Fun Fact: Conferences Edition
Hey everyone! This is Kenneth again. One of our most popular posting areas is Conferences and Calls for Papers. I am the main editor who posts in this area. We receive submissions from conferences all...
View ArticleFeatured Linguist: Robert A. Coté
Featured Linguist: Robert A. Coté I am not your typical linguist. In fact, my first degree is in meteorology with a minor in math! Despite this, I have always been fascinated with languages – most...
View ArticleA Generous Letter from the Great Trey Jones! (SpecGram)
In Generous Support of the LINGUIST List The brilliant Trey Jones Editor-in-Chief of the hilarious Speculative Grammarian Almost a quarter of a century ago back in the stone age I alone created the...
View Article5th Lottery: Raising the stakes, 3 prizes to win!
Dear Subscribers, We’ve just done the draw for the 4th Lottery, which ended yesterday! Our first prize was won by Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino from Temple University, PA, USA, who won two prizes, by...
View ArticleFun Fact: Easy Abs Edition
Hey everyone! This is Kenneth again. I’m here to let you know about Easy Abs. This area of the LINGUIST List ties in with my last Fun Fact on Conferences and Calls for papers. Easy Abs is a FREE and...
View ArticleTravel the globe with us once again!
Dear LINGUIST Listers, Happy Friday! Now that it’s the weekend, you may think you have the chance to sit back and relax… but think again, because the next edition of the Great LINGUIST Treasure Hunt is...
View ArticleIncredible Parrot Speech Decoded As 300 Years Old English Dialect
Puerto Lempira, Honduras —- Shrouded in mystery and dense rain forest, the region known as La Mosquitia In SE H is one of the largest and least explored wilderness areas in Central America. It adjoins...
View ArticleFun Fact: Easy Abs Edition
Fun Fact: Easy Abs Edition Hey everyone! This is Kenneth again. I’m here to let you know about Easy Abs. This area of the LINGUIST List ties in with my last Fun Fact on Conferences and Calls for...
View ArticleFeaturing LL Programmer: Lwin Moe!
This week, we’re putting in the spot light a key person at LINGUIST List, the glue that holds us all together: our programmer Lwin Moe! Of course, we editors review all your submissions and make sure...
View ArticleA Day Without the LINGUIST List
Dear readers, Tomorrow, from midnight EST April 5 to midnight EST April 6, the LINGUIST List webpage will be offline. In addition, we will not post the usual dozens of issues and announcements. We are...
View ArticleA Word of Thanks
Dear readers, Yesterday, for the first time ever, the LINGUIST List was offline for the day. For 24 hours, we did not send out the usual dozens of issues, blog posts, or tweets. We hoped to raise...
View ArticleFun Fact: Funding Sources
Hey everyone! Thank you once again for your overwhelming support yesterday! You may be curious what the LINGUIST List needs your donations for. Currently, we have four main sources of funding: Our...
View ArticleFeatured Linguist: Nicoletta Calzolari
We are proud to share with our readers the next featured linguist of our 2017 Fund Drive: Nicoletta Calzolari. We hope that you enjoy reading Dr. Calzolari’s thoughts on her long and varied career as a...
View ArticleAn update on the Fund Drive Challenges!
Dear Faithful Readership, We received many donations in just one day, on Wednesday during our Day without the LINGUIST List. This event has raised awareness for our cause. We are so thankful for those...
View ArticleFeaturing: Yue Chen, LINGUIST List Editor
This week, we’re featuring Yue Chen, one of the five LINGUIST List Editors! Yue Chen comes all the way from China (find out all about her home town here ). By donating to the LINGUIST List...
View ArticleThe 6th Lottery is happening NOW! Donate to win!
Dear LINGUIST List subscribers, Congratulations to our three winners for last week’s Fund Drive Lottery! It’s now time for the LINGUIST List 6th Lottery! By entering, you are not only supporting the...
View ArticleTry your wits with some SpecGram puzzles!
Have you tried your wits yet in our Puzzle of the week? There’s still time to win some Speculative Grammarian gear! On GeoLing (http://geoling.linguistlist.org/), visit the scenic island location...
View ArticleTop 10 Non-USA Universities in Donations to the LINGUIST List
Dear Linguists of the world, In our recent Challenge updates, we’ve focused on the top Universities to have collectively donated to the LINGUIST List. Most of these are in the USA. But in so doing we...
View Article#whyIlovethelinguistlist – Spread the Word!
Dear LINGUIST Listers, Thank you to all those who have donated so far during our Fund Drive! We are happy to say we are almost to $30 000… a dollar for every one of our users! However, donating isn’t...
View ArticleFun Fact: Donors so Far
Hey everyone! Thank you for the support you’ve shown for us! Here is a graph showing the number of donors versus the number of job posts on the listserv. Full Map The colors come from the ratio of...
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