<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 January 2016 at 10:06, Matthew Dryer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dryer@buffalo.edu" target="_blank">dryer@buffalo.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 1/2/16 5:59 PM, Hedvig SkirgÄrd wrote:<br>
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does not have regular academic funding (as far as I know) and is therefore subject to running as a private business with sellable resources etc.<br>
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Just two comments: Many universities in the U.S. are private and thus do not have academic funding in the sense of government funding (except through research grants). And even public universities in the U.S. are increasingly run like businesses.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, you're right. As a Swede I tend to forget this is the case. Still, I'm sceptical towards moving from open access in language documentation and description and in an important work that the public accesses to get to know languages of the world.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Matthew<br>
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