Dear subscribers, 
 
Today begins the 2006 LINGUIST List Fund Drive. LINGUIST is a free service, 
but it still costs money to run. In particular, it costs money to fund the 
graduate students who staff all the LINGUIST services. As many of you know, 
all of your donations go to fund assistantships for these students, and 
through the years, you have supported nearly 60 M.A. students through their 
degrees! 
 
The current crew includes 18 students from 8 different countries. Many of 
you know some of them already through interchanges about LINGUIST matters, 
and you will be meeting all of them through their Fund Drive letters. This 
year, the crew has also worked extra hard putting together one of our best 
Fund Drives yet. Please refer to the message below from our Fund Drive 
Coordinators to learn more about the exciting cruise they have organized, 
which visits the hometown of each LINGUIST graduate student (and other 
LINGUIST crew members). You can visit the cruise at 
http://linguistlist.org/cruise.html . 
 
We hope to entertain you with our cruise and at the same time convince you 
that the LINGUIST graduate students are students whose intelligence and 
enthusiasm for linguistics make them eminently worth funding. 
 
Now, many of you have asked us over the years why it takes so many students 
to run LINGUIST. First off-and you'll be hearing more about this-we need 
students to maintain infrastructure facilities which may have been created 
through grant funds but which are now up to the discipline (via LINGUIST) 
to keep up. Day-to-day LINGUIST services also require many hands on the keys 
because of decisions made at the beginning of LINGUIST. To help you understand 
why we need each and every student we employ, we reviewed these decisions 
in a letter during last year's Fund Drive, which you can view at 
http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-862.html . 
 
We hope you will feel that your donation is being put to good use, both in 
providing for the continuation of LINGUIST and in providing for the future 
of the profession. Certainly your support will be greatly appreciated! 
 
Sincerely, 
-Helen

All aboard the Fund Drive 2006 LINGUIST List Cruise! 
 
For the sake of our users, we try to make each year's Fund Drive 
different and exciting. This year, the LINGUIST graduate students 
have gone the extra (nautical) mile and have organized a cruise 
around the world of LINGUIST. We'd like to invite all of our users 
on this cruise, which stops at the hometown of each member of the 
LINGUIST crew. 
 
When you visit the Cruise site, please feel free to explore our 
"Captains' Quarters," from which you can access the different parts 
of our cruise. You can read the Legend of the LINGUIST Sunset or 
learn about the Linguist of the Day. You can visit our games and 
activities page or view a list of the fabulous Fund Drive prizes 
donated by publishers and subscribers. You can even watch a 
performance by our Amazing Singing Waiter before visiting the crew's 
Hometown Tours. 
 
This year's Fund Drive is planned to run from March 17th to April 14th, 
but you can help end it even sooner by making a donation to help us 
reach our goal of $52,932! Remember, even a small donation really does 
make a difference. 
 
When you donate to LINGUIST, you can choose from a variety of stylish 
premiums, including several new premiums created especially for Fund 
Drive 2006. Plus, when you donate, you can take advantage of the 
generous 35% percent discount on linguistics books offered by Continuum 
for all donors and the free subscription provided to all donors by 
MultiLingual magazine. 
 
We hope you enjoy the cruise. Bon voyage! 
 
Sincerely, 
 
Megan Zdrojkowski and Tanya Sydorenko, 
2006 Fund Drive Coordinators 
 
 

This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $52,932. 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. 
 
Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later. 
 
For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to donate by 
check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit: 
 
http://linguistlist.org/donate.html 
 
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! 

Prize Donors 
 
Publishers: 
 
Blackwell 
Cascadilla Press 
Continuum 
Estudios de Sociolingüística 
John Benjamins 
The Linguistic Association of Finland 
Multilingual Matters 
MultiLingual magazine 
PORTA LINGUARUM 
Speculative Grammarian 
Springer 
The Surrey Morphology Group 
 
Subscribers: 
 
Paul G. Chapin 
Katherine Chen 
Madalena Cruz-Ferreira 
Dr. Gabriel Dorta 
Suzette Haden Elgin 
Gang Gu 
Elly van Gelderen 
Sara Laviosa 
Carol Myers-Scotton 
Loraine K. Obler, Ph.D 
Ana María Ortega and María Luisa Pérez 
Pernille Pennington 
Claus Pusch 
Michael Swan