioneer in grammaticalization, historical
discourse analysis, historical narratology, orality and literacy,
and more recently, medical discourse.  Among her many
influential works are The Future in Thought and Language:
Diachronic Evidence from Romance, 1982,
and Tense and Narrativity, 1990.  Edited works include
Discourse-Pragmatics and the Verb : the Evidence from Romance,
with Linda R. Waugh, and Modality in Grammar and Discourse,
with Joan Bybee, 1995.  She will be sorely missed.