{"id":2389,"date":"2025-07-02T17:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T21:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:37:15","slug":"in-memoriam-eugene-buckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/in-memoriam-eugene-buckley\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Eugene Buckley"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was just announced that Gene Buckley has passed away. I took nearly all of his classes in graduate school, TAed for him, and he served on my dissertation committee, so he definitely had a profound influence on me and my work. I particularly remember his seminar on opacity, which introduced me to substance-free phonology, and his seminar on Kashaya, where I learned about the ancient, mysterious i<\/em> \u2192\u00a0d<\/em> \/ _ u<\/em> rule and the many Russian loanwords from their contact with Fort Ross<\/a>\u00a0(e.g., [ja\u02d0palka] ‘apple’ <\/span>< \u044f\u0431\u043b\u043e\u043a\u043e<\/em>, with devoicing, stress-conditioned lengthening, and CV-metathesis). Gene was an island of relative sanity and calm during my turbulent grad school year. He’ll be missed.<\/p>\r\n

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[Gene’s colleague Rolf Noyer wrote a brief memorial here<\/a>.]<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was just announced that Gene Buckley has passed away. I took nearly all of his classes in graduate school, TAed for him, and he served on my dissertation committee, so he definitely had a profound influence on me and my work. I particularly remember his seminar on opacity, which introduced me to substance-free phonology, … Continue reading “In memoriam: Eugene Buckley”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-phonology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}