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Fri Jul 10 2009

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        1.    Mark Aronoff, Obituary: Mark Volpe

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Message 1: Obituary: Mark Volpe
Date: 10-Jul-2009
From: Mark Aronoff <morphomemanmac.com>
Subject: Obituary: Mark Volpe
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With great sadness, the Stony Brook University Linguistics Department reports the passingon July 7, 2009 of Mark Volpe, a distinguished alumnus of the department. Prof. Volpecompleted his dissertation, Japanese Morphology and its theoretical consequences:Derivational morphology in Distributed Morphology, in 2005. It is online athttp://semlab1.sbs.sunysb.edu/publications/2006/mark.j.volpe.

Both before coming to Stony Brook and after his stay with us, Prof. Volpe taught at anumber of institutions in Japan, including University of Fukuoka and Kyushu University.Prof. Volpe was the author of a number of articles, including the following:

Locatum and location verbs in Lexeme—Morpheme base morphology. Lingua 112: 103-119. 2002.Lexeme-morpheme based morphology, (with Robert Beard) in Handbook of WordFormation, ed. by Pavel Stekauer and Rochelle Lieber, Springer. 2006.The causative alternation and Japanese unaccusatives Snippets - Issue 4 - July 2001.Open-class roots in closed-class contexts: a question for lexical insertion Snippets-Issue 5-January 2002 (with Paolo Acquaviva).Morpheme. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 2006. 274-276 (with Mark Aronoff).

Mark Volpe was a valuable colleague and friend, a highly original thinker with a deepknowledge of Japanese and its dialects from whom many of us learned much. We will misshim greatly.

Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable

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