TheLINGUIST Listis an online resource for the academic field oflinguistics.It was founded by Anthony Aristar in early 1990 at theUniversity of Western Australia,[1]and is used as a reference by theNational Science Foundationin the United States.[2]Its main and oldest feature is the premoderatedelectronic mailing list,with subscribers all over the world.
History
editBetween 1991 and 2013, the service was run by Anthony Aristar andHelen Aristar-Dry.In 1991, it moved from Australia toTexas A&M University,andEastern Michigan Universitywas established as the main editing site.[citation needed]By 1994, there were over 5,000 subscribers.[3]From 14 October through 6 November 1996, it held its first on-line conference,Geometric and Thematic Structure in Binding,devoted to theBinding Theoryand opened by the keynote address byHoward Lasnik.[4]LINGUIST List moved from Texas A&M to its own site in 1997.Wayne State Universityin Michigan was established as the second editing site in 1998, but in 2006 all its operations moved to nearbyEastern Michigan University.In 2013, Aristar-Dry and Aristar retired fromEastern Michigan UniversityandDamir Cavarbecame the moderator and director of operations. In 2014Malgorzata E. Cavarbecame the second moderator. In 2014, LINGUIST List was moved toIndiana Universityand it has been hosted at the Department of Linguistics since then, withDamir CavarandMalgorzata E. Cavaras the co-directors of the resource operations.[citation needed]
The LINGUIST List is funded by its donations from supporting publishers, institutions and its subscribers during the fund drive month each spring. Some LINGUIST List projects were funded by grants from theNational Science Foundation.[citation needed]In recent years it has become a site for research into linguistic infrastructure on the web, and has received numerous grants from theNational Science Foundationto do this work.[5][failed verification]
Services
editThe LINGUIST List hosts two mailing lists LINGUIST and LINGLITE:
- LINGUIST,a mailing list that forwards all postings to the subscriber directly or as a daily digest.[6]
- LINGLITE,a mailing list that forwards once a day a list of postings with titles and links to the subscribers.[7]
The LINGUIST List mailing lists are free and open for subscription using a web interface.[8]
Everybody can submit postings to The LINGUIST List lists without being subscribed or in any way a registered member.[9]A web interface is used to submit postings to the lists.[10]
Projects
editThe LINGUIST List has been one of the resources for the creation of the newISO 639-3language identification standard (aiming to classify all known languages with an alpha-3language code).[11]While theEthnologuewas used as the resource fornatural languagescurrently in use, Linguist List has provided the information on historic varieties, ancient languages,international auxiliary languagesandconstructed languages.
The LINGUIST List has also received grants for
- the Catalogue of Endangered Languages project, a joint effort with theUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoato build the most reliable, up-to-date source of information on the world's endangered languages[12]
- the EMELD Project, designed to build infrastructure to facilitate the preservation of endangered languages data
- the DATA project, designed to digitise data for theDena'ina language[13]
- the LL-MAP project (defunct), designed to produce a comprehensiveGISsite for language;[14]
- theMultiTreeproject, designed to produce a complete database and tree-viewing facility to study language relationships.[15]Charged byISO 639to house data on coded languages that went extinct beforec. 1950.
- theAARDVARCproject, designed to address the problem of not transcribed, and therefore unavailable, documentation of understudied languages by building an interdisciplinary community of linguists, anthropologists, and computer scientists to share knowledge and collaborate on the specification of a repository and suite of tools to facilitate automatic or semi-automatic transcription and analysis of audio and visual information[16]
The EMELD project[17]was the instigator of theGOLDontology,the furthest advanced of the current attempts to build an ontology for themorphosyntaxof linguistic data.[18]It has also produced aphoneticsontology, based uponPeter Ladefoged's andIan Maddieson'sThe Sounds of the World's Languages.
Some projects emerged from funded or internal activities at LINGUIST List:
- GeoLing,aGIS-based information service that places events, jobs, institutions, conferences, and other announcements with a geo-location that are announced on LINGUIST List on the global map.[19]
- AskALing,a discussion forum and question and answer platform for linguistically relevant questions and issues.[20]
- GORILLA,a platform for archiving of language data, recordings, word lists, corpora, and technologies, and the development and conversion of language data to corpora and resources that bridge language documentation of low-resourced and endangered languages, andHuman Language Technology(HLT) andNatural Language Processing(NLP).[21]
See also
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References
edit- ^"About LINGUIST List".linguistlist.org.Archived fromthe originalon 15 June 2020.Retrieved23 December2010.
- ^"Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) nsf05590".
- ^"5.1005 LINGUIST subscription by country".Linguist List. 19 September 1994. Archived fromthe originalon 29 October 2007.
- ^"1st LINGUIST Conference: Geometric & Thematic Structure in Binding".Linguist List. 1 April 1996. Archived fromthe originalon 20 January 2021.
- ^"LINGIUST List – Projects".linguistlist.org.Archived fromthe originalon 18 September 2008.
- ^[1]The LINGUIST List: The LINGUIST Mailing List
- ^[2]The LINGUIST List: The LINGLITE Mailing List
- ^[3]Archived12 May 2022 at theWayback MachineThe LINGUIST List Subscription Page
- ^[4]Archived12 May 2022 at theWayback MachineThe LINGUIST List Subscription Interface
- ^[5]Archived18 May 2022 at theWayback MachineThe LINGUIST List Posting Submission Interface
- ^"OpenStax CNX".
- ^"Linguist List – Projects".The LINGUIST List. Archived fromthe originalon 31 October 2012.Retrieved30 October2012.
- ^"Dena'ina Qenaga – A Resource for the Dena'ina Language".qenaga.org.Archived fromthe originalon 1 December 2008.Retrieved23 December2010.
- ^"LL-Map".
- ^"About MultiTree".MultiTree.org.
- ^Malgosia Cavar, Damir Cavar."Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Audio and Video Resources Community".Archived fromthe originalon 13 October 2013.
- ^"E-MELD Homepage".emeld.org.
- ^"GOLD Community: General Ontology for Linguistic Description".
- ^[6]GeoLing:GIS-based linguistic events and information
- ^[7]Archived2023-05-05 at theWayback MachineAskALing:Linguistic Question and Answer platform
- ^[8]GORILLA:Global Open Resources and Information for Language and Linguistic Analysis