Dedicated to the memory of Jim McCawley

This page is taken from the tribute to Jim McCawley composed by
The Linguistics Department of The University of Chicago
It is reproduced here with the Department's kind permission.


James D. McCawley
James D. McCawley
1938-1999 		Jim was the teacher, colleague, and friend of many people in linguistics who admired him greatly for his deep humanity and decency, his intellect, and the wide spectrum of things he loved and loved to share. He was the Andrew McLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages at the University of Chicago, and a scholar of an enormous range of subjects, including "syntax and semantics, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and miscellaneous other subjects, ranging from writing systems to philosophy of science," as he put it.

Tribute from Jim's Students
by Barbara Need