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emunix.emich.edu>Dear LINGUIST subscribers: LINGUIST has just had its most progressive year yet, and we heartily thank all of you who contributed to its success through scholarship, suggestions, and particularly through the LINGUIST Development Fund. When we last wrote a letter of this nature to our subscribers, we "only" sent it to about 6000 people. Since that time, our subscriber list has increased by 20%: we now serve over 7200 people, in addition to those reached by the 150 redistribution lists. Our Web site has seen heavy traffic, and in all we handled over 8 million messages this year. For these reasons, we believe that LINGUIST is becoming an increasingly important part of our discipline. With this volume of information to process, we could not continue to publish LINGUIST without student editors, and that means we could not continue without your support. Thanks to your contributions last year, we were once again been able to fund $4000 fellowships for our LINGUIST Fellows: Ljuba Veselinova (Eastern Michigan University) and Ann Dizdar (Texas A&M). We are also fortunate to receive help from Annamarie Valdez, an assistant editor provided by EMU, and continued _gratis_ help from Ron Reck. We would like to increase the LINGUIST fellowship this next year, in part to provide our fellows with more reasonable compensation, but also to offset anticipated increases in subscriptions--and the corresponding increases in our student editors' workloads. As many of you know, $4000 is very little for a graduate student to live on in the United States. Texas A&M provides some support for their Fellow, but that means she works on LINGUIST only half-time. The EMU Fellow is supported only by the LINGUIST fellowship. Thus, we have been thinking about asking for a $10 annual donation from subscribers. This would still remain voluntary (we don't even have the resources to police this policy!), but as you can see below, fewer than 1% of our 7200+ subscribers contribute to the maintenance of the list. If everyone contributed, we would be able to better support our staff and continue to provide more services to our subscribers. We'd like to have subscriber reactions to this idea. This year, with the help of our excellent crew, we have been able to implement significant improvements in LINGUIST service and to make plans for more. Much of our energy has gone toward developing new editing software. John Remmers, of EMU, has created an excellent software package that produces LINGUIST issues efficiently: simultaneously mounting hypertext issues for the WWW and producing the e-mail version for the list. We are also expanding our Web service. 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We hope that the changes that we have made and are planning to make provide you with the best academic support that LINGUIST can offer. Our sole aim is to enhance linguistics research. If you would like for LINGUIST to continue its work, please join our list of valued supporters who give the financial support that makes the list possible. You may send your contribution to: The EMU LINGUIST Development Fund c/o The Dept. of English Language and Literature Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48097 Those of you who contribute from overseas, who have previously gone to the trouble of procuring a bank draft in US dollars, may simply send your own currency in an envelope, and we will acknowledge with a receipt as soon as we receive your donation. We cannot yet accept credit card donations, but we can change the currency. Though this is not an elegant procedure, it may be easier than taking the time to get a draft. 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To all of you whose names appear on the list below--all of you who have faithfully been supporting LINGUIST at home and abroad--we offer our sincerest appreciation. -Helen and Anthony LINGUIST Moderators ----------1995 Contributors-------- Valued Supporters: Anonymous (3) Barbara Abbott Heather Anderson Maher Awad Yukiko Sasaki Alam Robert Beard Elabbas Benmamoun Pier Marco Bertinetto Rosemary Buck Robert Chandler Linda Coleman Alan Cienki Donna Cromer Ursula Doleschal Stanley Dubinsky Bethany Dumas Timothy Dunnigan Susan Fischer david Ganelin Frank Gladney Keith Goeringer John Grinstead Mark Hansell Suzanne Hilgendorf Caitlin Hines Yukio Hirose Alice Horning Shin Ja Hwang Frances Ingemann Margaret Jackman James Jenkins Brian Joseph Martin Jung Carolyn Kirkpatrick Yuriko Kite Judith Klavans Laura Labonte-Smith Daniel Lefkowitz Judith Levi Hideo Makihara Kumiko Makihara Geral Mathias Ernest McCarus Scott McGinnis Deborah Mandelbaum Jeff Marck Edith Moravcsik Michael Newman Betty Phillips Susan Pintzuk Terence Potter Mel Resnick Burton Rosner Catherine Rudin Janine Scanarelli Makoto Shimizu Beth Simon Jack Zeldis Patrons ($50 or more): Anonymous (2) Australia National University (for PACIFIC LINGUISTICS PRESS) Michael Bernstein (for CASCADILLA PRESS) Garland Bills Claude Boisson E. 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