Special Honours
Fishman was honored in 1991 by two publications to celebrate his 65th birthday, each filled with articles by colleagues that followed his interests. One was a three volume collection of articles concerned with his interests, edited by Garcia, Dow, and Marshall. The other was a single volume edited by Cooper and Spolsky.
In 2004 he was awarded the Linguapax Prize.
Fishman was again honored September 10, 2006 by a one-day symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, commemorating his 80th birthday.
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