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[Andrew Carnie]

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                                  CELTLING
                 The Electronic Email list for the theoretical
                          linguistics of the Modern
                              Celtic Languages

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                             Information Sheet

WHAT IS CELTLING?

        Celtling is a moderated email list for the discussion of
        theoretical syntax, morphology, phonology, and phonetics of
        the Modern Celtic Languages (Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Welsh
        Breton, and Cornish).

WHO OWNS CELTLING?

        The list is a private email list owned by Andrew Carnie and
        operated through the listserver at Project Athena at the
        Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

        Owner's address:
                        Andrew Carnie
                        Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
                        20D-219, MIT
                        77 Massachusetts Ave
                        Cambridge MA 02139

                        acarnie at mit.edu

        As a list operated through MIT, Subscribers to Celtling are
        subject to the rules of Conduct for  Electronic Mail
        as set out by  Project Athena and MIT. Violation of these rules
        will result in removal from the list.

HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE?

        Send email to LISTSERV at MITVMA.MIT.EDU

        with the single line:

                SUBSCRIBE CELTLING <your_name>

        Requests for subscription will take 36 hours to process

        To unsubscribe send the line:

                SIGNOFF CELTLING

HOW DO I POST:

        Send mail to
                 celtling at mitvma. mit.edu

        this mail will be forwarded to Andrew Carnie, who in turn will
                forward it to the list.

WHAT ARE APPROPRIATE SUBJECTS OF DISCUSSION ON THIS LIST?

        Any aspect of the Syntax
                          Semantics
                          Phonology
                          Morphology
                          Phonology
                          Phonetics
            of the Modern Celtic Languages.

        Book/paper/conference announcements.

        All frameworks of linguistics (Generative or Descriptive)
        are welcome.

WHAT IS **SOMETIMES APPROPRIATE**?

        This list is for the discussion of Theoretical Linguistics
        of the modern Celtic Languages. Thus, the following topics
        are sometimes relevant to the discussion of the theoretical
        linguistics of the Celtic languages and sometimes are not.
        (I ask subscribers to use their own judgment about what is
         "relevant").

                Sociolinguistics
                Historical Linguistics
                Psycholinguistics
                Dialectology
                Computational Linguistics

        Issues in these fields that do not bear on the theoretical
        linguistics should be posted to Celtic-L, Gaelic-L, Welsh-L
        or Indoeuropean-l at cornell.edu


WHAT IS **INAPPROPRIATE** FOR CELTLING?

        The following topics of discussion have been (quite arbitrarly)
        declared inappropriate for this list

                orthography
                etymology
                The Pedagogy (learning) of the Celtic Languages
                literature
                folklore

        Discussion of the above should be directed to Gaelic-L at irlearn.ucd.ie,
        Welsh-L at irlearn.ucd.ie, or Celtic-L at irlearn.ucd.ie or
         indoeuropean-l at cornell.edu

        It should be noted that the owner feels that the above topics
        are valid topics for discussion and academic pursuit, but are
        not appropriate to a list on theoretical linguistics, when other
        lists exist for these purposes.


WHAT LANGUAGES CAN I POST IN?

        English, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Breton, Welsh, Cornish, French

        But please remember that not everyone on the list necessarily
        speaks YOUR celtic language. The owner suggests then that English
        be the Lingua Franca for the list.