article archive

[Martin Haspelmath]

It would be great if someone took the initiative to organize an archive 
that could be used by functional linguists as well. I think ideally 
there would be an article archive for all of linguistics, without 
restriction to a particular approach or sub-community. With a simple 
indexing system, it would be easy to narrow one's searches to particular 
topics, approaches or sub-communities.

My colleague Michael Cysouw once approached arXiv.org 
(http://arxiv.org/), the leading e-print archive in physics and 
mathematics, but apparently they were not interested in opening up their 
system to linguistics. So we have to do it ourselves.

The person who would do it would earn the eternal gratitude of the 
field, but I'm not sure what else.

Martin

s.t. bischoff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new member to this listserve and wanted to ask if anyone is aware of a
> website that serves as a host for linguistic articles from a non-generative
> perspective...I'm wondering if there might be a sight akin to Lingbuzz or
> ROA, only dedicated to other approaches to linguistics.
>
> Thank you,
> Shannon Bischoff
>   
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