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F-structure comparison meeting (Monday 9 Sept 4:00 pm-6:00 pm (UTC+1))
by Chit Fung LAM (Lawrence) 30 Aug '24

30 Aug '24

Dear colleagues, Our next LFG f-structure comparison meeting will be held online on *Monday 9 Sept from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (UTC+1)*. The meeting will follow a new structure, and will consist of two parts. In the first half, we will discuss any issues of linguistic analysis and/or technical XLE issues in relation to computational grammars under development by participants. If you are developing an XLE grammar and are having any issues with XLE or your grammar, you can discuss these issues in the first half of the meeting. In the second half, depending on how much time is remaining, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for translational equivalents of the following sentences: 19. The tractor that the farmer bought is red. 20. The man who bought the tractor left. 21. The store the farmer bought the tractor from closed. The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available on the INESS page (see below) and in the Google Drive folder for this meeting series; please get in touch with one of us for access to this folder. Even if your grammar cannot analyse the translational equivalents of these sentences, you are welcome to attend the first half of the meeting and receive comments on your computational grammar and the structures that it produces, and you are also welcome to attend the second half to participate in discussion of these sentences for those grammars which can analyse them. Best, Mary, Lawrence, Elaine *Zoom Meeting* Join Zoom Meeting https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651 Passcode: 801772 >From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome! We look forward to seeing you online soon. - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Please refer to the message below for further details about the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you! --------------------------------------- As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and Mary Dalrymple have revived the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium ( https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings are held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform ( https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). The first half of these meetings will consist of discussion of general issues in grammar development and specific issues in the grammars and analyses that participants are working on. Please bring your questions and issues with your grammar and the XLE to this part of the meeting. In the second half of these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences, using the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page): https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them). It is fine to attend the second half of the meeting even if your grammar does not parse the translational equivalent of these sentences. In preparation for the discussion in the second half of the meeting, participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. Please try to model your f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible. In the Pargram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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F-structure comparison meeting Mon 22 July 2024 at 6.30 PM (UK&Ireland time UTC +1)
by Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha 17 Jul '24

17 Jul '24

Dear colleagues, Our next LFG f-structure comparison meeting will be held online on *Monday 22 July at 6.30 pm-8.30pm (UTC+1)*. Please note the later time of 6.30pm (UK &Ireland time: UTC +1). Thank you to our recent guest speakers, Mark Zymla in May and Paul Meurer in June for their excellent demonstrations. In our meeting next Monday 22nd, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for the following sentences in a variety of languages: 16. The child thinks he started the tractor. 17. The farmer knows who started the tractor. 18. The child wondered whether the button had been pushed. Best, Mary, Lawrence, Elaine *Zoom Meeting* Join Zoom Meeting https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651 Passcode: 801772 >From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome! We look forward to seeing you online soon. - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Please refer to the message below for further details about the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you! --------------------------------------- As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and I are planning to revive the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium ( https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings will be held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). In these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences. We will use the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page): https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them ? and it is fine to attend the meeting even if your grammar does not parse all of these). All participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. Please try to model your f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible. In the Pargram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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LFG24 In Ghana
by Miriam Butt 10 Jul '24

10 Jul '24

Please be advised that there is now a new website for LFG24 at Ghana. https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/lfg2024/lfg2024.html Local information is included and is continually being updated. Best, Miriam **************************************************************** Miriam Butt Department of Linguistics University of Konstanz Fach 184 Tel: +49 7531 88 5109 78457 Konstanz Fax: +49 7531 88 4865 Germany +49 7531 88 5115 miriam.butt(a)uni-konstanz.de https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/butt/ “Here Miss Marple contributed a singularly eloquent pause.” Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage (p. 65) ****************************************************************

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LFG Bulletin, June 2024
by Agnieszka Patejuk 30 Jun '24

30 Jun '24

June 2024 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: September 2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG24: The 29th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, University of Ghana 2. Drafts for comments 3. Recent LFG work 4. Online resources 5. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG24: The 29th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, University of Ghana LFG24: The 29th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 21-23 August 2024 University of Ghana Conference website: https://lag-lfg2024.ug.edu.gh/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Drafts for comments 'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that previous incarnations of the archive played. Please submit basic article/project information and (a) a URL if the item is available online or else (b) your contact email. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Recent LFG work Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com > 3.1 Publications Lam, Chit-Fung (2024). 'Control, inner topicalisation, and focus fronting in Mandarin Chinese: modelling in parallel constraint-based grammatical architecture'. Journal of Language Modelling, 12:1. 69–153. [ https://doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v12i1.365] 3.2 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/lfg/ (2022-) http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ (1996-2021) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Online resources LFG website: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ International Lexical Functional Grammar Association: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ilfga/index.html More about LFG: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Boilerplate The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.

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Reminder: f-structure comparison meeting and XLE-Web overview (Mon 24 June 2024)
by Chit Fung LAM (Lawrence) 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

Hello all, This is a reminder that our next LFG f-structure comparison meeting will be held online on *Monday 24 June 4pm-6pm (UTC +1)*. - We hope to start with an overview of INESS XLE-Web by Paul Meurer. - Afterwards, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for the following sentences in a variety of languages: 14. The tractor appeared. 15. The boy knows the tractor is red. 16. The child thinks he started the tractor. *Zoom Meeting* Join Zoom Meeting https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651 Passcode: 801772 >From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome! We look forward to seeing you online soon. - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Please refer to the message below for further details about the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you! --------------------------------------- As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and I are planning to revive the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium ( https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings will be held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). In these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences. We will use the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page): https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them ? and it is fine to attend the meeting even if your grammar does not parse all of these). All participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. Please try to model your f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible. In the Pargram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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F-structure comparison meeting and XLE-Web overview (Mon 24 June 2024)
by Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Hello all, Our next LFG f-structure comparison meeting will be held online on *Monday 24 June 4pm-6pm (UTC +1)*. - We hope to start with an overview of INESS XLE-Web by Paul Meurer. - Afterwards, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for the following sentences in a variety of languages: 14. The tractor appeared. 15. The boy knows the tractor is red. 16. The child thinks he started the tractor. *Zoom Meeting* Join Zoom Meeting https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651 Passcode: 801772 >From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome! We look forward to seeing you online soon. - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Please refer to the message below for further details about the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you! --------------------------------------- As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and I are planning to revive the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium ( https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings will be held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). In these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences. We will use the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page): https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them ? and it is fine to attend the meeting even if your grammar does not parse all of these). All participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. Please try to model your f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible. In the Pargram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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Request for items: LFG Bulletin, June 2024
by Agnieszka Patejuk 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Dear all, I am now putting together the LFG Bulletin for June 2024. Please take this opportunity to keep the rest of the LFG community up to date with news, details of recent publications and drafts for comments, and anything else that may be of interest. News of recent dissertations and theses is, as always, very welcome. Please send items to: <LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com> on or before **26th June 2024**. Best wishes, Agnieszka

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Reminder: F-structure comparison meeting & new XLE web interface (ParGram): Monday 27 May 4pm-6pm (UTC +1)
by Chit Fung LAM (Lawrence) 24 May '24

24 May '24

Hello all, This is a reminder that our next LFG f-structure comparison meeting will be held online on *Monday 27 May 4pm-6pm (UTC +1)*. This time, Mark-Matthias Zymla will introduce the new XLE web interface. Afterwards, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for the following sentences in a variety of languages: 13. The tractor starts with a shudder. 14. The tractor appeared. 15. The boy knows the tractor is red. *Zoom Meeting* *https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 <https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09>* *Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651Passcode: 801772* >From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome! We look forward to seeing you online soon. - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Please refer to the message below for further details about the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you! --------------------------------------- As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and I are planning to revive the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium ( https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings will be held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). In these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences. We will use the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page): https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them ? and it is fine to attend the meeting even if your grammar does not parse all of these). All participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. Please try to model your f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible. In the Pargram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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F-structure comparison meeting & new XLE web interface (ParGram): Monday 27 May 4pm-6pm (UTC +1)
by Chit Fung LAM (Lawrence) 14 May '24

14 May '24

Hello all, Our next LFG f-structure comparison meeting will be held online on *Monday 27 May 4pm-6pm (UTC +1)*. This time, Mark-Matthias Zymla will introduce the new XLE web interface. Afterwards, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for the following sentences in a variety of languages: 13. The tractor starts with a shudder. 14. The tractor appeared. 15. The boy knows the tractor is red. *Zoom Meeting* *https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 <https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09>* *Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651Passcode: 801772* >From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome! We look forward to seeing you online soon. - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Please refer to the message below for further details about the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you! --------------------------------------- As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and I are planning to revive the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium ( https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings will be held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). In these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences. We will use the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page): https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them ? and it is fine to attend the meeting even if your grammar does not parse all of these). All participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. Please try to model your f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible. In the Pargram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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Syntax now free (of Wiley)
by Stefan Müller 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, You probably already heard about the new journal /Syntactic Theory & Research (STAR):/ https://www.openlibhums.org/news/693/ The journal went the Glossa-way. The editors left Wiley and took most of the board with them. Some of you may remember my mail to the lists back then, when I announced that I would never hire somebody who published in the then zombie journal Lingua. I consider this strike breaking. People who do this harm their colleagues and their field, the budgets of their universities. Lingua is run by Elsevier, Syntax is run by Wiley. The Wiley case is even clearer. The CEOs of Wiley earn several million Dollars every year. https://hpsg.hu-berlin.de/~stefan/PS/Salary-Wiley-COEs-2019.png This is the database wehre you can check the current figures: https://www.salary.com/personal/executive-salaries/ This is not the profit of the publisher. The salaries of the CEOs are costs of the publisher. In addition Wiley has a profit margin of 40%. They are just stealing our research money, without giving something back. This was also the reason why the Syntax team finally quit. Wiley cut the support for copy editing and type setting. But linguistics needs special support here. What shall I say: I never hired somebody who worked for Lingua. I convinced one person to step down from their newly formed board. I guess I did not hire anybody since nobody applied. So, for future I suggest that you neither work for Elsevier nor for Wiley and submit your papers to scholarly-owned journals like Glossa, Journal of Language Modelling, and STAR, journals of societies like Journal of Linguistics, Language, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (accepts English, is OA) ... depending on the topic of your paper. Best wishes Stefan

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