From martinez at em.uni-frankfurt.de Tue Jan 7 12:44:21 1997 From: martinez at em.uni-frankfurt.de (Fco. Javier Mart nez Garc a) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 13:44:21 +0100 Subject: Confs: VII Coloquio sobre lenguas y culturas paleohispanicas, Zaragoza marzo 1997 Message-ID: (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/zara-97.html) VII Coloquio sobre lenguas y culturas paleohispanicas Zaragoza, 12 a 15 marzo de 1997 II CIRCULAR Lugar de celebracisn: Aula Magna I de la Facultad de Filosofma y Letras. Campus universitario de la Plaza de San Francisco, 50009 Zaragoza. Patrocina: Institucisn Fernando el Catslico Colaboran: Vicerrectorado de Investigacisn, y Facultad de Filosofma y Letras de la Universidad de Zaragoza PROGRAMA PROVISIONAL INAUGURACISN. Dma 12 por la maqana. 1. CELTIBERIA Y VALLE DEL EBRO (dmas 12 y 13) BURILLO, F., Ciudad, estado y etnia en la Celtiberia*. ALMAGRO, M., La estructura socio-ideolsgica de los oppida celtibiricos*. LORRIO ALVARADO, Alberto, Elementos para la delimitacisn de la Celtiberia meridional. RUIZ ZAPATERO, G., Las ramces prehistsricas de la Celtiberia. PIREZ NEGRE, J., La organizacisn gentilicia indmgena, una sociedad de clanes. FERNANDEZ NIETO, F. J., La federacisn celtibirica de Santersn. GARCMA MORENO, L. A., Campeones y siquitos armados en la Penmnsula Ibirica (ss. III-I a. C.). SALINAS, M., Desde Polibio a Livio: la etnografma antigua de la meseta central y nuestra visisn de los pueblos paleohispanicos. GARCMA Y BELLIDO, M. P., Sobre los berones y sus monedas. CANTO, A. M., Ensayo de identificacisn de ciudades vasconas: una nueva imagen de Ptolomeo. 2. NUEVOS EPMGRAFES / NUEVAS INTERPRETACIONES (dma 13). BUA, C. Hipstesis para algunas inscripciones del ambito religioso indmgena del occidente peninsular MEID, W., Zur Interpretation keltiberischer Inschriften. VICENTE, Jaime y EZQUERRA, Beatriz, El bronce celtibirico de Torrijo (Teruel) CURCHIN, L. A., Semantic Alternatives in the Celtiberian bronze inscription from Luzaga (Guadalajara) GOMEZ PANTOJA, J., Las madres de Clunia. MARCO, F. [Por determinar] REMESAL, J. [Por determinar] 3. MUNDO IBIRICO (dma 13). ALVAR. J., Ejircito y sociedad en el mundo Ibirico*. ARENAS ESTEBAN, J. A., Contactos entre Levante y el oriente meseteqo en los albores de la Edad de Hierro CHIC, Genaro, Comunidades indmgenas en el Sur de la Penmnsula Ibirica durante el Imperio. GONZALEZ ROMAN, C., El poblamiento ibero-bastetano: consideraciones sobre su morfologma y evolucisn. BLAZQUEZ, J. M., Algunas deidades poco conocidas de la religisn ibirica. CHAVES, F. [Por determinar].- OCCIDENTE PENINSULAR GARCMA QUINTELA, M. V., El sol que nace en el mar y el promontorio sacro. RIBEIRO, Josi Cardim, Para uma outra abordagem contextual dos Turduli Veteres. 4. EN TORNO AL TERCER BRONCE DE BOTORRITA: LISTAS DE NOMBRES Y EPMGRAFES SOBRE METAL EN EL MEDITERRANEO ANTIGUO (dma 14). DE HOZ, J., Metales inscritos en el mundo griego y perifirico, nobles e innobles*. COLONNA, G., Documentos sobre metal en Etruria*. POCCETTI, P., Documenti su metallo in area italica*. GALSTERER, H., Liste di nomi in iscrizioni latine e il loro possibile contributo alla spiegazione di Botorrita 3*. UNTERMANN, J. La aportacisn ling|mstica de los antropsnimos del bronce de Botorrita 3*. MAYER, M. Las listas de nombres de Emporiae. 5. DE ONOMASTICA (dma 14). VILLAR, F., La onomastica meridional prerromana*. VELAZA, J.- Balance actual de la onomastica celtibirica*. D'ENCARNAGAO, J., Notas sobre teonmmia pri-romana*. JORDAN, C., Sobre la etimologma de Botorrita y su conformacisn en la onomastica prelatina. RAMMREZ SADABA, J. L., Planteamientos metodolsgicos para un correcto uso de la onomastica antigua: el paradigma de las Guerras cantabras. SASTRE, I. y PLACIDO, D., Antroponimia y formas de dependencia en el Noroeste peninsular PEDRERO SANCHO, R., El tesnimo lusitano Bandu y sus epmtetos.