25.921, A Letter from LL Editor Sara Couture

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LINGUIST List: Vol-25-921. Mon Feb 24 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.921, A Letter from LL Editor Sara Couture

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Editor for this issue: Sara  Couture <sara at linguistlist.org>
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:01:09
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: LINGUIST List: A Vehicle Towards A Life-Long Passion

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Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers:

My name is Sara Couture, and I started as a Master’s student at Eastern
Michigan University in the fall of 2013. I graduated with my B.A. in
Linguistics from Wayne State University in August 2012. I worked as an intern
for the LINGUIST List in the Summer of 2013 because I was interested in
gaining practical experience in the field of Linguistics. When I was offered
the chance to continue working at the LINGUIST List as a graduate assistant, I
jumped at the opportunity, because the LINGUIST List is renowned for preparing
linguists-in-training in exactly that--a career in Linguistics.

I chose Linguistics as my career because, for as long as I can remember,
language and all its intricacies have been a passion of mine. I’ve wanted to
unlock its mysteries, and the more I’ve delved into searching for answers to
these mysteries, the more questions and puzzles I uncover. More than anything,
I enjoy solving puzzles of all kinds, and language offers a very challenging
puzzle to understand and solve. When I discovered Linguistics as a discipline
while pursuing my undergraduate degree, I saw an opportunity to take my
passion for language and make it my life’s work.

The main LINGUIST List project that I work on is MultiTree. I’ve been busy
reading resources and adding language trees to our database, primarily Papuan
and Austronesian languages, as well as searching for more resources to add to
MultiTree. I was surprised by all the work that is required behind the scenes
on MultiTree. I never expected how much painstaking and detailed work goes
into making these trees for MultiTree until I started on the project at the
LINGUIST List. It has made me appreciate the resource all the more, and also
has given me a deeper insight into the world of scholarship. In addition to
working on MultiTree, I also work on the LL-Map Project, as well as help with
maintaining the LINGUIST List Blog and posting as the editor of Table of
Contents (TOCs) on the Publications team.

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Sara Couture
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