29.667, All: Obituary: Luis Vicente (1979-2018)

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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:51:45
From: Lisa Cheng [L.L.Cheng at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Obituary: Luis Vicente (1979-2018)

 
With heavy hearts we share the news that Luis Vicente has passed away on 6
February 2018, in Freiburg, Germany.

Luis Vicente finished his BA in English Philology in the University of Deusto
in 2002. He received his PhD at Leiden University, with his dissertation
titled The syntax of heads and phrases, in 2007. After a short lecturership at
the Universiteit van Amsterdam, he did a 1-year postdoc at UC Santa Cruz
supported by a prestigious fund from the Basque Government. From 2009, he was
a researcher and lecturer at the University of Potsdam, and from 2011, he
worked on a subproject of SFB 632 on information structure. He successfully
obtained his habilitation in the summer of 2016, at the Universität Potsdam,
after which he was incapacitated by a long illness and had to give up work
entirely.

Luis was a prolific researcher who has published a large number of important
works on various phenomena. He was primarily as specialist of Spanish, English
and Basque, but he also worked on Hungarian, Portuguese and Mandarin. He
produced influential papers on the nature of movement dependencies, with
special attention to the fronting of predicates and information-structure
driven movement. He was one of the most prominent scholars of anaphora and
ellipsis, and contributed to many empirical and theoretical aspects of a
multitude of phenomena in these domains: sluicing, gapping, right node
raising, fragmentary replies, their syntactic representation as well as their
semantics. His most cited publication (co-authored by Cilene Rodrigues and
Andrew Nevins) has shown that elided material in sluicing can contain
non-isomorphic structures with respect to the antecedent.

His friends and colleagues have known him as an extremely knowledgeable,
dedicated and genuine linguist. He had a critical mind, was generous with his
ideas and had high standards for scientific quality.
His serious intellect was matched by his unassuming manners, a very kind
personality and a great sense of humour.

Luis Vicente will be greatly missed by his family and friends, his wide circle
of colleagues and students.

Lisa Cheng and Anikó Lipták
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
 


Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax



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