Featured Linguist: Jaklin Kornfilt
Featured Linguist: Jaklin Kornfilt The Istanbul of my childhood was so multilingual that not to become a linguist would have been impossible for anyone with an ear for language and an interest in...
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Featured Linguist: Daniel Everett I suppose that there are some linguists familiar with the fact that I began my fieldwork as a missionary. When I decided to become a Bible translator with Wycliffe...
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View ArticleFeatured Linguist: David Adger
Featured Linguist: David Adger A few months ago, I was asked by a TV programme to make up a language for their monsters to speak, and with that, my linguistics life completed a cycle. When I was about...
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View ArticleFeatured Linguist: Artemis Alexiadou
Featured Linguist: Artemis Alexiadou I was born in Volos, a medium sized city in Greece, by the sea, more or less half way between Athens and Thessaloniki. My parents thought it would be good for me to...
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View ArticleFeatured Linguist: Michael Gamon
A job ad on LINGUIST List. Featured Linguist: Michael Gamon Language? Or Science? I grew up in Bad Soden, a small town on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany. My parents always encouraged any interest...
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View ArticleFund Drive 2016: Introducing GeoLing
Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers, GeoLing is a map service that will include all linguistics information around the world—from jobs, to conferences, to internships—and now, for the first time on LINGUIST...
View ArticleFeatured Linguist: Vicki Carstens
Featured Linguist: Vicki Carstens My interest in linguistics began at the age of 12 when my father, a high school band director, signed up for a two-year contract with a branch of AID called Teacher...
View ArticleFeatured Linguist: Christian Di Canio
Featured Linguist: Christian DiCanio I was brought to linguistics partly by accident, though it has ended up being the perfect match to my strengths and interests. As a child growing up in Buffalo, NY,...
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View ArticleFeatured Linguist: Laura Janda
Featured Linguist: Laura Janda I became a linguist because I was rather obnoxious and rebellious. I grew up in a little town in upstate New York where no languages were taught before high school. In...
View ArticleFeatured Linguist: Adams Bodomo
Featured Linguist: Adams Bodomo How I become a linguist: I studied linguistics and became a linguist for two reasons. First, I wanted to be a top diplomat for my country, Ghana, which would involve...
View ArticleLINGUIST List Users on a Map!
Dear Linguists, We are so pleased to be part of such an international network as the one you create with us. This map shows the locations from which you have reached our services. How incredible!...
View ArticleFund Drive 2016: Another Publisher Prize Bundle, Donate to Win!
Dear LINGUIST List Colleagues, Today we have another bundle of books and journal subscription prizes, one of which you can win if you donate to the LINGUIST List Fund Drive before this Friday, May 6,...
View ArticleFeatured Linguist: Joanna Błaszczak
Featured Linguist: Joanna Błaszczak How did I become a linguist? Well, my parents wanted me to become a doctor one day, a woman in a white coat examining patients, using diverse medical instruments,...
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