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As an academic service run by linguistics students and faculty, LINGUIST List relies on yourdonations to financially support students and keep the operation working. Our readers' support goesdirectly to fund the students who edit the mailing list and website; without that support, we'd havenobody to send out the information you rely on.Amani LusekeloI cannot recall anytime that I had inspirations of becoming a linguist. That I shall never claim. But I cannot ignore the fact that I became a linguist by effort, mainly in search of full-time scholarship.I was born in an administrative district called Rungwe in Southern Highlands of Tanzania in East Africa. Both parents of mine, Bernard Lusekelo and Janeth Ndambo, were born in the families of the Moravian church clergy-men Undule and Mwandambo, respectively. I am the seventh-born child in the family of ten children.My father worked first as a primary school teacher and later as an office administrator in many parts of Tanzania but came to retire in the office of Rungwe District Council. My mother, remained home to care for us, her precious children. By 1983, when I joined Lupale Primary School, my father had...Read more.Paola CamposWhen I think about the future of linguistics, two things come to my mind. The first one, an unquestionable path traced by the actual technological necessities and, the second one, a path that I believe some of us, linguists, try to avoid sometimes given the difficulty of its study. In other words: there is a path that I think is definitive and will develop itself –even if I am not part of it– and another which I wish more of us could set a foot on: social implications of language.Over the past decades, linguistic studies have risen noticeably. Particularly, we can see how computational linguistics have played a central role on the development of new technologies which are related to language processing. To give an example, we can talk about those related to automatic translation. Given the actual situation and the problematics that have come with the raise of the pandemic of COVID-19, I am sure that areas such as cognitive linguistics and computational linguistics will have a major part in...Read more.The LINGUIST List Team works hard to ensure that linguists everywhere have access to importantinformation about the field. LINGUIST keeps you informed about conferences, jobs, publications,academic programs, and much more. All of these resources are provided completely free to the readersand the general public.

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