Dear Colleagues,
My name is Malgosia Cavar. I am a linguist. I am one of you. I started reading grammar books for fun and pleasure at the age of 11, and – after shortly considering a career as a psychologist – I became a linguist, and since then I have been happy to convey the linguistic good news to the innocent out there. The LINGUIST List has been with me since my student years more than 10 years ago. The jobs I have applied for were announced over the LINGUIST List, and when I plan my conference schedule, I check the LINGUIST List database first. I can hardly function professionally without the LINGUIST List.
For the last two years I have another reason why I cannot imagine my professional life without the LINGUIST List. I have the honor to be a part of the Institute for Language Information and Technology (ILIT) at EMU, the home of the LINGUIST List, where since Fall 2012 I have run MultiTree, a sister project of the LINGUIST List, and participated in the operations of the LINGUIST List itself.
We work hard to provide the service you are used to, so that no linguist is left without the information about the conferences they want to attend, or the deadlines for abstracts they want to submit, the jobs they want to apply for, the books they might have overlooked, if not announced over the LINGUIST List. But we can offer more than that. This year we plan to bring to you a number of new services and innovative features that we in the LINGUIST’s office are all excited about – but we need your support.
We know you are there. We know that we have on average 200,000 unique visitors per month on our web pages. Many of you live outside of the United States, and especially for you, I want to stress again – the LINGUIST List is not state-funded, nor does it have official institutional sponsors apart from the Eastern Michigan University. Please make a donation. Even small donations will help significantly.
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm
Malgosia Cavar
