<div dir="ltr">Greetings ALT Community. Please find here our Newsletter No. 53. It is my hope to continue with these newsletters twice a year beginning in 2018, as appropriate.<div>--Kristine Hildebrandt (ALT Secretary)<br><div><br></div><div>----------------------</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">ALT News No. 53<span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">November 2017<span></span></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">1. Message from the president<span></span></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">After a
several-year hiatus, I am happy to say that ALT is reviving the tradition of occasional newsletters. Since the beginning of 2016, I have had the pleasure of
serving as President of the Association alongside Kristine Hildebrandt as
Secretary and Dmitry Idiatov as Treasurer. We have also been fortunate that
Ljuba Veselinova has stayed on as webmaster.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The end of
the current year will mark a significant transition for the Association as Frans
Plank, the founding Editor of <i>Linguistic
Typology</i>, steps down from this position after more than twenty years. His
efforts have established <i>Linguistic
Typology </i>as a leading international journal and greatly enhanced the place
of typology within linguistics. His contributions to the success of the
journal, and to typology itself, cannot be overestimated. ALT was exceptionally
fortunate to have had an Editor of his calibre for so many years is equally
fortunate that the journal will remain in excellent hands in the coming years
under the direction of the new Editor, Maria (Masha) Koptjevskaja Tamm, a
longtime member of the journal’s Editorial Board and a well-known figure among
typologists. I hope everyone will join me in wishing her the best of luck as she
takes on this important task. I would also like to take this opportunity to
thank the search committee for the new Editor, which consisted of Claire
Bowern, Nick Enfield, Pattie Epps, Guillaume Jacques, and Johan van der
Auwera. Claire’s service as Chair of the committee deserves special
recognition here. You can find brief statements from Frans and Masha in this newsletter, below.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The end
of this year will also be the occasion of the Association’s first meeting in
Australia, and I look forward to seeing many of you there. Given the
contribution of Australian linguists—and Australian languages—to the field of
typology, this is an exciting location for the meeting. The local organizing
committee has put together a top-notch program, and it is certain to be a very
memorable event. Please also read more about the meeting here in the newsletter.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">2. ALT 12 in Canberra<span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">2.1. Website</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. The date is quickly approaching! Please visit the conference
page for more information:
<a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/alt-conference-2017/">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/alt-conference-2017/</a><span style="background:yellow"> <span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">2.2. New Publications for Asia-Pacific Linguistics<b>. </b></span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">P</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">acific Linguistics
wishes to announce the following new publications, all freely downloadable
through its A-PL (Asia-Pacific Linguistics) imprint:</span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></i></b></p>
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- Åshild Næss - A short dictionary of Äiwoo </span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This is a short dictionary of the Äiwoo or Reefs language, which belongs
to the Reefs-Santa Cruz group spoken in Solomon Islands’ Temotu Province. It
includes around 3,500 words in the Äiwoo language with English translations and
examples of use, as well as an English-Äiwoo reversal list.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Available from: </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112469" target="_blank">http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112469</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- Sonja Riesberg - A Yali (angguruk) - German Dictionary<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Yali is a Trans-New Guinea language, spoken in the highlands of Papua,
Indonesia. This book comprises two parts: an introductory section (written in
English) that presents a Yali grammar sketch, and the second part a Yali-German
dictionary.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Available from: </span><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1885/127381" target="_blank"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://hdl.handle.net/1885/127381</span></a><u><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- John Giacon: Yaluu. A recovery grammar of Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay:
a description of two New South Wales languages based on 160 years of </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">records. </span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This volume builds on a
wide range of sources, including materials from the 19th century and audio
recordings from the 1970s to present a grammatical description of Yuwaalaraay
and Gamilaraay, two closely related languages of northern New South Wales,
Australia.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Available from: http:</span><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132639" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">hdl.handle.net/1885/132639</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">3. ALT 13 will be in Pavia! Watch for future newsletters for developments
and details<span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">4. Jury reports for the ALT awards<span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">4.1 Jury report for the Greenberg Award (Sonia Cristofaro, Chair<b>)<span></span></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The
2017 <i>Joseph Greenberg Award,</i> for the best typological dissertation
defended between 2015-2016, goes to Ksenia Shagal, University of Helsinki, for
her thesis </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Towards a
typology of </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">participles”.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Her advisor was </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Seppo
Kittilä</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Shagal’s </span><span class="gmail-s1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">dissertation
proposes a typology of participles, defined as clause-like nominal modifiers.
The study has been carried out explicitly in a Greenbergian spirit, based on an
impressive set of 100 languages.</span></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></span><span class="gmail-s1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The first two
chapters provide a general background to the topic and discuss several
foundational and methodological issues. Chap. 3 discusses orientation, that is,
the range of participant roles that can be relativized by participles in the</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span class="gmail-s1">language of the
sample. In particular, a distinction is made between inherent orientation (the
participial form can only relativize specific participant roles) and contextual
orientation (the participial form can be used to relativize different
participant roles depending on the context). Chap. 4 describes several
parameters that have been used in the study in order to assess the relative
degree of desententialization of participial clauses, including the encoding of</span>
<span class="gmail-s1">TAM distinctions, the expression of negation, verbal subject
agreement, nominal agreement with the modified noun (e.g. in terms of gender,
number, or case), and the encoding of participants other than the relativized
participant. Chaps. 5 and 6 provide an overview of the types of participial
clauses that have been identified in the languages of the sample based on these
parameters. Chap. 7 deals with participial systems: whether the language has
one or more participial forms, and the possible types of functional opposition
between different participial forms within the same language (for example in
terms of TAM and orientation). Chap. 8 summarizes and discusses prospects for
future research, with particular regard to the investigation of the</span> <span class="gmail-s1">genealogical and geographical distribution of different participial
forms and the status of these forms in terms of parts of speech distinctions.
