Special Issue: Fund Drive News

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Special Issue: Fund Drive News

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------------------------- Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2009 08:01:32
From:  linguist <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Special Offer from Surrey Morphology Group

Dear Subscribers,

The Surrey Morphology Group is challenging all donors to a new
contest! Surrey Morphology Group will give a special prize to
the donor who donates the most between 12pm (noon, Eastern Time)
and 5pm (Eastern Time) today, March 27th!

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Do not miss this special offer! The prize will be of the winner's
choice from the titles below:

- The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A study of Syncretism, by
Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown and Greville G. Corbett

- Archi: A Dictionary of the Language of the Archi People, Daghestan,
Caucasus, with Sounds and Pictures (reference edition, DVD for
Windows), 2008, compiled by Marina Chumakina, Dunstan Brown, Greville
G. Corbett and Harley Quilliam.

- Case and Grammatical Relations: Papers in Honor of Bernard Comrie
(Typological Studies in Language 81), 2008, edited by Greville G.
Corbett and Michael Noonan.

Go to the LINGUIST site and donate now for a chance to win one of
these exciting prizes!

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Help your school get to the top of the grad school challenge by
selecting the institution that you want to apply your donation to.

Help us fund grad students' education and get a prize while you do
so today!

The LINGUIST Crew

------------------------- Message 2 ----------------------------------

Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2009  9:15:14
From: linguist <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Working With Intelligent Linguists Day-in and Day-out

Dear LINGUIST Subscribers,

My name is Fatemeh Abdollahi, and I am currently a second
year undergraduate student at Eastern Michigan University,
working on the LINGUIST List. This will be the second full
year that I have worked on Linguist List, and this has been
an experience I know I will never forget.

I started at LINGUIST List as their youngest hire ever, with
a brief but strong start-up in linguistics, I was eager for
the challenge of LINGUIST List, and I have never been
disappointed. The things that I have learned here have proved
invaluable to me, in every application of my life.

I currently work on several sections of the site, as we all
do (you'd be surprised how much work it is to keep LINGUIST
going). My main projects are the Publications team, posting
Table of Content submissions, the LL-map team, mapping
linguistic information, the Grants team, writing up grant
proposals to help fund our many project ideas, the Publicity
team, used to get you all up-to-date with our features, and
the Conference Organization team, organizing the plethora of
conferences we host and participate in every year at LINGUIST
List. All of these areas have taught me different skills,
among these are programming, research, mapping, and editing,
which keeps me abreast of recent developments in linguistics,
and provides me with many interesting research ideas at the
same time.

It always amazes me how many sections there are to our site,
and after two years of working here I am still constantly
surprised by the information we store. In what other discipline
is there a facility in which e-mails about job postings,
conferences, TOC's etc. are e-mailed to over 26,000 people
at once? In what disciplines are projects created that provide
free use to their subscribers, all for the sake of the
discipline itself? LINGUIST List provides an avenue for
tying together people and information from all areas of
Linguistics that has not been replicated in any other field
to date, and we need your help to keep this going!

Working with intelligent linguists day-in and day-out has
been an invaluable experience, and I would like to ask you
to please continue to make this possible. We're a nonprofit
organization, which has no way of continuing without your
generous contributions. If you use LINGUIST at all, please
seriously consider contributing this year. Without your
contributions LINGUIST could not continue to turn out the
amazing content that we do, year after year. We are willing
to work as hard as we can to ensure you continue to get this
great service, but it's not possible without your help.
Please continue to show that you appreciate us by donating
to the fund drive!

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Thank you for all of your support,

Fatemeh Abdollahi

------------------------- Message 3 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2009 10:14:58
From:  linguist <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: LL-Map: GIS in Linguistics

Dear Subscribers,

The study of geolinguistics (the study of language in
relation to geography) has been invigorated with a
renewed interest in this digital era. Many linguists
are discovering that new spatial social sciences technology
in the form of Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
can organize their data in a highly transparent and flexible
way to form new hypotheses about language relationships.
And who better to bring you free access to these cutting
edge technologies than The LINGUIST List? As the electronic
hub of the discipline, The LINGUIST List would like to
introduce to you our distributed GIS language mapping
facility Language and Location - A Map Annotation Project
(LL-MAP). But first, we would like to remind you that your
generous donations are necessary to keep The LINGUIST List
alive to develop new projects and services. Please donate
today:

