13.729, All: LINGUIST List Book Reviews

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-729. Tue Mar 19 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 13.729, All: LINGUIST List Book Reviews

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>
            Andrew Carnie, U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org>

Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org):
	Simin Karimi, U. of Arizona
	Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona

Editors (linguist at linguistlist.org):
	Karen Milligan, WSU 		Naomi Ogasawara, EMU
	James Yuells, EMU		Marie Klopfenstein, WSU
	Michael Appleby, EMU		Heather Taylor-Loring, EMU
	Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm U.	Richard John Harvey, EMU
	Dina Kapetangianni, EMU		Renee Galvis, WSU
	Karolina Owczarzak, EMU

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Editor for this issue: Michael Appleby <michael at linguistlist.org>
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The 2002 LINGUIST List Fund Drive is now on!  We really do need your
support.  If you find any of our services useful please make a
donation at http://linguistlist.org/donate.html.

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Date:  19 Mar 2002 06:56:25 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  Book Reviews - A rapidly growing service

2)
Date:  19 Mar 2002 06:56:38 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  Today's editor: Dina Kapetangianni

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

Date:  19 Mar 2002 06:56:25 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  Book Reviews - A rapidly growing service

Dear LINGUIST subscribers,

In January 2001, Andrew Carnie turned over to us the job of book
review editors for the LINGUIST list. Thanks to his efforts over the
previous two years, the number of book reviews had increased
significantly with no decline in quality, to over 160 in 2000 (volume
11). Since there are now two of us handling book reviews, we have been
able to devote some of our time and energy to increasing our coverage
further, with the result that we posted over 330 book reviews in 2001
(volume 12).
The links to our reviews for 2001 and 2002 are:
     http://linguistlist.org/issues/indices/Review2001r.html
     http://linguistlist.org/issues/indices/Review2002r.html

Because we solicit and post reviews electronically, reviews in
LINGUIST are usually the first to appear, often months if not years
before they appear in print. While our reviews are not refereed, they
are almost always thorough and of high quality, because we try as best
we can to match prospective reviewers' qualifications with the books
they are to review, and because we instruct our reviewers not only to
summarize the books' content but also to evaluate them critically. On
occasion our reviews do not measure up to the standards of some
subscribers, and we hear from you about it. We strongly encourage
subscribers (including the authors and editors of the books that are
reviewed) to send their comments not only privately to us, but also
for posting in our discussion (Disc) forum.

Most of the books we review are sent to us by our supporting
publishers. We occasionally solicit reviews of linguistics books
published by others because of their importance to the field and hence
to our subscribers. When those reviews are solicited, and again when
they are posted, we contact the publishers to try to persuade them to
become LINGUIST supporters, and so increase our ability to serve our
subscribers with timely notification of books of potential interest.

The normal way in which we assign books for review is to announce
their availability, usually in monthly batches which are posted as
Books: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW, and invite subscribers to tell us which
books they are interested in and qualified to review. We then meet to
select the reviewers for that batch, package the books up, address
them, and put them in the mail. The new LINGUIST website contains a
page in which subscribers can volunteer directly to review books of
interest to them.  If they are books that we have received and are
about to announce, we will add their names to the pool of potential
reviewers for those books. If they are books that we have not yet
received from a supporting publisher, we will notify the volunteer
that they will have to wait until we receive the book and announce its
availability before they hear from us. If they are published by
nonsupporting publishers, we contact those publishers to ask them to
send us the books and also to become LINGUIST supporters, and notify
the volunteers once we have received it and are about to announce its
availability.

Because of their nature and content, book reviews are posted by us,
not by student editors. We do not charge the LINGUIST list for our
time; it is donated as a service. As a result, the cost to the
LINGUIST list for posting book reviews is not as great as that for
posting book announcements. However it is not zero. We need a student
assistant to help maintain our records for keeping track of the books
we receive and send out, and to prepare the books for mailing. We also
have significant mailing costs, as we send nearly two-thirds of the
books we receive to reviewers outside the United States and Canada.

Sincerely yours,

Simin Karimi and Terry Langendoen
LINGUIST list book review editors


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Many thanks to our 2002 contributors:

ANGELS ($1000 and over):

  Blackwell Publishers
  John Benjamins


MAINSTAYS ($100 to $1000):

 Dr Catherine Walter
 Elizabeth D. Liddy
 Margaret Winters and Geoff Nathan
 Michelle Portalatin
 Robb Watt

- Plus one anonymous donor


SUPPORTERS ($50 to $100):

 Antonella Sorace
 University of Edinburgh
 Mary Grenham
 Baden Hughes
 Kathleen Doty
 Kathleen Ward
 Paul Boersma
 Regina Oakeshott
 Syracuse University
 Tom Wasow

- Plus 3 anonymous donors


DONORS (up to $50):

 Dr. Sherida Altehenger-Smith
 Albert Ortmann
 Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaja
 Bernd Mobius
 Chang S. Lee
 Dr Anne Reboul
 Max Wheeler
 Miwa Nishimura
 Robert Bayley
 Chang S. Lee
 Clare Stroud
 David Gaatone
 Lynn Santelmann
 Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum
 Tor A. Afarli
 Uri Strauss
 Caren Brinckmann
 Karen Milligan
 Hortensia Curell
 James Sneddon

