RIP Dr Robert Stockwell
October 31, 2012 Leave a comment
I am very sorry to hear this news. RIP Robert Stockwell…
From the UCLA Linguistics Web site (http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/stockwel/stockwel.htm)
Our founding chair, Robert Stockwell, passed away October 28, 2012, following a long illness.
The department proved to be an intellectually very lively place, one to which strong faculty were readily attracted. With a number of important recruitments, the department rose in only a few years to scholarly eminence and thence to a very high national program ranking. Bob was also in the thick of the new department’s research activities, notably in his coauthorship of The Major Syntactic Structures of English (1973), with Paul Schachter and Barbara Partee, and also in his longstanding work (much of it with his colleague and later spouse Donka Minkova, UCLA English Department) on the history of English. As his health declined during the last few years we saw little of Bob, but the strong academic culture of the department he left behind has remained as an attestation of his work.