Tributes to Professor Michael Clyne
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FOR MICHAEL CLYNE FROM SOME OF HIS FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES APRIL 1, 2005 EDITED BY FELICITY GREY, JOHN HAJEK AND SANDRA KIPP RUMACCC, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 2005 For Michael— Scholar, teacher, colleague, mentor, language enthusiast, innovator, activist, host extraordinaire and friend. So many have benefited from your unique gifts. The following pages pay tribute to your outstanding skills as a scholar and a teacher, as well as to the humility, generosity and good humour which have characterised your remarkable career. We wish you the best of health, much happiness and great satisfaction in whatever you choose to undertake in the next phase of your journey (although you will note that nobody seems to believe you are capable of retiring!). Editors: Felicity Grey, John Hajek and Sandra Kipp RUMACCC, The University of Melbourne, 2005 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Colleagues from Monash University ......................................................1 Leslie Bodi .......................................................................................................1 A Tribute from Linguistics ..............................................................................6 Heather Bowe ..................................................................................................6 Susanne Döpke ...............................................................................................7 Edina Eisikovits ...............................................................................................8 Mark Newbrook ............................................................................................10 Anne Pauwels ................................................................................................10 Laura Warner ................................................................................................11 Jo Winter .......................................................................................................12 Andrew Markus .............................................................................................13 John McKay ...................................................................................................13 Bruce Wearne ................................................................................................15 PhD Students—Past and Present .........................................................17 Lesley Farrell. ................................................................................................17 Eve Fesl ..........................................................................................................18 Carla Finocchiaro ..........................................................................................19 Margaret Gearon ...........................................................................................20 Jim Hlavac .....................................................................................................22 Jimmy Hoeks .................................................................................................23 Jo Hughson ....................................................................................................24 Daphne Huang ..............................................................................................25 Marie-Thérèse Jensen ...................................................................................26 Fred Klarberg .................................................................................................27 Brigitte Lambert ............................................................................................28 Deborah Neil .................................................................................................28 Howard Nicholas ...........................................................................................29 II FOR MICHAEL CLYNE Uldis Ozolins ...................................................................................................30 Doris Schüpbach ............................................................................................31 Ingrid Seebus....................................................................................................32 Yvette Slaughter ........................................................................................ 33 Andrea Truckenbrodt.....................................................................................33 Roula Tsokalidou.............................................................................................34 Lin Zheng .........................................................................................................36 Colleagues from the University of Melbourne ................................... 39 The School of Languages and the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics..................................................................................39 A Tribute from the Research Unit for Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Communication Executive ....................................................40 Meredith Bartlett and Sandra Leane...............................................................41 Sue Fernandez..................................................................................................42 Felicity Grey .....................................................................................................43 Sandra Kipp .....................................................................................................43 Anya Woods.....................................................................................................46 Australian and International Colleagues ........................................... 47 Dick Baldauf ....................................................................................................47 Klaus-Dieter Baumann....................................................................................48 Alan Bell...........................................................................................................48 Werner and Katja Besch.................................................................................50 Camilla Bettoni ..............................................................................................51 Sally Boyd .......................................................................................................52 David Bradley...................................................................................................54 Anne Cutler....................................................................................................55 Kees de Bot .....................................................................................................56 Konrad Ehlich ................................................................................................57 Joshua Fishman ..............................................................................................59 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS III Beat Glauser....................................................................................................60 Janet Holmes ..................................................................................................62 Werner Kallmeyer...........................................................................................63 Bob Kaplan .....................................................................................................65 Miklós Kontra .................................................................................................. 66 Gerhard Leitner............................................................................................... 68 Li Wei............................................................................................................... 70 Helen Moore...................................................................................................71 Pieter Muysken................................................................................................. 72 Carol Myers-Scotton.......................................................................................73 John Nieuwenhuysen....................................................................................... 74 Manfred Pienemann........................................................................................ 76 Angelika Redder .............................................................................................. 77 Patrick Stevenson............................................................................................78 Roly Sussex....................................................................................................... 79 (Some contributors may fall into more than one category.) COLLEAGUES FROM MONASH UNIVERSITY LESLIE BODI Michael Clyne: an extraordinary life and career As an old friend and colleague I have had the good fortune of witnessing Michael’s career from the time he became the first Monash graduate student to gain a PhD in that newly formed university’s German Department in 1965. His was also the first Doctorate in the Faculty of Arts. The full dedication and interest Michael devoted to his work led to an influential book on the switching and triggering process of multilingual speakers. This was to remain an important research focus in the years to come. At a very early stage in his career Michael started to attract numerous graduate students, involving them in the theoretical and practical aspects of multilingualism in Australia in a globalised international environment. The foundation of an interdisciplinary