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<font size="3" color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dear Colleagues,</span></font></div>
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<font size="3" color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt">The ALT Elections have now closed, thank you to all members who participated. </span></font></div>
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<font size="3" color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt">The new Executive Committee (EC) </span></font><font size="2" color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:16px">will
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<font size="3" color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt">Shelece Easterday, Andrey Shluinskiy,</span></font><font size="3" color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"> Anvita Abbi,
Neige Rochant, Timur Maisak, Roberto Zariqiuey + Johan van der Auwera (President), Dmitry Idiatov (Secretary Treasurer), Ljuba Veselinova (Secretary and Conference Manager), Maria Koptjevskaja- Tamm (Editor, Linguistic Typology)</span></font></div>
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<font size="3" color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt">We would like to once again thank the outgoing EC members, </span></font><font size="3" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt">Hilary
Chappell, Kristine Hildebrandt, Nikolaus Himmelmann and Iker Salaberri </span></font><font size="3" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt">for their outstanding service and contribution. Likewise, we thank
the Nominating Committee <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">Katharina Haude (Chair), Peter Arkadiev,
Françoise Rose and Wayan Arka for all the time they devoted to proposing the new EC.</span></span></font></div>
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