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Dear Subscribers, 
 
This is my second year as a member of the LINGUIST crew, and it has been a 
great experience so far. As a Graduate Assistant for The LINGUIST List, I have 
learned more about the discipline of linguistics and the professional infrastructure 
than I could have ever imagined at this point so early in my career. Overall, I 
feel that my role as a Graduate Assistant for The LINGUIST List has provided me 
with the unique experience of developing and using advanced technologies that are 
so important to the developing cyber-infrastructure of the discipline. 
 
Through my work on several major research projects at The LINGUIST List, I have 
come to realize how much the future of linguistic research relies on the ability 
of the discipline to take full advantage of current technologies and computational 
methodologies that encourage not only a wider-ranging empirical investigation of 
linguistic phenomena, but also more careful and insightful research through 
data-sharing and interdisciplinary, computer-aided collaboration. Once coming to 
this realization, one can begin to understand the importance of The LINGUIST List, 
as it is one of the major organizations currently working to spearhead such 
collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts. 
 
As we all know, it is extremely difficult to find adequate funding in the world 
of academics. Representing an organization that is entirely supported by user 
donations, I cannot stress how much we value your support. As all donations go 
directly to funding the graduate students who work tirelessly to keep The LINGUIST 
List running, your contribution will have a direct effect on the ways in which 
you obtain your linguistic resources. In closing, I am extremely grateful to be 
part of The LINGUIST List crew, and I look forward to future opportunities. Just 
remember, your contribution not only ensures that The LINGUIST List will be able 
to continue for another year, it also provides funding for the education and 
training of future linguists. 
 
Thank you for your support, 
 
Daniel Parker 
Graduate Assistant 
The LINGUIST List 
 

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Dear Subscribers, 
 
We would like to share some information with you about one of our most interesting 
grant projects to date - Language and Location: A Map Annotation Project (LL-MAP). 
This project is designed to integrate language information with data from the 
physical and social sciences by means of a Geographical Information System (GIS), 
which will relate geographical information on the area in which a language is or 
has been spoken to resources relevant to the language. Through a link to the 
Multi-Tree project (http://multitree.linguistlist.org), information on all proposed 
genetic relationships of the languages will also be made available and viewable 
in a geographic context. Ultimately, the system will include ancillary information 
on topography, political boundaries, demographics, climate, vegetation, and wildlife, 
thus providing a basis upon which to build hypotheses about language movement across territory. 
 
LL-MAP is a joint project of Eastern Michigan University and Stockholm University, 
in collaboration with several projects and archives in the USA, Europe, and 
Australia. Collaborators include PARADISEC, The Alaska Native Language Center, The 
Tibetan-Himalayan Digital Library, and The WALS Project, as well as noted documentary 
linguists. Technical development will be directed by The Institute for Geospatial 
Research and Education (IGRE) at Eastern Michigan University. The project is 
funded by a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. Through this 
unique project, LL-MAP is intended to establish a framework for scholarly research, 
and provides: 
- A database of geospatially referenced language information 
- A user-friendly online interface which organizes the linguistic, geographic, 
 and social sciences information into customizable map layers and context-sensitive 
 attribute displays 
- Flexible tools for querying, annotating, discussing, and collecting geo-referenced 
 language data 
- Web Map (WMS) and Web Feature (WFS) servers to make the data freely available 
 to others 
 
The LL-MAP system will encourage collaboration between linguists, historians, 
archeologists, ethnographers, and geneticists, as they explore the relationships 
between language and cultural adaptation and change. We hope it will elicit new 
insights and hypotheses, and that it will also serve as an educational resource. 
As the first project to utilize GIS technologies for language research, LL-MAP 
has the potential to be a captivating instructional tool, presenting complex data 
in a way accessible to all educational levels. Finally, as a free service available 
online, LL-MAP will increase public knowledge of lesser-known languages and cultures, 
underlining the importance of language and linguistic diversity to cultural 
understanding and scientific inquiry. 
 
LL-MAP is just one of the many major grant projects at the LINGUIST List, and we 
encourage you to check it out by visiting http://llmap.org. In addition to funding 
from NSF, LINGUIST relies crucially on the generous support of our subscribers to 
make services such as LL-MAP free to the linguistics community. So please consider 
supporting The LINGUIST List by making a donation, however large or small. We 
appreciate your generosity. 
 
Sincerely, 
The LINGUIST Crew 
 
 

This Year the LINGUIST List hopes 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.

See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out our Fund Drive 
2008 LINGUIST List Circus and join us on our many shows!

http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2008/

There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST!

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For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to 
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The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as such 
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can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax 
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Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match any 
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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!


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We would like to thank all of the publishers and subscribers who
donated prizes for this year's Fund Drive games, puzzles, and
competitions.

Publisher Prize Donors:

Cascadilla Press  
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
Edinburgh University Press
Elsevier
John Benjamins
Multilingual Matters
Cambridge University Press
Lincom
MIT Press  
Oxford University Press 


Subscriber Prize Donors:

Stefan Dollinger
Suzette Haden Elgin 
Monica Macaulay 
Sandina Vasile
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The LINGUIST List Hall of Fame

RING LEADERS ($1000 and over)

D Terence Langendoen 
Deutsche Sprachwiss 

	
LION TAMERS ($100 to $1000)
		
