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Dear LINGTYP readers,
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You may be interested in a new blog by linguists for linguists, on
current issues in typology and the study of lesser known languages.
It's called "Diversity Linguistics Comment", and it can be found at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dlc.hypotheses.org/">http://dlc.hypotheses.org/</a>.
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So far, most of the posts are by myself, but I hope that that will
soon change: If you want to contribute to this blog, just let me
know. Scholarly contributions of many different kinds are welcome.
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The idea is to add to the available types of communication in our
field: we have formal papers and books, e-mail lists, conferences
and talks. Blogs are ideally suited for the intermediate level of
formality, between formal papers and e-mail discussion lists.
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A notable innovation of this blog is the category of "article
comments", i.e. informal discussions of formal papers that have
appeared recently. "Book review" is a well-known class of
publications, but not all of us have time for writing full book
reviews, and they typicaly take very long to come out. So "article
comment blog post" may be a new genre that will be found useful by
others as well.
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Greetings,
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Martin<br>
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<span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>Martin Haspelmath (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:haspelmath@eva.mpg.de">haspelmath@eva.mpg.de</a>)
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Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher
Platz 6 <br>
D-04103 Leipzig
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Tel. (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) +49-341-980 1616
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