LINGUIST List 11.2116

Tue Oct 3 2000

FYI: Creole Lang, Conf List, Cogn Ling Website

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. MIT2USA, Staffing Press Releases for Creole Languages
2. Peter White, Latest conference list
3. Geoffrey S. Nathan, Cognitive Linguistics Website

Two late-breaking press releases related to MIT2:

MIT2 appoints Director of Communications and Strategic Relations

September 30, 2000
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2), a software developer and language 
processing solutions service provider for Creole languages, has just 
appointed Guy S. Antoine to the position of Director of Communications and 
Strategic Relations.

Mr. Antoine, a native speaker of Haitian Creole, is one of the foremost 
leaders in the promotion of Haitian Creole and Haitian culture via the 
Internet. An active member of discussion groups on Haiti, he is the founder 
and creator of the Windows on Haiti Web Site that was established in 1998.

MIT2 President Marilyn Mason states: "Guy's vision and advocacy are two of 
the key elements to help us identify points of contact in government and 
non-governmental sectors, to promote a dialogue that would facilitate a 
cultural / intellectual understanding between the company and its target 
markets, to propose courses of action leading to increased social 
responsibility and participation in solving community problems, particularly 
those dealing with literacy and language development."


For more information, please contact:

Windows on Haiti
E-mail: GuyAntoinewindowsonhaiti.com
Web: http://www.windowsonhaiti.com

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)
P.O. Box 181015, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA
Tel: (+1) 617 247-8885, Fax: (+1) 617 262-8923
E-mail: mit2usaaol.com
Web: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html

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MIT2 appoints Southeast USA Regional Representative

September 30, 2000
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2), a company specializing in Creole 
language technologies, has just appointed Dr. Marie Bogat to be its Southeast 
USA Regional Representative. Dr. Bogat has over 40 years of experience in the 
field of education with schools in Haiti, elsewhere in the Caribbean, and in 
Latin America. She has been actively involved in education accreditation 
procedures since the 1980s with the Association of Colombian-Caribbean 
American Schools and the Committee on Latin American Schools of the Southern 
Association of Colleges and Schools.

MIT2 President Marilyn Mason states: "Marie Bogat is one of our strategic 
links to helping provide language technology solutions for the educational 
sector in the southeastern region of the USA. Her several decades of 
experience in Haiti and with the Haitian Diaspora in the USA demonstrate how 
our company is setting up a solid network of experienced and qualified 
individuals with a true sense of what the real needs are and how to meet 
them."


For more information, please contact:

The Union Institute
Tel: (+1) 305-940-9355, Fax: (+1) 305-940-1933
E-mail: Mariebogatcs.com
Web: http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/Bogat.htm

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)
P.O. Box 181015, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA
Tel: (+1) 617 247-8885, Fax: (+1) 617 262-8923
E-mail: mit2usaaol.com
Web: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html

The October 2000 edition of the conference list of linguistics and related
topics is now available at
	http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/conf.html

Please note that the December 2000 edition of the conference list will be
the last one. I'm finishing up here at the end of the year. If anyone
wants to take on the job, please contact me.

Regards
Peter

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Peter White
Centre for Language Teaching and Research
University of Queensland, Qld 4072
Australia
Fax: +61 7 3365 7077
Email: peterwlingua.cltr.uq.edu.au, or pbwhitepowerup.com.au
Web: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/~peterw
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The official website of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association 
has changed, and is now located at

http://www.siu.edu/~icla/

Apologies for cross-postings...

Geoff Nathan

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Department of Linguistics
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL, 62901-4517
Phone: (618) 453-3421 (Office) / FAX (618) 453-6527
 (618) 549-0106 (Home)
 geoffnsiu.edu