18.826, FD: Up, up, & away! Join the Superhero Adventure

Mon Mar 19 14:27:19 UTC 2007

LINGUIST List: Vol-18-826. Mon Mar 19 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.826, FD: Up, up, & away! Join the Superhero Adventure

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Laura Welcher, Rosetta Project  
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Date: 19-Mar-2007
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Why Do We Need Your Help? 

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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:22:44
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Why Do We Need Your Help? 

Dear LINGUIST Subscribers,

Each year around this time we do something that all of us at LINGUIST dread:  we 
begin our annual fund drive.  We often have fantasies that, one day, a magical 
creature (a LINGUIST pig?) will arrive at our door-step, and endow the entire 
operation from the funds derived from the huge wealth her bestselling linguistics 
book has produced.  But we know, sadly, that such individuals are only myths in 
our field.  That means that we can't escape having our annual fund-drive, for the 
money we get this way is what makes it possible for us to keep LINGUIST List going.  

We try as hard as we can to make fund-drive fun, and I hope we've been succeeding 
in that.   The students this year have done an amazing amount of work on it, as 
you'll be seeing as the days pass.  But there's really only one reason we do it: 
to pay the salaries of the students who keep LINGUIST going.  People often say 
nice things to me and Helen about LINGUIST, and we are always happy to hear them.  
But the fact is that most of the real work is done by the student members of our 
team, all of whom are working hard on their degrees at the same time as they work 
hard on keeping LINGUIST running.  And doing this is no small job!

Not only do the students maintain the LINGUIST List website and email list, but 
they also maintain numerous facilities which were originally developed with 
external funding.  Just to maintain the core functions of LINGUIST takes a lot 
of hands on the keys.  As many of you know, the students read and approve every 
item that is posted on the LINGUIST List site or in the email list, and they also 
classify each submission by subject language and linguistic subfield. This means, 
for example, that you can search the publications area and find every book, 
journal, or dissertation that is related to your specialty, no matter who the 
publisher is.  They also correspond with users, manage the business functions 
associated with book and job announcements, keep our extensive technical facilities 
up and running, as well as overseeing ancillary services like Notice Board and 
Ask-a-Linguist.  

Some of these ancillary services were developed with grant funding, as part of 
LINGUIST's 10-year effort to build electronic infrastructure for the discipline.  
It was grant-money which originally funded the development of the linguist's 
directory, the language search facility, the multi-mailing list search facility, 
and the OLAC harvester and the search engine, not to mention the E-MELD School of 
Best Practices in Digital Language Documentation, which is designed to facilitate 
endangered languages work.    And we are extremely grateful to the foundations 
(chiefly NSF) and the peer reviewers that made it possible for us to build these 
facilities for the linguistics community.

However, no agency can or will pay for the maintenance of sites and facilities 
after the funding period is over.  So, if you value the infrastructure and services 
that LINGUIST provides, please support us by donating to the LINGUIST List Fund 
Drive.  

We think we've done a lot with the money you've given us over the years, and for 
rather a long time.  Do you realize that LINGUIST List is one of the oldest 
institutions on the Internet?  Our email list began in 1990, and we also had a 
tiny website shortly thereafter, thanks to our fascination with an arcane new 
technology-HTML.  In 1993, we received a grant from the National Science 
Foundation to develop a fully-featured website based on a database.  And 1993 also 
marked the initiation of the "LINGUIST fellowships"-stipends provided to LINGUIST 
student editors and funded by your donations.  Since then, your donations have 
funded close to 70 student editors through their M.A. degrees. Eastern Michigan 
University doesn't offer a Ph.D. in linguistics; but the M.A. program-and LINGUIST 
List-has come to feed topnotch doctoral programs all across the country. Twelve 
LINGUIST 'alums' have now completed their Ph.D.'s in linguistics, and approximately 
15 more are currently enrolled in doctoral programs.  Some of you are working 
with them in your departments right now.  Most of our students would not have 
been able to afford graduate school, had it not been for your support.  So for 
the last 13 years, we've been emphasizing one important fact: the money that you 
contribute to LINGUIST not only funds current services but also constitutes an 
investment in the future of the discipline.

We feel that the range of services we offer now has become quite impressive.  
Of course, this is a judgment you, not we, must make on this issue.  But I think 
you would find it difficult to find another discipline which has anything like 
LINGUIST.  We can't help feeling a little proud of it, even though we are well 
aware that it could be improved in many ways.  But the LINGUIST organization 
tries to do as much as it can for the discipline, and this is one of the reasons 
why we have to support so many students.  Running a website that is as edited and 
complex as LINGUIST takes a lot of resources, and a lot of people.  LINGUIST is 
no different from the discipline of which it is a part:  we don't have a lot of 
money to play with, and we need your support.

We'd like to ask you, once again, if you would be so generous as to support 
LINGUIST again this year.  Remember:  all the money you give goes exclusively 
to the people who need it most, the students; and every penny is an investment 
both in the discipline's present infrastructure, and in its future wellbeing.  

Sincerely,
Helen Aristar-Dry and Anthony Aristar,
Moderators, The LINGUIST List 

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This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $55,000. This money will go to help keep the 
List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year.

