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Welcome Linguist List editor!

Welcome to Wikipedia! I look forward to working with the Linguistlist editor on editing theoretical linguistics content! Please check out the WikiProject Theoretical Linguistics page! mitcho/芳貴 20:40, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

dialect map

Hi,

Just a modest suggestion, which you can of course decline if you like... There's no dialect map article (though it may exist under a different name). I figured you'd be a good person to write one so I'm dropping a hint. :-) It would be good to have two illustrations: one stylized/simple (Rhenish fan?) and one more detailed... Ling.Nut 15:18, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Need a linguist

Hi Hannah. I am looking for someone to rewrite the Spelling reform articles. I have been communicating with Black Falcon & he recomended finding somebody involved with the language project on this issue. I believe the article is biased and not very useful for the reader. I would do it myself, but as someone who has a vested interest, it wouldn't be appropriate. Is there anyone who may be interested in this particular topic?JO 753 20:36, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi JO I clicked on your name and couldn't find a talk page or email so I'll post a response here and hope you check it. I can send a request for a volunteer editor to do the article around the end of next week (6/13). -Hannah --Linguistlist 15:29, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Some pages needing attention

I just took 45 minutes and compiled a list of articles I think should have attention on my user page (see user page for Ewan Dunbar).

The Sociolinguistics page currently has subheadings for variation linked to class, region, age, and gender. Each of these might warrant its own page, or at least some attention on the Sociolinguistics page. There is currently a Dialectology page, but no information concerning region on the Sociolinguistics page beyond a link to it. It would be wonderful if the Dialectology page editors would add a few lines to the Sociolinguistics page; it would also be great if someone(s) would undertake to create pages related to language and social class, age-linked language variation, and language and gender. Unfortunately I don't have the time to undertake any of these programs myself. I am therefore pleading for your help. I am also posting this message at the talk:Dialectology and talk:Sociolinguistics pages. Cnilep (talk) 19:52, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Tanya Reinhart

A Wikipedia article for Tanya Reinhart already exists, but of course she is not primarily known as a linguist. --Haspelmath 12:28, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

R.M.R. Hall

Hi, Hannah! I just created a page for the late Professor R.M.R. Hall yesterday and could use some information for expansion. I've emailed the Queens College Linguistics department, as well as a direct email to Robert Vago, the department chair. Any further help or information you could give would be greatly appreciated! --Procrastinatrix 19:07, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi again, Hannah! Last night while cleaning my room, I found a full-page article from the QC Quad, written by one of Professor Hall's students shortly after his death. There is a photo and lots of biographical information. My trouble is, the article isn't online. Is there a way I can cite a hardcopy article? I'm not even sure the QC Quad newspaper is still being published at Queens College. I'm going to see if I can locate the columnist, but if I can't, what are my options? --Procrastinatrix 15:08, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Glottopedia

For more specialized content, linguists can use Glottopedia, an encyclopedia of linguistics by linguists. This has no notability requirement, i.e. articles can be written on any (dead) linguist, and on any specialized term of linguistics (e.g. semantic macrorole, adfix, intrasentential codeswitching, etc.). --Haspelmath 08:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Determiners at English Wiktionary

Over at the English Wiktionary, it appears that we may be facing a vote regarding whether to allow determiner as a "part of speech heading" for English words. Anyone willing to make arguments for or against should make themselves heard here.--Brett (talk) 14:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)