LINGUIST List Special Issue: Grateful for the Linguist of the Day

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LINGUIST List Special Issue: Grateful for Our Linguist of the Day

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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:06:59
From:  linguist <linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Bernard Comrie is Linguist of the Day 

Which well-known syntactician spent 5 years as a rock musician?

Which eminent typologist says he grew up "the only linguist surrounded
by soccer fans"?

Which prominent documentary linguist read 135 books on Indians in the
5th grade?

If you have been reading our Linguist of the Day feature, you know
that the answers are Geoff Pullum, Bernard Comrie, and Robert Blust.

This year, like last, the LINGUIST List student crew has chosen the
linguists they most admire and has asked these well-known scholars to
tell our readers how they became interested in linguistics.  And this
year, like last, almost a dozen prominent linguists have generously
agreed to share their stories with us.

And what inspirational stories they are!  We started this feature
because we thought young linguists might find it encouraging, but we
never realized that the paths to linguistics we'd hear about would be
quite so varied and interesting--or that so many busy, successful
linguists would be willing to contribute to the feature.  In taking
the time to write, they are not only inspiring young readers and
interesting older ones, but they are supporting the LINGUIST List Fund
Drive.  And we are very grateful.

Please take the time to check out the Fund Drive 2007 Linguist of the
Day feature:

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/linguists/LinguistOfTheDayIndex.cfm

New linguists will be added every few days, so be sure to check back
over the next month to read stories by Noam Chomsky, Walt Wolfram, and
other great linguists!

Also, after you're done reading about these real linguistic
superheroes, why not visit our donation pages to show your support for
The LINGUIST List? Remember, all of your donations help fund the
education of future linguists.

Thank you for your support,
-The LINGUIST Crew 

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This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $55,000. This money will go
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