Dear Members,
With this Bulletin you have received the new issue of our journal Dialectology & Geolinguistics
(DiG). I explicitly want to thank the editors, particularly Dr Astrid van Nahl, all
authors and experts for their work. In order to keep its quality, DiG has become a peerreviewed
journal: Each manuscript reaching us has to go through an assessment. Both
experts and authors remain anonymous; experts handle the articles confidentially. Contact
for both parts is the editor. The experts examine the academic standard of the article, the
relevance of the topic and its adequate presentation. The editor is entitled to obtain a second
or third assessment if there are doubts or inconsistencies. The editor informs the authors
whether their contribution has been accepted and whether it has to be revised. The
editor also informs the authors in which volume of the journal the article is to appear and
this information is definite.
In this Bulletin, you will find a “Notice Board” which shall give you the possibility of
informing our colleagues about new publications, projects, conferences, and the like. If
you want to contribute, please contact the editor. If you want to communicate with other
members on a shorter notice, please send me your information for publication on our web
site. You can get to our website by one of the following links:
Ìhttp://www.sidg.org/Ó or Ìhttp://www.dialectology.org/Ó
The website is hosted by the University of Bamberg. For the coming year, I plan to integrate
a web log in order to facilitate the communication between members. From this
issue on, the contents of the journal will also be published on-line by the Mouton de
Gruyter publishing house.
As many of you have noticed, our main activity in the last year was getting the finances
of the Society in order. Membership invoices were sent out and most of your reactions
were positive. Unfortunately, there are still members whose membership dues haven’t
reached us so far. At the beginning of 2008 we will send out an invoice to all members. If
we have your e-mail address, we will send it as an e-mail attachment in order to save
money, if we haven’t got your e-mail address, please make sure to send it to our secretary
treasurer as soon as possible. Otherwise, you will get your invoice by letter. Please, remember
that your membership dues are for a calendar year (January to December).
I take the opportunity to present the Society’s secretary treasurer to you, because I think
very few members know him already. It is Dr Philipp Burdy from the University of Bamberg.
Dr Burdy received his Ph.D. from Düsseldorf University in 2004 with a thesis on
the development of au in Romance languages and is now doing research on the historical
morphology of Romance languages, which includes a perspective of historical dialectology.
The next SIDG Congress is due in 2009 and we have got a very promising invitation from
Maribor, Slovenia, which will hopefully be substantiated in the coming months so that we
can inform you in the next Bulletin. There are also plans for a summer school on dialectology
in 2009, possibly immediately before or after the Congress.
As you can see from this year’s balance, we are still in need of money. Our membership
dues are comparatively low. So, if you can afford it, consider adding a small sum to keep
the Society and its publications alive. Donation certificates can be sent on request.
Martin Haase, October 2007
President of the SIDG
‹http://www.martinhaase.de›