- 6. LING\ISTICA (dma 15). CORREA, J. A., Las nasales en ibirico*. QUINTANILLA, Alberto, Las vibrantes en la lengua ibirica RUBIO OREJILLA, J., El verbo celtibirico y el verbo protociltico: Problemas y perspectivas. TORIJA LSPEZ, A., La realidad ling|mstica del Alto Guadalquivir. WODTKO, D., Remarks on Celtiberian Etimology. OROZ, F., [Por determinar] CLAUSURA. Dma 15 al mediodma. Francisco Beltran Lloris Dpto. Ciencias de la Antig|edad -Historia Antigua- Fac. Filosofma y Letras Universidad E-50009 Zaragoza (Espaqa) tlf. (76)-761000-ext. 3919 fax: (76)-761506 mail: fbeltran at posta.unizar.es From brinton at unixg.ubc.ca Fri Jan 10 00:23:32 1997 From: brinton at unixg.ubc.ca (laurel brinton) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:23:32 -0800 Subject: ICHL 14 in Vancouver Message-ID: I am trying to establish dates for the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics to be held in Vancouver, Canada, in 1999. The dates that are proposed are either August 9 - 13 or August 16 - 20. If you know of any other conferences that would be of interest to historical linguists that are planned for either of these sets of dates, could you please let me know? Thank you. ______________________________ Laurel J Brinton Dept of English University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 CANADA email: brinton at unixg.ubc.ca brinton at english.ubc.ca phone: (604) 822-5738 fax: (604) 822-6906 From kemenade at let.vu.nl Fri Jan 10 23:32:24 1997 From: kemenade at let.vu.nl (Ans van Kemenade) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 00:32:24 +0100 Subject: ichl workshop, 2nd posting Message-ID: Abstracts are invited for a workshop to be held with the XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Duessel-dorf 10-17 August 1997, titled: Functional categories and morphosyntactic change Convener: Ans van Kemenade (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Speakers confirmed: Martin Haspelmath Ian Roberts Nigel Vincent Abstracts are invited for 40-minute papers (including discussion), which address issues concerning the role of functional categories in morphosyntactic change. The term 'functional categories' may be taken in a theory- neutral sense (changes in the way categories like tense, mood, aspect, case, number, gender etc. are expressed), or in the sense in which it is used in current models of generative syntax, where morphological categories are taken to project a functional projection according to phrase structure format. Suggestions for problem areas include the following: The role of functional categories in the grammati- calization process. Grammaticalization very often involves the reanalysis of a lexical category into a functional category, e.g. from verb to complement- izer. Papers might address the nature of and motiva- tion for such reanalysis (semantically vs. syntacti- cally driven). Changes in case systems: issues that might be addres- sed include the functional (non)equivalence of case and prepositions as evidenced when morphological case systems are lost; the relation between syntactic and morphological case; the interplay between changes in case and categories like aspect, and the grammatical analysis thereof; the implications of regarding case as a functional projection in the generative sense for the analysis of changes in case. The role of functional categories in word order change: in generative approaches to word order change functional projections play a key role in word order change. Case studies in this area are welcomed. Since functional projections are assumed to express morphological catego ries, a close correlation between morphology and word order is predicted. To what extent is this empirically justified? Send two copies of a one-page abstract, NO LATER THAN 1 February 1997, to: Dr. Ans van Kemenade Vrije Universiteit, Vakgroep Taalkunde/Engels De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam Netherlands Snailmail is much preferred, but abstracts sent by e-mail or fax will not be rejected: e-mail: kemenade at let.vu.nl fax: #31(0)204446500 (state name of convener) From mark.janse at rug.ac.be Sun Jan 12 16:04:40 1997 From: mark.janse at rug.ac.be (Mark Janse) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:04:40 +0100 Subject: Ancient Greek accent Message-ID: For more information on the nature of the ancient Greek accent check the following: (1) W. Sidney Allen, Accent and Rhythm (CUP 1973) (2) A. M. Devine & Laurence D. Stephens, The Prosody of Greek Speech (OUP 1994) In Greek, the levelling of vowel quantities was largely responsible for the change from a pitch to a stress accent. Mark Janse Editor Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography, The Hague Visiting Professor of Greek Linguistics, University of Ghent From MPeter4165 at aol.com Sun Jan 12 16:54:58 1997 From: MPeter4165 at aol.com (Melanie Peterson) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:54:58 -0500 Subject: Info on Romance languages of the Iberian peninsula Message-ID: I'm starting a PhD program at New York University, and I hope to work on the history of the Romance languages of Spain and Portugal. Does anyone know of a good history of the languages of the peninsula, both those still spoken today, and those which existed historically, but are no longer spoken? Thanks very much, Melanie Peterson From nikolaus.ritt at univie.ac.at Mon Jan 13 10:07:27 1997 From: nikolaus.ritt at univie.ac.at (Niki Ritt) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 10:07:27 +0000 Subject: erratum: dates for ESSE workshop on Historical Linguistics Message-ID: Dear colleages, an unfortunate error occured to me in my recent posting about the Historical Linguistics workshop at ESSE next year. The announced date of the conference is NOT ---> Sept. 30th, 1996 BUT ---> September 5th-9th 1997!! