11.2116, FYI: Creole Lang, Conf List, Cogn Ling Website

Tue Oct 3 13:55:27 UTC 2000

LINGUIST List:  Vol-11-2116. Tue Oct 3 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 11.2116, FYI: Creole Lang, Conf List, Cogn Ling Website

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1)
Date:  Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:16:10 EDT
From:  MIT2USA at aol.com
Subject:  Staffing Press Releases for Creole Languages

2)
Date:  Tue, 3 Oct 2000 08:08:04 +1000 (EST)
From:  Peter White <peterw at lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject:  Latest conference list

3)
Date:  Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:23:20 -0500
From:  "Geoffrey S. Nathan" <geoffn at siu.edu>
Subject:  Cognitive Linguistics Website

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:16:10 EDT
From:  MIT2USA at aol.com
Subject:  Staffing Press Releases for Creole Languages

Two late-breaking press releases related to MIT2:

MIT2 appoints Director of Communications and Strategic Relations

September 30, 2000
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2), a software developer and language
processing solutions service provider for Creole languages, has just
appointed Guy S. Antoine to the position of Director of Communications and
Strategic Relations.

Mr. Antoine, a native speaker of Haitian Creole, is one of the foremost
leaders in the promotion of Haitian Creole and Haitian culture via the
Internet. An active member of discussion groups on Haiti, he is the founder
and creator of the Windows on Haiti Web Site that was established in 1998.

MIT2 President Marilyn Mason states: "Guy's vision and advocacy are two of
the key elements to help us identify points of contact in government and
non-governmental sectors, to promote a dialogue that would facilitate a
cultural / intellectual understanding between the company and its target
markets, to propose courses of action leading to increased social
responsibility and participation in solving community problems, particularly
those dealing with literacy and language development."

For more information, please contact:

Windows on Haiti
E-mail: GuyAntoine at windowsonhaiti.com
Web: http://www.windowsonhaiti.com

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)
P.O. Box 181015, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA
Tel: (+1) 617 247-8885, Fax: (+1) 617 262-8923
E-mail: mit2usa at aol.com
Web: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html

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MIT2 appoints Southeast USA Regional Representative

September 30, 2000
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2), a company specializing in Creole
language technologies, has just appointed Dr. Marie Bogat to be its Southeast
USA Regional Representative. Dr. Bogat has over 40 years of experience in the
field of education with schools in Haiti, elsewhere in the Caribbean, and in
Latin America. She has been actively involved in education accreditation
procedures since the 1980s with the Association of Colombian-Caribbean
American Schools and the Committee on Latin American Schools of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools.

MIT2 President Marilyn Mason states: "Marie Bogat is one of our strategic
links to helping provide language technology solutions for the educational
sector in the southeastern region of the USA. Her several decades of
experience in Haiti and with the Haitian Diaspora in the USA demonstrate how
our company is setting up a solid network of experienced and qualified
individuals with a true sense of what the real needs are and how to meet
them."

For more information, please contact:

The Union Institute
Tel: (+1) 305-940-9355, Fax: (+1) 305-940-1933
E-mail: Mariebogat at cs.com
Web: http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/Bogat.htm

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)
P.O. Box 181015, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA
Tel: (+1) 617 247-8885, Fax: (+1) 617 262-8923
E-mail: mit2usa at aol.com
Web: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html

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

Date:  Tue, 3 Oct 2000 08:08:04 +1000 (EST)
From:  Peter White <peterw at lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject:  Latest conference list

The October 2000 edition of the conference list of linguistics and related
topics is now available at
	http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/conf.html

Please note that the December 2000 edition of the conference list will be
the last one.  I'm finishing up here at the end of the year.  If anyone
wants to take on the job, please contact me.

Regards
Peter

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Peter White
Centre for Language Teaching and Research
University of Queensland, Qld 4072
Australia
Fax: +61 7 3365 7077
Email: peterw at lingua.cltr.uq.edu.au, or pbwhite at powerup.com.au
Web: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/~peterw
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-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:23:20 -0500
From:  "Geoffrey S. Nathan" <geoffn at siu.edu>
Subject:  Cognitive Linguistics Website

The official website of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association
has changed, and is now located at

http://www.siu.edu/~icla/

Apologies for cross-postings...

Geoff Nathan

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Department of Linguistics
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL, 62901-4517
Phone:  (618) 453-3421 (Office) / FAX (618) 453-6527
         (618) 549-0106 (Home)
                                                         geoffn at siu.edu

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