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Dear all,

The news about the death of Jim McCawley is terribly sad to all of us who
either knew him or appreciated his work. He was a truly awe-inspiring
scholar, and his Syntactic Phenomena of English is a must-have, along with
his logic text Everything that Linguists have always wanted to know about
Logic (but...). He was also a many faceted and eccentric personality, who
not only wrote on Chinese cuisine, but also ran at least twice for city
council in Chicago. I recall the kindness and interest he showed to
students, as well as his annual Linguistic Flea Circus, a roundup of
intriguing lg data which he distributed at each LSA. If there is some way
in which we can pay tribute to him, I would suggest that each of us pick
up an article by McCawley and read it this week. There is something in his
oeuvre for everyone. My personal favorite is a short 1973 article called
Tense and Time Reference in English. --Laura

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Laura A. Michaelis
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics - CB 295
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: (303) 492-1990
http://spot.Colorado.EDU/~michaeli/Home.html
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