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Please accept my apologies for this annoying piece of mis-information, and find a corrected version of the annnouncement below. -------------------------------------------------------- Announcement of a Workshop to be held at ESSE/4 DEBRECEN September 5th-9th, 1997 -------------------------------------------------------- APPLYING HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS The Study of Historical English and Contemporary Society Converners: Olga Fischer, Amsterdam, Nikolaus Ritt, Vienna Theme and Aim of the Workshop The workshop is intended for colleagues engaged in the study and teaching of the history of the English language who are interested in reflecting on the current status of their discipline within the E uropean academic community. It seems to us that such reflection is necessitated by the fact that after a century or so during which historical linguistics represented one of the back bones of English studies, it has during the last two decades tended to become increasingly marginalised both within the English research community, and, maybe more radically, within university curricula. Part of the reason for this may be that, while the value of the historical enterprise is normally taken more or less for granted by those of us engaged in it, we are not used to making explicit what exactly it is that we think we are contributing both to the larger academic community we are part of and, in particular, to the education of our students. In that respect we tend to differ from colleagues in su ch neighbouring disciplines as socio-linguistics, discourse analysis or applied linguistics, for example, who have had to argue their way into the university curriculum in more recent years. Since we think that the historical discipline does have more to offer than is generally acknowledged, we feel it is time to raise, first of all, our own awareness in that respect. The workshop at ESSE 4 is intended to represent a first step in that direction and to deal with problems like the following: * Can the methods employed and/or the insights gained in the study of the history of the English language make genuine contributions to neighbouring disciplines whose social relevance is more immediately obvious? * Can knowledge about the history of dialectal variety and standardisation in English deepen our understanding of the role and social status of standard and non-standard varieties of present-day English, and our understanding of the nature of these varieties? * Do the factors underlying language change throw light on the way languages are acquired? More generally, what is the relationship between the theory of grammar and language change (or the theory of change)? Is the one subservient to the other, or should they be considered different disciplines? Should the same methodology be used for both? * To what degree is knowledge about past stages of English necessary for understanding the English cultural and particularly literary heritage? * Are there any particular cognitive skills that the study of historical linguistics helps to refine, and of what value would these skills be to students in their post-academic lives as, for example, teachers of English? All those problems relate - quite generally speaking - to the nature and justification of our discipline and should be discussed in the light of one central question: How might historical linguistics best be integrated in contemporary university curricula and what are the best methods for teaching the subject within a typical English Studies course? Structure of the Workshop and Modes of Participation Due to the time limit of 2 hours the workshop can only be productive if the discussion is already well under way by the time we get together. In our opinion this does not only preclude the reading of actual papers, but it also makes it rather unlikely that we'll get anywhere even by only discussing papers distributed among participants in