From johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk Mon May 2 10:08:57 2011 From: johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk (John Charles Smith) Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 11:08:57 +0100 Subject: Important: ISHL Nominations Message-ID: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Dear Friends and Colleagues, Several positions in the Society will fall vacant this year, and at the Business Meeting to be held during the Osaka ICHL a vote will be taken on proposals to fill these vacancies. I have now heard from the ISHL Nominating Committee, who have made the following nominations: i) FUTURE PRESIDENT/CONFERENCE DIRECTOR (for 2015) Michela Cennamo (Università degli studi «Federico II», Naples, Italy) ii) MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2017) Alice C. Harris (University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, USA) iii) MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2019) Alex Bergs (Universität Osnabrück, Germany). iv) SECRETARY The Nominating Committee proposes that John Charles Smith (University of Oxford, UK) should continue to serve as Secretary of the Society. With these nominations, the composition of the Society's Committees will be as follows: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President and Director of the 2013 Conference: Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (Oslo) Future Conference Director (2015) Michela Cennamo (Naples) Former Conference Director: Ritsuko Kikusawa (Osaka) Secretary: John Charles Smith (Oxford) Other Members: Alan Dench (Perth), until 2013 Michele Loporcaro (Zürich), until 2015 Alice C. Harris (Amherst), until 2017 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Chair: David Willis (Cambridge), until 2013 Other Members: Bridget Drinka (San Antonio), until 2015 Heidi Quinn (Christchurch), until 2017 Alex Bergs (Osnabrück), until 2019. According to the Society's Constitution, individual members may also make nominations. Should anyone wish to do so, could they please let both the Secretary (johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk) and the current Chair of the Nominating Committee (Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au) know by email as soon as possible, and in any event before 1 July. Nominations will require the signatures of six proposers and the written consent of the nominee. The nominee and all of the proposers should be members of the Society. I look forward to seeing you in Osaka. All good wishes, John Charles Smith Secretary, ISHL -- John Charles Smith Official Fellow and Tutor, St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK Deputy Director, Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford tel. +44 1865 271700 (College) / 271748 (direct) / 271768 (fax) _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From luraghi at unipv.it Mon May 2 20:16:59 2011 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 22:16:59 +0200 Subject: Reminder - Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics 19-25 September 2011 Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting) Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics Pavia (Italy) 19-25 September 2011 Application deadline: 30 June 2011 General Description: The Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics will be held from September 19 to September 25 at the University of Pavia. It will feature four courses, a lab on the use of corpora in historical linguistics and issues connected with annotation, a poster session in which students will be able to present their research, and will end with the International Conference “Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st century” (see attached program). Attendance is limited to 20 participants. Courses and instructors: Course 1 = Sanskrit (Leonid Kulikov, Leiden; introduced by Silvia Luraghi, Pavia) Course 2 = Celtic (Ranko Matasovic, Zagreb; introduced by Elisa Roma, Pavia) Course 3 = Baltic (Daniel Petit, École Normale Supérieure Paris; introduced by Maria Cristina Bragone, Pavia) Course 4 = Tocharian (Gerd Carling, Uppsala; introduced by Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Bergamo) Lab (Dag Haug, Oslo; introduced by Elisabetta Jezek, Pavia) Preliminary Schedule: http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Bando%20Summer%20School.pdf Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers to send us their application. Advanced MA students can also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. Applications will be examined by an international scientific committee, which will assign them a score. Participants will be admitted based on the score up to a maximum of 20. PhD students will be given precedence. As all courses are taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Application deadline: June 30, 2011 ECTS: Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the Poster Session and attendance of the International Conference, stands for 3 ECTS. At the end of the Summer School, every participant will receive a certificate, which will indicate the amount of awarded ECTS credits. Fees: Attendance to the Summer School is free of charge. We have reserved single rooms for participants at the Collegio Volta for the nights from Sunday 18 Sept (arrival) to Sunday 25 Sept (departure) at the total price of 350 Euros, which also includes lunch at the cafeteria (Mensa