From coon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU Thu Jun 5 21:18:53 1997 From: coon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU (BRAD COON) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:18:53 EDT Subject: Nostratic et al. "etymologies" Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Is anyone aware of a comprehensive list supposedly very deep level etymologies. I am actually interested in those proposed for pre-Afro-Asiatic, Dene-Caucasian, Nostratic, etc. I have seen the handful proposed as Proto-Human in sources like Ruhlen and Shevoroshkin. My own work is with phonesthemes and sound symbolism among other things and I occasionally come across some new bit of data looking at lists of this sort. Any help would be appreciated. ********************************************************************** Brad Coon If you are not living on COON at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU the edge, you are taking http://www.ipfw.indiana.edu/east1/coon/web/ up too much space. "Civilize the mind and make savage the body." Chinese proverb ********************************************************************** From lsa at lsadc.org Fri Jun 13 20:59:24 1997 From: lsa at lsadc.org (LSA) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:59:24 EDT Subject: Additions to LSA web site Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- You are invited to visit the LSA web page (http://www.lsadc.org) which now contains a revised version of _The Field of Linguistics_ edited by Geoffrey Nunberg & Thomas Wasow. This is a new version of a long-out-of-print but very popular publication. In addition, you will find in the Statements/Policy section the recently approved Sexual Harassment Policy. Finally, for those of you who cannot wait for the mail, the June LSA Bulletin is now available online. From C.J.Arthur at uel.ac.uk Tue Jun 17 15:09:51 1997 From: C.J.Arthur at uel.ac.uk (C. Arthur) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:09:51 EDT Subject: Evolution of Language Conference Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- **********Apologies for any multiple postings********** CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE: THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE LONDON APRIL 6-9 1998 ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University), Professor Jim Hurford (Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh) and Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of East London). This will be the second conference in a series concerned with the evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives with those of modern Darwinism. FOCUSED THEMES: - From Proto-Language to Language - Modelling Language Evolution SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE: Derek Bickerton (Hawaii), Paul Bloom (Arizona), Luigi Cavalli- Sforza (Stanford), Robin Dunbar (Liverpool), Dean Falk (New York), Philip Lieberman (Brown), Bjorn Lindblom (Stockholm), John Maynard-Smith (Sussex), Frederick Newmeyer (Washington), Johanna Nichols (Berkeley), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Labs). PLEASE SEND YOUR 500-WORD ABSTRACT (DEADLINE OCTOBER 1ST, 1997) TO: Dr. Chris Knight, Department of Sociology, University of East London, Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS, UK, OR BY EMAIL TO: C.Knight at uel.ac.uk From s_nickn at eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au Sat Jun 21 15:06:28 1997 From: s_nickn at eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au (Nick Nicholas) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:06:28 EDT Subject: FYI: AHL/Dhumbadji! URL Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Please note that the URL for the Association for the History of Language, publishers of the periodical _Dhumbadji!_ is now: http://www.lexicon.net.au/~opoudjis/Work/ahl.html -- "Assuming, for whatever reasons, that neither scholar presented the evidence properly, then there remains a body of evidence you have not yet destroyed because it has never been presented." --- Harold Fleming |NickNicholas|Linguistics&AppliedLinguistics|UniversityOfMelbourne|Australia| |n.nicholas at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au||http://www.lexicon.net.au/~opoudjis/| From martinez at em.uni-frankfurt.de Mon Jun 23 14:41:30 1997 From: martinez at em.uni-frankfurt.de (martinez) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:41:30 EDT Subject: Confs: Ind-Arian, Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This message has been sent to Linguist List, Indoeuropean, Indology and HISTLING Apologies for cross-postings! See. http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/erl-97b.html -------------- Kolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft Indoarisch, Iranisch und die Indogermanistik Erlangen, 2. - 5. Oktober 1997 P r o g r a m m Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 1997 8.45 - 9.00 Begr|_ung 9.00 - 10.00 Thomas Oberlies (Freiburg i.B.): Pans Zahnl|cken und Hermes' Vorliebe f|r Backwerk: die gvedische Religion und ihre Vorldufer 10.00 - 10.25 Manfred Mayrhofer (Wien): Zum Etymologikon des nachvedischen Altindoarischen 10.25 - 10.50 Rosemarie L|hr (Jena): Zum Modalfeld im Altindischen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 10.50 - 11.