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LINGUIST List Summary: Issues Posted on Mon Mar 23 2009.
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------------------------- Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 9:15:14
From: linguist <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Your Donation = Grad Student Education
Dear Linguist List Subscribers,
As you all know, the main reason for having a Fund Drive
each year is to raise money to support graduate students
going through their MA studies. This support also allows
them to prepare to be highly qualified linguists when leaving
our office and join the rest of you out there doing the
magnificent work you all do. The money raised is used to
support the student editors who work at LINGUIST and help
facilitate and improve all the services that LINGUIST has
been able to provide to you for free for so many years!
During my years at LINGUIST and with your donations during
past Fund Drives, I have been able to:
- Finish my undergraduate studies in Linguistics and TESOL.
- Complete my MA in Linguistics
- Learn to digitize Mocovi data using ELAN
- Transcribe and translate Mocovi data collected in northern
Argentina
- Learn programming to maintain and develop existing and new
areas of the LINGUIST List site such as the publications area,
review discussion area, and more
- Help develop a new and free service for conference organizers
to accept and review abstracts called EasyAbs
(http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/)
- Lead the Publications team for two years to provide more
information about books, journals and TOCs to all users, while
attracting new publishers as supporters to LINGUIST and providers
of more linguistic publications.
- Develop the Cambridge Extra magazine, which allows all users
to read full articles, receive discounts and enter into contests
to win CUP merchandise
(http://linguistlist.org/pubs/cupmag/index.cfm).
- Learn what it entails to lead a Fund Drive in all its different
aspects
- Organize workshops held at the LINGUIST List office to provide
contact between students and linguists who are working on
related projects.
- Attend several conferences, such as MLS, LSA and more.
- Direct the Linguist list fixes team, which reviews the Linguist
site to keep it current and working properly while also trying to
develop new areas that will be of use to all subscribers and users.
- Lead the Quality Control team, which is solely devoted to test
all changes to the Linguist site, looking for problems in the
pages, code and also browsers, so that the LINGUIST List site
is always available to you.
- Develop the website for the 2007 North American Computational
Linguistic Olympiad (NAMCLO) (http://namclo.linguistlist.org/).
- Learn to be a team leader for several teams at LINGUIST, which
includes learning organizational skill, planning of the projects
and tasks to perform, assignment of tasks, problem solving of
issues that raise with tasks and between team members, among
others.
- Participate in the development of grant proposals for projects
that LINGUIST is working on, which will allow me to one day
write my own!
- Learn about the best ways in which data is stored and collected
to be able to preserve it and make it available to other people.
View these at: http://emeld.org/school/index.html
- Participate in the LEGO grant that LINGUIST is working on at
this time, to digitize various dictionaries and make them
available to the public.
But most of all, it allowed me to go through my studies in
Linguistics with the certainty and confidence that while I
was getting the contributions from all of you to support me,
I was also doing something to give back to the linguistics
community by working for LINGUIST. Providing you with information
that is useful and sometimes essential to users, such as articles
or books needed for classes or research, job postings for those
looking for a new job or their "first" job, conferences where
people can submit research papers, and many others, allow me to
say thank you for supporting me and my studies every time you
donated to LINGUIST.
I know that this is true for each person who works here. Most
people have not only been able to do things similar to what I
have done so far, but also experience the field of linguistics
in many ways. While attending conferences and corresponding with
submitters, we are able to be in contact with prominent linguists
today. We would not be able to do such things without your
contributions and donations. I will one day leave LINGUIST with a
very rich legacy that will last my entire lifetime. Many other
students will come after me year after year who will benefit from
the same things I have. Please contribute today to allow all
LINGUIST students to continue to gain this outstanding education
and experience through their years as editors. Your help and
donations will be invaluable to all.
Donate today at https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm
and help LINGUIST support so many more students that will one day
give back to the linguistics community with their research and work
in the field.
Thank you,
Maria Moreno-Rollins
------------------------- Message 2 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:04:58
From: linguist <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Special Offer to Everyone Who Donates!
Special offer to those who donate during Fund Drive!!!
We have exciting news to all those who donate during Fund Drive.
Thanks to our friends at Emerald Group, we are able to offer a
special bonus this year: a 40% discount on any of the following
titles:
- Writing and Digital Media
- The Dynamics of Language: An Introduction
- Approaches to Discourse Particles
- Grammaticalization and Pragmatics Facts, Approaches, Theoretical
Issues
- Microvariations in Syntactic Doubling
Visit the Emerald Group website at:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/menuNavigation.do?hdAction=InsightHome
to find out more about the titles.
Donate to LINGUIST List:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm
and get the information on how to get the discount!
The LINGUIST List Crew
------------------------- Message 3 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:14:45
From: linguist <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: The Grad School Challenge Has Started!
Dear subscribers,
It's time for the Grad School Challenge... As many of you
know, for the past five years, schools from all over the
world have competed to see who can raise the most donations
for The LINGUIST List during our Fund Drive. It's a way for
faculty, students and alumni to kill two birds with one stone:
show their support for LINGUIST by contributing to our
operations, and support their own school as well! One of the
most effective ways you can do this is to organize a group
donation and challenge your rival school to match it. Students
or alumni can also challenge faculty to match their donations.
