Dear friends,
I've only just discovered this morning that Chuck had died, actually
last October, others who knew him - especially from ICAME conferences
and for his work in Corpus Linguistics – might not be aware of his
passing either, and hence I thought I would post this wholesome obituary
which I found online.
https://blogs.umb.edu/umasslinguistics/2025/11/06/obituary-professor-charles-chuck-meyer/
His mentor was Sid Greenbaum, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
He compiled the written component of ICE-USA and collaborated with Jack
DuBois on the spoken component, which uses material from the Santa
Barbara Corpus. The first edition of his book _English Corpus
Linguistics_ (CUP, 2008) is an excellent introduction to ICE-corpora.
As the obituary stresses, he was a kind and warm-hearted guy and great
good company. We enjoyed many beers and laughs together at ICAME
conferences. I had visited him in Boston and he me in Belfast. May he
rest in peace.
--
Dr John Kirk
Email: [email protected]
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