The study is supplemented with appendixes providing references and data about
the participial constructions attested in each of the languages taken into
account.<span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-s1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-s1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
dissertation deals with a relevant topic that has not so far been investigated
in the way it is done here. While a lot of work has been done on clause linkage
in general, as well as on converbs and relative clauses in particular, the
category of `participle' (in the sense of an adnominal modifier) has not
received the same amount of attention in typological studies. The study
is comprehensive and detailed in its analyses, drawing out both overall
tendencies and exceptions to</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<span class="gmail-s1">tendencies. It presents new information to the field and is
overall carefully executed, excellently organized and well-written, pointing
out methodological challenges all the way through.<span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-s1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This round evaluated four submissions, and thanks are due to the
jury members for their hard work: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Denis
Creissels, Volker Gast, Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Bernhard Waelchli, and
Doris Payne.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;text-indent:0.5in"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">4.2 Jury report for the Gabelentz Award (Toshihide Nakayama,
Chair)<span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The <i>Georg von der Gabelentz Award</i> encourages and honours
achievements in the field of documenting the world’s linguistic diversity
through the writing of reference grammars. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Seven
grammars were submitted for consideration for this round. The quality of these
works is generally excellent, but the committee came to the unanimous
conclusion that <i>A Grammar of Hinuq</i> by Diana Forker is the best among the
submitted grammars (</span><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/203728)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/203728)</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.</span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This is the first thorough
description of the Nakh-Daghestanian language Hinuq. The grammar provides a
well-balanced coverage of all relevant structural aspects based on a rich set
of data. The data are drawn both from careful elicitations and from the
extensive corpus of texts including relatively unusual types like poetry.
Forker demonstrates excellent control of the Hinuq data, general understanding and
knowledge of Daghestanian languages, and good scholarship.</span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This work provides a comprehensive
and well-contextualized analysis of Hinuq grammar with reference to other
Nakh-Daghestanian languages, to Caucasian studies and to typological and
general linguistic topics. Forker effectively addresses problems of particular
interest and especially needing clear argumentation for a Daghestanian
language, including gender agreement, different valence classes, biabsolutive
constructions, logophoric and other anaphora, and long-distance
reflexivization. </span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This grammar is exemplary also in
its organization, presentation and formatting. The data are presented and
explained clearly, and the translations are good and show an excellent balance
of literal and figurative translation. The glosses are consistent with the
Leipzig glossing rules, and the additional glosses are all clear. The approach
builds on existing traditions in Daghestanian descriptions and can serve as an
example for future work on languages of the area. Additional notable features
include: detailed and useful index; discussion on the orthographical
conventions; a list of main derivational affixes and clitics with
cross-referencing to the sections where these affixes and clitics are
addressed.</span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Overall, this grammar is outstanding
in its detail and thoroughness and has raised the standards for
Nakh-Daghestanian grammars.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thanks are due to the jury members for their hard work: Bernd
Heine, Johanna Nichols, Maria Polinsky, Bernard Comrie, Ekaterina Gruz, Honore
Watanabe.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">5. Linguistic Typology, and a Message from Frans Plank and from
Maria (Masha) Koptjevskaja-Tamm<span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">LT 21(3) 2017 Contents<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Articles<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Johanna Nichols </span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Person as an inflectional category</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:fuchsia">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bill Palmer, Alice Gaby, Jonathon
Lum, and Jonathan Schlossberg</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How does the environment shape
spatial language? Evidence for sociotopography <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language Profile <span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Joanne Yager and Niclas
Burenhult </span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jedek: A newly discovered Aslian
variety of
Malaysia <i> </i><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Discussion <span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Randy J. LaPolla</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Causation as a factor and goal in
typological
comparisons <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Book Review <span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Itamar Francez and Andrew
Koontz-Garboden, <i>Semantics and morphosyntactic </i><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">variation. </span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Reviewed by Frans
Plank <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Obituary<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Seppo Kittilä, with Anne Feryok and
Barry Blake</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Typologist at Otago, Aotearoa: Jae
Jung Song
(1958–2017) <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It was a pleasure (well, mostly) bringing LT to you for 21 years, and I
hope the feeling is reciprocated among our readers (well, some of them some of
the time).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I’m glad to be able to report that the editorial transition is going
smoothly, and I wish Masha Koptjevskaja-Tamm a long and happy future at the
helm of LT and vice versa.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">--Frans Plank<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It is a great honour, responsibility and challenge to take over the
editorship of LT after Frans Plank, who both founded (and INSISTED on founding)
the journal and the whole ALT and has led the journal for all these years. Frans
has created a unique warm, collaborative atmosphere </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">among the members of the Editorial Board and has always ensured that the
issues of LT would make their regular appearance, filled with high-quality
publications, no matter the circumstances. I am looking forward to keeping
on with all this and developing the journal further, making sure that LT will
be filled with interesting, useful, provocative and excellent stuff. But
remember that the journal is for you – not only as readers, but also as
writers, reviewers, and people whose opinions matter! So, we at the Editorial
Board are very much looking t</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">owards your submissions, your assistance and
feedback. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">--Maria (Masha) Koptjevskaja-Tamm<span></span></span></p>
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