advance. The workshop can only succeed, we think, if we u se it for summarising and rounding up a discussion that is more or less finished (and we mean: FINISHED!!) when we meet. - In order to make this possible we think the following procedure will be mos t adequate. First, every potential participant should decide if s/he wants to actively partake in the workshop or prefers just to listen. We greatly hope that for most of you the former will be the c ase - after all we are planning a workshop. Potential active participants should then send us abstracts for papers focusing on a topic related to the problem area outlined above. We shall then screen the abstracts and select a small number - i.e. nor more than ten - to be elaborated into short 'target papers'. The selection will not exclusively be made on grounds of quality but also in order to provide a range of 'target papers' which is representative with regard to both topics and different European backgrounds. 'Target papers' will then be distributed to all participants, and colleagues with abstracts on related topics will be asked to elaborate those into comments on and replies to the 'target papers'. These peer commentaries will again be distributed to all participants before the workshop. Thus, all participants will get a survey of open questions and controversial issues, as well as a chance to form their own opinions on them. At the actual workshop we can then try to settl e open questions and to resolve disagreements. In the (unlikely?) case that we all agree on everything and that all questions are solved by September, we can use the meeting to celebrate our consensu s and to pat each others' backs. Registration Colleagues wishing to participate in the workshop must register for ESSE/4 using the appropiate form supplied in The European English Messenger V/2 1996 and also availabe on eMail request from the convenors. Registration for the workshop itself can be informal and addressed to the convenors. Deadlines Colleagues should express their wish to participate in the workshop before the end of February, and indicate if they would like to write a target paper/commentary. Only participants thus registered will receive further circulars, the programme as well as the papers. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is March 31st. The deadline for the submission of target papers is June 10th. Commentaries should reach us before the end of July and will be distributed to all participants at the beginning of August. Contacts Olga Fischer Engels Seminarium / Universiteit van Amsterdam Spuistraat 210 / 1012 VT Amsterdam Holland phone: 020-5252825 eMail: Olga.Fischer at let.uva.nl Nikolaus Ritt English Department / University of Vienna Universitaetsstra=DFe 7 A-1010 Vienna AUSTRIA Phone: int. 43 1 40103 2064 Fax: int. 43 1 40 60 444 e-mail: nikolaus.ritt at univie.ac.at ********************************************************** Nikolaus Ritt English Department University of Vienna Universitaetsstra=DFe 7 A-1010 Vienna AUSTRIA Phone: int. 43 1 40103 2064 Fax: int. 43 1 40 60 444 e-mail: nikolaus.ritt at univie.ac.at ********************************************************** From MFCEPDD at fs1.art.man.ac.uk Mon Jan 20 16:44:03 1997 From: MFCEPDD at fs1.art.man.ac.uk (David Denison) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 16:44:03 GMT0BST Subject: English Linguistics at Manchester Message-ID: Readers may like to look at a new web page describing research and postgraduate work in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Manchester: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/pgdegree/manenglg.htm As part of the reorganisation of our departmental website, two other pages relevant to linguists have migrated down the directory tree. A listing of forthcoming articles in the new C.U.P. journal _English Language and Linguistics_ (first issue May 1997) can now be found at: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/projects/ell.htm And the page for the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Manchester, 21-26 August 1998) is now at http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/projects/10icehl.htm Apologies to anyone who gets multiple copies of this note. David Denison _____________________________________________________________________ David Denison | e-mail: d.denison at man.ac.uk Dept of English and American Studies | tel: +44 (0)161-275 3154 University of Manchester | fax: +44 (0)161-275 3256 Manchester M13 9PL ____________| UK. | http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/staff/dd/