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Celia Jakubowicz has Passed Away

From Tom Roeper:

Celia Jakubowicz, the leading light of work in gernerative acqjuisition work in France for more than 20 years, died last week, of cancer. She worked at CNRS in Paris. She visited our department many times and gave talks at various workshops we held, reaching back to 1983, and most recently three years ago, so several of our faculty and students knew her.

She was involved in extending some of our work on wh-movement to French and had begun work on disordered populations in that area as well. She worked with determination until the end, editing a volume with another visitor here, Petra Schulz, which is still being completed and will be dedicated to her. The acquisition community has lost an important figure and friend. Celia was Argentinian and came to Paris as the wife of the Argentinian ambassador.

(I am recollecting these few details from memory because I have not yet gotten any official obituary.)