LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fund Drive

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LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fund Drive 

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	 Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison
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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2011 09:56:23
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Peter Lang Books for Grabs!

Dear Subscribers,

We have noticed that you like challenges and 
incentives for donating. Well, here is another
one!

Peter Lang Publishing Company has donated 4 titles
to be used in a challenge. So, the next 4 people to 
donate $50 or more will receive one of these
books!

Do not wait! These will go fast!

Donate now at:

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

Maria Moreno-Rollins
Fund Drive Coordinator



-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2011 10:06:51
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: New Subfields Have Joined the Race!

Dear Subscribers,

New subfields have started to compete in the
subfield challenge! Discourse, anthropological
linguistics and Neurolinguistics are the
latest ones to join the race.

Start your subfield in the challenge by donating
now:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

The current standings are:

Lang Acq/Psycholing	$1,900.00
sociolinguistics	  $250.00
syntax	                  $235.00
Historical Ling 	  $215.00
Phonetics	          $160.00
Phonology 	          $155.00
Semantics	          $150.00
Applied Ling              $100.00
Anthropological Ling 	  $100.00
Discourse Analysis	  $100.00
Morphology	           $90.00
Pragmatics 	           $70.00
Lang Documentation	   $50.00
Neurolinguistics	   $25.00
Computational Ling 	   $15.00
Typology 	            $5.00

Help your favourite sub-discipline be the leader!

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

The LINGUIST Crew 



-------------------------Message 3 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2011 10:43:09
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: The Many Features We Offer


Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers,

Another year has come and gone, and we are happy to report that 
this past year was one of our most productive in terms of the 
features we developed for you, our users. 

Here at LINGUIST List we have established several subteams that 
are responsible for ensuring that our operations here run as smoothly 
as possible, to prevent any interruptions in our services. The 
subteams consist of various sections, such as Jobs, Publications, 
and Ask-a-Linguist. One of these teams serves a slightly different 
purpose, and that is to inform you of the features which we develop 
for your use, year after year. This publicity team functions to 
highlight which features we believe would be most beneficial to our 
users, and how would be most productive to distribute this message. 

Throughout the past few years we have been happy to announce several 
new components of our site, and some of our most successful are 
highlighted below.

LL-Map was designed to integrate language information with data from 
the physical and social sciences by means of a Geographical Information 
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language and other relevant data. This project began as a three-year 
project in 2005, and has been funded through the past 2 years through 
your donations. Please visit this site at: http://llmap.org/

EasyAbstracts (EasyAbs for short) was developed in 2008, as a facility 
for conference organizers to use in conjunction with their conference 
development. Using EasyAbs conference organizers can create an easy to 
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We could not have created this remarkable resource without your support! 
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The above are just a sampling of the many features we have developed 
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Best Wishes,
Fatemeh Abdollahi
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