Anne Vainikka Thomas passed away on June 11th. We have posted the obituary here, and a memorial written by Tom Roeper here. A guest book can be found here. Anne received her PhD from our department in 1989 with a dissertation on “Deriving Syntactic Representations In Finnish,” which was way ahead of its time. Here is a link to a scanned version of the dissertation that Anne had made available. In the 2015 video below, Anne talks about her intellectual trajectory as a syntactician, about writing her dissertation at a time when derivations had no place in current Syntactic Theory, about her advisors and mentors Roger Higgins, Edwin Williams, and Tom Roeper, and about more recent developments in the area of Finnish Syntax.