LINGUIST Fund Drive--please read!

Mon Mar 15 19:46:16 UTC 2004

Dear all,

The LINGUIST List has generously provided support for GALA-L since its 
inception. Please show your appreciation for this valuable service by 
donating to the LINGUIST Fund Drive, currently in progress. See the links 
below to donate or make a pledge.

Thanks,

Mary Bucholtz and Sara Trechter
GALA-L Co-Facilitators

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Dear LINGUIST subscribers,

Believe it or not, a whole year has passed since we asked you to show
your support of LINGUIST by making a donation. It is now time for us
to call upon your generosity once again. You guessed it--the annual
LINGUIST Fund Drive has officially begun!

Last year we raised amounts that exceeded our goal of $50,000--we
ended up raising over $57,000! This year we have set our target at
$60,000. We need your help!

- For the over 1,230 of of you that did donate last year - Thank you
  once again! We hope that the services we provide have been useful
  and have improved, making you feel satisfied that the donation was
  worthwhile. We now humbly request that you extend your generosity
  and support us once again.

- For those of you that might not have supported LINGUIST yet, we hope
  that within the next few weeks we can convince you that by making a
  donation; you really are contributing to a worthy cause.

To anyone just entering the field of linguistics it would appear that
LINGUIST has been around forever. And given its current "high profile"
role in the discipline, it's easy to forget that LINGUIST began with
an unassuming message in December of 1990, announcing the formation of
a list whose goal is "to provide a forum for the discussion of those
issues which interest professional linguists".  You can view this
relic at: http://linguistlist.org/issues/1/1-0.html . In the first
year of the LINGUIST List, listed subscribers numbered 161; there were
no student editors; and the crew numbered two--founders Anthony
Aristar and Helen Dry! During its first year in operation, LINGUIST
published 868 issues under just 5 topics: All, Confs, Calls, Disc, and
Miscellaneous. And as testament to the fact that the "crew" was two
university professors, a majority of the issues were posted on
Sundays, and there were many days when no issues were posted at all!

It is now over thirteen years later, and we have more than 18,700
LINGUIST subscribers in 107 different countries. However, in these
thirteen years, the LINGUIST List has grown into more than a mailing
list. There are now more than 2000 webpages that form the LINGUIST
List website. These pages, together with the gigantic amount of data
that is stored on our database server, are all accessible for free!
Where do you go if you want to find a job or postgraduate position?
Where do you find out about all the latest linguistic publications?
How can you disseminate your PhD dissertation to the community? The
answer to these and many other questions is The LINGUIST List.

In the weeks to come we will send you emails from our student editors,
each one highlighting different aspects of the site and some of the
behind the scenes stuff as well. Each email will also ask you, very
nicely of course, to make a small donation to LINGUIST. The money we
raise each year goes directly to supporting these students (of which I
am one) through their Masters degree, and keeps LINGUIST operating and
improving its services.

And how will we thank you for your kindness? Every year we like to
give our donors a gift, and this year is no exception. In Addition to
all of our regular premiums that you may remember from past fund
drives, this year we are offering a newly-designed long sleeve
T-Shirts and a LINGUIST List mousepad!  Please see our premiums page
at: http://www.linguistlist.org/premiums.html for pictures of the new
shirts along with pictures and descriptions of all of our other
premiums.

The LINGUIST List is free to subscribers, always has been, and
hopefully always will be! Please help us reach our target of
$60,000. Even a small donation really does make a difference!

To donate now using our secure credit card form, please visit:

http://www.linguistlist.org/donate.html

For all the information on how to donate, or how to pledge, please
visit:

http://linguistlist.org/donation.html

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!!

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Date:  15 Mar 2004 00:40:24 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  How to Donate to LINGUIST...

This Year the LINGUIST List hope to raise $60,000. This money will go
to help keep the List running, by supporting all of our Student Editors
for the coming year.

There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST!

You can donate right now using our secure credit card form, at:
http://www.linguistlist.org/donate.html

You can also pledge right now and pay later, at:
http://www.linguistlist.org/pledge.html

For all information on donating, including information on how to
donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit:
http://www.linguistlist.org/donation.html

ALREADY PLEDGED?
If you have already pledged to LINGUIST and would now like to pay
by credit card, please go to:

http://linguistlist.org/creditcard-general.html

and select 'PAY PREVIOUS PLEDGE' as the Type of Payment from the
dropdown list provided.

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

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Date:  15 Mar 2004 05:44:45 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  Contributors So Far....

LINGUIST Contributors

Mainstays ($100 to $1000)
      Bernadine W. Raiskums
      Minako O'Hagan
      World Wide Words
      - Plus 3 anonymous donors

Donors (Up to $50)
      Diana C. Cook
      Olena Drozd
      Richard Waltereit

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MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

      Blackwell Publishing
		http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
      CSLI Publications
		http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/
      Cambridge University Press
		http://www.cup.org
      Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
		http://www.continuumbooks.com
      Elsevier Ltd.
		http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics
      Equinox Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/
      Georgetown University Press
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu
      John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/
		http://www.benjamins.nl
      Kingston Press Ltd

      Kluwer Academic Publishers
		http://www.wkap.nl/
		http://www.kluweronline.com
      Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
	        http://www.erlbaum.com/
      MIT Press
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/
      Mouton de Gruyter
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com
      Oxford University Press
		http://www.oup-usa.org/
      Rodopi
		http://www.rodopi.nl/
      Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
		http://www.routledge.com/

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

      Anthropological Linguistics
		http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/
      Arawak Publications

      Canadian Journal of Linguistics
	        http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=cjl/cjl.html
      Cascadilla Press
		http://www.cascadilla.com/
      Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass

      International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/
      Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/
      MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
		http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/
      Multilingual Matters
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
      Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 	   	
      Palgrave Macmillan
	        http://www.palgrave.com
      Pearson Longman
		http://www.pearsoneduc.com/discipline.asp?d=LG
      SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp
      St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk
      Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
	        http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

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INSTITUTIONS

ATA SpA
Babel Technologies SA
Butler Hill Group
California State University, Fresno
California State University, Fullerton
Central Michigan University
Centro Giacomo Piuccini - Italian language school
Cornell University
de Taalstudio
Georgetown University
H5 Technologies
iLumin Software Services
International Graduate School of English
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitt Frankfurt
La Trobe University
Michigan State University
Middlesex University
MIT
Motorola
National Chi Nan University
National University of Singapore
Northern Illinois University
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Princeton University
Queen Mary, University of London
Saarland University
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
The George Washington University
The Ohio State University
The State University of New York at Buffalo
The University of Auckland
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd
TUniversity at Albany
University oc Cyprus
University of British Columbia
University of Colorado
University of Edinburgh
University of Groningen
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Massachusetts/Amherst
University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
University of Victoria
Villanova University

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