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linguistlist.org>Dear LINGUIST subscribers, In January 2001, Andrew Carnie turned over to us the job of book review editors for the LINGUIST list. Thanks to his efforts over the previous two years, the number of book reviews had increased significantly with no decline in quality, to over 160 in 2000 (volume 11). Since there are now two of us handling book reviews, we have been able to devote some of our time and energy to increasing our coverage further, with the result that we posted over 330 book reviews in 2001 (volume 12). The links to our reviews for 2001 and 2002 are: http://linguistlist.org/issues/indices/Review2001r.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/indices/Review2002r.html Because we solicit and post reviews electronically, reviews in LINGUIST are usually the first to appear, often months if not years before they appear in print. While our reviews are not refereed, they are almost always thorough and of high quality, because we try as best we can to match prospective reviewers' qualifications with the books they are to review, and because we instruct our reviewers not only to summarize the books' content but also to evaluate them critically. On occasion our reviews do not measure up to the standards of some subscribers, and we hear from you about it. We strongly encourage subscribers (including the authors and editors of the books that are reviewed) to send their comments not only privately to us, but also for posting in our discussion (Disc) forum. Most of the books we review are sent to us by our supporting publishers. We occasionally solicit reviews of linguistics books published by others because of their importance to the field and hence to our subscribers. When those reviews are solicited, and again when they are posted, we contact the publishers to try to persuade them to become LINGUIST supporters, and so increase our ability to serve our subscribers with timely notification of books of potential interest. The normal way in which we assign books for review is to announce their availability, usually in monthly batches which are posted as Books: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW, and invite subscribers to tell us which books they are interested in and qualified to review. We then meet to select the reviewers for that batch, package the books up, address them, and put them in the mail. The new LINGUIST website contains a page in which subscribers can volunteer directly to review books of interest to them. If they are books that we have received and are about to announce, we will add their names to the pool of potential reviewers for those books. If they are books that we have not yet received from a supporting publisher, we will notify the volunteer that they will have to wait until we receive the book and announce its availability before they hear from us. If they are published by nonsupporting publishers, we contact those publishers to ask them to send us the books and also to become LINGUIST supporters, and notify the volunteers once we have received it and are about to announce its availability. Because of their nature and content, book reviews are posted by us, not by student editors. We do not charge the LINGUIST list for our time; it is donated as a service. As a result, the cost to the LINGUIST list for posting book reviews is not as great as that for posting book announcements. However it is not zero. We need a student assistant to help maintain our records for keeping track of the books we receive and send out, and to prepare the books for mailing. 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Please let us know in your pledge which you would like. Remember to let us know your postal address and what size and style you'd like. We at LINGUIST really do appreciate your support. We couldn't do this without you. With our sincere thanks, The LINGUIST Crew: Anthony, Helen, Andrew, Karen, Naomi, Heather, James, Michael, Zhen-Wei, Richard, Karolina, Dina, Renee, Steve, Marie, Gayathri, John, Ljuba, Terry, Simin, Tomoko. * Many thanks to our 2002 contributors: ANGELS ($1000 and over): Blackwell Publishers John Benjamins MAINSTAYS ($100 to $1000): Dr Catherine Walter Elizabeth D. Liddy Margaret Winters and Geoff Nathan Michelle Portalatin Robb Watt - Plus one anonymous donor SUPPORTERS ($50 to $100): Antonella Sorace University of Edinburgh Mary Grenham Baden Hughes Kathleen Doty Kathleen Ward Paul Boersma Regina Oakeshott Syracuse University Tom Wasow - Plus 3 anonymous donors DONORS (up to $50): Dr. Sherida Altehenger-Smith Albert Ortmann Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaja Bernd Mobius Chang S. Lee Dr Anne Reboul Max Wheeler Miwa Nishimura Robert Bayley Chang S. Lee Clare Stroud David Gaatone Lynn Santelmann Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum Tor A. 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linguistlist.org>We thought you'd like to hear from some of the students your funds are supporting. So this year each fund drive issue will include a brief paragraph from one of our editors telling you, their sponsors, about their work with LINGUIST. And now, a few words from Dina Kapetangianni... I am currently a graduate student in the Linguistics MA program at Eastern Michigan University. I came three years ago from Greece where I received my BA in French Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. I joined Linguist almost a year ago because I was amazed by the fact that such a small group working at Eastern and at Wayne State University could maintain such a big website as Linguist. I started my "career" posting conferences and inputting web resources in our new database. My duties were constantly changing since there were so many different things to be done - and without really realizing it, I ended up doing web development jobs, talking about Cold Fusion and Dream Weaver programs-areas that I was never familiar with and never thought that I will be using! But this is what I like most at Linguist: you never get to be bored with what you're doing because you are always assigned something new that you need to learn and be good at! I also enjoy being part of the international Linguist crew! We are all so different coming from different countries but we all share each other's cultures, habits - we even try to learn each other's language- so it feels like we all belong to the same big family, the LINGUIST family! Although this semester I am finishing my class work at EMU, I will still be working for Linguist. During this last year, I improved my computer skills, I contacted people all over the world, I offered and received information about linguistic events and language resources. This is the best experience I've ever had. Thank you, LINGUIST! Dina Kapetangianni Graduate Student Please donate to LINGUIST and help support our student editors. http://linguistlist.org/funddrive.html To see and read more about Dina, go to: http://linguistlist.org/people/dina.htmlMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue