September 4, 2019
Emeritus professor Karl Zimmer passed away earlier this week. Zimmer joined the Department of Linguistics in 1965. His research focused on Turkish and morphology; see especially his important early paper on “Psychological correlates of some Turkish morpheme structure conditions” Language 45(2), 309-321. He retired from teaching in 1991 and was honored with a festschrift called Puzzles of Language: Essays in Honour of Karl Zimmer in 2011. The Department is planning a memorial event in his honor on Sunday, December 8, 2019, from 12-3pm at the Alumni House.