language use on the list

[Eve Ng]

Thanks for raising this issue, Megan.  I believe that linguists as
academics have a particular obligation to try to encourage academic
discourse in languages other than English, so I would welcome a stated
language policy for FLING to this effect.

I remember being horrified when I learnt that when the International
Association on *Chinese* Linguistics met in *Taiwan* a couple of years
ago, they still required all papers be delivered in English.  (On a more
positive note, the Sino-Tibetan conference held last week at
Urbana-Champaign (Illinois, USA) allowed delivery in Chinese.)


--Eve.


Eve Ng
Dept. of Linguistics
609 Baldy Hall, SUNY-Buffalo
Buffalo NY 14260-1030
USA