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linguistlist.org>* Introducing the new Publications Mini-Site on LINGUIST List: * http://saussure.linguistlist.org/pubs Dear Subscribers, Welcome to 'The Changing Face of the LINGUIST List', the catchy little buzz-phrase we coined to coincide with the launch of our new publications mini-site, the first installment of our super-improved dynamic web-site officially launched as of now. So what's new? If you visit the above URL the first thing that strikes you is the new look: functional and aesthetically pleasing drop-down menus and a side-bar that make navigation around the whole site a breeze. This template schema forms the back bone of the whole site, so one minute you could be searching for a book then with one click you are in the jobs section, click again and you have found our list of dissertation abstracts. "Brilliant," we hear you say, jumping for joy and sharing our euphoria, "just one thing though, not meaning to be picky or anything, but have you made any substantive improvements? I mean, LINGUIST List is an academic site, right?" We are so glad you asked. The first big thing to note is that our new web-site is dynamic. Previously we hosted static pages, each having to be updated individually to accommodate new data. Now, however, the site is built around an Oracle database, and the pages are written in Cold Fusion which acts as an interface for the data we store. This allows for a far superior level of data management and retrieval than we have ever had before. For instance, when a book is added to the database, that information is immediately made available to multiple output facilities: you can retrieve the information not only via a book search, but also via a publisher search, person search, or even a search by Subject Language or Linguistic Sub-Field. The last two we feel are particularly pertinent for linguistic research, which is why all new publications are classified for their linguistic sub-field(s), as well as subject language(s) if relevant. Our new infrastructure also allows for improved efficiency in the handling of review data. For several years now, we have been making use of our highly talented and worldwide subscriber base to review as many new publications in linguistics and related areas as we possibly can. Now we can link any book with its reviews, and make that data retrievable in seconds. We have also included a Comment field linked to books, which acts as a sort of discussion forum for a particular book. The above URL acts as a portal to all your publication needs, whether its information on books, journals, dissertation abstracts, academic papers, or the publishers who bring this material to the linguistics community. Please do take a moment to look around the site and see the power of this innovative technology at work, we truly believe it will make a difference in your day-to-day linguistic life. In order to maintain this high level of practicality, however, we need your support. Already the generous contributions we receive from our supporting publishers accounts for approximately a third of our total needs. The short-fall is made up by our subscribers like yourself. The funds we raised last year enabled us to significantly improve LINGUIST List, and we have so much still to do. Please help us keep this worthy service where it is and progress by leaps and bounds well into the new millennium by making a donation. Your contribution really does make a difference. This year we are asking for $48,000 to support our students editors in the coming year. Our books editor is Richard John Harvey; please read how you will be helping him in the second part to this issue, below. Thanks to the generosity of everyone listed below, we have now received $12,960. This still leaves three-quarters of our editors unsupported. So if you have not donated yet, please go to http://linguistlist.org/donate.html to send us your pledge. From there you have the choice of donating straight away by credit card using our secure form, or you can send us a cheque later. If you do send a cheque, please make it payable in US dollars; we get charged about $50 a time to convert currency (no such problems with a credit card). Alternatively, you can hit "Reply" to this message and send us your pledge right now by email, prior to sending your cheque. Then we will be able to list you immediately as one of our donors; and we may be able to reach our goal (and halt these Fund Drive messages) a bit earlier. The address to send cheques is as follows: The LINGUIST Editorial Support Fund c/o Helen Aristar-Dry Dept. of English Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI USA 48197 As a 501(c)3 organization, LINGUIST qualifies for corporate donation-matching programs; and, of course, your donation is tax deductible. Don't forget that in return for a donation of $25 or more, we would like to send you a world-famous LINGUIST List T-shirt. See how good we all look wearing them, despite being tired after a hard day's work (http://linguistlist.org/premiums.html). Editor Steve has since shaved off his hair since his photo was taken; you may like to place a thumb strategically on your monitor screen to see what he looks like now. But despite his radical new look, you can be sure that the first thing people notice is his stylish LINGUIST List sweat shirt. If you prefer to accessorize, we also have LINGUIST List tote bags on offer at the $25 level. 