Featured 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...
View ArticleReminder: Donate by Friday to Win a Prize from One of Our Supporting Publishers
Dear Fellow Linguists, Colleagues and Subscribers, In case you missed the announcement last Friday (https://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-1660.html), we are running another publisher prize giveaway...
View ArticleAnother Week, Another Fund Drive Prize Lottery: Donate to Win!
Dear Fellow Linguists, Colleagues and Subscribers, There are still a couple hours left to donate if you want to enter in this week’s Fund Drive publisher prize lottery (read the list of prizes here:...
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...
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: 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,...
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,...
View ArticleFund Drive 2016: Want to Win a Publisher Prize? Donate to Win!
Dear LINGUIST List Colleagues, Today we are rolling out another bundle of books and journal subscription prizes for this weekend, one of which you can win if you donate to the LINGUIST List Fund Drive...
View ArticleFeatured Linguist: Milan Mihaljević
Featured Linguist: Milan Mihaljević My decision to become a linguist owes much to happenstance. At eighteen I was, like many teenagers, in the metaphysical phase, searching for the meaning of life....
View ArticleFund Drive 2016: Donate by Friday to Win a Prize!
Dear LINGUIST List Colleagues, Today we are rolling out another bundle of books and journal subscription prizes for this weekend, one of which you can win if you donate to the LINGUIST List Fund Drive...
View ArticleWelcome, 2016 Summer Interns and Volunteers!
This summer, we are excited to welcome to the team 9 interns and volunteers! They are working on various projects such as Geoling and LL-Map, and they are also contributing to research on endangered...
View ArticleA new year, a new LINGUIST List crew: introducing the 2016-2017 GAs!
Dear Readers, With the waning of the hot season here in Indiana, and the wrapping up of some of the summer projects at LINGUIST List (you’ll get to read more exciting news about this soon!), and after...
View ArticleHuge steps have been taken in LINGUIST List projects – Thank you, 2016 Summer...
The Fall breeze brought the beginning of a new semester along with it, and a new season for our team of highly motivated Summer Interns at LINGUIST List, who (for the most part) just left us for the...
View ArticleOn October 13th Baris Kabak visited Bloomington and the LINGUIST List
Prof. Baris Kabak, a colleague from Germany, was visiting LINGUIST List! “I am currently visiting Indiana University from Würzburg, Germany, where I am a professor of English Linguistics at the...
View ArticleLinguist List at LSA
Hey everyone, This is Ken at the LINGUIST List. I just wanted to let all of you know that we will be at the Linguistic Society of America conference in Austin, Texas in January...
View ArticleLINGUIST List Holiday Recess
Hey everyone! This is Ken again. I just wanted to wish everyone Happy Holidays. We will be closing on Saturday for the holiday season. We reopen on the 2nd. This simply means that new submissions that...
View ArticleGeoLing shows linguistic events and institutions on a global map
The LINGUIST List has added a new service to its set of web applications: GeoLing GeoLing allows you to submit announcements of local linguistic events. See for details the HOWTO page of GeoLing. It...
View ArticleLINGUIST List on Amazon Echo / via Alexa
Dear linguists, Alexa (Amazon Echo) just got a new Flash Briefing channel. You can add The LINGUIST List Flash Briefing with your Alexa app to your Amazon Echo (Dot) or Tap. The new settings will allow...
View ArticleThe LINGUIST List Team at the LSA Annual Meeting 2017 in Austin, Texas
The LINGUIST List team at the booth at LSA Annual Meeting in Austin, demonstrating GeoLing, Alexa’s Flash Briefing LINGUIST List module, and many other new projects… This is probably the first time...
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