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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Dear T-B and Himalayan languages community:</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">We are pleased to release issue 16.2/December 2017 of Himalayan Linguistics!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics">https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics</a></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Please feel free to spread the word, too!</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">This issue has five strong articles:</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">—“Burushaski and unique Slavic isoglosses” by Ilija Čašule</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">—“Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary” by Ismael Lieberherr and Timotheus Adrianus Bodt</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">—“Segmenting and POS tagging Classical Tibetan using a memory-based tagger” by Marieke Meelen and Nathan W. Hill</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">—“Re-evaluation of the evidential system of Lhasa Tibetan and its atypical functions” by Guillaume Oisel</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">—“King’s Pig: A story in Lhagang Tibetan with a grammatical annotation on a narrative mode” by Hiroyuki Suzuki and Sonam Wangmo</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">In the summer of 2017 the University of California updated its eScholarship web publishing platform, so the journal has a slightly different look and feel. You can access all published volumes and issues by clicking on the most recent issue, which opens a drop-down menu for selection. As I become more familiar with my administrative powers that I have with this redesigned site, I will make some periodic design changes to make sure that everything is clear and accessible, and when I do that, I will update our readership about this.</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I want to take this opportunity to make a couple of announcements:</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">1. HL welcomes Lauren Gawne and Mark Post to our editorial board! We are excited to have their expertise as well as that access to the Tibeto-Burman/Himalayan and also to the broader typology and documentation communities.</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">2. The Stylesheet has been updated.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://escholarship.org/assets/44ce9a81c622da74daeaee680dcbc3f0b06166ab051074c9ddd7b141a2062523">https://escholarship.org/assets/44ce9a81c622da74daeaee680dcbc3f0b06166ab051074c9ddd7b141a2062523</a></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Of particular note is the addition of a requirement for DOI/Last Accessed Date information for electronic references in the bibliography (e.g. web pages, web-based publications and articles/blogs). Also, when authors have been notified that their submission is accepted for publication, they will be asked to format their final version into a template that we will provide to them.</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Finally, I wish to thank our current editorial and advisory board members, in particular, You-Jing Lin, who does the herculean tasks of final formatting and proofs creation. In this same spirit, I am also grateful to the authors who work with us to see the issue to publication in a timely manner.</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">We look forward to continued submissions by interested authors. If you have any questions about manuscript submission (and also if you have any concerns about the eScholarship site) please feel free to contact me at <a href="mailto:khildeb@siue.edu">khildeb@siue.edu</a></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Thanks again!</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Orche<br>('Thanks' in Manange)<div><br><i>Kristine A. Hildebrandt</i></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">Associate Professor, <a href="http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/english/" target="_blank">Department of English Language & Literature</a></i><i><br></i></div><div><i>Secretary, <a href="http://www.linguistic-typology.org/" target="_blank">Association for Linguistic Typology</a><br></i></div><div><i>Editor, <a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics" target="_blank">Himalayan Linguistics</a></i></div><div><span style="font-size:small">Check out our </span><a href="https://mananglanguages.isg.siue.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank">Manang Languages</a><span style="font-size:small"> project page!</span><br></div><div><i>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville</i><div><i>Box 1431<br>Edwardsville, IL 62026 U.S.A.<br>618-650-3991 (department voicemail)</i><div><i><a href="mailto:khildeb@siue.edu" target="_blank">khildeb@siue.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.siue.edu/~khildeb" target="_blank">http://www.siue.edu/~khildeb</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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