If you want to participate in the competition, just enter the
name of your school in the box provided at the URL below, and
make a donation:
http://linguistlist.org/donation/index.html
This year we'll be doing something a little different.
We'll still have an overall winner, but we've also
divided the world into regions, and each of these will
have regional winner. You can see how the regions were
divided at the following URL:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/gradschools/top-institutions-by-region.cfm
If you'd like to encourage your university department
to donate to LINGUIST, visit our resources page for grad
student organizers. You'll find a sample message you can
send to the all linguists at your school, and fun, freely
downloadable posters:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/gradschools/group.cfm
Grad School Organizers: John Benjamins has donated some
prizes for you! Each week, there will be a prize for the
grad school organizer who helps his/her school donate the
highest amount to LINGUIST during Fund Drive. If you are
an organizer, send your contact information and school to
[log in to unmask] so that we have your information in
case you help your school donate the most in a particular
week.
Our database will track how much is credited toward each
school, and every day the leading overall and regional
schools will be prominently displayed on The LINGUIST List
homepage, along with links to the school's homepage. It's
a great way to highlight your school for the linguistics
community and show that you have an active, loyal, and
public-spirited faculty and student body. Check out how
your school and all the others are doing at:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/gradschools/top-institutions-by-region.cfm
And check the overall positions at:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/gradschools/allschools.cfm
When fund drive ends, the top 2 schools in each region will
receive special prizes that have been donated by our generous
subscribers and supporting publishers. Also, the overall
winner will receive an extra prize and the school's name and
logo will be featured prominently on the LINGUIST homepage
for 2 weeks. View prizes for winners at:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/gradschools/prizes.cfm
In 2008, Stanford took first place for the Grad School Challenge
with over $2685 in contributions. The University of Washington
and University of Arizona were not far behind! Who'll win this
year? It's up to you! Remember that anyone can donate - you
don't have to be a grad student or faculty: you just have to
be loyal to your school!
Got to https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm
May the Best School Win!
The LINGUIST Crew
------------------------- Message 4 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:00:45
From: linguist <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Special Offer from John Benjamins!
Dear Subscribers,
John Benjamins has a great offer for the Grad School coordinators!
If you are a coordinator for your school and you are working hard
to get students, faculty and staff to donate to LINGUIST during
Fund Drive, John Benjamins Publishing Company is offering a prize
for those grad school coordinators who manage to raise the most
amount in donations each week.
How does it work?
1. If you are a grad school coordinator for your
University, send an email to [log in to unmask] with your
contact information and your school's name.
2. Coordinate donations from anyone at your school and make sure
that they enter your institution's name while submitting the
donations. The more you promote the LINGUIST FD, the more
donations your school will have assigned.
3. Every Tueday, we will announce which school contributed the
most the previous week. If your school is the one, you will receive
a special prize from John Benjamins! And also, your school will be
adding more towards the Grad school Challenge to make its way to
the top and win even more prizes!
What would you win?
A one-year personal subscriptions of your choice to any of the
John Benjamins journals listed below:
Babel
Concepts and Transformation
Consciousness & Emotion
Constructions and Frames
Diachronica
Document Design
English Text Construction
English World-Wide
Evolution of Communication
Functions of Language
Gestures
Historiographia Linguistica
Information Design Journal
Interaction Studies
International Journal of Cognition and Technology (IJCT)
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL)
International Review of Chinese Linguistics (IRCL)
Interpreting (INTP)
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (JAPC)
Journal of Greek Linguistics (JGL)
Journal of Historical Pragmatics (JHP)
Journal of Language and Politics (JLP)
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JPCL)
Language International (LINT)
Language Problems and Language Planning (LPLP)
Languages in Contrast (LiC)
Lingvisticae Investigationes (LI)
The Mental Lexicon (ML)
Narrative Inquiry (NI)
Pragmatics & Cognition (P&C)
Revue Romane (RRO)
Sign Language & Linguistics (SL&L)
Spanish in Context (SiC)
Studies in Language (SL)
Target (Target)
Terminology (TERM)
Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS)
Written Language & Literacy (WL&L)
If you need ideas on how to promote the LL Fund Drive, review our
coordinators' area at:
http://www.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/gradschools/group.cfm#coordinate
View your school status and place in the Grad School Challenge at:
http://www.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/gradschools/top-institutions-by-region.cfm
So, hurry up and promote the LINGUIST List Fund Drive now! The more
you do, the more donations that your school has, the better chances
you will have to get one of the prizes!
Donate now at:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm
The LINGUIST Crew
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This Year the LINGUIST List hopes 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.
See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out our
Fund Drive 2009 LINGUIST List Restaurant and join us for a delightful
treat!
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/
There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST!
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information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor.
Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will
match any gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this
entails your contacting your human resources department and sending us a
form that the EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer. This
is generally a simple administrative procedure that doubles the value of
your gift to LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. Please take a
moment to check if your company operates such a program.
Note: the donors' names are appended to every fund drive message sent
to the main list. You can also see the list of all donors by clicking
here: http://linguistlist.org/donation/contributors2009.html
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