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<div>My apologies, Lindsay! I see that after a slow period in the
early 2000s, Linguistic Discovery has indeed picked up steam and has
been publishing regularly. I should have looked before I leaped. Let's
hope my pessimism continues to be unwarranted!</div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>Bill</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dear everyone,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I have been following this thread with
much interest. I take issue with Bill Croft's claim that some of the
first efforts in linguistics at open access publishing are moribund.
Linguistic Discovery, at least, is going strong. A special issue
on Caucasian languages (guest edited by Denis Creissels and Ioana
Chitoran) was just published. We receive submissions (many of them,
unfortunately, not of a quality that we can publish) from colleagues
in the Middle East, Central Asia and, to a lesser extent, Latin
America on a regular basis. Many of the people submitting
material are focused on description of lesser-studied languages
(though not typically involving grammar-length mss.)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>One issue that needs to be kept in mind:
there are real costs involved in on-line publishing. If
subscribers/purchases are not paying, someone is in terms of technical
support and formatting for electronic display. And these costs
are not trivial. Linguistic Discovery is only possible because our
costs are absorbed by university libraries (primarily at
Darmouth).</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Lindsay</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Lindsay J. Whaley</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Professor of Classics and
Linguistics</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>6086 Reed Hall</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dartmouth College</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Hanover, NH 03766</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="mailto:lindsay.j.whaley@dartmouth.edu"
>lindsay.j.whaley@dartmouth.edu</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>On Nov 15, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Bill Croft
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> "Linguistic Discovery"
and "Constructions" are pretty moribund</blockquote>
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