In memory of Bill Bright

[Michael McCafferty]

There was also an obituary in the New York Times last week, maybe on Tuesday.

Quoting Frances Karttunen <karttu at comcast.net>:

> It occurs to me that the passing of Nahuatlahtoh William Bright may
> not  have been noted on this list.
>
> Here is an announcement from the electronic bulletin of the Society
> for  the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas:
>
> * ELF establishes Bill Bright Memorial Award
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> From Nick Emlen (emlen at haskins.yale.edu) 17 Oct 2006:
>
> We are saddened by the passing of Bill Bright, a long-time colleague
> and a prolific scholar.  Bill's family has requested that memorial
> contributions be made to the Endangered Language Fund.  We have created
> a fund that will enable the creation of the Bill Bright Award.  This
> will help memorialize his many years of contributions to linguistics and
> his service to the profession as editor of Language (1966-87), Language  in
> Society (1992-99), and the first edition of the International  Encyclopedia
> of Linguistics, and as founding editor of Written Language and Literacy
> (1998-2003).  From among the annual applications to the Endangered  Language
> Fund's grant program, one successful project from those dealing with
> languages in the Americas or in South Asia will be selected.  This will
> be the project that best combines Bill's areal interests -- North and
> Central America, South Asia -- with his topic interests:
>
>    -- language description
>    -- language and culture
>    -- sociolinguistics
>    -- writing systems
>    -- creating culturally-acceptable orthographies for minority  languages
>    -- differences between written and oral language
>    -- oral literatures and their poetics
>    -- onomastics, toponyms and naming in general
>
> The Bill Bright project will receive a separate press release and an
> additional amount of money equal to 10% of the proposed budget.  We hope
> that this supplement will allow for additional efforts to promote the
> work in the native speaker communities and with the general public.
>
> Please help us honor Bill's memory by sending a contribution to:
>
>                     The Endangered Language Fund
>                     300 George Street, Suite 900
>                     New Haven, CT 06511
>
> Please make a note that this is in honor of Bill so that the funds can  be
> ear-marked for this award.
>
> Online donations can be made at:
>
> https://www.networkforgood.org/donate/MakeDonation2.aspx? ORGID2=061459207
>
> Please put "Bill Bright Fund" in the Designation area.
>
>                                                              --Nick  Emlen
>                                                  Endangered Language  Fund
>                                                     emlen at haskins.yale.edu
>
>
>
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