<div dir="ltr">Dear John, Byron and Bob,<div><br></div><div>Thanks to you for all the work you have put into making OL the premier journal that it is. I greatly appreciate the care you take in improving submissions and in supporting a range of contributors. Good luck to the new team!</div><div><br></div><div><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-kerning:none">***********************</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Assoc.Prof. Nick Thieberger</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-kerning:none">ARC Future Fellow</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-kerning:none">School of Languages and Linguistics</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-kerning:none">The University of Melbourne</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-kerning:none">+61 3 8344 8952</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0,0,238)"><a href="http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/thieberger"><u>http://</u></a></span><span style="font-kerning:none"><u><a href="http://nthieberger.net">nthieberger.net</a></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35);min-height:10px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(35,35,35)">Director, <a href="http://paradisec.org.au/"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(18,85,204)"><u>Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)</u></span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(35,35,35)">Editor, <a href="http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(18,85,204)"><u>Language Documentation & Conservation Journal </u></span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(35,35,35)">CI in the  <a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(18,85,204)"><u>Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language</u></span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span></p><div><br></div><p></p><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 at 08:27, John Lynch <<a href="mailto:johnlynch123@gmail.com">johnlynch123@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"><br>Change of Editorial Team<span></span></span></i></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">The December 2018 issue of <i>Oceanic Linguistics</i>—vol. 57, no. 2— will
be the last issue produced by the current editorial team. Byron Bender ends over
half a century’s hands-on association with the journal, having served as Editor
from 1992 through 2006 between two periods as Managing Editor (1964–1991 and
2007–2018); Bob Blust served as Review Editor from 1999 till 2018, and I served
as Editor form 2007 till this year. We will remain associated with the journal
as members of the Editorial Advisory Board.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">We will be replaced from 2019 by a
different looking team. There will be three co-editors—Daniel Kaufman, Yuko
Otsuka, and Antoinette Schapper—with Owen Edwards as Assistant Editor and Alex
Smith as Review Editor. All submission s from today on should be sent to them,
at <a href="mailto:oceanicl@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">oceanicl@hawaii.edu</a>.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">On behalf of the outgoing team, I would
like to thank authors for the constant flow of submissions, and for their
generous acceptance of decisions that are not always in their favor; and I
would like to wish the incoming team all the best for the future of <i>Oceanic Linguistics</i>.</span></p><span class="m_-4497045686439944350HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">

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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps">John Lynch<span>         </span></span>



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