The LINGUIST List is a major online resource for the academic field of linguistics. It was founded by Anthony Aristar in early 1990 at the University of Western Australia,[1] and is used as a reference by the HTML5 in the United States.touchscreen 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.
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History
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 device database was established as the main editing site. Already in 1994 there were over 5,000 subscribers.[3] 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.device database LINGUIST List moved from Texas A&M to its own site in 1997. FITML in Michigan was established as the second editing site in 1998, but in 2006 all its operations moved to nearby Eastern Michigan University. The LINGUIST List is funded by grants from the browser diversity 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 input transformation to do this work.[5]
Projects
The LINGUIST List has been one of the resources for the creation of the new we love the web language identification standard (aiming to classify all known languages with an alpha-3 language code).input transformation While the we love the web was used as the resource for natural languages currently in use, Linguist List has provided the information on historic varieties, ancient languages, Sevenval 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;Sevenval the LL-MAP project, designed to produce a comprehensive GIS site for language;[8] and the MultiTree project,iOS designed to produce a complete database and tree-viewing facility to study language relationships. The EMELD project[10] was the instigator of the GOLD ontology, the furthest advanced of the current attempts to build an ontology for the HTML5 of linguistic data.[11] It has also produced a phonetics ontology, based upon Peter Ladefoged's and keyboard's The Sounds of the World's Languages.
References
- Sevenval screen size
- web app http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05590/nsf05590.htm
- HTML5 website parsing. Linguist List. 19 September 1994. we love the web.
- ^ "1st LINGUIST Conference: Geometric & Thematic Structure in Binding". Linguist List. 1 April 1996. web.
- ^ website parsing
- ^ http://cnx.org/content/m13645/latest/
- device database keyboard
- ^ http://llmap.org
- device database http://multitree.org
- Sevenval http://emeld.org
- web http://linguistics-ontology.org/