LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fund Drive - New Linguist of the Day!

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LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fund Drive 

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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2011 09:34:09
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Subfield Challenge Update

Dear Subscribers,

We have a few challenges going on at this time!
Exciting times!

Grad School Challenge:
In the graduate school challenge, we have a
change in the lead! University of California, 
Santa Barbara is now the leader. Will it stay
in that position or will another school claim 
the top?

Donate at:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm


Subfield Challenge:
The current standings are:
Lang Acq/Psycholing	 $2,110.00
sociolinguistics	 $1,130.00
syntax	                   $710.00
Phonetics	           $560.00
Phonology 	           $325.00
Historical Ling   	   $270.00
Semantics	           $230.00
Discipline of Linguistics  $200.00
Morphology	           $155.00
Computational Ling 	   $110.00
Applied Ling	           $105.00
Anthropological Ling 	   $100.00
Discourse Analysis	   $100.00
Pragmatics	            $95.00
Lang Documentation	    $75.00
Neurolinguistics	    $75.00
Linguistic Theories	    $50.00
Text/Corpus Ling	    $50.00
Ling & Literature	    $20.00
Typology 	            $15.00
Lexicography	            $10.00

Donate at:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm



Sociolinguistic Challenge:
Roger Shuy is challenging all other sociolinguists
to contribute a total of $1000 today and tomorrow.
If that goal if met, he will donate another
$500 himself, making Sociolinguistics the leader!

So far, sociolinguists have collected at total of 
$330 for this challenge. Only another $700 to go
in order to get the $500 extra from Roger Shuy!

Donate at:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm



Late last week we had a challenge for donors to
win some books from Peter Lang. The winners were:

Amanda Brown
Sabine Zerbian
Maria Cristina Cuervo
Ricardo Etxepare

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https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

The LINGUIST crew



-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2011 10:24:51
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Professor Kirbik Is the New Linguist of the Day!

Dear Subscribers,

We have the pleasure to bring to you a fascinating
story from our latest Linguist of the Day:

Aleksandr Evgen'evich Kibrik
Moscow State University


He starts his story as follows:

"When I was young, I never thought about linguistics. 
I wanted to be a film producer - that was my major 
ambition. My parents were artists, art had surrounded 
me from birth. But I had no talent for drawing, which 
my father was glad about. He always said that the only 
people who should become artists are those who are just 
unable not to be artists. Otherwise, it.s just a hard 
and unsatisfying life."

Read the rest of his story at:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2011/linguists/AleksandrKibrik.cfm

Donate to LINGUIST at:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Maria Moreno-Rollins
Fund Drive Coordinator


-------------------------Message 3 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2011 11:43:15
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Quality Control at LINGUIST

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