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linguistlist.org>[Moderators' note: In the current LINGUIST Fund Drive, we are attempting to collect $12,600 to pay 2 student editors of LINGUIST in 1998-99. To date we've collected $5200, through the generosity of the people and institutions listed at the end of the message. There you will also find details about how to make your contribution.] Dear LINGUIST supporters: You are probably already aware that it is through your generous contributions that we are able to support the staff of graduate editors who run LINGUIST. What you may not realize is that your aid also helps support future linguists in their academic pursuits: sometimes providing an avenue to higher education for those who may need one, and for others, scholarship funding for highly motivated students who are truly deserving. Behind the scenes, it is the people of LINGUIST who make the whole operation work. An enthusiastic crew puts together LINGUIST issues, oversees daily operations and maintains the websites that have become such an important feature of LINGUIST, among them the linguistic programs directory, the jobs database and the conference list. Software is now in place for a registry of dissertation abstracts, and a new and expanded directory of linguists will be up and running in the next few weeks. A search engine will make all of these resources even more accessible. So, if you feel your life is incomplete without the study of Hausa or Hittite, you can search for programs offering these languages. And, if you wish to contact the professors who first got you interested in linguistics, you have a good chance of finding them on LINGUIST. With 10,000 subscribers, we are the largest database of linguists in the world. With your help, LINGUIST will continue to be a place where people of varied backgrounds but similar interests can meet and benefit from the interchange. It is through your generosity that we are able to continue the support of our editorial staff. Former LINGUISTS editors have gone on to positions in academia and in the computer industry. Three former editors are now in Phd programs: Sue is at the University of Southern California, Rajka Smiljanic is at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and Ljuba is in Stockholm. Many of our current staff also intend to pursue careers in Linguistics. And it's your assistance that makes this a reality. If you want to see where your money's going, just click on the individual editors' links when you visit our home page to see where your money is going. We need $12,600 this year just to pay for the stipends of 2 graduate student editors. So far, we're nowhere near reaching that amount. We urge you to contribute to LINGUIST. Your contributions are all that keeps us going. Thank you in advance, A Student Editor The address for contributions is: The EMU LINGUIST Editorial Support Fund c/o Dept of English Language & Literature Eastern Michigan U. Ypsilanti, MI 48197 USA You can also donate by credit card on the Web, at the URL: http://linguistlist.org/creditcard.html ________________________ 1998 Contributors Supporters: Mark Balhorn Michael Bernstein Ann Bradlow Mary Bucholtz Linda Coleman Franz Dotter Stanley Dubinsky James L. Fidelholtz Reiko Hayashi Darrell Hatt Suzanne K. Hilgendorf Alice Horning Mary Jane Gaines Hurst Shin Ja Hwang Frances Ingemann Yuriko K. Kite Louise E. McNally Rosa Graciela Montes Barbara Partee Jeffrey Runner Patrick C. Ryan Vieri Samek-Lodovici James Sneddon Rodrik Wade Joerg Wagner Patrons ($50 or more): Cascadilla Press G. Tucker Childs Bernard Comrie Karen Davis Daniel L. Everett Yehuda & Julia Falk Pius ten Hacken Richard Hudson Carolyn Kirkpatrick Gerardo Lorenzino M. Lynne Murphy Andrea G. Osburne Marc Authier & Lisa A. Reed Theo Venneman Mainstays ($100 or more): Blackwell Publishers Cassell Edinburgh UP Holland Academic Graphics Sungshim Hong Kenji Kashino Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Youngsuk Lee Michael Patrick O'Connor Oxford UP Linda Stump Rashidi Routledge Monica Macaulay & Joe Salmons Hiroaki Tanaka Karl Teeter Walter de Gruyter Catherine Walter Support pledged: Garland Press MIT Press--Books Division Pacific Linguistics Summer Institute of Linguistics Syntaxis Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue