[Lingtyp] RIP John Davey

[fjn at uw.edu]

John Davey saw me through two books and we worked through countless manuscript evaluations together. He was the best eating and drinking companion ever. I'll miss him so much.

--fritz

Frederick J. Newmeyer
Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U

On Fri, 28 Apr 2017, Martin Haspelmath wrote:

> Last week, John Davey passed away, a former editor at Oxford University Press.
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> He was instrumental in making OUP an important publisher in linguistics since the 1990s.
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> He was in charge of the World Atlas of Language Structures and the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (plus the Survey), as well
> as OUP's "red typology series" (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory).
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> It was a great pleasure to work with him, and many of us owe him a lot.
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> http://www.stmargaretsoxford.org/notices/
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> Martin
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> P.S. Thanks to Julia Steer, who took over from him a few years ago, for telling me.
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