Fraccaro), one-week pass for public transportation, and invitation to all social events featured at the Conference. Scientific Committee: Marina Benedetti Pierluigi Cuzzolin Rosemarie Lühr Silvia Luraghi Ranko Matasovic Contact: Practical information and housing: Giorgio Iemmolo giorgio.iemmolo at unipv.it Erica Pinelli ericapinelli at alice.it Poster session: Alessandra Caviglia alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com Please send applications to: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it ################################################################################ International Conference Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century Preliminary program http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Humboldt%20Kolleg%20Program.pdf Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Università di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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With best wishes, Kikusawa Ritsuko ======================================= 国立民族学博物館(みんぱく)民族文化研究部 総合研究大学院大学 菊澤律子 Tel. & Fax. 06-6878-8266(研究室直通) KIKUSAWA Ritsuko Ph.D. National Museum of Ethnology, Japan The Graduate University for Advanced Studies ritsuko at minpaku.ac.jp ======================================= _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Wed May 4 18:08:40 2011 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 14:08:40 -0400 Subject: Japonic from Korean Peninsula? Message-ID: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110504/sc_afp/sciencehistorygeneticslanguagejapankorea_20110504172524 Gotta love those gene-like properties.... Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From kemmer at rice.edu Sun May 15 23:18:14 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:18:14 +1200 Subject: CFP: Tracking Language Change in Specialized and Professional Genres (Clavier 11) Message-ID: CLAVIER 11 International Conference (Apologies for cross postings) CLAVIER 11 TRACKING LANGUAGE CHANGE IN SPECIALISED AND PROFESSIONAL GENRES Modena, 24-26 November 2011 The international conference ‘Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres’, hosted by the CLAVIER Group, will take place in Modena on 24-26 November 2011. The nature of genres has always been defined as both static and dynamic, functioning as discursive action within particular social, historical and cultural contexts but open to individual and collective creativity and innovation. Corpora can be powerful tools in tracking this kind of change, as clearly shown by a well-established tradition in historical linguistics, where growing interest has been shown in the diachronic analysis of specialized genres. Elements of change, however, can also be seen at work in contemporary discourse. As a consequence, there is an increasing need for diachronic approaches that may help map changes brought about for example by new technologies or globalization. Nowadays, with the recession of the traditional constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements brought about by globalization, new cultural and linguistic interconnections are being established, for example in academic and professional settings. This state of things can account both for the emergence of new ‘globalizing genres’, and for the implementation of a series of adaptations to the existing ones, as possible solutions to guarantee the success and survival of different genres in an era which celebrates the need for a ‘global reach’. The conference intends to focus on such issues in order to provide a better definition of the methods of investigation of language change, the tools, the approaches, the new perspectives, bringing together two complementary strands of linguistic investigation - corpus analysis and genre analysis. The conference purports to describe the extent to which language resources and generic resources are creatively exploited in discourse, variously responding to or determining new socio-cultural scenarios, with a special interest in technological developments which have radically changed the way specialized knowledge is disseminated. In particular, contributions are invited, focusing on textual, intertextual, organizational aspects of genres, as well as on interdiscursivity and other aspects which contextualize genres as reflections of changing disciplinary and professional cultures, investigating how their integrity is negotiated and exploited, in the following domains: · Academic · Professional · Institutional The conference is held by the CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation In English Research) group, a research centre founded by the Universities of Bergamo, Firenze, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Roma “La Sapienza”, and Siena, currently based in Modena. One of the purposes of the 2011 CLAVIER conference is to reinforce national and international cooperation with scholars and research centres that can widen and complement the interest in language variation both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Plenaries Plenary speakers who have accepted to participate are: Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire) Winnie Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Hong Kong) Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich) The conference will start early in the afternoon on the first day and close around lunchtime on the third day, after a roundtable