From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Nov 18 2008 - 08:13:13 CST
Forwarded on behalf of concerned Uralicists.
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Dear Colleagues,
The Finnish Ministry of Education is planning extensive cuts to the
funding of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
("Kotus", www.kotus.fi). This would force Kotus to cut down its
personnel by one third by 2015, which would endanger many important
functions and make the initiation of new projects practically
impossible.
Many concerned colleagues and other citizens (by now, more than 1200)
have already signed a group petition for Kotus now available (in
Finnish and Swedish) at http://www.adressit.com/kotus_focis . If you
read Finnish or Swedish and feel concerned for Kotus and its services
(such as the corpus server kaino.kotus.fi or the new online version of
the Finnish grammar "Iso suomen kielioppi" at http://scripta.kotus.fi/visk/
), please visit the link and consider signing.
Best
JL
-- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso Universität Wien EVSL Abteilung Finno-Ugristik Campus AAKH Spitalg. 2-4 Hof 7 A-1090 Wien johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at || http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/ ===== If your Finnish isn't all that great, scroll down to the bottom. Etunimi is your first name, Sukunimi is your family name, Paikkakunta is your locality, Kyllä indicates Yes you support the petition, and Allekirjoita adressi is the button you push to register your support. ME
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