Charles Francis Hockett (1916–2000)

Michael Silverstein (1945–2020)

“… 7 Silverstein was also pre-eminent as a writer of obituaries of linguists and anthropologists: Melville Jacobs (1972b), Walter Dyk (1974; co-authored with Fred Eggan), Roman Jakobson (1982), Stanley Newman (1987c), Charles F. Hockett (2003c), Norman McQuown (2005), Joseph Greenberg (2002), and Dell Hymes (2010b) all received meticulous necrologies.…”