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linguistlist.org>Dear Linguists, Some of you may not be aware that The Linguist List now archives over 450 abstracts of dissertations in linguistics. These are available at http://www.linguistlist.org/dissop.html Moreover, you can search for these by linguistic subfield, as well as by author, keyword, title, and word(s) in the text. We have recently made major improvements in the speed and accuracy of the search engine. And a quick search by subfield showed us that, so far, syntacticians are either much more numerous or much more diligent about submitting their abstracts than those in other fields. On March 16, 2001 we had the following totals in each category: Applied Ling 34 Computational Ling 35 Discourse Analysis 34 Historical Ling 23 Morphology 12 Phonetics 17 Phonology 37 Pragmatics 18 Psycholinguistics 27 Semantics 35 Sociolinguistics 48 Syntax 88 Text Ling 8 Typology 29 Whether or not this suggests anything about the distribution of Ph.D.'s in the discipline, it will, we hope, suggest that The Linguist List dissertation abstracts facility is a useful research tool. The archive is rapidly growing, and access is completely free. But, of course, The Linguist List needs funding to maintain its free services. We have (and need!) a staff of 10 graduate students, 7 of whom are funded wholly or in part through your donations. Your contributions not only help LINGUIST provide services like the Dissertation Abstracts archive, but they also help these outstanding students achieve their academic goals. 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