Date:  Tue, 20 Dec 1994 17:15:02 -0500

From:  "Bethany Dumas, UTK" <DUMASB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTKVX.BITNET>

Subject: Relationship of ADS to MLA/LSA



I greatly appreciate the careful articulation of issues discussed in

Dennis Preston's reent post about the future home of ADS. I also am

persuaded by his arguments.



I came into linguistics by way of dialect geography (thank you, Roger SHuy,

Fred Cassidy, Gary Underwood, and Raven McDavid) and early sociolinguistics

(thank you, Roger Shuy, Gary Underwood, and Bill Stewart) and through

the Int'l Conferences in Canada with early professional membership in

ADS. I would LOVE to be back in the fold. But several years ago it

became clear that I could not both honor a primary commitment to

linguistics and also remain active in MLA. So I opted for LSA with all

that that has implied in terms of conference attendance.



(And MLA really is too big and really does meet at a dreadful time of

year.)



Bethany Dumas = dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]utkvx.utk.edu