Challenge Update – The Countdown has begun!
In our last week of the Challenges, here is the latest update on who is in the lead! Donate before Sunday to support your team, and invite your colleagues to do so as well!...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2017 Fund Drive Champions!
Dear Subscribers, We did it!! We’ve met our Advisor’s Challenge, with $40,102.55 donated collectively by 805 of you! Congratulations and thank you for helping us meet this Challenge! With the end of...
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The Spring 2017 LINGUIST List Fund Drive is over! Thank you!
Dear Colleagues, Linguist List supporters, linguistics and language lovers, The Spring 2017 LINGUIST List Fund Drive is over! With more than $ 40,000 donated by 814 of you, we’ve decided to close the...
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Meet our 2017 Interns!
This summer we have been joined by seven new interns, who are working on projects like redesigning our website, developing new speech corpora, learning the ropes of editing, and more! Learn more about...
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Featured Linguist: David Stifter
Featured Linguist: David Stifter Why am I a linguist ‒ A tale of three spells 1. Under the spell of Celtic I remember when I first encountered the word ‘Celtic‘. I was around eight years old and had to...
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How does Linguistics shape a Criminal Investigation?
Dear LINGUIST readers, This week, following our Fund Drive theme of “Linguistics on the Silver Screen”, we are highlighting another depiction of linguistics in media: the role of linguistic clues in...
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Rising Stars: Meet Michelle Michimani Leyva
For several years, we have featured linguists with established careers and interesting stories to tell. This year, we will also be highlighting “Rising Stars” throughout our Fund Drive, undergraduates...
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A History of Pop Culture ConLangs Part III: Dothraki, Valyrian, and How...
Welcome to part III of our series on fictional constructed languages, which is part of this year’s Fund Drive theme, linguistics and pop culture. ConLangs—and we do mean languages constructed for...
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Featured Linguist: Wannie Carstens
MY CAREER IN (AFRIKAANS) LINGUISTICS I grew up in Namibia (in the 1950’s and 1960’s) where I was exposed to a real multilingual world: German (as Namibia is a former German protectorate, end of 19th...
View ArticleFun Fact: Multitree edition
Hey everyone, Ken here with another fun fact for our 2018 Fund Drive campaign. Did you know that LINGUIST List maintains a number of different projects in addition to our listserv, website and social...
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