25.1181, A Letter from LL Editor Bryn Hauk

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LINGUIST List: Vol-25-1181. Mon Mar 10 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.1181, A Letter from LL Editor Bryn Hauk

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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:54:49
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
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Dear Fellow Linguist,

Hi, I'm Bryn. If you have ever donated to the LINGUIST List, you are the
reason that I was able to complete an exciting and enriching internship at the
LINGUIST List last summer. If you have yet to donate, you have the opportunity
now to help fund my work and the pursuit of my MA in Linguistics at Eastern
Michigan University, while I continue serving you as a LINGUIST List student
editor and team member of the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat).

Ever since I earned my BA in Linguistics and Russian Language & Literature
from the University of Michigan in 2011, I have been compelled by the wildly
idealistic passion to rescue endangered languages, or at least to document
them for the advancement of the science. Beginning with a summer internship,
the LINGUIST List has focused my energy on ELCat, one of our many projects
designed for the benefit of the linguistic community. The goal of ELCat is to
assemble research on endangered languages into one up-to-date, vetted,
searchable resource, which is now live at www.endangeredlanguages.com. My job
is to find the best information on endangered languages and bring it to you,
which has cultivated in me the important scholarly skills of resource
retrieval, fast but thorough processing of linguistic literature, and
bibliography management.

More than just an enthusiastic ELCat team member, I am also your editor for
conference calls for papers at the LINGUIST List. That's right: I am the one
who makes sure you know that the deadline to submit to your field's biggest
conference is fast approaching, that your abstract must be no longer than 500
words, and that your submission will be rejected outright if it's anything but
a hyper-anonymized PDF with exact-to-the-milimeter margins. If you have ever
submitted a conference to the mailing list, you might remember me as the one
who triple-checked your spelling and painstakingly formatted your submission,
who emailed you at 6 a.m. Sunday morning when you need to change your
deadline, or who distributed your appel à communications in three more
languages than I can personally speak.

As a linguist, I am incredibly grateful to be part of a discipline with such a
well-established infrastructure to help us navigate the labyrinth of academia.
Not every field has a resource like the LINGUIST List. Our linguistics network
is a great source of pride for me and, I hope, a great service to you.

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Sincerely,

Bryn Hauk
Calls & Conferences Editor
ELP/ELCat Team Member
The LINGUIST List

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