13.769, All: New developments on the LINGUIST List website

Fri Mar 22 08:42:12 UTC 2002

LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-769. Fri Mar 22 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 13.769, All: New developments on the LINGUIST List website

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

Software: John Remmers, E. Michigan U. <remmers at emunix.emich.edu>
          Gayathri Sriram, E. Michigan U. <gayatri 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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1)
Date:  22 Mar 2002 08:03:00 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  New developments on the LINGUIST List website

2)
Date:  22 Mar 2002 07:55:29 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  Behind the scenes: Website co-ordinator Gayathri

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

Date:  22 Mar 2002 08:03:00 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  New developments on the LINGUIST List website

Dear Subscribers,

In addition to our mailing list, many of you are already familiar with
our website, http://linguistlist.org.  It features archives of
LINGUIST issues since 1990 and over 2,000 pages of data, most of which
are linked to hundreds of other linguistic and linguistics-related
websites. Our main site receives over 300,000 hits per week.

Our site includes areas devoted to People & Organizations, Jobs, Calls
& Conferences, Publications, Language Resources, Text & Computer
Tools, Teaching & Learning, and Mailing Lists.  Some of the linguistic
resources you can find are the Directory of Linguists, Linguistic
Papers, Job Postings, and Dissertation Abstracts, just to name a
few. Other valuable resources consist of our searchable archive of 80
additional linguistic mailing lists, the popular Ask-a-Linguist
service, NoticeBoard, and even the LINGUIST Cookbook, "Everything You
Ever Wanted to Know about Food...  A Feastschrift in Honor of Jim
McCawley," with recipes contributed by linguists from all over the
world (http://linguistlist.org/cookbook/).

If you have visited our website recently, you may have noticed small
but significant changes slowly creeping in.  We have been working hard
on a new design to make the LINGUIST website an easier to use, even
more comprehensive resource for linguists.  Our editors have been busy
classifying web resources so that they are searchable by subject
language and linguistic subfield.  This is possible due to our move
into a relational database, which facilitates easier and more
multifaceted searches.  We have also worked hard to support Unicode on
the new site, which will allow us to include information in almost any
script on our pages, including the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Furthermore, we now have our data categorized by the most complete set
of language codes on the Internet. You can browse the full set of
language codes at: http://linguistlist.org/lang/.

The main co-ordinator of the new website is Gayathri Sriram, and you
can read about her experiences on LINGUIST in the second part to this
message, below.

We are proud of the new features of our website, but we would like to
bring you more services.  Your support can enable us to provide more
additions to our database, such as Ask-a-Linguist, to make these
services more useful and easy to use.  Our generous contributors have
given a grand total of $11,390 to date; their names appear at the
bottom of this message. We would like to express our sincere gratitude
to one and all.

But, we aren't there yet; our goal is to raise $48,000, which is the
amount we will need to support our eleven student editors next year.
We do not receive government money for the daily running and
maintenance of LINGUIST, which is why we ask for your support.  We are
only askig for three dollars per subscriber.  So if you find our
services valuable, please send in your pledge to LINGUIST today.  Even
a small amount will help us to continue and prosper.

Please go to http://linguistlist.org/donate.html to send us your
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charged about $50 a time to convert currency (no such problems with a
credit card).

Alternatively, you can hit "Reply" to this message and send us your
pledge right now by email, prior to sending your cheque.  Then we will
be able to list you immediately as one of our donors; and we may be
able to reach our goal (and halt these Fund Drive messages) a bit
earlier.  The address to send cheques is as follows:

The LINGUIST Editorial Support Fund
c/o Helen Aristar-Dry
Dept. of English
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI
USA 48197

As a 501(c)3 organization, LINGUIST qualifies for corporate
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The LINGUIST Crew:

Anthony, Helen, Andrew, Karen, Naomi, Heather, James, Michael,
Zhen-Wei, Richard, Karolina, Dina, Renee, Steve, Marie, Gayathri,
John, Ljuba, Terry, Simin, Tomoko.

