30.3820, All: D. Gary Miller (1942-2019)

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Subject: 30.3820, All: D. Gary Miller (1942-2019)

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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 06:16:26
From: Eric Potsdam [potsdam at ufl.edu]
Subject: D. Gary Miller (1942-2019)

 
D. Gary Miller (1942–2019), renowned Indo-Europeanist and theoretical
linguist, has died at the age of 76. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Gary
Miller attended Moravian College as an undergraduate. He received his PhD from
Harvard in 1969, with a dissertation entitled Studies in Some Forms of the
Genitive Singular in Indo-European. He subsequently taught at the University
of Illinois and McGill, for one year each, followed by an academic career of
40 years at the University of Florida. He retired at the University of
Colorado in 2011.

Gary Miller’s knowledge and interests were as broad as they were deep. Among
his many publications are a dozen books that attest to the truly extraordinary
range of his expertise: Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition (1982, Innsbruck),
Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and ‘The New Orthodoxy’: How Oral is Homer?
(1982, University Press of America), Complex Verb Formation (1993, Benjamins),
Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge (1994, Benjamins), Nonfinite
Structures in Theory and Change (2002, OUP), Latin Suffixal Derivatives in
English and Their Indo-European Ancestry (2006, rev. 2012, OUP), Language
Change and Linguistic Theory, 2 vols. (2010, OUP), External Influences on
English: From Its Beginnings to the Renaissance (2012, OUP), Ancient Greek
Dialects and Early Authors: Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with
Notes on Lyric and Herodotus (2014, de Gruyter), English Lexicogenesis (2014,
OUP).

Gary Miller’s major contribution to Germanic linguistics is his 700-page book
entitled The Oxford Gothic Grammar (2019, OUP) – a monumental achievement of
scholarship that will excite and enlighten scholars and researchers for
generations to come.

In addition to his remarkable academic achievements, Gary Miller was an
accomplished cook. In 2019 he self-published a cook book entitled Christmas
Elegance. As a wonderful friend and a tireless and generous teacher and
mentor, Gary is grieved by many students and colleagues around the world. He
is survived by his loving wife Judith, daughter Blair, and son Scott.
 


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