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All: Ulrich Detges (1958-2021)

2021-02-12T13:38:43Z

Ulrich (Uli) Detges, professor of Romance linguistics at the University of Munich, died of a long illness on 7 February 2021. He was born in Krefeld, West Germany, in 1958. He studied French and History at the Free University of Berlin from 1977 to 1985. Subsequently, he won scholarships to study at the École Normale Supérieure rue d’Ulm in Paris and at the University of Laval in Québec. He then did his PhD with Thomas Kotschi at the Free University, and defended it with highest honours in 19

All: Prof. Em. Robbins Burling, 1926-2021

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Robbins Burling, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, passed away peacefully on January 2, 2021, at the age of 94. A giant in the fields of anthropological linguistics, language evolution and language pedagogy, Burling was particularly known for his pioneering work in ethnography and linguistics of northeastern India, where he conducted his doctoral fieldwork and to where he returned for research visits until the latter years of his life. Burling’s wo

Fund: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW (January 2021)

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Fund: In Memoriam: Leonid Leonidovich Kasatkin

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DATE: 14-DEC-2020 FROM: OLGA ROVNOVA SUBJECT: IN MEMORIAM: LEONID LEONIDOVICH KASATKIN ON 13 SEPTEMBER 2020, PROFESSOR LEONID LEONIDOVICH KASATKIN, AN OUTSTANDING RUSSIAN LINGUIST, A WORLD-CLASS AUTHORITY ON RUSSIAN PHONETICS AND DIALECTOLOGY, HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DIALECTOLOGY AT THE VINOGRADOV RUSSIAN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BETWEEN 1996 AND 2012, A SECOND WORLD WAR VETERAN, A STRONG AND COURAGEOUS MAN, PASSED AWAY. LEONID KASATKIN’S ACAD

Fund: December 2020 Holiday Issues

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HERE ARE THE TABLE OF CONTENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS PUBLISHED DURING OUR DECEMBER 2020 HOLIDAY BREAK, IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM. VISIT THE LINKS BELOW TO READ MORE! LINGUIST LIST 31.3934 TOC: LEXIS, JOURNAL IN ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY 16 (2020) HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3934/ LINGUIST LIST 31.3935 TOC: SEMIOTICA. JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES 2020 / 235 (2020) HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3935/ LINGUIST LIST 31.3936 TOC: APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 41 /

Fund: December 2020 Holiday Issues

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HERE ARE THE SUMMER SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS PUBLISHED DURING OUR DECEMBER 2020 HOLIDAY BREAK, IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM. VISIT THE LINKS BELOW TO READ MORE! LINGUIST LIST 31.3942 SUMMER SCHOOLS: NEW LANGUAGES FOR NLP: BUILDING LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES / USA HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3942/ LINGUIST LIST 31.3943 SUMMER SCHOOLS: THIRTEENTH HERITAGE LANGUAGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE / USA HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3943/ LINGUIST LIST 31.3962 SUMMER SCHOOLS: T

Fund: December 2020 Holiday Issues

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HERE ARE THE FYI ANNOUNCEMENTS PUBLISHED DURING OUR DECEMBER 2020 HOLIDAY BREAK, IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM. VISIT THE LINKS BELOW TO READ MORE! LINGUIST LIST 31.3930 FYI: LECTURE SERIES/ONLINE HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3930/ LINGUIST LIST 31.3931 FYI: DE GRUYTER MOUTON ACQUIRES THE LINGUISTICS JOURNAL PHONETICA HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3931/ LINGUIST LIST 31.3932 FYI: DECEMBER 2020 NEWSLETTER - LDC HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3932/ LINGUIST LIST 31.3954 FYI:

Fund: December 2020 Holiday Issues

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HERE ARE THE JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS PUBLISHED DURING OUR DECEMBER 2020 HOLIDAY BREAK, IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM. VISIT THE LINKS BELOW TO READ MORE! LINGUIST LIST 31.3933 JOBS: CHINESE, MANDARIN; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; PRAGMATICS; SEMANTICS; SYNTAX: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3933/ LINGUIST LIST 31.3940 JOBS: GERMAN; TRANSLATION: FULL PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3940/

Fund: December 2020 Holiday Issues

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HERE ARE THE CALLS FOR PAPERS PUBLISHED DURING OUR DECEMBER 2020 HOLIDAY BREAK, IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM. VISIT THE LINKS BELOW TO READ MORE! LINGUIST LIST 31.3985 CALLS: APPLIED LINGUISTICS, DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, GENERAL LINGUISTICS, PRAGMATICS, SOCIOLINGUISTICS, TEXT/CORPUS LINGUISTICS / JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND DISCRIMINATION (JRNL) HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3985/ LINGUIST LIST 31.3986 CALLS: APPLIED LINGUISTICS / DIDACTICAE (JRNL) HTTPS://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/ISSUES/31/31-3986/ LING