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. * LINGUIST Contributors ANGELS ($1000 and over) Blackwell Publishers John Benjamins W.V.U. Research Corporation Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih MAINSTAYS ($100 to $1000) Dr Catherine Walter Elizabeth D. Liddy Kevin R. Gregg Cathy Wissink Ernest McCarus James J. Jenkins Julie Auger Language Learning Center at Michigan State University Larisa Zlatic Margaret Winters and Geoff Nathan Masahide Ishihara Paul Chapin Robb Watt Sharon Obeidallah Theo Vennemann E. 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Gries Adrienne Bruyn Hortensia Curell Jean-Marc Dewaele Max Wheeler Roser Morante Simone Mueller, James Sneddon Richard Page Ans van Kemenade Stella Markantonatou Donn Bayard Ora Matushansky - Plus 13 anonymous donors MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS Academic Press http://www.academicpress.com/ 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 Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com Distribution Fides 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/ Lincom Europa http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/ MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Mouton de Gruyter http://www.degruyter.de/hling.html Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Oxford UP http://www.oup-usa.org/ Pearson Education http://www.pearsoneduc.com/catalog.html Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge http://www.routledge.com/ Springer-Verlag http://www.springer.de/ OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS Anthropological Linguistics http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/ CSLI Publications http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/ Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Finno-Ugrian Society http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sus/ Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass http://server102.hypermart.net/glsa/index.htm International Pragmatics Assoc. http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ Kingston Press Ltd http://www.kingstonpress.com/ Linguistic Assoc. of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ MIT Working Papers in Linguistics http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ Pacini Editore Spa http://www.pacinieditore.it/index_dinamico.htm St. Jerome Publishers http://www.stjerome.co.uk/ Summer Institute of Linguistics http://www.sil.org/ Utrecht Institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Virittaja Aikakauslehti http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/kks/virittaja.html INSTITUTIONS Carleton University Gallaudet University Indiana University Massachusetts Institute of Technology National University of Singapore Universita Degli Studi di Trento University of British Columbia University of Cambridge University of Canterbury University of Chicago University of Cyprus University of Maryland Dental School University of Nevada, Las Vegas University of Nijmegen University of Ottawa University of Pittsburgh University of Rochester University of Zurich W.V.U. 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linguistlist.org>Dear Subscribers, We thought you'd enjoy hearing 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 Richard John Harvey ... Whoa, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in Ypsilanti.... Doesn't have the same ring to it as New York, does it? I don't really mind, I like it here and I love working for LINGUIST; the experience I have gained already since August last year has been incredible. I remember panicking when asked to FTP a file, or move something around with UNIX commands. But now these are everyday things that I do without thinking. I also never thought I'd be programming; the thought of writing code and becoming a 'nerd' played havoc with my conception of coolness and street-cred. But now I happily come to work and spend hours writing Cold Fusion (the program we use to interface with our data-base) web forms, unable to drag myself away from the screen. The learning curve is steep, however, and is not always smooth. You are in the middle of a major transition for LINGUIST, which has been several years in planning, then a long time building. Of course I knew about LINGUIST List before I came here, I was a subscriber during my undergrad days at University of Durham, and I even made use of the web-site for research. What surprised me when I got here was the sheer scale of the operation and the absolutely gigantic amount of information that we store and disseminate to you all - and it just gets bigger. It is my personal hope that I can rise to the challenge of implementing some of the amazing and brilliant ideas that we get from our users, and of course come up with ourselves, so that when I leave here I can feel rightfully proud that not only have I learnt an amazing amount of useful things, I've also left behind something useful for the linguistic community at large-- even if that something is just a tiny part of LINGUIST. Okay, stop me before I bring tears to your eyes. I am sincere in this sentiment, but I also have to ask you something. If you have read this far, then I thank you for allowing to share with you some of the inner me. It feels a little selfish asking for your financial support; it's like saying "give us some money and I can get paid...", but it is not just me. There are twelve graduate assistants working for LINGUIST now, and as the site continues to grow, funding will be an ongoing challenge: How to give the opportunity afforded to me to literally hundreds of linguistic students from around the world for years to come? So, I shall ask you with my best British politeness: would you be so kind as to support LINGUIST this year with a small donation? I am, as well as countless other students before and after me, truly grateful. Yours sincerely, Richard John Harvey Email: richardMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue