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TheLINGUIST List is 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 Foundation in the United States.[2] Its main and oldest feature is the premoderatedelectronic mailing list, with subscribers all over the world.
Between 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 University was 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 Theory and opened by the keynote address byHoward Lasnik.[4] 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 nearbyEastern Michigan University. In 2013, Aristar-Dry and Aristar retired fromEastern Michigan University andDamir Cavar became the moderator and director of operations. In 2014Malgorzata E. Cavar became the second moderator. In 2014, LINGUIST List was moved toIndiana University and it has been hosted at the Department of Linguistics since then, withDamir Cavar andMalgorzata E. Cavar as 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 Foundation to do this work.[5][failed verification]
The LINGUIST List hosts two mailing lists LINGUIST and LINGLITE:
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]
The LINGUIST List has been one of the resources for the creation of the newISO 639-3 language identification standard (aiming to classify all known languages with an alpha-3language code).[11] While theEthnologue was used as the resource fornatural languages currently in use, Linguist List has provided the information on historic varieties, ancient languages,international auxiliary languages andconstructed languages.
The LINGUIST List has also received grants for
The EMELD project[17] was the instigator of theGOLDontology, the furthest advanced of the current attempts to build an ontology for themorphosyntax of linguistic data.[18] It has also produced aphonetics ontology, based uponPeter Ladefoged's andIan Maddieson'sThe Sounds of the World's Languages.
Some projects emerged from funded or internal activities at LINGUIST List:
