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linguistlist.org>Dear LINGUIST Subscribers, In Year 2000, the LINGUIST list announced 386 new books on linguistics. We also brought you the latest information on journals and working papers. We posted 237 tables of contents of 110 journals and 9 working papers last year. These represented every subdiscipline, and included books on Mathematical linguistics, Computational Linguistics, and Grammars of Endangered Languages. They included works on Sociolinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics and Applied linguistics, as well as theoretical Phonology, Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. And reflecting the needs of our subscribers from all over the world, these books and journals covered a wide range of languages, including Arabic, Athabaskan, Australian and African languages, Azari, Chinese, Early Germanic, French, German, Hungarian, Iranian, Japanese, Native American languages, Old Indo-European, Polynesian, Spanish, Turkic, Uralic, and Sino-Tibetan. And last year our book announcement service expanded to include announcements from 41 different linguistics publishers. We at the LINGUIST List appreciate all of the help from these supporting publishers and from the authors who brought Linguist to their attention. We were able to bring you news of virtually all the new linguistics books published last year, whether they were listed by large commercial presses or by small non-profit publishers. The LINGUIST list not only brings you announcements of books and journals, but we review them too. Making use of our highly talented and world wide subscriber base, we reviewed 62 books last year. Reviews at the LINGUIST list are unlike reviews you will find anywhere else. We try, wherever possible, to get multiple reviewers to look at a book, so that we can offer contrasting views on the same book and encourage discussion. Many book reviews posted in 2000 stimulated lively debate in our discussion (Disc) forum; and we encouraged the book authors to respond to the reviews. The links to our books, reviews, and Table of Contents (TOC) pages are: http://linguistlist.org/issues/indices/Books2001r.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/indices/Review2001r.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/indices/TOC2001r.html Many of our subscribers tell us that when they want to find a book on a particular topic, or buy a book they have heard about, the first place they go is the linguist web site. Our topic-oriented search function at http://linguistlist.org/search.html offers one of the easiest ways to find books that interest you. We also have links to almost all of the major linguistics publishers at http://linguistlist.org/publishers.html . Unfortunately, this service to our community does not come cheaply. 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Regueira Lynn Santelmann Ron Schaefer Pervez Siddiqui Ute Smit Deeyu Srinarawat Gert Stevens PUBLISHERS MAJOR SUPPORTERS Arnold Publishers http://www.arnoldpublishers.com Athelstan Publications http://www.athel.com Blackwell Publishers http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/ Cambridge University Press http://www.cup.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Elsevier Science Ltd. http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/linguistics John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl/ Kluwer Academic Publishers http://www.wkap.nl/ Lernout & Hauspie http://www.lhsl.com Lincom Europa http://www.lincom-europa.com MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/books-legacy.tcl Mouton de Gruyter http://www.deGruyter.de/hling.html Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Oxford UP http://www.oup-usa.org/ Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Springer-Verlag http://www.springer.de Summer Institute of Linguistics http://www.sil.org/ OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS Finno-Ugrian Society http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sus/ Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass http://www.umass.edu/linguist/GLSA/ Kingston Press Ltd. http://www.kingstonpress.com Linguistic Assoc. of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Linguistic Society of Southern Africa (LSSA) http://www.safest.org.za/bsp Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au Pacini Editore Spa http://www.pacinieditore.it/ Virittaja Aikakauslehti http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/kks/virittaja.html 03/13/2001Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue