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MIT, in Australia, and from the U.S. Southwest. Now we await the publication of Hale and Keyser, Prolegomenon to a Theory of Lexical Argument Structure (2002). His obituary in the Economist (November 3, 2001), and the feature "Kenneth Hale ... an Extraordinary American," in Alistair Cooke's "Letter from America" (December 3, 2001) is a testament to his accomplishments and breadth of influence outside that of academia.

Joseph H. Greenberg was long and widely admired among social and behavioral scientists as an important voice of linguistics, achieving many "firsts" of recognition as a scholar. Among these, he served magisterially as the very first Distinguished Lecturer of the American Anthropological Association during the tumultuous 69th (San Diego) Annual Meeting of 1970. During a career of more than 60 productive years, he flourished among anthropologists, although he was principally a library linguist-the New York Public Library and, later, Stanford's Green Library were his domains-whose scholarly work both drew on and spoke powerfully to anthropological issues and approaches in a number of disciplinary fields. Succumbing to pancreatic cancer on May 7, 2001, at the time of his death Greenberg was the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences at Stanford