<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear ALT members:</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We have an election for the editorial board membership for <i>Linguistic Typology</i>. There are two spaces and there are two candidates, both of whom have been suggested and approved ahead of time by deGruyter and by the EC. </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">First, we'd like to thank Larry Hyman and Bill Croft, who are rotating off of the board for their valuable service to LT including staying on for an extra year to assist with the editorial transition.</span><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Here are the candidates' names with brief bio sketches:</font></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14.84px"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14.84px"><b>Dan Dediu</b> uses a variety of methods, mostly quantitative, from several scientific fields to understand the origins and evolution of language and linguistic diversity. He has argued that population genetics might affect the distribution of tone languages, that anatomical variation in vocal tract structures affects the distribution of cross-linguistic phonetic and phonological variation, and he has used phylogenetic methods and statistical analyses of large databases to explore the stability of typological features. Dediu is EURIAS Fellow with the Collegium de Lyon, France, and has honorary affiliations as Senior Investigator with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and as Research Fellow with the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is Executive Editor of the Journal of Language Evolution (Oxford University Press). More information can be found at </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://bitsaying.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">https://bitsaying.<wbr>wordpress.com/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14.84px"> and </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mpi.nl/people/dediu-dan" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">http://www.<wbr>mpi.nl/people/dediu-dan</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14.84px">.</span></div><div><p class="gmail-m_5595835936240915241gmail-m_-8369733883193516591Standard" style="line-height:13.568px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:14.84px"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="NL-BE"><b>Jean-Christophe Verstraete</b> has worked in linguistic typology and in language documentation. His typological work has focused on topics like case marking, pronoun systems, mood & modality and complex sentences. His descriptive work, ranging from phonology to discourse structure, has focused on Paman languages of Cape York Peninsula (Australia), specifically Middle Paman (Umpithamu, Yintyingka) and Lamalamic languages (Lamalama, Umbuygamu, Rimanggudinhma). Jean-Christophe is a professor of linguistics at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and has an honorary affiliation with Australian National University. He is currently a co-editor of the series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology (de Gruyter Mouton). Between 2007 and 2015 he was ALT’s secretary-treasurer. More information can be found at</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0005010/jcv/index.html" target="_blank"><span lang="NL-BE">https://perswww.kuleuven.be/<wbr>~u0005010/jcv/index.html</span></a></span><span lang="NL-BE">.</span></font></p></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please send an email to this address to vote: </font><a href="mailto:altelections2018@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">altelections2018@gmail.<wbr>com</a></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please use wording like this for your choice:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"I vote to support these two candidates" </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">or</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> "I vote to support X" (if you support only one of the two)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">or </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"I do not support either"</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px">We'll tally the votes in a week, <b>so please vote by 11.59pm Central U.S. time on Monday January 29.</b><br clear="all"></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Orche<br>('Thanks' in Manange)<div><br><i>Kristine A. Hildebrandt</i></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">Associate Professor, <a href="http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/english/" target="_blank">Department of English Language & Literature</a></i><i><br></i></div><div><i>Secretary, <a href="http://www.linguistic-typology.org/" target="_blank">Association for Linguistic Typology</a><br></i></div><div><i>Editor, <a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics" target="_blank">Himalayan Linguistics</a></i></div><div><span style="font-size:small">Check out our </span><a href="https://mananglanguages.isg.siue.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank">Manang Languages</a><span style="font-size:small"> project page!</span><br></div><div><i>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville</i><div><i>Box 1431<br>Edwardsville, IL 62026 U.S.A.<br>618-650-3991 (department voicemail)</i><div><i><a href="mailto:khildeb@siue.edu" target="_blank">khildeb@siue.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.siue.edu/~khildeb" target="_blank">http://www.siue.edu/~khildeb</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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