From: "John St. Clair" <jstclair at chuma.cas.usf.edu> Subject: FW: Chomsky book Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:53:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal
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CELEBRATION
You are invited to celebrate Noam Chomskys 70th birthday (December 7, 1998) by contributing to a collection of essays by everyone whose work over the years has been stimulated or inspired by Chomskys ideas.
WE ASK THAT YOU PLEASE KEEP THIS A SECRET FROM NOAM.
Noam is known to dislike ceremony, so this plan includes no parties, no speeches, nothing but an elegantly printed list of all the contributors. It will be on his desk, in a very quiet envelope, on the morning of his birthday. We hope there will be so many contributions that it will be clear to Noam that no one expects him to read them all and respond to them. Please spread the word to all of your friends, colleagues and students who may wish to participate.
To add your own contribution, simply go to the URL http://mitpress.mit.edu/celebration and click on the contributors link and follow the instructions. For some guidelines as to how you should frame your contributions, select the guidelines link. If you have any problems posting your submission, contact: Ken Overton (kov at mitpress.mit.edu). You retain the copyright to your submission, allowing you to publish it in another venue. Dont delay, in order to get the site organized in time all submissions must be received by the last day of November.
We believe this way of expressing our respect and affection will be the least intrusive. We specifically ask that you convey the need for discretion. All you need pass along to others is the URL http://mitpress.mit.edu/celebration, which will bring people to the Webpage with full details for this project.
If you have any additional questions, comments, or suggestions for how to improve on the plan, please contact Jay Keyser (keyser at mit.edu) or Amy Brand (apierce at mit.edu). If you have any problems posting your submission, contact: Ken Overton (kov at mitpress.mit.edu). All communications should use the subject header CELEBRATION.
Everyone whose work has been influenced by Chomskys, in any area of scholarship, is welcome to contribute. Please pass on this message to your colleagues and students, here and abroad. If everyone tells five other people, well reach the whole world.
Nancy De Pas Ph.D Program in Linguistics CUNY Graduate Center 33 West 42 Street NY, NY 10036 Home Tel. 718.762.5891
John St. Clair University of South Florida Department of Philosophy Cooper 107 Tampa, FL 33620
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