[HPSG-L] sad news

[Rui Chaves]

So tragic. I’m so sorry to hear this.

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Rui P. Chaves (he/him)
Chair and Professor of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies for the Computational Linguistics Programs
https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rchaves/
From: HPSG-L <hpsg-l-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org>
Date: Friday, September 18, 2026 at 5:43 AM
To: Nurit Melnik <nurit at eyron.com>
Cc: hpsg-l at listserv.linguistlist.org <hpsg-l at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [HPSG-L] sad news

What terrible news.   Thank you for letting us know.



On Fri, 18 Sept 2026 at 10:51, Nurit Melnik <nurit at eyron.com> wrote:

> Dear HPSG colleagues,
>
> I am so so sorry to share with you the sad news I just heard. Our friend
> and colleague Gosse Bouma was killed in a terrible cycling accident (
> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.condoleance.nl%2F19800&data=05%7C02%7Crchaves%40buffalo.edu%7C97ca668cb8a845064b8708df15693c1b%7C96464a8af8ed40b199e25f6b50a20250%7C0%7C0%7C639253213878992455%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dJ8UWFmdGMzVemChqjxMGpx1uu%2Fxscens2qsg%2BjT6yo%3D&reserved=0)<https://www.condoleance.nl/19800>.
> Exactly three weeks ago I sat across from him at a UniDive conference
> dinner in Bucharest and we talked about our plans for the future.
> He was such a nice person and a great researcher.
> I can't believe that I am writing this message.
>
> Nurit
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