All: In Memoriam: Leonid Leonidovich Kasatkin

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On 13 September 2020, Professor Leonid Leonidovich Kasatkin, an outstanding Russian linguist, a world-class authority on Russian phonetics and dialectology, Head of the Department of Dialectology at the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences between 1996 and 2012, a Second World War veteran, a strong and courageous man, passed away. Leonid Kasatkin’s academic heritage comprises about 400 works. Among them are monographs on the phonetics of Standard Russian and

All: Holiday Recess Reminder

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Dear subscribers, This is a reminder that The LINGUIST List will be on its holiday recess from Friday December 18, 2020 until Monday January 4, 2021, and that the submission deadline is tomorrow December 16, 2020. During that time, except for emergencies, we cannot guarantee that announcements will be posted. Although the website will be available, some pages may not be updated during that time. Except for emergencies, submissions we receive after tomorrow, December 16, 2020, will most

All: Happy 30th Birthday, LINGUIST List!

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On December 13, 1990, The LINGUIST List was officially born online! Our very first message went out over the list (see it here: https://old.linguistlist.org/issues/1/1-0.html) and we never could have imagined the way LINGUIST would become a world-wide community of academic linguists and language enthusiasts. No other discipline has anything comparable to what LINGUIST List has become! Just as then, we continue to bring you the very foremost in linguistics news, publications, and job announce

All: Holiday Recess

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Dear subscribers, The LINGUIST List will be on its holiday recess from Friday December 18, 2020 until Monday January 4, 2021. During that time, except for emergencies, we cannot guarantee to post issues. Although the website will be available, some pages may not be updated during that time. Except for emergencies, submissions we receive after December 16, 2020 will most likely not be posted until after we return on January 4, 2021. Anyone wishing to submit an emergency message, plea

All: Obituary: Ferenc Kiefer (1931-2020)

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Ferenc Kiefer, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, winner of the prestigious Széchenyi Prize and the Gold Medal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Professor Emeritus of Eötvös Loránd University, member of the Academia Europaea, London, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, Paris, died on November 21, 2020, not long before his 90th birthday. He was also Honorary Member of the American Linguistic Society and of the British Philological Society, Do

All: In Memoriam: Giovanni Parodi Sweis

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In Memoriam: Giovanni Parodi Sweis With a very heavy heart and with great sadness we would like to let the academic community know that on 14 November 2020 we lost the very much appreciated and loved linguist, colleague and friend, Giovanni Parodi Sweis. Giovanni was professor and researcher at the Institute of Literature and Language Sciences at the Centre for Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. His academic life has always been connected to the Catholic U

Fund: Cyber Monday Reminder: Shop via AmazonSmile to support LINGUIST List!

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All: Thank you from the LINGUIST List

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Fund: Fund Drive: A Closing Message

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DEAR ALL, WE ARE WRAPPING UP FOR THIS YEAR! WE HAVE COLLECTED APPROXIMATELY $24,000 IN DONATIONS FROM 43 COUNTRIES! THE WINNER IN THE UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE THIS YEAR IS INDIANA UNIVERSITY, WITH WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY IN SECOND PLACE, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE THIRD PLACE. SPECIAL THANKS GO TO THE COLLEAGUES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, THE INSTITUTION WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS. IN THE SUBFIELD CHALLENGE, THE WINNER IS: SYNTAX! THANK YOU ALL FROM

Fund: Staff Letter: Nils Hjortnaes

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HELLO ALL, MY NAME IS NILS. MY MAIN ROLE HERE AT THE LINGUIST LIST IS TO WORK ON THE NEW WEBSITE (HTTPS://NEW.LINGUISTLIST.ORG/). LAST FUND DRIVE IT HADN’T OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED YET, SO I’M EXCITED TO HAVE IT OFFICIALLY UP AND RUNNING, EVEN AS WE CONTINUE TO ADD TO AND IMPROVE IT. BESIDES WORKING AT THE LINGUIST LIST, I AM A PHD STUDENT AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY, OUR HOST INSTITUTION. MY PRIMARY INTEREST, IN A VERY BROAD SENSE, IS COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE DOC

Fund: Final Advisor's Challenge!

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THE SECOND AND FINAL ADVISORS CHALLENGE! LAST CHANCE FOR YOUR DONATION TO BE MATCHED! EXCITING NEWS! LINGUIST LIST’S BOARD HAS GRACIOUSLY PLEDGED TO MATCH $500 IF WE CAN RAISE $500 OF OUR OWN WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY THAT YOUR DONATION OF UP TO $500 CAN HAVE DOUBLE THE IMPACT! $500 IS ONLY HALF OF THE PRICE OF A ONE-NIGHT STAY AT THE FOUR SEASONS RESORT IN BORA BORA! BUT WE UNDERSTAND IF YOU, LIKE US, PROBABLY CAN’T AFFORD A TRIP TO BORA BORA ANYTIME SOON. A DONATION OF A