LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fund Drive - Win a Book!

Mon Mar 28 17:00:17 UTC 2011

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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2011 10:14:01
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Win a Book from MultiLingual Matters!

Dear Subscribers,

We just passed the $41000 mark and we are getting into the
last stages of Fund Drive. We are, of course, very happy to
reach this stage cause it means we are getting closer 
and closer each day to the goal

However, we are still in need of a lot of your donations!

We have some more prizes for you to encourage those 
waiting for a nudge to submit their donations. 
Multilingual Matters Publishing Company is offering
3 books as prizes for the next three people to donate
$50 or more.

Hurry and donate now!

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

The LINGUIST Crew

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2011 11:53:17
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Skip the Coffee, Donate to LINGUIST!

Dear Subscribers,

We need your help now! We need your donations.
I know that we always tell you how many things
we do to contribute to the discipline and how
many things we have done in the previous year 
to make LINGUIST better. And we also tell you
how each and every one of your contributions are
essential to our continuing providing all of
this for free.

All that is true. It is also true that many
of you can spare some money to support this
endevour. Probably several of you had dinner
out this weekend or bought yourselved a coffee
or capuccino at a coffee store. How about
renting some movies or purchasing some books
on amazon?

We do not ask you to send us your whole 
paycheck in order to support LINGUIST. But we
do want to point out that if you donate to 
LINGUIST this week instead of the expensive 
coffee or extra movies or lunch at a restaurant, 
we can make our goal sooner!

Donate now and feel better (the same way you
would feel after a delicious coffee!).

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

The LINGUIST Crew 

-------------------------Message 3 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2011 12:09:25
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Your Contribution Will Help Us

Dear Subscribers,

My name is Li Zheng.  I came from Shanghai, China and have been 
part of the LINGUIST team over past four years.  I really appreciate 
LINGUIST LIST giving me this job opportunity since the economy of 
Michigan is very bad. Right now I can get a lot of great experiences 
in various projects. 

Please support the work our staff does by donating today:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm 

As a programmer for LINGUIST, I am been involved in several projects, 
focusing primarily on is the LEGO and LSA projects. For LEGO, we will 
upload 17 lexicons and 300 wordlists into our system. Then the user 
can search all the data in these lexicons and wordlists through our 
search facility. For LSA, I developed a multivariate search facility 
for the Linguistic Society of America, so that the LSA staff can search 
any data in any LSA table.  This will help them to save a lot of time 
to get the information they want. Also I help to maintain all Publication, 
Job, Call/Conf and Easyabs pages for the web site. 

LINGUIST is non-profit organization; it provides free services for 
the linguistic community. However, without your donation we can not 
maintain our free service. Your contribution will help us to continue 
working another year and provide more services for linguists.

Please help us to donate at:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm 

Thanks again for your continued support and donations,

Yours sincerely,

Li (Lily) Zheng
LINGUIST Programmer 

-------------------------Message 4 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2011 12:21:52
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject:  We Rely on Donations from Subscribers

Dear Subscribers,

In May of 2009, I arrived in Michigan ready to start an internship 
with The LINGUIST List.  Within just a few days, I knew that I wanted 
to stay and continue to work here for as long as possible, and applied 
to be a graduate assistant.  I started my Masters in Linguistics that 
fall, and have had the joy of studying and working for an organization 
whose greatest aim is to contribute to the discipline. 

Please donate today to help fund students as they build and maintain 
the services of The LINGUIST List:

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

>From my very first day, I have been a member of the LL-MAP team, and 
now have the pleasure of serving as one of the two team leaders.  I 
have spent a lot of time mapping languages and families in Africa and 
North America, and I have learned so much from this project that it is 
difficult to summarize!  It has exposed me to languages and peoples, 
along with regions of the world, that I may not have otherwise had the 
opportunity to study.  More importantly however, it has given me the 
tools I need to adapt (more) sources and do further research which in 
turn yields new resources which we make publicly available through the 
project website.

Along with working on the LL-MAP team, I am one of the editors of the 
Jobs submissions on the LINGUIST List.  This service allows companies 
and universities to advertise positions they are looking to fill through 
our listserv and on our website.  Our job listings represent one of the 
most comprehensive sources for linguistically-related employment positions 
on the internet, and has proven to be an invaluable resource for the 
discipline.

Here at LINGUIST, we rely on donations from subscribers to fund students.  
Your donations allow us to keep working and develop new tools for the 
linguistic community.  Now more than ever, we need your help.  

Please consider donating today.  Whether you can donate $5 or $50, it 
is worth it!

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

Sincerely,

Erin Smith 