In memoriam: Stephen R. Anderson

The Yale Department of Linguistics is saddened at the news that our longtime colleague Stephen R. Anderson has died. Steve was a member of the Department from 1994 until his retirement in 2017 and profoundly shaped both the department and linguistics. He was a leader in the department, President of the Linguistic Society of America, Vice-President in the CiPL, and a profound influence on many in the field. In addition to his influential, insightful and meticulous work in phonology and morphology, he was a popular teacher on language evolution and animal communication. His work bridged phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, linguistic fieldwork, and cognitive science and his contribution to our understanding of language was profound. We will miss him deeply.