30.1690, Staff Letter: Jeremy Coburn

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1690. Thu Apr 18 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1690, Staff Letter: Jeremy Coburn

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Editor for this issue: Jeremy Coburn <jecoburn at linguistlist.org>
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:32:25
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Staff Letter: Jeremy Coburn

 
Dear LINGUIST Listers,

My name is Jeremy Coburn and I am the student moderator and editor for The
LINGUIST List working on book announcements and review issues. I have the
pleasure of working with some of the most prominent publishers in the world,
e.g. Cambridge and Oxford University Presses, etc., to deliver publications on
cutting-edge developments within the field of linguistics to you, our readers.
My job is to ensure that the books we announce on LINGUIST List are current
and relevant to you and your interests as a linguist by vetting the hundreds
of publications which are submitted to us each month for announcement. This
means that when you receive a book announcement from The LINGUIST List, you
know that what is being advertised is hand-selected for our linguistic
audience.

On the reviews end of my work, I have the opportunity to work for and with
many of you in connecting you with publishers to review their publications,
thus further ensuring that the publications which pass through our site are of
the highest quality we can offer. This gives LINGUIST List the unique
opportunity to connect and unite linguists from across the globe in an open
forum of peer review and collaboration to shape the field of linguistics,
effectively creating a global community of cooperation which is largely absent
from many other fields of scientific inquiry. And in that, the field of
linguistics and speakers of language (humankind) benefits immensely. I am
honored to assist, in my small way, in facilitating such intradisciplinary
coordination.

Beyond my work at LINGUIST List, I am a second-year doctoral student at
Indiana University pursuing a PhD in Linguistics with a concentration on
African languages and linguistics. Having lived in East Africa for several
years, I have developed a love for the linguistic diversity present in Africa
and consequently focus my research on the description of underdocumented
and/or underresourced languages, particularly in Tanzania. My current research
is with the Hadzabe people of north-central Tanzania. I am a serious language
enthusiast (my wife would say obsessive) and I particularly enjoy phonology
and morphology.

Speaking of my family, my wonderful wife Lynzie and I will celebrate our
five-year wedding anniversary this year and have two fantastic children. Our
oldest, Ryker, is 3 years old and he recently got a little sister, Maiya, who
is now nearing her first birthday. My kids are the best and it is so much fun
to get to see Ryker as he is acquiring language. There are many linguistic
geek-out moments each day listening to him speak.

I would like to thank you, our readers, for all that you do for me and my
family. Many of you regularly donate to the LINGUIST List, which is wholly
funded by your contributions, and thus are the reason why I have a Graduate
Assistantship. When Lynzie and I began this crazy journey of graduate school,
we had little more than the ambition to pursue a dream of studying the
beautiful languages of East Africa and trying to help the world in some small
way. We moved to Bloomington, Indiana from Utah without any job or source of
funding to pay for my studies. We didn’t know how we would pay for anything.
But now, because of your support and contributions, I have a GA-ship with the
LINGUIST List which covers my tuition costs and gives me enough money to feed
my growing family. Please continue to support LINGUIST List as much as you are
able because it does make a significant difference in our lives. You can do
that by donating to our fund drive.

Thank you again from Jeremy, Lynzie, Ryker and Maiya!







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