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Dear Subscribers and Readers, 
 
Since our last appeal of 13 November, we would like to express our 
appreciation to the following readers for their generous responses: 
 
–an offer from Kilu von Prince, Technical University Berlin, to update the 
entry on Fijian language; 
 
–notification from Jo-Anne Ferreira of University of West Indies, Mona, of 
a comprehensive project at the Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered 
Languages (CIEL) center to update more than 45 (!) current articles on 
Caribbean languages and to create biographies of the major figures working 
with these languages; 
 
–an offer from Malgorzata Deron, Adam Mickiewicz University, to update the 
following articles: origin of language, analytic language, fusional 
language, semantic change (specifically, amelioration), code-switching, 
calque, and certain affixes; 
 
–an offer from Dennis Preston, Michigan State University, to distribute the 
previous appeal to other interested sociolinguists and to update the 
article on the Linguistic Society of America. 
 
You are welcome to track the overall progress of our collective efforts at: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Linguistlist 
 
Today's appeal focuses on morphology: what linguist has not appreciated the 
beauty and variety of morphological structures found in the languages of 
the world? Please consider sharing your interest and expertise for the 
benefit of linguistics in Wikipedia: click on the links appended below to 
see whether you can improve any of the 40 selected articles. Some just need 
a bit more content or specific references to make them complete, while 
others might benefit from being merged with related articles. 
 
Regarding morphosyntax, you might be interested in looking at a resource 
that LINGUIST is involved in developing. This is the GOLD ontology (General 
Ontology of Linguistic Description, http://www.linguistics-ontology.org/), 
which was begun as part of the E-MELD project (http://emeld.org). GOLD 
includes a hierarchy of concepts related to morphosyntax, along with 
definitions, some usage notes, and bibliography. It can best be viewed at: 
http://linguistics-ontology.org/ns/gold/0.45/treeview/treeview.html 
 
You might find some of the GOLD terms and definitions useful in updating 
Wikipedia morphology stubs. But if you disagree or have suggestions for 
GOLD's improvement, do let the LINGUIST crew know! GOLD is an ongoing 
project, and we appreciate your suggestions—just as we appreciate your help 
in updating Wikipedia. 
 
Remember that our standing offer still holds: if you don't wish to edit 
directly in Wikipedia yourself, then just send your suggestions, edits, or 
articles to us here at LINGUIST, and we will upload them for you! 
 
As always, The LINGUIST List is grateful for your contribution to this 
effort, and looks forward to hearing from you. Thank you and Happy Holidays! 
 
The Wikipedia Update team 
roxanalinguistlist.org, hannahlinguistlist.org, and luizalinguistlist.org 
 
MORPHOLOGY STUBS 
Absolutive case (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutive_case 
 
Agentive ending (incomplete; references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agentive_ending 
 
Allative case (incomplete; references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allative_case 
 
Assumptive mood (incomplete; references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumptive_mood 
 
Augment (linguistics) (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augment_%28linguistics%29 
 
Benefactive case (incomplete; references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefactive_case 
 
Bound morpheme (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bound_morpheme 
 
Causal case (incomplete) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_case 
 
Causal-final case (incomplete; references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal-final_casei 
 
Commissive moods (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissive_moods 
 
Delative case (incomplete; references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delative_case 
 
Deliberative mood (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative_mood 
 
Deontic moods (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontic_moods 
 
Distributed morphology (incomplete) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_morphology 
 
Elative (gradation) (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elative_%28gradation%29 
 
Ending (linguistics) (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ending_%28linguistics%29 
 
Endocentric (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocentric 
 
Essive-formal case (references missing; merge with Essive case?) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essive-formal_case 
 
Essive-modal case (incomplete; references missing; merge with Essive case?) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essive-modal_case 
 
Exocentric (incomplete; references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocentric 
 
Free morpheme (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_morpheme 
 
Holonymy (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonymy 
 
Interrogative mood (incomplete; references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrogative_mood 
 
Intransitive case (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_case 
 
Irrealis moods (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrealis_moods 
 
Mirative (incomplete) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirative 
 
Nunation (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunation 
 
Partitive (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitive 
 
Partitive plural (empty link: comprehensive plural; references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitive_plural 
 
Past continuous (incomplete) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_continuous 
 
Past historical (incomplete) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_historical 
 
Privative (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privative 
 
Privative a (references missing; suggest merge with privative?) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privative_a 
 
Proximative case (incomplete) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximative_case 
 
Reciprocal pronoun (incomplete) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_pronoun 
 
Relativizer (incomplete, examples missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativizer 
 
Resultative (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resultative 
 
Spatial tense (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_tense 
 
Superlative case (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superlative_case 
 
Verb applicative (references missing) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb_applicative 
 
Was-leveling; Were-leveling (incomplete) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Was-leveling 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Were-leveling