The Passing of William C. Stokoe

[Professor Des Power]

I am sure all our Australian colleagues join me in lamenting Bills passing - but
what a life!!

Des

Mark Mandel wrote:

> Oh, he will be missed. What an era passes with him!
>
> I have forwarded Paul's message to the LINGUIST List with the following note:
>
> >>>
> This notification of the death of William C. Stokoe, the founder of sign
> language linguistics, just appeared on SLLING-L, the Sign Language Linguistics
> List. I trust that further information and a proper notice will be provided soon
> by someone more knowledgeable than I.
> <<<
>
> The address of the LINGUIST List is linguist at listserv.linguistlist.org .
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel

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Professor Des Power, Director
Centre for Deafness Studies and Research, and
Language Australia, Centre for Deafness and Communication  Studies
Faculty of Education
Griffith University, QLD 4111
Australia

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