<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div>I am re-sending the newsletter in order to ensure that everyone partakes of the information about membership restructuring. Dmitry Idiatov has been instrumental in this important change. His report is included in the newsletter but it also follows below, for good measure.</div><div><br></div><div>All my bests,</div><div>Ljuba</div><div><br></div><div><b>Report by Dmitry Idiatov</b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Starting from January 1, 2022, the membership system of the
ALT will undergo some major changes. Most importantly, the membership fee and
the subscription to the LT will be separated. Membership will be charged during
the conference year for 2 years and will be valid for the period up to but not
including the next ALT conference. For the members participating at the ALT
conference, it will be charged together with the conference fee. A discounted
membership fee will be available for students, colleagues from lower-income
countries, and members who do not plan on participating in the upcoming ALT
conference. For the latter category, the membership fee will be collected
directly by the ALT throughout the year. The ALT also plans to introduce the
options of life-long membership and sponsoring membership, as well as implement
a donation system.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Besides the fact that the way membership has been processed
so far is rather cumbersome for both the members and the ALT, there are three major
reasons for this overhaul of the membership system. First, most members already
had access to the LT through their institutions, on the one hand, and the
percentage of open access papers published in the LT is steadily increasing, on
the other. Second, collecting membership fees together with the conference fees
will allow very many members to get reimbursed for the entire sum through
travel grants, which is currently not possible since travel grants or research
projects usually do not cover membership fees. Finally, in the new system the
entirety of the membership fee will now stay with the association (against less
the 15% of the membership fee previously) and will allow the ALT to support a
much wider range of activities.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Currently, ALT spends most of the funds that it receives
through members’ subscriptions to LT in conference years in the form of
fellowships for participating in ALT conferences for colleagues requiring such
assistance and for reimbursing the travel expenses of the ALT award winners.
Below is an open list of some of the new activities that ALT will be able to
implement with the new financial resources becoming available thanks to the
membership system overhaul:</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Sponsoring other types of events organized by
the members with the goal of promoting linguistic typology besides the ALT
conference, such as summer schools and grass-root initiatives such as the
workshop series “Emerging Topics in Typology” organized by graduate students
for October-November 2021 (<a href="https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/emerging-topics-in-typology">https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/emerging-topics-in-typology</a>)</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Sponsoring the costs of proofreading for the
articles by non-native speakers of English who have been accepted for
publication in LT.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Sponsoring typologically-oriented series or
publications at open access publishing outlets, such as Language Science Press</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Sponsoring the expenses for conversion to LaTeX
for typologically-oriented publications at Language Science Press</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Creating a financial buffer that will be needed
for moving the LT to full open access in the future</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As the membership fee and the subscription to the LT will be
separated starting from January 1, 2022, all members wishing to opt out of
their subscription to LT should contact Isolde Graesser at De Gruyter (<span class="gmail-senderemail--20l3t"><a href="mailto:Isolde.Graesser@degruyter.com">Isolde.Graesser@degruyter.com</a></span>) and request to
stop their subscription effective of December 31, 2021. Those members who wish
to continue to subscribe to LT need not do anything and should be able to
profit from the new lowered journal subscription rates of €60 (regular) and €
37 (student) + shipping and handling (for print).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As explained above, the members participating in the
upcoming ALT conference in Austin, Texas, will pay the new membership fee
together with the conference fee. For all the other situations, a dedicated
payment system will be set up in the beginning of 2022</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The EC adopted the following fee structure and categories:</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Regular membership with attending the ALT
conference: 60 € / year x 2 years = 120 € / 2 years</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Regular membership without attending the ALT
conference, Student membership, Discounted membership for colleagues from
lower-income countries: 30 € / year x 2 years = 60 € / 2 years</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Sponsoring membership for the members wishing to
offer extra support for the ALT: 240 € / 2 years</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Lifelong membership: 1200 €.</p></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">============================================================<br>Ljuba Veselinova, Professor<br>Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, <span style="font-size:12.8px">S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden</span></div><div dir="ltr">Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389<br>URL : <a href="http://www.ling.su.se/ljuba.veselinova" target="_blank">https://www.ling.su.se/ljuba.veselinova</a><div><div><br>"We learn by going where we want to go."<br> Julia Cameron<br>============================================================</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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