21.1610, "I: Am Immensely Grateful for All the Things I Have Learned"

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Subject: 21.1610, "I: Am Immensely Grateful for All the Things I  Have Learned"

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Subject: Letter from LINGUIST List Editor

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Donated Prizes by Publishers

Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
1. One year subscription of Journal of Portuguese Linguistics to donors

Cascadilla Press
1. Boucher, Paul (Ed), Many Morphologies (2002)
2. Macaulay, Monica, Surviving Linguistics. A Guide for Graduate Students (2006)
3. Face, Timothy, Guide to the Phonetic Symbols of Spanish, (2008)
4. Ewald, Jennifer, and Edstrom, Anne, (Eds), El Español a través de la
    lingüística. Preguntas y Respuestas (2008)

Cambridge Scholars Publishing
1. A set of complete works by an author (from our literary classics section) by 
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Cambridge University Press
1. Matras, Yaron, Language Contact, Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics (2009)
2. Uriagereka, Juan, Syntactic Anchors. on Semantic Structuring, Cambridge 
   Studies in Linguistics 118 (2008)

Continuum
1. Johnson, Sally, and Ensslin, Astrid (Eds), Language and the Media, Advances 
   in Sociolinguistics (2007)
2. Schane, Sanford, Language and the Law (2006)

Editora Europolis
1. Vasile, Sandina-Iulia, Les Articulations Logiques du Discours en Perspective 
   Traductologique (2005)

Elsevier
1. We would like to offer 5 x personal one year online subscriptions to the Elsevier 
   linguistics journal of the winner's choice: 
Assessing Writing, Computers and Composition, English for Specific Purposes, 
Journal of Communication Disorders, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 
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of Second Language Writing, Language and Communication, Language Sciences, 
Lingua, Linguistics and Education, System

Equinox
1. Forey, Gail, and Thompson, Geoff (Eds), Text Type and Texture (2009)
2. Lantolf, James, and Poehner, Matthew (Eds), Sociocultural Theory and the 
   Teaching of Second Languages (2008)
3. Banks, David, The Development of Scientific Writing. Linguistic Features and 
   historical Context (2008)
4. Baker, Paul, Sexed Texts. Language, Gender and Sexuality (2008)
5. Hrubaru, Florica, and Comes, Elena (Eds),Énonciation et Création Littéraire (2006)

Mouton de Gruyter
1. Bergs, Alexander, and Diewald, Gabriele (Eds), Trends in Linguistics. Constructions 
   and Language Change (2008)

Multilingual Matters
1. 2 copies of De Houwer, Annick, Bilingual First Language Acquisition
2. 2 copies of Lo Bianco, Joseph (et al)(Eds), China and English
3. 10% discount to everyone who donates during Fund Drive on any of their 
   linguistics titles.

The MIT Press
1. Miyagawa, Shigeru, Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying Agreement-Based and 
   Discourse-Configurational Languages, Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 
   Fifty-Four (2010)
2. Frampton, John, Distributed Reduplication, Linguistic Inquiry monograph 
   Fifty-Two (2009)
3. Landau, Idan, The Locative Syntax of Experiencers, Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 
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4. Bickerton, Derek; Szathmáry, Eörs, (Eds) Biological Foundations and Origin of 
   Syntax (2009)

Oxford University Press
1. McNally, Louise, and Kennedy, Christopher, Adjectives and Adverbs.Syntax, 
   Semantics, and Discourse(2008)
2. Gundel, Jeanette K, and Hedberg, Nancy (Eds), Reference. Interdisciplinary 
   Perspectives (2008)
3. Solé, Maria-Josep, Speeter Beddor, Patrice, and Ohala, Manjari (Eds), Experimental 
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Pagijong Press
1. Ko, Yong-Kun (et al) (Eds), Whither morphology in the New Millenium? (2006)

Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
1. Susan Hunston and David Oakey, Introducing Applied Linguistics: Key Concepts 
   and Skills
2. Susan J. Behrens and Judith A. Parker (Eds), Language in the Real World: 
   An Introduction to Linguistics

Verbum
1. Pratt, Comfort, El Español del Noroeste e Luisiana

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Oxford University Press	 
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