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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2011 10:14:01
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: A New Research Project at LINGUIST: RELISH

Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers,

It is our pleasure to introduce you to a new research project at LINGUIST List:  
RELISH (Rendering Endangered Languages Lexicons Interoperable through Standards 
Harmonization).  RELISH is a joint project between students here at LINGUIST List 
and workers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Johann 
Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt.  Our goals are to promote language-oriented 
research by attempting to harmonize digital standards for lexical information 
between Europe and America and to make existing endangered language lexicons 
interoperable.

Currently, workers on both sides of the Atlantic are working towards transforming 
the lexical output of tools such as LEXUS, ShoeBox, and even our LEGO project into 
a standardized format that can be input into all of these tools.  We are also 
working on ways to link lexical grammatical information to our linguistic ontology, 
GOLD, as well as the European ISOcat registry, allowing lexicons to become 
interoperable over grammatical information across continents.

RELISH is a project dedicated to making as much data and information available 
to the international linguistic community as possible, but it is a project that 
is untenable without your support.  To make this project a reality, please donate 
now at:

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

Best regards,

Erica Wicks
RELISH Team Leader

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2011 12:30:21
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: New Linguist of the Day: Andrej Malchukov

Dear Subscribers,

We are announcing the new Linguist of the day: Andrej Malchukov

His story starts like this:

"Into the linguistic career I have been partly prompted by my parents, who are 
philologists but not linguists. At home we had a good library so I started getting 
interested in humanities and was fortunate to read many great writers and 
philosophers while still studying at primary school. As far as I recall, Icelandic 
sagas, Plato, Bernard Shaw, and Evelyn Waugh were my favorites at different times. 
(Reading Plato's dialogues impressed me to the extent that I tried out this type 
of discourse on my parents, which should be pretty irritating I guess). At the 
Leningrad/St. Petersburg University I majored in Germanic (Scandinavian) languages, 
but the education in 1980-s was broadly philologically oriented, with a focus on 
learning languages and literature rather than linguistics."

Read his full story at: 
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2011/linguists/AndrejMalchukov.cfm

Donate at:

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

The LINGUIST Crew




-------------------------Message 3 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2011 14:30:21
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: I have learned so much 

Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers,

My name is Fatemeh Abdollahi, and I am the Publications Manager 
for The LINGUIST List. I am currently in my last year of my 
undergraduate studies here at Eastern Michigan University, and 
it seems like just yesterday when I was writing my first letter 
for fund drive four years ago! During this time at LINGUIST List 
(working as their youngest hire to date), I have learned so much 
about the discipline, about you as our subscribers, and about so 
many other aspects of acadamia. 

As Publications Manager for The LINGUIST List, I am in charge of 
ensuring the dissemination of materials relating to - you guessed 
it - publications in linguistics. We distribute a variety of these 
materials, such as Book Abstracts, Book Reviews (handled by our 
reviews team at The University of Wisconsin at Madison)  Journal 
calls for Papers, Journal Table of Contents announcements, Software 
in Linguistics, and also maintain a database of Journals and 
publishers currently active in Linguistics. Our publications materials 
are quite extensive, with 1115 books, and 379 Journal Table of 
Contents announcements distributed within the past year alone, 
LINGUIST List serves as the premier site for nearly all announcements 
in Linguistics.

In addition to being a mailing list, LINGUIST List also serves as a 
research organization, working on several projects that are open access 
for the linguistics community at all times. I have been privileged to 
work on several of these, such as MultiTree, GOLD Ontology, and currently 
LL-Map, "a project designed to integrate language information with data 
from the physical and social sciences by means of a Geographical 
Information System (GIS)." The region of the world I have mainly 
focused on is Central-South America, viewable at llmap.org! In addition 
to my work on these grants, I have served as the manager for Publicity 
for LINGUIST List. In this role I have been responsible for making you, 
our users, aware of the many projects and features we are constantly 
completing for your use. 

LINGUIST List is an incredibly unique organization. In no other 
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in that discipline. We announce to you, free of charge, information 
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other topics. In addition to this we house hundreds of mailing lists, 
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publications of books in Linguistics, PLEASE DONATE TO LINGUIST List 
TODAY! Your donations not only help keep LINGUIST List up and running, 
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Please donate today at: 

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Best Wishes,

Fatemeh Abdollahi