Fatemeh Abdollahi |
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Dear LINGUIST Subscribers, My name is Fatemeh Abdollahi, and I am currently a second year undergraduate student at Eastern Michigan University, working on the LINGUIST List. This will be the second full year that I have worked on Linguist List, and this has been an experience I know I will never forget. I started at LINGUIST List as their youngest hire ever, with a brief but strong start-up in linguistics, I was eager for the challenge of LINGUIST List, and I have never been disappointed. The things that I have learned here have proved invaluable to me, in every application of my life. I currently work on several sections of the site, as we all do (you'd be surprised how much work it is to keep LINGUIST going). My main projects are the Publications team, posting Table of Content submissions, the LL-map team, mapping linguistic information, the Grants team, writing up grant proposals to help fund our many project ideas, the Publicity team, used to get you all up-to-date with our features, and the Conference Organization team, organizing the plethora of conferences we host and participate in every year at LINGUIST List. All of these areas have taught me different skills, among these are programming, research, mapping, and editing, which keeps me abreast of recent developments in linguistics, and provides me with many interesting research ideas at the same time. It always amazes me how many sections there are to our site, and after two years of working here I am still constantly surprised by the information we store. In what other discipline is there a facility in which e-mails about job postings, conferences, TOC's etc. are e-mailed to over 26,000 people at once? In what disciplines are projects created that provide free use to their subscribers, all for the sake of the discipline itself? LINGUIST List provides an avenue for tying together people and information from all areas of Linguistics that has not been replicated in any other field to date, and we need your help to keep this going! Working with intelligent linguists day-in and day-out has been an invaluable experience, and I would like to ask you to please continue to make this possible. We're a nonprofit organization, which has no way of continuing without your generous contributions. If you use LINGUIST at all, please seriously consider contributing this year. Without your contributions LINGUIST could not continue to turn out the amazing content that we do, year after year. We are willing to work as hard as we can to ensure you continue to get this great service, but it's not possible without your help. Please continue to show that you appreciate us by donating to the fund drive! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Thank you for all of your support, Fatemeh Abdollahi View Fatemeh's personal page View Fatemeh's hometown tour! |
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