in which participants and invited speakers will discuss theoretical and methodological issues emerged from the papers presented in the previous sessions. The colleagues who have agreed to take part in the round table are: Jan Engberg (Aarhus School of Business) Giuliana Garzone (Università degli Studi di Milano) Maurizio Gotti (University of Bergamo) Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University of Technology) Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham) Elena Tognini-Bonelli (University of Siena) Geoffrey Williams (University of South Brittany). Presentation Guidelines Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Working Language: English Contributions will be accepted on condition that they are relevant to the special theme of the Conference. Abstract Submission Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more than 500 words by June 20th to the following address: clavier11 unimore.it Please do not include any self-identifying information on the abstract; indicate only the title and the abstract itself. On a separate cover sheet, include: Title: Format: (paper/ poster) Author(s): Affiliation(s): Postal mailing address (for primary author): E-mail (for primary author): Important dates June 20th: Deadline for receipt of abstracts July 11th: Notifications of acceptance July 26th: Deadline for early bird registration July 29th: Preliminary Programme Organizing committee: Marina Bondi – Silvia Cavalieri - Giuliana Diani - Franca Poppi Scientific Committee: Julia Bamford (Napoli) - Marina Bondi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) – Gabriella Del Lungo (Firenze) - Marina Dossena (Bergamo) – Franca Poppi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) - Rita Salvi (Roma) – Elena Tognini Bonelli (Siena) For any additional information, please contact Franca Poppi: franca.poppi unimore.it or visit the Conference web-site at: http://clavier.sltt.unimore.it/on-line/Home.html Prof. Franca Poppi Associate Professor of English Linguistics University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Faculty of Arts and Humanities Largo Sant'Eufemia, 19 41121 Modena Italy tel. + 39 059 2055946 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Alignment in PIE 9.00-9.45 Sanskrit (Eystein Dahl, Bergen) 9.45-10.15 Pali (Andrea Drocco, Torino) 10.15-10.45 Prakrit (Alessandra Caviglia, Pavia) 10.45-11.10 Apabhramsa (Andrea Drocco, Torino) 11.30-12.00 Dravidan Languages (Andrea Drocco, Torino) 12.15-13.00 Alignment in Early IE: Typological and Areal Considerations (Bridget Drinka, San Antonio) 13.00-13.30 Discussion Contact: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it , alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk Mon May 2 10:08:57 2011 From: johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk (John Charles Smith) Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 11:08:57 +0100 Subject: Important: ISHL Nominations Message-ID: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Dear Friends and Colleagues, Several positions in the Society will fall vacant this year, and at the Business Meeting to be held during the Osaka ICHL a vote will be taken on proposals to fill these vacancies. I have now heard from the ISHL Nominating Committee, who have made the following nominations: i) FUTURE PRESIDENT/CONFERENCE DIRECTOR (for 2015) Michela Cennamo (Universit? degli studi ?Federico II?, Naples, Italy) ii) MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2017) Alice C. Harris (University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, USA) iii) MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2019) Alex Bergs (Universit?t Osnabr?ck, Germany). iv) SECRETARY The Nominating Committee proposes that John Charles Smith (University of Oxford, UK) should continue to serve as Secretary of the Society. With these nominations, the composition of the Society's Committees will be as follows: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President and Director of the 2013 Conference: Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (Oslo) Future Conference Director (2015) Michela Cennamo (Naples) Former Conference Director: Ritsuko Kikusawa (Osaka) Secretary: John Charles Smith (Oxford) Other Members: Alan Dench (Perth), until 2013 Michele Loporcaro (Z?rich), until 2015 Alice C. Harris (Amherst), until 2017 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Chair: David Willis (Cambridge), until 2013 Other Members: Bridget Drinka (San Antonio), until 2015 Heidi Quinn (Christchurch), until 2017 Alex Bergs (Osnabr?ck), until 2019. According to the Society's Constitution, individual members may also make nominations. Should anyone wish to do so, could they please let both the Secretary (johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk) and the current Chair of the Nominating Committee (Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au) know by email as soon as possible, and in any event before 1 July. Nominations will require the signatures of six proposers and the written consent of the nominee. The nominee and all of the proposers should be members of the Society. I look forward to seeing you in Osaka. All good wishes, John Charles Smith Secretary, ISHL -- John Charles Smith Official Fellow and Tutor, St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK Deputy Director, Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford tel. +44 1865 271700 (College) / 271748 (direct) / 271768 (fax) _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From luraghi at unipv.it Mon May 2 20:16:59 2011 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 22:16:59 +0200 Subject: Reminder - Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics 19-25 September 2011 Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting) Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics Pavia (Italy) 19-25 September 2011 Application deadline: 30 June 2011 General Description: The Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics will be held from September 19 to September 25 at the University of Pavia. It will feature four courses, a lab on the use of corpora in historical linguistics and issues connected with annotation, a poster session in which students will be able to present their research, and will end with the International Conference ?Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st century? (see attached program). Attendance is limited to 20 participants. Courses and instructors: Course 1 = Sanskrit (Leonid Kulikov, Leiden; introduced by Silvia Luraghi, Pavia) Course 2 = Celtic (Ranko Matasovic, Zagreb; introduced by Elisa Roma, Pavia) Course 3 = Baltic (Daniel Petit, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure Paris; introduced by Maria Cristina Bragone, Pavia) Course 4 = Tocharian (Gerd Carling, Uppsala; introduced by Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Bergamo) Lab (Dag Haug, Oslo; introduced by Elisabetta Jezek, Pavia) Preliminary Schedule: http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Bando%20Summer%20School.pdf Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers to send us their application. Advanced MA students can also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. Applications will be examined by an international scientific committee, which will assign them a score. Participants will be admitted based on the score up to a maximum of 20. PhD students will be given precedence. As all courses are taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Application deadline: June 30, 2011 ECTS: Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the Poster Session and attendance of the International Conference, stands for 3 ECTS. At the end of the Summer School, every participant will receive a certificate, which will indicate the amount of awarded ECTS credits. Fees: Attendance to the Summer School is free of charge. We have reserved single rooms for participants at the Collegio Volta for the nights from Sunday 18 Sept (arrival) to Sunday 25 Sept (departure) at the total price of 350 Euros, which also includes lunch at the cafeteria (Mensa Fraccaro), one-week pass for public transportation, and invitation to all social events featured at the Conference. Scientific Committee: Marina Benedetti Pierluigi Cuzzolin Rosemarie L?hr Silvia Luraghi Ranko Matasovic Contact: Practical information and housing: Giorgio Iemmolo giorgio.iemmolo at unipv.it Erica Pinelli ericapinelli at alice.it Poster session: Alessandra Caviglia alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com Please send applications to: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it ################################################################################ International Conference Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century Preliminary program http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Humboldt%20Kolleg%20Program.pdf Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Universit? di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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With best wishes, Kikusawa Ritsuko ======================================= ????????????????????? ????????? ???? Tel. & Fax. ??-????-??????????? KIKUSAWA Ritsuko Ph.D. National Museum of Ethnology, Japan The Graduate University for Advanced Studies ritsuko at minpaku.ac.jp ======================================= _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Wed May 4 18:08:40 2011 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 14:08:40 -0400 Subject: Japonic from Korean Peninsula? Message-ID: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110504/sc_afp/sciencehistorygeneticslanguagejapankorea_20110504172524 Gotta love those gene-like properties.... Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From kemmer at rice.edu Sun May 15 23:18:14 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:18:14 +1200 Subject: CFP: Tracking Language Change in Specialized and Professional Genres (Clavier 11) Message-ID: CLAVIER 11 International Conference (Apologies for cross postings) CLAVIER 11 TRACKING LANGUAGE CHANGE IN SPECIALISED AND PROFESSIONAL GENRES Modena, 24-26 November 2011 The international conference ?Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres?, hosted by the CLAVIER Group, will take place in Modena on 24-26 November 2011. The nature of genres has always been defined as both static and dynamic, functioning as discursive action within particular social, historical and cultural contexts but open to individual and collective creativity and innovation. Corpora can be powerful tools in tracking this kind of change, as clearly shown by a well-established tradition in historical linguistics, where growing interest has been shown in the diachronic analysis of specialized genres. Elements of change, however, can also be seen at work in contemporary discourse. As a consequence, there is an increasing need for diachronic approaches that may help map changes brought about for example by new technologies or globalization. Nowadays, with the recession of the traditional constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements brought about by globalization, new cultural and linguistic interconnections are being established, for example in academic and professional settings. This state of things can account both for the emergence of new ?globalizing genres?, and for the implementation of a series of adaptations to the existing ones, as possible solutions to guarantee the success and survival of different genres in an era which celebrates the need for a ?global reach?. The conference intends to focus on such issues in order to provide a better definition of the methods of investigation of language change, the tools, the approaches, the new perspectives, bringing together two complementary strands of linguistic investigation - corpus analysis and genre analysis. The conference purports to describe the extent to which language resources and generic resources are creatively exploited in discourse, variously responding to or determining new socio-cultural scenarios, with a special interest in technological developments which have radically changed the way specialized knowledge is disseminated. In particular, contributions are invited, focusing on textual, intertextual, organizational aspects of genres, as well as on interdiscursivity and other aspects which contextualize genres as reflections of changing disciplinary and professional cultures, investigating how their integrity is negotiated and exploited, in the following domains: ? Academic ? Professional ? Institutional The conference is held by the CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation In English Research) group, a research centre founded by the Universities of Bergamo, Firenze, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Roma ?La Sapienza?, and Siena, currently based in Modena. One of the purposes of the 2011 CLAVIER conference is to reinforce national and international cooperation with scholars and research centres that can widen and complement the interest in language variation both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Plenaries Plenary speakers who have accepted to participate are: Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire) Winnie Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University ? Hong Kong) Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich) The conference will start early in the afternoon on the first day and close around lunchtime on the third day, after a roundtable in which participants and invited speakers will discuss theoretical and methodological issues emerged from the papers presented in the previous sessions. The colleagues who have agreed to take part in the round table are: Jan Engberg (Aarhus School of Business) Giuliana Garzone (Universit? degli Studi di Milano) Maurizio Gotti (University of Bergamo) Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University of Technology) Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham) Elena Tognini-Bonelli (University of Siena) Geoffrey Williams (University of South Brittany). Presentation Guidelines Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Working Language: English Contributions will be accepted on condition that they are relevant to the special theme of the Conference. Abstract Submission Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more than 500 words by June 20th to the following address: clavier11 unimore.it Please do not include any self-identifying information on the abstract; indicate only the title and the abstract itself. On a separate cover sheet, include: Title: Format: (paper/ poster) Author(s): Affiliation(s): Postal mailing address (for primary author): E-mail (for primary author): Important dates June 20th: Deadline for receipt of abstracts July 11th: Notifications of acceptance July 26th: Deadline for early bird registration July 29th: Preliminary Programme Organizing committee: Marina Bondi ? Silvia Cavalieri - Giuliana Diani - Franca Poppi Scientific Committee: Julia Bamford (Napoli) - Marina Bondi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) ? Gabriella Del Lungo (Firenze) - Marina Dossena (Bergamo) ? Franca Poppi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) - Rita Salvi (Roma) ? Elena Tognini Bonelli (Siena) For any additional information, please contact Franca Poppi: franca.poppi unimore.it or visit the Conference web-site at: http://clavier.sltt.unimore.it/on-line/Home.html Prof. Franca Poppi Associate Professor of English Linguistics University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Faculty of Arts and Humanities Largo Sant'Eufemia, 19 41121 Modena Italy tel. + 39 059 2055946 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Alignment in PIE 9.00-9.45 Sanskrit (Eystein Dahl, Bergen) 9.45-10.15 Pali (Andrea Drocco, Torino) 10.15-10.45 Prakrit (Alessandra Caviglia, Pavia) 10.45-11.10 Apabhramsa (Andrea Drocco, Torino) 11.30-12.00 Dravidan Languages (Andrea Drocco, Torino) 12.15-13.00 Alignment in Early IE: Typological and Areal Considerations (Bridget Drinka, San Antonio) 13.00-13.30 Discussion Contact: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it , alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l