Everything about Linguist List totally explained
The LINGUIST List is the major on-line resource for the academic field of
linguistics. It was founded by
Anthony Aristar in early
1990 at the
University of Western Australia. Its main and oldest feature is the premoderated
electronic mailing list, now with thousands of subscribers all over the world, where queries and their summarized results, discussions, journal table of contents, dissertation abstracts, calls for papers, book and conference announcements, software notices and other useful pieces of linguistic information are posted.
History
The LINGUIST List is one of the oldest academic organizations on the web. Since 1991 the resource has been run by Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry. In 1991 it moved from Australia to
Texas A&M University, and
Eastern Michigan University was established as the main editing site. Already in 1994 there were over 5,000 subscribers.
(External Link
) From October 14 through November 6, 1996, it held its first on-line conference,
Geometric and Thematic Structure in Binding, devoted to the
Binding Theory and opened by the keynote address by
Howard Lasnik.
(External Link) LINGUIST List moved from Texas A&M to its own site in 1997.
Wayne State University in Michigan was established as the second editing site in 1998, but in 2006 all its operations moved to
Eastern Michigan University. The LINGUIST List is funded by grants from the
National Science Foundation as well as by donations from supporting publishers, institutions and its subscribers during the
fund drive month each spring. In recent years it has become a site for research into linguistic infrastructure on the web, and has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation to do this work.
Projects
The LINGUIST List has been one of the main resources for the creation of the new
ISO 639-3 language identification standard (aiming to classify all known languages with an alpha-3
language code). While the
Ethnologue was used as the resource for
natural languages currently in use, Linguist List has provided the information on historic varieties, ancient languages,
international auxiliary languages and
constructed languages.
The LINGUIST List has also received grants for the EMELD Project, designed to build infrastructure to facilitate the preservation of endangered languages data, the DATA project, designed to digitize data for the
Dena'ina language, the LL-MAP project, designed to produce a comprehensive
GIS site for language, and the MultiTree project, designed to produce a complete database and tree-viewing facility to study language relationships. The EMELD project was the instigator of the GOLD
ontology, the furthest advanced of the current attempts to build an ontology for the
morphosyntax of linguistic data. It has also produced a
phonetics ontology, based upon
Peter Ladefoged's and
Ian Maddieson's
The Sounds of the World's Languages.
Further Information
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