LINGUIST List 14.1040

Mon Apr 7 2003

All: Amazing Prizes for 'Just $5'

Editor for this issue: Richard John Harvey <richardlinguistlist.org>

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1. linguist, The LINGUIST List Publisher Prize Draw - Amazing Prizes for Just $5

Dear Linguists,

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The LINGUIST List 'Just $5' Request

Did you know that with a donation of 'Just $5' you will be entered
into The LINGUIST List Publisher Prize Draw.

(If every one of our 17000+ subscribers donated 'Just $5' we would
raise $85000 - that's $35000 more than we need!)

And what could you win? Many of our supporting publishers have very
kindly donated some amazing linguistic prizes that are well beyond the
call of duty. These prizes are either serious publications that any
self-respecting linguist would love on their bookshelf, or
subscriptions to top-notch linguistics journals and online
services. All are worth a lot more than $5.

Find out more, including rules etc., at:

http://linguistlist.org/prizedraw.html

The list of prizes is at the bottom of this email - please take a
moment to look over what's on offer.

DONATE - Don't Hesitate: http://linguistlist.org/donate.html

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The LINGUIST List Publisher Prize Draw
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~CASCADILLA PRESS
The wonderful people at Cascadilla Press has generously offered two
prizes: 

WCCFL 18-21 Proceedings on CD-ROM. Each CD-ROM contains the
complete year's Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics, with all the papers in PDF format. The CD-ROM works on
MacOS and Windows. For tables of contents, see
http://www.cascadilla.com/wccfl.html. This set of 4 CD-ROMs is worth
$80.00. 

Many Morphologies, edited by Paul Boucher. This new book contains
original peer-reviewed articles by leading researchers such as Luigi
Burzio and Joseph Emonds, and could give you fresh insights into
research problems you've long wanted to answer. For a table of
contents, see http://www.cascadilla.com/manym.html. This paperback is
worth $28.95.

~ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Our good friends at Elsevier Science have donated this super
subscription:

Free access to ScienceDirect ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/ )for a
year. With over 1,700 journals online and millions of peer-reviewed
articles, this is the world's best resource for research journals,
abstract databases and reference works; this includes over 30
linguistics journals. This subscription offers full access to
ScienceDirect, which is normally only available to institutions, and
would cost thousands of pounds! Thank you for the huge generosity
Elsevier.

~THE MIT PRESS
The MIT Press is offering the following subscriptions - thanks guys! 

A year's subscription to Linguistic Inquiry. 
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=C477A1A7-109E-4141-8B95-9BD940021C4F&ttype=4&tid=6

A year's subsciption to Computational Linguistics. 
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=C477A1A7-109E-4141-8B95-9BD940021C4F&ttype=4&tid=10

~OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Oxford English Dictionary is 75 this year and to mark the occasion
Oxford University Press have kindly offered the following online
subscription - Happy 75th Birthday OED!

A free one year individual subscription to OED Online 
( http://www.oed.com/ ). 
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted
authority on the evolution of the English language over the last
millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and
pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It
traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide
range of international English language sources, from classic
literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery
books. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world,
from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to
the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in
listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the
International Phonetic Alphabet. This subscription is worth 350 plus
tax ($550).

~SUOMEN KIELITIETEELLINEN YHDISTYS
Suomen kielitieteellinen yhdistys (The Linguistic Association of
Finland) have kindly donated this subscription - kiitoksia oikein
paljon.

A year's subscription to the SKY Journal of Linguistics. 
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/skyjol.shtml


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