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New Evidence for Neanderthal Language Announced
YPSILANTI, Michigan – The controversy over whether Neanderthals possessed a capacity for language may have been resolved. After years of speculation by evolutionary anthropologists and geneticists, a...
View ArticleToday’s Prize is Up to Spec(Gram)! Donate to Win!
Dear LINGUIST List Readers, Today we’re proud to offer a prize from the first, foremost, and possibly only publisher of satirical linguistics: Speculative Grammarian! If you donate before 11:59 p.m....
View ArticleMaking the Most of LINGUIST: Additional and Special Interest Resources
Some LINGUIST resources aren’t so easy to classify. In this last letter, we’ve grouped some of the lesser-known features that may be of interest to you. LINGUIST has established a presence on a variety...
View ArticleGot an abstract? There are 218 conferences awaiting your submission.
Think about it: in your career, how many conferences have you gone to? How many have you presented at? How many abstracts have you submitted for papers, talks, poster sessions, panels, and colloquia?...
View ArticleStep right up and donate for your chance to win from Wiley Publishing!
Hello Readers! Thanks to the recent donation from Wiley Publishing, we are able to give away not one, not two, but THREE books! Bhatia and Ritchie / The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism,...
View ArticleChanges at LINGUIST List
Dear linguists, We have some news to announce. The LINGUIST List is moving. This will not affect the website or mailing lists. The postal address is changing, as well as our phone and fax numbers. The...
View ArticleDonate Today and Enter to Win a One-Year Journal Subscription from Elsevier!
Dear LINGUIST List Readers: It is that time of year again, fellow linguists. Today, LINGUIST List is kicking off our 2015 Fund Drive, where we ask you for donations. However, we try to make it worth...
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Startling Allegations Rock Historical Linguistics Community
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana – It has been an exciting week for the Indo-Europeanist community. While Monday saw the announcement of Bob’s Law, which derives the modern English Pez dispenser from the...
View ArticleWhat Makes LINGUIST List So Special?
Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers, Readers, Users, and Followers, There are many very important and interesting moderated lists for linguists on the internet that allow you to quickly post some...
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2015 Summer Interns and Volunteers
We at LINGUIST List are delighted this summer to open our doors to the 2015 Summer Interns! If you are interested in becoming an intern, be on the look-out for our application cycle to open again next...
View ArticleLINGUIST List Internships 2016
Dear linguists, colleagues, students, LINGUIST List will host another internship program during summer 2016. See for details the announcement on LINGUIST List. Please keep in mind that the dates of the...
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Featured Linguist: Ida Toivonen
Featured Linguist: Ida Toivonen In primary school and high school, my favourite subjects were languages and math. I later came to realize that this is true for many linguists. I did better in math...
View ArticleIntroduction to the LINGUIST List 2016 Fund Drive Publisher Lottery
Dear LINGUIST List Colleagues, It’s that time of year again, where we come to you, the linguistic community, the backbone of our organization, and ask that you chip in a donation to help support our...
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Featured Linguist: Gary Holton
Featured Linguist: Gary Holton My interest in linguistics arose during a sea kayak trip through Eastern Indonesia. Paddling slowly along the coast I picked up bits and pieces of languages that I heard...
View ArticleMidwest Speech and Language Days and Midwest Computational Linguistics...
The Midwest Speech and Language Days (MSLD) and Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC) 2016 are organized at IU. Please consult the conference page for more details:...
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Featured Linguist: Hana Filip
Featured Linguist: Hana Filip My first memories are tied to the awareness that beyond our small Czech speaking world there was an exciting multiplicity of languages out there, and along with it an...
View ArticleDonate to Enter and Win Our Publisher Prize Giveaway!
Dear Fellow Linguists, Today we are rolling out our first Publisher Prize lottery! In our lottery for this coming week, we are showcasing some pretty cool bundle of prizes from our Supporting...
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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...
View ArticleReminder: Donate by Friday to Enter Our Publisher Prize Lottery
Dear Fellow Linguists, Colleagues and Subscribers, In case you missed it over the week, this is a friendly reminder about our current publisher prize giveaway, which we announced on Friday...
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Featured Linguist: Daniel Everett
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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