18.839, Meet: The Crew

Tue Mar 20 02:41:50 UTC 2007

LINGUIST List: Vol-18-839. Mon Mar 19 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.839, Meet: The Crew

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Date: 19-Mar-2007
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Managing Editor Ann Sawyer on LINGUIST Staff 

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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:37:15
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Managing Editor Ann Sawyer on LINGUIST Staff  

Dear Subscribers, 

As you know, The LINGUIST List is staffed largely by hardworking linguistics 
students--as well as some programming students--from countries all over the 
world. You will hear from many of these students in this space during our 2007 
Fund Drive.  We hope to familiarize you with them and to put faces to the work 
they do here, so that you may all appreciate the value of supporting LINGUIST
and, by extension, their educational and professional development as future 
linguists. Who knows--they may be coming soon to a graduate program near you! 
The experiences these students get from working at LINGUIST go a long way toward 
preparing them for further academic and professional work.

I came to LINGUIST as an editor, and after surviving the breathtaking--as 
anyone who has been here can attest--learning curve of the job, took over as 
Managing Editor from Michael Appleby in late 2005.  As LINGUIST's managing 
editor, I have had the opportunity to develop new editorial and customer-service 
related policies, train new editors, assist in the development and redesign of 
major aspects of LINGUIST's website, and correspond with linguists whose names I 
had previously only known from books, papers, and the news! 

Perhaps we who work here at LINGUIST have an unfair advantage over other 
linguistics grad students, but each of us is sincerely grateful for this unique 
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Sincerely,
Ann Sawyer 
Managing Editor
The LINGUIST List 

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competitions.

Publisher Prize Donors: 

Cascadilla Press 
Continuum 
Edinburgh University Press
Hodder Arnold
Mouton de Gruyter
Multilingual Matters
Sage Publications

Subscriber Prize Donors:

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Paola Attolino
Cristiano Chesi
Greville G. Corbett
Rosa J. Garcia B. Cordova
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DONORS (Up to $50)

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Cascadilla Press 
http://www.cascadilla.com/ 
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd 
http://www.continuumbooks.com 
Edinburgh University Press 
http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ 
Georgetown University Press 
http://www.press.georgetown.edu 
Hodder Arnold 
http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk 
John Benjamins 
http://www.benjamins.com/ 
http://www.benjamins.nl/ 
Lincom GmbH 
http://www.lincom.eu 
www.lincom.eu 
Mouton de Gruyter 
http://www.mouton-publishers.com 
Multilingual Matters 
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ 
Oxford University Press 
http://www.oup.com/us 
http://www.oup.co.uk 
Pagijong Press 
http://pjbook.com 
Palgrave Macmillan 
http://www.palgrave.com 
Peter Lang AG 
http://www.peterlang.com 
Rodopi 
http://www.rodopi.nl/ 
http://www.rodopi.nl 
Springer 
http://www.springer.com 

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS
CSLI Publications 
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/ 
International Pragmatics Assoc. 
http://www.ipra.be 
Linguistic Assoc. of Finland 
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT 
http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 
SIL International 
http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 
St. Jerome Publishing Ltd. 
http://www.stjerome.co.uk

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INSTITUTIONS

BAE Systems 
Basis Technology 
Basis Technology Corporation 
BeVocal, Inc 
Boston University 
Bridgewater State College 
Butler Hill Group 
CELI s.r.l. 
City University of Hong Kong 
Comcast 
Concordia University 
Darmstadt University of Technology 
Dongduk Women's University 
English School Sunny Plus 
Grove City College 
Gyeonggi English Village 
Hablamos Juntos - UCSF 
Haskins Laboratories 
Hokkaido University 
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 
Indiana University 
Indiana University - Bloomington 
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main 
Johns Hopkins University 
Kent State University 
KNOVA Software, Inc. 
La Trobe University 
LearnBalance Group 
Leibniz Universität Hannover 
Lexicon Branding, Inc. 
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania 
Louisiana State University 
Maher Language Institute (MLI) 
McGill University 
McNeil Technologies, Inc. 
Michigan State University 
Monterey Institute of International Studies 
National Sun Yat-sen University 
National Taiwan Normal University 
Nemours/AI duPont Hospital for Children 
Nordic CoE in Microcomparative Syntax 
Northwestern University 
Nuance Communications, Inc. 
Q-go Netherlands bv 
Radboud University Nijmegen 
RiverGlass, Inc. 
RPI 
RWTH Aachen 
San Diego State University 
SDL International 
Seattle Pacific University 
Shenandoah University 
Simon Fraser University 
SOAS, University of London 
Stony Brook University 
Systran 
SYSTRAN S.A. 
SYSTRAN Software, Inc. 
The Australian National University 
The State University of New York at Buffalo 
Tuebingen University 
Tufts University 
UCSC 
University College London 
University of Aberdeen 
University of Alaska Fairbanks 
University of Alberta 
University of Arizona 
University of British Columbia 
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
University of California, San Diego 
University of California, Santa Barbara 
University of Cologne 
University of Delaware 
University of Edinburgh 
University of Geneva 
University of Hamburg (Germany) 
University of Leeds 
University of Mary Washington 
University of Maryland 
University of Maryland University College 
University of Michigan 
University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China 
University Of Oregon 
University of Oxford 
University of Pittsburgh 
University of Potsdam 
University of Texas at San Antonio 
University of Trento (Italy) 
University of Utah 
University of Wales, Bangor 
University of Washington 
University of Wolverhampton 
University of York 
Université Laval 
Voice Signal Technologies, Inc, 
Wake Forest University 
Wayne State University 
Yuan Ze University

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