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linguistlist.org>Dear Subscribers, Over the weekend, your donations have "funded" another one of our crew members--Programmer Zhenwei Chen. As each on of our crew members is funded, we will post their personal letter so that you can see where your donations go! Below is Zhenwei's letter. To see our group photo, please go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/crew2004.html ********************************************************************** Dear Linguists, I joined the LINGUIST List group at the end of 2001 after I finished computer master degree. I have been working as programmer since then. My work primarily focuses on the E-MELD project and the LINGUIST Ask-A-Linguist, Job, and Review site subdivisions. FIELD (Field Input Environment for Linguistic Data), one of the tools under E-MELD, is what I am developing at this moment. FIELD is a linguistic data input tool, which incorporates all the features of language archive best practice recommended by the linguistic community. It is a great opportunity for me to assist linguists in the scientific research. Helen Aristar-Dry and Tony Aristar (site moderators), Laura Buszard-Welcher, Martha Ratliff, and Veronica Grondona (linguistics professors) give me plenty of professional guidance to make sure the new software meet every requirement linguists need. Let me just mention two examples. A Unicode-compatible database presents a unique challenge for the linguistic system developer. All the alphabets listed should be sorted in appropriate order and searched efficiently. Acute C and Regular C should be found side by side and rendered correctly. So the solution is that the computer program has been designed to handle such requirements; the works behind the scene make it possible. A Unicode-compatible web page is a longtime goal for the LINGUIST website. I developed web-based input tool for Unicode characters. It is possible to type a standard keyboard character which is similar in appearance to the one you want, and then select the exact character required from a short dropdown menu of similar character. The current version of tool includes all IPA and diacritics and other language scripts, after several times of modification. At LINGUIST, I feel doing all these works are really reciprocating experiences from my computer programming background and enriching my system development experience. I have gained unique expertise from the discipline and also I have contributed my knowledge to the linguists. Sincerely, Zhenwei Chen Programmer To read more about Zhenwei, go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/people/zhenwei.html ********************************************************************** We have already raised over $16,000! Please help us reach our target of $60,000. Even a small donation really does make a difference! As a 501(c)3 organization, LINGUIST qualifies for corporate donation-matching programs; and, of course, your donation is tax deductible. To donate now using our secure web form, visit: http://www.linguistlist.org/donate.html For instructions on how to donate, or how to make a pledge now and pay later, visit: http://linguistlist.org/donation.html Thank you very much for your support!Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
linguistlist.org>This Year the LINGUIST List hope to raise $60,000. This money will go to help keep the List running, by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year. There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST! You can donate right now using our secure credit card form, at: http://www.linguistlist.org/donate.html You can also pledge right now and pay later, at: http://www.linguistlist.org/pledge.html For all information on donating, including information on how to donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit: http://www.linguistlist.org/donation.html ALREADY PLEDGED? If you have already pledged to LINGUIST and would now like to pay by credit card, please go to: http://linguistlist.org/creditcard-general.html and select 'PAY PREVIOUS PLEDGE' as the Type of Payment from the dropdown list provided. The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as such can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is a registered 501(c) Non Profit organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor. Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match any gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your contacting your human resources department and sending us a form that the EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if your company operates such a program. Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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Fedson Valerie Sultan Victoria V�zquez Rozas vincent de rooij Virginia LoCastro Will Fitzgerald Wim Vandenbussche zaida a. cintron - Plus 22 anonymous donors ************************************************************ MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS Blackwell Publishing http://www.blackwellpublishing.com CSLI Publications http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/ Cambridge University Press http://www.cup.org Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com Elsevier Ltd. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics Equinox Publishing Ltd. http://www.equinoxpub.com/ Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl Kingston Press Ltd Kluwer Academic Publishers http://www.wkap.nl/ http://www.kluweronline.com Lawrence Erlbaum Associates http://www.erlbaum.com/ MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Mouton de Gruyter http://www.mouton-publishers.com Oxford University Press http://www.oup-usa.org/ Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS Anthropological Linguistics http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/ Arawak Publications Canadian Journal of Linguistics http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=cjl/cjl.html Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass International Pragmatics Assoc. http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ Linguistic Assoc. of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ MIT Working Papers in Linguistics http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Pearson Longman http://www.pearsoneduc.com/discipline.asp?d=LG SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp St. Jerome Publishing Ltd. http://www.stjerome.co.uk Utrecht Institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ ************************************************************ INSTITUTIONS ATA SpA Babel Technologies SA Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 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