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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Dear <a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics"><i>Himalayan Linguistics</i></a> readership:</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">We are very pleased to release 18.2/2019 of <i>Himalayan Linguistics</i>! Please feel free to share this announcement or any links. As always, <i>HL</i> is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to articles, grammars, lexicons, text corpora and other studies of languages of the Himalayan region, and there is no charge for subscribing or submitting/publishing materials.</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">In this issue, we offer four articles and one one full grammar (in the Archives section):</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">“Possessive indexes in Assamese” by Gitanjali Bez</p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">“Word formation in contemporary Liangmai: A morphological study” by Kailadbou Daimai</p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">“Extended ergativity in Bumthang” by Mark Donohue and Cathryn Donohue</p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">“Tibetan dining etiquette: A sociolinguistic analysis of a normative discourse text in Stau” by Jesse Gates and<span class="gmail-s1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Kailasa;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">བ་བསྟན་ཉི་མ་</span><span class="gmail-s3" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, <a href="http://Tub.bstan.nyi.ma">Tub.bstan.nyi.ma</a></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span class="gmail-s3" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">-----------</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">“A Grammar of Trung” by Ross Perlin</p>
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<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I would like to thank the authors for their work on these publications, the anonymous peer reviewers whose feedback helped to make these high-quality outputs possible, the <i>HL</i> editorial board for their advisory role, and especially You-Jing Lin and her student assistants for taking over the preparation and release of this issue while I was on scheduled leave in 2019. Please keep an eye on the <i>HL</i> site for upcoming special issues in 2020 and 20201, and some other possible exciting developments to the journal in the future. If you are interested in publishing with <i>HL</i>, please refer to <a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics/submissionguidelines">this information</a>.</p>
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<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px">Thank you and best wishes,</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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"><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">Professor, <a href="http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/english/" target="_blank">Department of English Language & Literature</a></i><i><br></i></div><div><i>President, <a href="http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/" target="_blank">Endangered Language Fund</a></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><i><br></i></div><div><i>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville</i><br></div><div><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<br></a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>