James W. Gair, linguistics professor emeritus, dies at 88

James Wells Gair, left, and longtime collaborator, linguist W.S. Karunatillake/Photo providedJames Wells Gair, Ph.D. ’63, professor emeritus of linguistics who throughout a long and distinguished career produced groundbreaking work on South Asian languages and their relation to other languages, died Dec. 10 in Ithaca. He was 88.