A K 
anita fetzer 
Arienne Dwyer 
Catherine Rudin 
Danny Moates 
David Bowie 
Elizabeth Liddy 
Ernest McCarus 
james corcoran 
Jeffrey Heath 
Keren Rice 
Kiyoko Takahashi 
Laura Callahan 
Michael Silverstein 
Michael Swan 
Monica Macaulay & Joe Salmons 
Northeastern University Linguistics Program 
Oleksandr Dymo 
Oliver Stegen 
Paul Chapin 
Richard Hudson 
Steven Pinker 
Susanne Gahl 
tom Roeper 
Ute Römer 
Veronika Koller 
Victoria Muehleisen 
Wolfgang J. Meyer 
Zenzi M. Griffin 

- Plus 7 anonymous donors

ACROBATS ($50 to $100)

Alana Thorpe
Albin Jaques
Ana bartra kaufmann
Andrea Berez
Ann Wehmeyer
Anna Fagan
Donna Lillian
Dylan Herrick
Elisabeth COTTIER  FÁBIÁN
francisco Dubert
Humphrey P van Polanen Petel
Jean Mulder
Joost Kremers
Leslie Saxon
Loretta O'Connor
Marianna Di Paolo
Mary Dalrymple
Robert Cirillo
SJ Hannahs
Stefan Th. Gries
Susan D Fischer
Tatjana Scheffler
Thomas Koller
Will Fitzgerald
WIM VANDENBUSSCHE, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
Yael Ziv

- Plus 5 anonymous donors
	
DONORS (Up to $50)

Ashley Fidler 
ben wes 
Benedetta Bassetti 
C.L. Cannizzaro 
Catharina Peersman 
Catherine Anderson 
Clare Wright 
Gunther De Vogelaer 
Judith Tonhauser 
Laurel Fais 
Liberty Lidz 
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine 
Nynke de Haas 
PHILIPPE DE BRABANTER 
Richard Winters 
Sebastian Sauppe 
Stefan Karl Serwe 
Suzanne Aalberse 
Yuni Kim 

- Plus 10 anonymous donors

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MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS
  
Brill 
http://www.brill.nl 
http://www.brillonline.nl 
Cambridge University Press 
http://us.cambridge.org 
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd 
http://www.continuumbooks.com 
Edinburgh University Press 
http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ 
Elsevier Ltd 
http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics 
http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics 
Equinox Publishing Ltd 
http://www.equinoxpub.com/ 
Georgetown University Press 
http://www.press.georgetown.edu 
Hodder Education 
http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk 
John Benjamins 
http://www.benjamins.com/ 
http://www.benjamins.nl/ 
Lincom GmbH 
http://www.lincom.eu 
www.lincom.eu 
MIT Press 
http://mitpress.mit.edu/ 
Mouton de Gruyter 
http://www.mouton-publishers.com 
Multilingual Matters 
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ 
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG 
http://www.narr.de/ 
Oxford University Press 
http://www.oup.com/us 
http://www.oup.co.uk 
Peter Lang AG 
http://www.peterlang.com 
Rodopi 
http://www.rodopi.nl/ 
http://www.rodopi.nl 
Routledge (Taylor and Francis) 
http://www.routledge.com/ 
Springer 
http://www.springer.com 
Wiley-Blackwell 
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com 


OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS
Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 
http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm 
Cascadilla Press 
http://www.cascadilla.com/ 
Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc.   Umass 
http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 
International Pragmatics Assoc. 
http://www.ipra.be 
Linguistic Association of Finland 
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT 
http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 
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/

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INSTITUTIONS

Basis Technology 
Bridgewater State College 
Brock University 
Carriebeam Consulting 
CEA LIST 
City University of Hong Kong 
CNRS 
CommonHealth 
Concordia University 
CSIRO 
Datascope Recruitment 
Denison University 
Dongduk Women's University 
Educational Testing Service 
Finnova AG Bankware 
Gallaudet University 
Global Business Network LLC (GlobNet) 
H5 
Hanyang University 
Hapax Ltd. 
Heriot-Watt University 
Higher Colleges of Technology 
Hokkaido University 
Högskolan Dalarna 
IBM Canada 
ILTEC 
Indiana University 
Iowa State University 
Janya Inc. 
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität 
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 
Johns Hopkins University 
Justus Liebig Universität Gießen 
LADO International College 
Lexicon Branding 
Macquarie University 
Magpie 
McNeil Technologies 
Memorial University 
MITRE Corporation 
Monash South Africa 
Morgan State University 
Nangwik Services 
National Taiwan Normal University 
New York University 
Northern Arizona University 
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems 
Northwestern University 
Nuance Communications 
Oxford University Press 
Pittsburg State University 
Q-go 
Queens College/CUNY 
RiverGlass 
Ruhr Universitaet Bochum 
Ruhr-Universität Bochum 
School of Oriental and African Studies 
Sensory, Inc. 
SkyGrid, Inc. 
SVOX AG 
SYSTRAN Software 
TeleNav 
Teragram Corporation 
The Fizzback Group 
The University of Montana 
The University of Sydney 
The University of Tromsø/The Faculty of Humanities 
U of Maryland 
University College London 
University of Aizu 
University of Alabama at Birmingham 
University of Amsterdam 
University of Arizona 
University of Bielefeld 
University of British Columbia 
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
University of Chicago 
University of Florida 
University of Georgia 
University of Groningen 
University of Konstanz 
University of Macau 
University of Michigan 
University of Namur 
University of Notre Dame 
University of Nottingham, Ningbo 
University of Nottingham, Ningbo China 
University of Oregon 
University of Oslo 
University of Rochester 
University of Texas - Pan American 
University of Texas at Austin 
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 
University of Tromso 
University of Tromsø 
University of Ulster 
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
University of York 
University Oldenburg 
Universität Mannheim 
Université catholique de Louvain 
Université du Québec en Outaouais 
Utrecht University; Faculty of Humanities 
Vantage Linguistics 
Yale University

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