28.2416, All: Obituary: Tope Omoniyi (1956-2017)

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Subject: 28.2416, All: Obituary: Tope Omoniyi (1956-2017)

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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 10:44:24
From: Andrey Rosowsky [a.rosowsky at sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: Obituary: Tope Omoniyi (1956-2017)

 
Dear friends and colleagues,

With great sadness and heavy hearts, we are writing to inform you that a dear
friend and colleague of many of us, Tope Omoniyi (Sky), Professor of
Sociolinguistics at Roehampton University, London, passed away on Saturday May
27 after a short illness. 

We hope to inform colleagues about funeral arrangements as soon as possible.
Tributes to Tope will be placed on relevant websites in due course.

In the meantime, please remember Tope in your thoughts and prayers. His
distinguished work, his almost infectious enthusiasm for exploring new
horizons of academic fields of inquiry, and, most importantly, his warm
personality have touched many lives of friends and colleagues.

He will be hugely missed.

His family have set up a memorial website for Tope:
http://tope-sky-omoniyi.forevermissed.com/

Andrey Rosowsky and Rajeshwari Pandharipande
 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics



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