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    Reproduzo abaixo info sobre novo website dedicado a lingüistas.  No 
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> Message: 1 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:22:32 +0100 From: Martin 
> Haspelmath <haspelmath at eva.mpg.de> Subject: [Histling-l] Glottopedia, 
> the free online encyclopedia of linguistics To: 
> histling-l at mailman.rice.edu Message-ID: <47998E38.9070405 at eva.mpg.de> 
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> Dear HistLingers, 

> You may be interested in Glottopedia (http://www.glottopedia.org), the 
> free reference site for linguists by linguists. Glottopedia differs 
> from Wikipedia in that (i) its content is much more specialized (e.g. 
> you'll be able to find articles on items such as "cryptanalysis", 
> "syntacticization", "xenism", "rich agreement", "loan translation", 
> "adfix"), and (ii) users must have an account to edit articles, and 
> they must be linguists with an academic background. Moreover, 
> Glottopedia focuses on *dictionary articles* rather than survey 
> articles of the sort that are found in Wikipedia (and various 
> specialized linguistics handbooks). But each dictionary article 
> (protentially) provides more information than just a definition: It 
> also gives examples, synonyms, other meanings of the term, the origin 
> of the term, some key references, and a translation into other 
> languages (Glottopedia is a multilingual enterprise; so far there are 
> articles in English and German, but it is hoped that more languages 
> will follow soon). Glottopedia also has articles on linguists, but 
> unlike Wikipedia, which aims to restrict its articles to "notable 
> people", Glottopedia potentially has articles on all linguists. 
> (However, Glottopedia's articles on living linguists are restricted to 
> links, in order to avoid problems of personality rights.) Eventually 
> we also want to add articles about all languages and language families 
> (with detailed references), and articles about things that we need for 
> our everyday work (such as journals, conferences, institutions), but 
> at the moment this is mainly an idea for the future. We feel that 
> Glottopedia is a resource that the field of linguistics really needs, 
> and we hope that you will all contribute to it. Some of us have taught 
> courses in which the assignment to the students was writing dictionary 
> articles on some technical terms. We think that especially advanced 
> students, who do not have easy access to other forms of publications, 
> will find that Glottopedia gives them a great chance to make a 
> contribution to the field. Martin Haspelmath
> -- Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de) Max-Planck-Institut fuer 
> evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Tel. 
> (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) +49-341-980 1616 Glottopedia - the 
> free encyclopedia of linguistics (http://www.glottopedia.org)
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