- Plus one anonymous donor

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MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

  Academic Press
      http://www.academicpress.com/ 		
  Arnold Publishers
      http://www.arnoldpublishers.com/ 		
  Athelstan Publications
      http://www.athel.com/ 		
  Blackwell Publishers
      http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/ 		
  Cambridge University Press
      http://www.cup.org 		
  Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
      http://www.continuumbooks.com 		
  Distribution Fides 		
  Elsevier Science Ltd.
      http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/linguistics 		
  John Benjamins
      http://www.benjamins.com/
      http://www.benjamins.nl/ 		
  Kluwer Academic Publishers
      http://www.wkap.nl/ 		
  Lincom Europa
      http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/ 		
  MIT Press
      http://mitpress.mit.edu/ 		
  Mouton de Gruyter
      http://www.degruyter.de/hling.html 		
  Multilingual Matters
      http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ 		
  Oxford UP
      http://www.oup-usa.org/ 		
  Pearson Education
      http://www.pearsoneduc.com/catalog.html 		
  Rodopi
      http://www.rodopi.nl/ 		
  Routledge
      http://www.routledge.com/ 		
  Springer-Verlag
      http://www.springer.de/ 		


OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

  Anthropological Linguistics
       http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/
  CSLI Publications
       http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/
  Cascadilla Press
       http://www.cascadilla.com/
  Finno-Ugrian Society
       http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sus/
  Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass
       http://server102.hypermart.net/glsa/index.htm
  International Pragmatics Assoc.
       http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/
  Kingston Press Ltd
       http://www.kingstonpress.com/
  Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
       http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/
  MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
       http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/
  Pacific Linguistics
       http://pacling.anu.edu.au/
  Pacini Editore Spa
       http://www.pacinieditore.it/index_dinamico.htm
  St. Jerome Publishers
       http://www.stjerome.co.uk/
  Summer Institute of Linguistics
       http://www.sil.org/
  Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
       http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/
  Virittaja Aikakauslehti
       http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/kks/virittaja.html

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INSTITUTIONS

  Australian National University
  Bowne Global Solutions, Inc.
  Cal State University, San Marcos
  Canon Research Centre Europe
  Carleton Univ.
  Central Connecticut State University
  Chulalongkorn University
  Computer Science Innovations, Inc.
  Da Yeh University
  East Carolina University
  Educational Testing Service
  Elementary Textbook Publisher
  European Commission, Joint Research Centre
  Georgia Southern University
  Georgia State University
  Grand Valley State University
  Graz University of Technology
  Greenwich School of English
  Kanisa Inc.
  Kobe College
  Lionbridge Technologies
  Logical Properties
  Marquette University
  Memorial University of Newfoundland
  Microsoft Corporation
  Middlesex University
  Monash University
  National University of Kaohsiung
  North Carolina State University
  OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU
  Rhetorical Systems Ltd
  Rice University
  Rutgers University
  SDL International
  SRA International
  SUNY, Stony Brook
  Salem International University
  Simon Fraser University
  Thammasat University
  UCL
  Univ. of California, Berkeley
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
  Universitdt Bielefeld
  University College Dublin
  University of Aberdeen
  University of Amsterdam
  University of British Columbia
  University of California, Santa Barbara
  University of Canterbury
  University of Florida
  University of Leipzig
  University of Liverpool
  University of Macau
  University of Maryland
  University of Maryland Dental School
  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  University of Newcastle
  University of Pittsburgh
  University of Southern California
  University of Vermont
  Vox Generation Ltd
  WTB Language Group Inc.
  Waters Technologies Ireland Ltd



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Date:  19 Mar 2002 06:56:38 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  Today's editor: Dina Kapetangianni

We thought you'd like to hear from some of the students your funds are
supporting.  So this year each fund drive issue will include a brief
paragraph from one of our editors telling you, their sponsors, about
their work with LINGUIST.

And now, a few words from Dina Kapetangianni...

I am currently a graduate student in the Linguistics MA program at
Eastern Michigan University. I came three years ago from Greece where
I received my BA in French Language and Literature at the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki.

I joined Linguist almost a year ago because I was amazed by the fact
that such a small group working at Eastern and at Wayne State
University could maintain such a big website as Linguist. I started my
"career" posting conferences and inputting web resources in our new
database. My duties were constantly changing since there were so many
different things to be done - and without really realizing it, I ended
up doing web development jobs, talking about Cold Fusion and Dream
Weaver programs-areas that I was never familiar with and never thought
that I will be using! But this is what I like most at Linguist: you
never get to be bored with what you're doing because you are always
assigned something new that you need to learn and be good at!

I also enjoy being part of the international Linguist crew! We are
all so different coming from different countries but we all share each
other's cultures, habits - we even try to learn each other's language-
so it feels like we all belong to the same big family, the LINGUIST
family!  Although this semester I am finishing my class work at EMU, I
will still be working for Linguist. During this last year, I improved
my computer skills, I contacted people all over the world, I offered
and received information about linguistic events and language
resources. This is the best experience I've ever had.
Thank you, LINGUIST!

Dina Kapetangianni
Graduate Student


Please donate to LINGUIST and help support our student editors.
http://linguistlist.org/funddrive.html

To see and read more about Dina, go to:
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