Some years ago Trask and I were on a couple of hist.ling. lists together, and I always enjoyed his posts. Alas.
Posted by Anton Sherwood at March 30, 2004 09:24 PMVery sad news. I too enjoyed Trask's listserv contributions. He was definitely influential in my early amateur-linguistics days. Requiescat.
Posted by rustcellar at March 31, 2004 01:13 AMTruly sad. Trask's posts on the various incarnations of the (P)IE list were always lucid and to the point. He shall be missed.
Posted by jim at March 31, 2004 10:18 AMHe was a lovely man.
Posted by Andrew Brown at April 1, 2004 10:56 AM