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Linguistische Ressourcen: LINGUIST List The LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. LINGUIST is a free resource, run by linguistics professors and graduate students, and supported primarily by your donations.

Neben der "eigentlichen" Mailliste LinguistList werden noch Hunderte andere, spezifischere, maillisten gehostet, außerdem LInksammlungen und Datenbanken. Wer lange genug sucht, findet sogar ein Kochbuch für Linguisten

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"When I think about my first linguistics course, my mind wanders back to a large lecture hall in the mid-sixties at the University of Paris. Around 300 of us were attending a lecture on English Linguistics taught by Antoine Culioli. Suddenly, in his quiet voice, Culioli asked, "Is François Grosjean there?". I raised my hand and he continued, "Tell me, in British English, would you say ...(X)... or would you say ...(Y)...?". Because of my secondary schooling in England, I was one of the (quasi) native speakers that lecturers would call upon as linguistic informants. I don't remember the two alternatives Culioli gave me but I believe they concerned some very subtle difference in the use of a preposition. With 299 pairs of eyes looking at me, and not really seeing how the two alternatives diverged, I ventured, "The former, I think!". Culioli nodded his head and replied, "Yes, that's what I thought". He continued his lecture and I sat back and breathed a sigh of relief. Since then, I have the greatest respect for people who are informants!"

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"Before getting to university, I had never heard of linguistics as an academic discipline and only found out about it during my first term, when I was studying English and law. As part of the English program, I had to take an introduction to (English) linguistics and another class on the linguistic analysis of texts (nowadays widely generally known as discourse analysis). And I was immediately hooked. Here there was a way of looking at language and grammar very different from how things were done at high school where most language teaching focused on learning vocabulary." (Click here to read more!)

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The LINGUIST List Fund Drive has begun! Let the LL Crew take you on a journey through lands of linguistic excitement and punnery. Check out our epic gear on the Rewards for Valor page, and stop by the Bard's Corner to hear this year's Fund Drive Song. Godspeed!

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LL-MAP Team Leader Matthew Lahrman talks about what LL-MAP is and how linguists can use it.

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The LINGUIST List blog has moved! Please visit our new URL at

http://linguistlist.org/blog/

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All-New SpecGram (August 2011) Online

From Trey Jones, Managing Editor of Speculative Grammarian:

The August 2011 issue of Speculative Grammarian--the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics--is now available online for your browsing pleasure.  http://SpecGram.com/CLXII.3/  Included in this bitchin' issue--tons of gnarly articles, including a guide to the history of linguistics based on example sentences, a veritable slew of lucrative advertisements, a bit of QR-code-induced insanity, a very special announcement from the editors of SpecGram, and a fresh batch of things you didn't know you didn't know--along with the usual mass of bomb diggity letters from our readers, movie reviews, book announcements, puzzles, and more...  Next time (September 2011), we will have another all-new issue of Speculative Grammarian.  Enjoy!