See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out our Fund Drive 2007 
LINGUIST List Superhero Adventure for some Fund Drive fun!

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/ 

There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST!

You can donate right now using our secure credit card form.

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Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match any gift 
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to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative procedure that doubles the 
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to check if your company operates such a program.

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

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We would like to thank all of the publishers and subscribers who
donated prizes for this year's Fund Drive games, puzzles, and 
competitions.

Publisher Prize Donors: 

Cascadilla Press 
Continuum 
Edinburgh University Press
Hodder Arnold
Mouton de Gruyter
Multilingual Matters
Sage Publications

Subscriber Prize Donors:

Rusudan Amirejibi-Mullen
Paola Attolino
Cristiano Chesi
Greville G. Corbett
Rosa J. Garcia B. Cordova
Gang Gu
Suzette Haden Elgin
Lise Menn
Claus Dieter Pusch
Sandra Thompson
Thorsten Trippel
Tom Zurinskas
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The LINGUIST List Hall of Fame

SUPERHEROES ($1000 and over)

Arnold Zwicky 

HEROES ($100 to $1000)

D. Terrence Langendoen 
elly van gelderen 
Peter Jurgec 
Victoria Muehleisen 

SUPPORTERS ($50 to $100)

DONORS (Up to $50)

ali 
K. David Harrison 
Linda Apse 
shahid 

- Plus one anonymous donor

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MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

Cascadilla Press 
http://www.cascadilla.com/ 
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd 
http://www.continuumbooks.com 
Edinburgh University Press 
http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ 
Georgetown University Press 
http://www.press.georgetown.edu 
Hodder Arnold 
http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk 
John Benjamins 
http://www.benjamins.com/ 
http://www.benjamins.nl/ 
Lincom GmbH 
http://www.lincom.eu 
www.lincom.eu 
Mouton de Gruyter 
http://www.mouton-publishers.com 
Multilingual Matters 
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ 
Oxford University Press 
http://www.oup.com/us 
http://www.oup.co.uk 
Pagijong Press 
http://pjbook.com 
Palgrave Macmillan 
http://www.palgrave.com 
Peter Lang AG 
http://www.peterlang.com 
Rodopi 
http://www.rodopi.nl/ 
http://www.rodopi.nl 
Springer 
http://www.springer.com 

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS
CSLI Publications 
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/ 
International Pragmatics Assoc. 
http://www.ipra.be 
Linguistic Assoc. of Finland 
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT 
http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 
SIL International 
http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 
St. Jerome Publishing Ltd. 
http://www.stjerome.co.uk

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INSTITUTIONS

BAE Systems 
Basis Technology 
Basis Technology Corporation 
BeVocal, Inc 
Boston University 
Bridgewater State College 
Butler Hill Group 
CELI s.r.l. 
City University of Hong Kong 
Comcast 
Concordia University 
Darmstadt University of Technology 
Dongduk Women's University 
English School Sunny Plus 
Grove City College 
Gyeonggi English Village 
Hablamos Juntos - UCSF 
Haskins Laboratories 
Hokkaido University 
Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin 
Indiana University 
Indiana University - Bloomington 
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt/Main 
Johns Hopkins University 
Kent State University 
KNOVA Software, Inc. 
La Trobe University 
LearnBalance Group 
Leibniz Universit?t Hannover 
Lexicon Branding, Inc. 
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania 
Louisiana State University 
Maher Language Institute (MLI) 
McGill University 
McNeil Technologies, Inc. 
Michigan State University 
Monterey Institute of International Studies 
National Sun Yat-sen University 
National Taiwan Normal University 
Nemours/AI duPont Hospital for Children 
Nordic CoE in Microcomparative Syntax 
Northwestern University 
Nuance Communications, Inc. 
Q-go Netherlands bv 
Radboud University Nijmegen 
RiverGlass, Inc. 
RPI 
RWTH Aachen 
San Diego State University 
SDL International 
Seattle Pacific University 
Shenandoah University 
Simon Fraser University 
SOAS, University of London 
Stony Brook University 
Systran 
SYSTRAN S.A. 
SYSTRAN Software, Inc. 
The Australian National University 
The State University of New York at Buffalo 
Tuebingen University 
Tufts University 
UCSC 
University College London 
University of Aberdeen 
University of Alaska Fairbanks 
University of Alberta 
University of Arizona 
University of British Columbia 
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
University of California, San Diego 
University of California, Santa Barbara 
University of Cologne 
University of Delaware 
University of Edinburgh 
University of Geneva 
University of Hamburg (Germany) 
University of Leeds 
University of Mary Washington 
University of Maryland 
University of Maryland University College 
University of Michigan 
University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China 
University Of Oregon 
University of Oxford 
University of Pittsburgh 
University of Potsdam 
University of Texas at San Antonio 
University of Trento (Italy) 
University of Utah 
University of Wales, Bangor 
University of Washington 
University of Wolverhampton 
University of York 
Universit? Laval 
Voice Signal Technologies, Inc, 
Wake Forest University 
Wayne State University 
Yuan Ze University

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