Submit to the LINGUIST List

There are three general requirements for posting to LINGUIST:

• Linguistic Relevance: the message must contain substantial linguistic content, as opposed to, for example, literary or computational.
• Global Relevance: the message must be relevant to linguists everywhere, and should not target only those in a specific locality.
• Academic Relevance: the message should have a wide interest in the linguistic community, and the writer should be well-informed about the topic being discussed. Content should not be too basic, redundant, or easily referenced.

The LINGUIST List site and mailing list provide online distribution of user-submitted information. The user-submitted information does not necessarily reflect the views of LINGUIST List nor does the LINGUIST List assume any responsibility or liability arising from the user-submitted information.

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Archiving of Posted Material

The LINGUIST List, a U.S. Library of Congress registered journal (ISSN: 1068 - 4875), is devoted to the principle of free access to information for all its readers. Concommitant with that ideal, every issue that LINGUIST posts for distribution to subscribers is retained in a permanent online archive. In addition, The LINGUIST List provides hosting and archival services to over 100 other linguistics-related mailing lists.

Editor Approval

All postings are subject to editor approval. Nothing is mailed to the subscriber list - or appears on the website - until an editor has reviewed and approved the submission. This process should not take longer than 48 business hours, and it usually happens within 24 hours. We occasionally do light editing of messages to bring them into conformity with our policies. Since returning a message to the sender for editing retards the ongoing discussion we do this only if more substantial editing is needed.

General Posting Policies

We do not post messages which are political in nature, or include calls to action of any kind. LINGUIST has subscribers from over 100 different countries, who are drawn together solely by their interest in linguistics. We try to respect that orientation by avoiding discussion of national or international politics, since such discussion not only detracts from the primary purpose of the list but also tends to be of interest only to subscribers within the affected countries. We discourage discussion so heated that it may be construed as personal, as we feel that a professional tone is conducive to academic inquiry--as well as to the comfort of the greatest number of subscribers. For similar reasons, we do not post complaints against, or disparagement of, named individuals and institutions. Since it is impossible for us to check the validity of negative allegations, we prefer not to be responsible for broadcasting these to the linguistic community. Our resources do not allow us to announce existing linguistics programs and fellowships via the email list, although we do announce new ones. Instead, we encourage existing programs to register in our searchable programs database.

Refund Policies

Payments for announcements/advertisements will be refunded if the announcement is not accepted for publication, or if it is reclassified to be published as a free-of-charge service. Refunds will be processed as soon as possible, for the credit card payments latest within 2 working days after the decision of the refund has been communicated to the submitter.

Problems

If you have a question about a submission that has not been posted within 48 business hours, you should e-mail your concerns directly to linguist Linguist List linguistlist.org.