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Dear Subscribers, LINGUIST is delighted to announce that Terry Langendoen and Simin Karimi have agreed to become LINGUIST List Review Editors, replacing Andrew Carnie. Andrew filled this post so ably that he increased the number of our reviews from 4 in 1996 to 68 in 2000, but the dual role of Moderator and Review Editor has become too time-consuming for him. Happily, he will be continuing as a LINGUIST moderator. So we can welcome Terry and Simin to the LINGUIST crew with unalloyed enthusiasm. Each has provided us with a brief bio (below). LINGUIST reviews books and software from supporting publishers. If you are an author who would like your book or software reviewed on LINGUIST, contact us to find out if your publisher is a LINGUIST supporter. If not, perhaps you can convince them to become one-- or, if necessary, special arrangements can be made for a single book announcement and review. Correspondence about the reviewing process should be addressed to reviewsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuelinguistlist.org. Below are the bios of Terry and Simin. We feel extremely fortunate to have such distinguished colleagues now responsible for the LINGUIST List review process. With best wishes for a happy and prosperous new year, Helen and Anthony BTW: have any of you used our new multilist search engine? We've received no feedback on our "Christmas present" (http://listserv.linguistlist.org/multilist/searchall.html), and we're interested in what you think. ****************** Terry Langendoen is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Previously, he taught at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and before that at Ohio State University. He received his PhD degree from MIT in 1964. In Boston, Columbus, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Tucson, he managed to join some choral group or other, and he is particularly enthusiastic about his current group, the modestly named "Tucson Mastersingers". His work in linguistics can be summed up by the phrase "he keeps trying". His interests include mathematical linguistics, syntax, semantics, and Native American linguistics *********************** Simin Karimi received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Washington in 1989. She has been employed at the University of Arizona since 1990, where she is working now as an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics. Simin's research interests include syntax, syntax-semantics - syntax-morphology - and - syntax discourse interface. She is specifically interested in scrambling languages with a special focus on Persian. Simin loves hiking, listening to classical music, reading poetry (specifically in Persian and German). She is also very interested in global politics. **************************** *************************************