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LINGUIST Contributors

ANGELS ($1000 and over)

  Blackwell Publishers
  John Benjamins	
  W.V.U. Research Corporation
  Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih

MAINSTAYS ($100 to $1000)

  Dr Catherine Walter
  Elizabeth D. Liddy
  Kevin R. Gregg
  Ernest McCarus
  Julie Auger
  Larisa Zlatic
  Margaret Winters and Geoff Nathan
  Masahide Ishihara
  Paul Chapin
  Robb	Watt
  Theo Vennemann
  Mary Bucholtz
  - Plus 4 anonymous donors

SUPPORTERS ($50 to $100)

  Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh
  Dan Slobin
  Linda L. Thornburg, Klaus-Uwe Panther
  Mary Grenham
  Anne Bezuidenhout
  Baden Hughes
  Donna Christian
  Greg Kochanski
  Ingo Thonhauser
  Kathleen Doty
  Kathleen Ward
  Laurel Watkins
  Laurie Bauer
  Maite Taboada
  Melanie Green
  Paul Boersma
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  Scott McGinnis
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  Andreas Schramm
  Carol W. Pfaff
  Francisco Dubert
  Gail Stygall
  Ingo Plag
  Judy Fuller
  Laura Callahan
  Regina Oakeshott
  Syracuse University
  Tom Wasow
  U. of Nijmegen, dept. of English
  Veronika Koller
  - Plus 5 anonymous donors

DONORS (Up to $50)

  Dr. Sherida Altehenger-Smith
  Job M. van Zuijlen
  Joseph Eska
  Albert Ortmann
  Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaja
  Ash Asudeh
  Bernd Moebius
  Carol A. Klee
  Dr Anne Reboul
  Earl Hofer
  Feride Erku
  Fernanda Ferreira
  Jeffrey T. Runner
  Joana Rossell
  Kevin Bretonnel Cohen
  M.J. Schreuder
  Miwa Nishimura
  Niladri Sekhar Dash
  Rene J. Valdes
  Robert Bayley
  Stenstrom, Anna-Brita
  Alana I. Thorpe, PhD
  Andrew Koontz-Garboden
  Chang S. Lee
  Clare Stroud
  Cynthia Edmiston
  David Gaatone
  Gerhardt Cornelia
  Joachim Grabowski
  Judith M.S. Pine, George A. Pine
  Lynn Santelmann
  Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum
  Stuart Stewart
  Will Fitzgerald
  Yi Yuan
  anja wanner
  D.B. den Ouden
  Jila Ghomeshi
  Benavides, Carlos
  Tor A. Afarli
  Uri Strauss
  Julie Bruch
  Nancy Wiegand
  Ute Smit
  Caren Brinckmann
  Frank Domahs
  Hortensia Curell
  Max Wheeler
  Roser Morante
  Simone Mueller
  James Sneddon
  Richard Page
  Ans van Kemenade
  Stella Markantonatou
  Ora Matushansky
  - Plus 11 anonymous donors

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

INSTITUTIONS

  Carleton University
  Gallaudet University
  Indiana University
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  National University of Singapore
  Universita Degli Studi di Trento
  University of British Columbia
  University of Cambridge
  University of Canterbury
  University of Chicago
  University of Cyprus
  University of Maryland Dental School
  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  University of Nijmegen
  University of Ottawa
  University of Pittsburgh
  University of Rochester
  University of Zurich
  W.V.U. Research Corporation

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

Date:  22 Mar 2002 07:55:29 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  Behind the scenes: Website co-ordinator Gayathri

Dear subscribers,

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, few words from Gayathri Sriram...

I am an Information Systems major from EMU. I have been working for
the LINGUIST as a programmer/database analyst for the last couple of
years.  Working on the LINGUIST has been quite an enriching experience
for me.  Not only do I get to discover and improve my programming
skills, I also get to learn about this rich discipline, linguistics,
for free!  (Considering my major, it is not surprising that I do not
have any formal training in linguistics). During my masters, I was
told that getting to work on a huge database would be a rare
occurrence. Well, I am glad I am one of those lucky ones as LINGUIST
has a 70-table database (the entire database takes up about 12 A4
sheets to print). Also, this huge database can handle multi-national
characters! This Unicode-compatible database enables us to provide you
with the various user-interfaces and also the latest and most accurate
information about the discipline.

At LINGUIST, it is not all work and no play: we have the most amazing
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter potlucks (since we have an
international crew, all our celebrations are interesting).
International food, LINGUIST parties, Unicode database,
and programming challenges make working for LINGUIST all the more
enticing for me!

Gayathri Sriram

To donate to LINGUIST, go to:
http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/donation/index.cfm

To see and read more about Gayathri, go to:
http://linguistlist.org/people/gayatri.html

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