Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz |
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Dear Subscribers, This is my second year working as a Graduate Assistant at The LINGUIST List. I have to say that those two years have been an amazing experience, and the positive impressions I had when I first joined The LINGUIST List in September 2007 were only reinforced in the past year. I would like to take this opportunity to give you a sneak peak into the workings of The LINGUIST List. One of the things that definitely make this organization a great place to work at is the number of graduate students on staff. In fact, linguistics students make up three fourths of the workforce (no joke!). As a result, The LINGUIST crew gets to spend a lot of time together, both at work and in class, which not only contributes to a very friendly atmosphere at work, but also fosters a personal concern for The LINGUIST List, and a drive to achieve common goals. All of this of course translates into putting as much effort as possible into our projects. What this means for you is that every time you post a conference call, submit a job announcement, or report a broken link, it is graduate students who respond to your emails, approve your submissions, post your announcements, and fix the site. I look at it as a kind of symbiosis - your donations make graduate school financially feasible for us, so we try to give back as much as we can by offering you the best, fastest, and most reliable service possible. Another thing to know about The LINGUIST List is the multitude of projects we are all involved in. Any of our editors can vouch for the fact that LINGUIST is so much more than just posting. It may come as a surprise, but posting constitutes just a small portion of what we do here. In fact, all of our editors work on a number of teams. Each team deals with a particular project, and to be able to contribute to a given project editors have to familiarize themselves with all sorts of advanced technologies. For an idea of how much work each of these projects requires, I strongly encourage you to check out LL-MAP (http://llmap.org/) or Multitree (http://linguistlist.org/multitree/). As you're browsing through the impressive collection of language data, spare a thought for the donations-funded graduate students who entered all these data, and visit: https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Yet another thing I would like to stress about the LINGUIST List is how diverse the staff is. Not only do we currently have 10 countries represented, but we are also a collection of various characters and interests. We have a former ecology major here, a poet, piercing-lovers, dog-lovers, pig-lovers, fans of kayaks, sledding, marzipan, etc. The one thing that brings this heterogeneous crowd together, though, is a passion for linguistics and a devotion to serve the linguistics community. Lastly, The LINGUIST List is unique in that it does not charge subscribers for the services it provides, and there is no membership fee. Indeed, our yearly budget heavily relies on donations. If you don't want to find out what your life would be without The LINGUIST List, please donate. Even the smallest contribution will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support over the years, Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz Jobs and Internships Editor View Luiza's personal page View Luiza's hometown tour! |
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