IE Newsletter

[Deborah W. Anderson]

A new edition of the Indo-European Newsletter has just appeared.  It
 contains news, a list of new and forthcoming books and journals,  brief
book reviews, newly-available IE electronic resources, a list of upcoming
conferences as well as essays.
 
Among the "Brief Communications":
--a summary by James P. Mallory on the "Conference on the Bronze Age and
  Iron Age  Peoples of Eastern Central Asia" held at the University of
  Pennsylvania on  April 19-21, 1996, a conference devoted to the mummies
  found in Xinjiang, China and their archaeological, genetic, and possible
  linguistic affiliation(s).
--a short summary of the Second German Linguistics Annual Conference
  held at Madison, WI on April 26-28 by Christopher Stevens.
 
The essays in this issue include:
--two essays on recent developments in Insular Celtic, one on Celtic phonology
  and morphology (by Kim McCone) and the other on syntax and other matters
   (by Joseph Eska).
--a contribution by Craig Melchert on recent developments in Anatolian.
 
The newsletter is officially affiliated with the Indo-European Studies program
 at
UCLA.  Contribution levels (which pay for this bi-annual newsletter and support
IE activities) are $10 for students, $20 for others ($25 for those outside the
continental U.S.).  Checks should be made payable to "FAIES/UCLA Foundation"
and sent to: FAIES, 2143 Kelton Ave., Los Angeles, CA  90025.  VISA
and Mastercard are also accepted.
 
For further information, please contact: Deborah Anderson at
dwanders @violet.berkeley.edu   (or:  alotz at aimnet.com)
 
Deborah Anderson
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Linguistics
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA  94720