[Summary]
The LINGUIST List was founded by Anthony Rodrigues Aristar in 1990
at the University of Western Australia, with 60 subscribers,
before moving to Texas A&M University in 1991, with Eastern
Michigan University established as the main editing site for the
list. In 1997, emails sent to the distribution list were also
available on the list's own website, in several sections: the
profession (conferences, linguistic associations, programs),
research and research support (papers, dissertation abstracts,
projects, bibliographies, topics, texts), publications, pedagogy,
language resources (languages, language families, dictionaries,
regional information), and computer support (fonts and software).
The LINGUIST List is a component of the WWW Virtual Library for
linguistics.
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The LINGUIST List was founded by Anthony Rodrigues Aristar in 1990
at the University of Western Australia, as a mailing list for
academic linguists.
With 60 subscribers, it moved to Texas A&M University in 1991,
with Eastern Michigan University being established as the main
editing site for the list.
In 1997, emails sent to the distribution list were also available
on the list's own website, in several sections: the profession
(conferences, linguistic associations, programs), research and
research support (papers, dissertation abstracts, projects,
bibliographies, topics, texts), publications, pedagogy, language
resources (languages, language families, dictionaries, regional
information), and computer support (fonts and software). The
LINGUIST List is a component of the WWW Virtual Library for
linguistics.
Helen Dry, co-moderator of the LINGUIST List since 1991, wrote in
August 1998: "The LINGUIST List, which I moderate, has a policy of
posting in any language, since it is a list for linguists. However,
we discourage posting the same message in several languages,
simply because of the burden extra messages put on our editorial
staff. (We are not a bounce-back list, but a moderated one. So
each message is organized into an issue with like messages by our
student editors before it is posted.) Our experience has been that
almost everyone chooses to post in English. But we do link to a
translation facility that will present our pages in any of five
languages; so a subscriber need not read LINGUIST in English
unless s/he wishes to. We also try to have at least one student
editor who is genuinely multilingual, so that readers can
correspond with us in languages other than English."
She added in July 1999: "We are beginning to collect some primary
data. For example, we have searchable databases of dissertation
abstracts relevant to linguistics, of information on graduate and
undergraduate linguistics programs, and of professional
information about individual linguists. The dissertation abstracts
collection is, to my knowledge, the only freely available
electronic compilation in existence.