SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY: Internationally known SFU linguist passes away.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-26 August 1998-SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY: Internationally known SFU linguist passes away (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:240898 * West Vancouver resident for 30 years One of Simon Fraser University's most distinguished scholars - Geoffrey Bursill-Hall - passed away Aug.

9. Bursill-Hall was a professor emeritus of linguistics at the time of his death. He was the first faculty member hired by SFU, having joined the institution in early 1964, 21 months before it opened. He was founding head of SFU's department of modern languages which was to evolve over the years into several departments including the current department of linguistics. An intellect of enormous breadth and depth, his academic interests over the years spanned an...