ALICE DAVISON

From Annie, France an hommage in gratitude to Alice's intellectual openness, we often met in India during linguistic meetings and were from theoretically quite opposed sides, yet she always listened and read, a quite unusual behaviour among her pairs. I thank her again for her generosity and kindness and willingness for free discussion, in the flesh and in the bones, later on by mail. It is now 8 years you have gone, my dear Alice, and your memory is still fresh in my heart. Remember the time...

To the Davison Family, Like many of Alice's friends, hardly a day passes without my thinking of her and the blessing she was to me and others throughout the years of our friendship. Those memories are sustaining to me, even though they are also sad, but little by little they do become a comfort. I hope that in reviewing their abd her lives together, her family will also be comforted in by their memories. I am sorry to miss her memorial service and will think of you all at that hour and...

Alice was perhaps the greatest friend generative linguistics in India could have had. Every couple of years, Alice would arrive in India, carting suitcases of recently published books for students like me to read, spent hours with us, explaining, discussing, asking and actually listening. She was everyone's friend, professor and student alike. I don't think words can capture the extent of what she did for us as linguists and as human beings. I will always miss Alice and her work.

Great loss to Linguistics and particularly to Indian Linguistics.-Prof.Saratchandran nair

As a professor, Dr. Alice Davison combined bright intellect, scholarly research, and creative teaching with the gift of her time and personal attention to her students. Our family is thankful to the Lord for her life and grateful that she mentored our son as an undergraduate in the Linguistics department and then encouraged him to pursue his doctorate. We extend our sympathy to her family and friends on this loss.

Alice's was the acute mind that drove a career of meticulous scholarship, who had a surprising delight in althings India related, a woman who bought (and later wore) a sari on every trip to India, who rented a TV on open weekends along with a passel of Bollywood films to gorge on them, who loved the place and people, and who gave of herself and her thought generously to all of us. She near to saved me 32 years ago at a bad time in my live, and never made any fuss about it; she helped my niece...

We have lost an engaged and ever curious spirit, who reveled in the marvels of Indian languages and contributed enormously to understanding their structure.

My sincere condolences to you on the loss of Alice. She was a good colleague and friend to me.

my dear dear Alice,
you left for a different world but your sweetness and delicate intelligence remain with us through the so many memories. So vivid memories of our first meeting in the late eighties (or very early nineties?), in the Delhi University campus, and our visits to Motilal Banarsidass. I was like all others immediately driven to you by your extreme capacity of listening to others and discrete gentleness. Later on you were the one who, from a totally different theoretical...