He never spoonfed the students and the grades he gave truly reflected their performance and capability. I found Stan a good scholar-I have admired and will always admire him for his openness in expressing what he thought. He was brave to show what he thought about linguistic theories and how we should do syntax without being afraid to be different or outrageous. He never bowed to the mainstream way of doing linguistics. That's what I like very much about him, and whenever I discussed syntactic problems with him, I always gained some insight in my own language. He was very very bright, in my opinion. I really enjoyed talking, arguing, joking with him. There was no professor-student gap at all between us. Sometimes I thought he was my friend. I was lucky to study at the Department of Linguistics at UH and had a great opportunity to study with Stan.

Amara Prasithrathsint