The preparations for the Chicago meeting are in full swing. Erin and her committee have informed you if you submitted an abstract and it was accepted. Now I...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Mar 1, 2007 4:54 pm
843
I have 30+ books on lexicography and some dictionaries that I have been trying to sell through Amazon without any luck. If anyone would like to see the list of...
... Barbara, Are any of them quotation dictionaries? If so, I might be interested in obtaining them to help me in preparing future editions of The Yale Book...
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro@...
Mar 1, 2007 11:01 pm
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Folks, We've received & returned the official contract now so by Monday it should be safe to reserve rooms at the Lake Shore Ramada at the conference rate. <a ...
The preparations for the Chicago meeting are in full swing. Erin and her committee have informed you if you submitted an abstract and it was accepted. Now I...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Mar 2, 2007 8:06 pm
847
I am taking the books to the library today, removing them from sale status. Thank you....
from Funknet, via Suzanne Kemmer, who heard it from Michael Barlow, a friend of John's: Dear functional linguists and corpus linguists: John Sinclair passed...
Dear list members, I thought I should inform here on the book concerning Samuel Johnson's and Noah Webster's dictionaries which I recently published at Max...
Kusujiro Miyoshi
KusujiroMiyoshi@...
Mar 14, 2007 4:21 am
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For the record (and for you, too, Erin): I was sorry to learn of Sinclair's death yesterday (and such a young man, too). I first engaged John Sinclair as a...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Mar 14, 2007 2:11 pm
851
A brief notice in the New York Times of Feb. 22, 2007 reported the death of Ronald J. Bogus at the age of 79 in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Ron was a...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Mar 14, 2007 3:56 pm
852
Today's Wall Street Journal has a prominent review of The Yale Book of Quotations, reviewed by Terry Teachout. Fred Shapiro ... Fred R. Shapiro...
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro@...
Mar 17, 2007 3:03 pm
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Dear All, ... You can check the "attached message" here: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE... We just wanted to let you know that R.W. Bailey's CarePage was...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Mar 22, 2007 2:33 am
854
Good news! Guthrie Allen Hilliard Barrett was born Monday to Grant Barrett and Sarah Hilliard. You can check it out at http://www.hilliardbarrett.com/ Luanne...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Mar 23, 2007 5:42 pm
855
Tomorrow's New York Times Book Review devotes the "TBR: Inside the List" column to discussing The Yale Book of Quotations, specifically my relative paucity of...
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro@...
Mar 24, 2007 1:39 pm
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Thought this might be of interest ... ... Subject: [Corpora-List] Call for papers: LEXiCOGRAPHY AND COMPUTERS - CURRENT ISSUES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Date:...
Dear all, The following message came to me. If you know of students who are interested please let them know. Deadline is in May. Luanne I take the liberty of...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Apr 10, 2007 8:02 pm
858
Sorry to use the list to do this. Frank, would you please send me your new e-mail address? Thanks. Luanne...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Apr 12, 2007 9:17 pm
859
I am very sorry to forward the news that Robert Barnhart has passed away. There is a nice obituary in the White Plains paper, here: ...
The news of Robert's death reached me at about the same time as that of Kelsie Harder's passing, leading me to look over my shoulder to see if there is a...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 14, 2007 2:25 pm
861
The fifteenth annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) will be held in Minneapolis at the University of...
Michael Hancher
mh@...
Apr 21, 2007 9:56 pm
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Unfortunately, because of insurmountable logistical issues, we will NOT be able to have an architectural boat tour downtown on Wednesday, June 13. Luckily,...
Dear Folks, If you are planning on attending the DSNA conference June 13-16 in Chicago, please do let me know by tomorrow, May 1. (By email is fine.) This is...
Erin, Just wondering if you got my registration form...and money, of course! I'm asking because _incoming_ mail has been very slow here. For example, I just...
Enid Pearsons
e.pearsons@...
Apr 30, 2007 7:44 pm
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Erin. Yes, I'll be there (I'm also giving a paper) and will send you the registration fees tomorrow, Tuesday. Best. --- Jerry Cohen ...
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
gcohen@...
May 1, 2007 1:54 am
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Dear Colleagues, This from Donna Farina. Condolences to the family and to friends. We will miss him. Luanne ... Subject: Prof. Ladislav Zgusta Date: Tue, 01...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
May 2, 2007 12:25 am
867
A correspondent has asked me to say that she has a copy of the 1940 Library Guild, Inc. ed. of _Webster's Universities Dictionary of the English Language_. She...
Joan H. Hall
jdhall@...
May 4, 2007 7:45 pm
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Dear all, Below is an announcement for freelance work on a new Oxford project. I hope you will share this with any and all potential candidates, including...
Hello, All, I am collecting anecdotes about Ladislav Zgusta, who died recently. If you have a story, please send it to me. Sincerely, Donna Donna M. Farina,...
I am forwarding this job because it seems of interest to our crowd, but I am not doing the hiring and know nothing about the job. Use the email address given...
I want to thank Erin McKean on behalf of all of those who attended the just-concluded conference for her splendid work in preparing for it. I also want to...