19.777, FD: The Circus has arrived in town!

Mon Mar 10 15:15:03 UTC 2008

LINGUIST List: Vol-19-777. Mon Mar 10 2008. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 19.777, FD: The Circus has arrived in town!

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Subject: Why do we need your help?

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This is LINGUIST List's seventeenth year of operation. And-you guessed it - this 
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by the government: LINGUIST List is not. We mention this because every year we 
receive a message or two suggesting that we apply for government money instead of 
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Alas, in the American system, such funding isn't available for institutions like 
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especially for organizers of small conferences. This will enable organizers to 
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Another new service, currently under development, is our "Student Portal." This is
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A third service under development is a facility for advertising linguistic internships.
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available around the world. It will even include a few summer internships right 
here at LINGUIST. This service will feature an upload function for students who 
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to exchange information.

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in endangered languages work.

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Anthony & Helen 

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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 International Publishing Group Ltd
Edinburgh University Press
Elsevier
John Benjamins
Multilingual Matters
Cambridge University Press
Lincom
MIT Press  
Oxford University Press 

Subscriber Prize Donors:

Stefan Dollinger
Suzette Haden Elgin 
Monica Macaulay 
Sandina Vasile
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The LINGUIST List Hall of Fame

RING LEADERS ($1000 and over)

D Terence Langendoen 
Deutsche Sprachwiss 

LION TAMERS ($100 to $1000)

A K 
Arienne Dwyer 
Elizabeth Liddy 
Jeffrey Heath 
Richard Hudson 
Steven Pinker 

- Plus 4 anonymous donors

ACROBATS ($50 to $100)

Marianna Di Paolo
Robert Cirillo
SJ Hannahs
Susan D Fischer

DONORS (Up to $50)

ben wes 
Stefan Karl Serwe 

- Plus 4 anonymous donors

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MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

Brill 
http://www.brill.nl 
http://www.brillonline.nl 
Cambridge University Press 
http://us.cambridge.org 
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd 
http://www.continuumbooks.com 
Edinburgh University Press 
http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ 
Elsevier Ltd 
http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics 
http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics 
Equinox Publishing Ltd 
http://www.equinoxpub.com/ 
Georgetown University Press 
http://www.press.georgetown.edu 
John Benjamins 
http://www.benjamins.com/ 
http://www.benjamins.nl/ 
Lincom GmbH 
http://www.lincom.eu 
www.lincom.eu 
MIT Press 
http://mitpress.mit.edu/ 
Mouton de Gruyter 
http://www.mouton-publishers.com 
Multilingual Matters 
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ 
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG 
http://www.narr.de/ 
Oxford University Press 
http://www.oup.com/us 
http://www.oup.co.uk 
Peter Lang AG 
http://www.peterlang.com 
Rodopi 
http://www.rodopi.nl/ 
http://www.rodopi.nl 
Routledge (Taylor and Francis) 
http://www.routledge.com/ 
Springer 
http://www.springer.com 
Wiley-Blackwell 
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com 

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS
Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 
http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm 
Cascadilla Press 
http://www.cascadilla.com/ 
Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc.   Umass 
http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 
International Pragmatics Assoc. 
http://www.ipra.be 
Linguistic Association 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 
Utrecht institute of Linguistics 
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

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Basis Technology 
Bridgewater State College 
Brock University 
Carriebeam Consulting 
CEA LIST 
City University of Hong Kong 
CNRS 
CommonHealth 
Concordia University 
CSIRO 
Denison University 
Dongduk Women's University 
Educational Testing Service 
Gallaudet University 
Global Business Network LLC (GlobNet) 
H5 
Hanyang University 
Hapax Ltd. 
Heriot-Watt University 
Higher Colleges of Technology 
Hokkaido University 
Högskolan Dalarna 
IBM Canada 
ILTEC 
Iowa State University 
Janya Inc. 
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität 
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 
Johns Hopkins University 
Justus Liebig Universität Gießen 
LADO International College 
Lexicon Branding 
Macquarie University 
Magpie 
McNeil Technologies 
Memorial University 
Monash South Africa 
Morgan State University 
Nangwik Services 
National Taiwan Normal University 
Northern Arizona University 
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems 
Northwestern University 
Nuance Communications 
Oxford University Press 
Pittsburg State University 
Q-go 
Queens College/CUNY 
RiverGlass 
Ruhr Universitaet Bochum 
Ruhr-Universität Bochum 
School of Oriental and African Studies 
Sensory, Inc. 
SkyGrid, Inc. 
SVOX AG 
SYSTRAN Software 
TeleNav 
Teragram Corporation 
The Fizzback Group 
The University of Montana 
The University of Sydney 
The University of Tromsø/The Faculty of Humanities 
U of Maryland 
University College London 
University of Aizu 
University of Alabama at Birmingham 
University of Amsterdam 
University of Arizona 
University of Bielefeld 
University of British Columbia 
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University of Florida 
University of Georgia 
University of Groningen 
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University of Macau 
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University of Namur 
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University of Nottingham, Ningbo 
University of Oregon 
University of Oslo 
University of Rochester 
University of Texas - Pan American 
University of Texas at Austin 
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 
University of Tromso 
University of Tromsø 
University of Ulster 
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
University of York 
University Oldenburg 
Universität Mannheim 
Université catholique de Louvain 
Université du Québec en Outaouais 
Utrecht University; Faculty of Humanities 
Vantage Linguistics 
Yale University

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