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

The LL-MAP facility integrates language information with
data from the physical and social sciences by means of a
GIS system to relate geographical information on an area
a language is spoken (or has been spoken) to resources
relevant to the language. Through a link to the Multi-Tree
project (http://multitree.linguistlist.org), information
on all proposed genetic relationships of the languages is
also made available and viewable in a geographic context.
Additionally, the system includes ancillary information on
topography, political boundaries, demographics, climate,
vegetation, and wildlife, thus providing a basis upon which
to build hypotheses about language movement across territory.
Through this unique project, LL-MAP is intended to establish
a framework for scholarly research, and provides:

- A database of geospatially referenced language information
- A user-friendly online interface which organizes the
linguistic, geographic, and social
sciences information into customizable map layers.
- Flexible tools for querying, annotating, discussing,
and collecting geo-referenced language data
- The tools to layer information drawn from multiple maps
to create new maps
- The facilities to establish collaborative projects

The LL-MAP system will encourage collaboration between
linguists, historians, archeologists, ethnographers, and
geneticists, as they explore the relationships between	
language and cultural adaptation and change. We hope it
will elicit new insights and hypotheses, and that it will
also serve as an educational resource. As the first project
to utilize GIS technologies for language research, LL-MAP
has the potential to be a captivating instructional tool,
presenting complex data in a way accessible to all educational
levels. Finally, as a free service available online, LL-MAP
will increase public knowledge of lesser-known language and
cultures, underling the importance of language and linguistic
diversity to cultural understanding and scientific inquiry.

LL-MAP is just one of the many major projects at The
LINGUIST List, and we encourage you to check it out by	
visiting http://llmap.org. Lastly, we would like to note
that while the initial funding for LL-MAP is in its final
stages, The LINGUIST List will continue to maintain and
improve the functionality of the project as a free service
to the discipline for years to come. For this reason,
LINGUIST relies crucially on the generous support of our
subscribers to make services such as LL-MAP free to the
linguistics community. So please consider supporting The
LINGUIST List by making a donation, however large or small.
We appreciate your generosity.

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Sincerely,

The LL-MAP Team

------------------------- Message 4 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2009 11:01:58
From:  linguist <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fun dDrive Friday is Here Again!

Dear Subscribers,

It is friday again! And here at the LINGUIST List
Fun dDrive Friday site we have all you need to make
this day a great beginning for this weekend. We have
plenty of exciting things for you!

- Come and join us to play games and win prizes
- Read about how Richard Hudson got into linguistics
- See where the LL crew comes from
- Try one of our featured recipes from the LL cookbook
- Listen to one of the many LL Fund Drive songs
- See where LL fans have been wearing LL t-shirts
- Check out which schools are leading the Grad School
Challenge
- Continue to enjoy a great FREE service that we provide

But most of all, we need you to come and donate!
Donate to support us all so that we can continue to
provide LINGUIST as a free resource to all who want
to use it. We need your donations to support grad school
students. All the money you donate goes to paying for
their tuitions, and all the work the grad students do
goes into creating more resources for you!

Please donate now at:

http://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

We need it!

The LINGUIST List Crew

------------------------- Message 5 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2009 11:49:58
From:  linguist <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: New Chef of the Day: Richard Hudson

Today we are featuring Richard Hudson as the latest chef de
Cuisine of the Day! Go on and sneak peak a bit of his story	
on how he got into linguistics:

"My first memory of being interested in language dates from
some time around the age of seven, when my family were in
Wellington, New Zealand. Near our house, there happened to
be an empty camp for Dutch-speaking refugees from the Far
East, so there were various old notices in Dutch including
one that I still remember: 'Ingang hier'. This must have been
one of my first contacts with any foreign language; till then,
my upbringing had been extremely monolingual. I had no idea
what the notice meant or why it was there, and didn't care
too much about that; what troubled me was the idea that there
might be other languages out there than the one I had taken
for granted so far..."

Go to the Chef de Cuisine of the Day part of the Fund Drive
site to read more about Hudson's story.

http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/linguist-of-the-day/

On your way, stop by at the donation pages to contribute to
the Fund Drive 2009 and help us reach our goal!

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

The LINGUIST Crew