Dear friends,
I've only just discovered this morning that Chuck had died, actually last October, others who knew him - especially from ICAME conferences and for his work in Corpus Linguistics – might not be aware of his passing either, and hence I thought I would post this wholesome obituary which I found online.
https://blogs.umb.edu/umasslinguistics/2025/11/06/obituary-professor-charles...
His mentor was Sid Greenbaum, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He compiled the written component of ICE-USA and collaborated with Jack DuBois on the spoken component, which uses material from the Santa Barbara Corpus. The first edition of his book _English Corpus Linguistics_ (CUP, 2008) is an excellent introduction to ICE-corpora.
As the obituary stresses, he was a kind and warm-hearted guy and great good company. We enjoyed many beers and laughs together at ICAME conferences. I had visited him in Boston and he me in Belfast. May he rest in peace.