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 11.20 - 11.45 Maria Kozianka (Jena): Passivkonstruktionen mit aktivischen Endungen im Altindischen 11.45 - 12.10 Susanne Zeilfelder (Jena): Prdverben ohne Verben im Altindischen 12.10 - 12.35 Toshifumi Got (Sendai): Das Priesteramt des Vasiha und die indoiranische Sonnenverehrung - Interpretation von RV VII 88 12.35 - 13.00 Junko Sakamoto-Got (Osaka): Das Jenseits und i-prta- `die Wirkung des Geopferten und des Geschenkten' in der vedischen Religion M I T T A G S P A U S E 15.00 - 16.00 Konrad Klaus (Bochum): Die Srautastras 16.00 - 16.25 Irene Balles (Jena): Die indoiranischen "cvi-Bildungen" und ihre Deutungen im Lichte der Typologie 16.25 - 16.50 Lucio Melazzo (Palermo): Die Milch der Nacht -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 16.50 - 17.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 17.20 - 17.45 Frangois Heenen (Wien): Le disideratif dans le vida 17.45 - 18.10 Agnes Korn (Graz): Streckformen im Rigveda 18.10 - 18.35 Karl Praust (Wien): Der Se-Charakter der Wurzel d im Veda 18.35 - 19.00 Velizar Sadovski-Savtchov (Wien): Die Komposita mit prdpositionalem Vorderglied im Rigveda Freitag, 3. Oktober 1997 09.00 - 10.00 Karlheinz Kessler (Erlangen): Der Einflu_ des Iranischen auf das Akkadische der Achaimenidenzeit 10.00 - 10.25 Ignacio-Javier Adiego Lajara (Barcelona): Autour du relatif vieux-perse 10.25 - 10.50 Xavier Tremblay (Tournai): Zum avestischen Konsonantismus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 10.50 - 11.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 11.20 - 11.45 Onofrio Carruba (Pavia): \ber die Indoarier von Mitanni 11.45 - 12.10 Almut Hintze (Cambridge): Die avestische Wurzel mad `messen' 12.10 - 12.35 Michael Janda (Z|rich): Fesselndes von Yima 12.35 - 13.00 Matthias Fritz (Berlin): Eine indoiranische Bezeichnung f|r "heiraten" M I T T A G S P A U S E 15.00 - 16.00 Gert Klingenschmitt (Regensburg): Mittelpersisch 16.00 - 16.25 Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (M|nster): Das parthische Verbum 16.25 - 16.50 Nicholas Sims-Williams (Cambridge): The Bactrian verbal system -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 16.50 - 17.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 17.20 - 17.45 F. Javier Martmnez Garcma (Frankfurt/Main): Zur avestischen Lautlehre 17.45 - 18.10 Michiel de Vaan (Leiden): Bemerkungen zur handschriftlichen \berlieferung der Yasnas 18.10 - 18.35 Agustm Alemany Vilamajs (Barcelona): Wer waren die Alanen? 18.35 - 19.00 Johnny Cheung (Leiden): Same remarks on the Ossetic gemination 19.30 - 20.15 Jost Gippert (Frankfurt/Main): Indoiranistisches Text-Retrieval: Die neuen elektronischen Bearbeitungen altiranischer und vedischer Texte Samstag, 4. Oktober 1997 9.00 - 10.00 Michael Witzel (Harvard): Die sprachliche Situation in Nordindien in vedischer Zeit 10.00 - 10.25 Alexander Lubotsky (Leiden): The Vedic root v `to cover' and its present 10.25 - 10.50 Martin K|mmel (Freiburg i.B.): Der Aorist der Wurzel(n) ar im Indoiranischen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 10.50 - 11.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 11.20 - 11.45 Georges-Jean Pinault (Paris): Sur l'interpritation des comparaisons vidiques 11.45 - 12.10 Stefan Schaffner (Regensburg): Altindisch amnas 12.10 - 12.35 Katharina Kupfer (W|rzburg): Kopula- und Nominalsdtze im Rigveda 12.35 - 13.00 Norbert Oettinger (Augsburg): Zu Pan- und M I T T A G S P A U S E 15.00 - 16.00 Oskar von Hin|ber (Freiburg i.B.): Spurensuche im Vedischen: Mittelindisches im Altindischen 16.00 - 16.25 Wolfram Euler (M|nchen): Der Met - Rauschtrank oder Delikatesse der Indogermanen? \berlegungen zur Bedeutungsvielfalt von indoiran. *madhu 16.25 - 16.50 Leonid I. Kulikov (Leiden): The Vedic type syati revisited -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 16.50 - 17.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 17.20 - 17.45 Josi Luis Garcma Ramsn (Kvln): Indoiranische Wurzelprdsentia und iterative Aktionsart 17.45 - 18.10 Caroline aan de Wiel (Halle/Saale): dy > jy, oder Prkritismus im Rigveda? 18.10 - 18.35 Reinhard Stempel (Bonn): Armenisch und Indoiranisch 18.35 - 19.00 J|rgen Lehmann (W|rzburg): Die rigvedische Somapflanze war weder gr|ne Pflanze noch Pilz: Sicht eines Entomologen anschlie_end: gemeinsamer Abend in der Evangelischen Studentengemeinde Sonntag, 5. Oktober 1997 9.00 - 9.25 Sektion A: Hisashi Miyakawa (Erlangen): AB 5,14,2 nihv-a- avavadit, nih-va- avavadit 9.25 - 9.50 Sektion A: Oleg Poljakov (Vilnius): Einige Fragen der idg. Akzentologie 9.00 - 9.50 Sektion B: Peter Raulwing / Robert Oberheid (Bonn): Der Kikkuli-Text und die Rolle der Indoarier im altorientalischen Fuhrwesen - Einige Bemerkungen zu neueren hippologischen und philologischen Interpretationen Sektionen A und B: 9.50 - 10.15 Frank Bernhauer (M|nchen): Syntaktische Besonderheiten bei Vergleichskonstruktionen im Vedischen 10.15 - 10.40 N. Alberto Cantera Glera (Salamanca): Iranisch *xan- und germanisch *swin~a- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 10.40 - 11.00 Pause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 11.00 - 11.25 Birgit Anette Olsen (Kopenhagen): The PIE Background of the Types dev and vk 11.25 - 11.50 Jens Elmegerd Rasmussen (Kopenhagen): Zur Vorgeschichte des Plusquamperfekts 11.50 - 12.15 Robert Plath (Erlangen): Indoiranische Miszellen 12.15 - 12.40 Bernhard Forssman (Erlangen): Zu Yast 8,40 12.40 - 12.50 Schlu_wort, Verabschiedung Tagungsraum: Hvrsaal C, Philosophisches Seminargebdude II, Kochstra_e 4 (Eingang Hindenburgstra_e) Der Tagungsort von Sektion B am Sonntag (5.10.1997, 9.00-9.50 Uhr) wird noch bekanntgegeben. Bureau/Contacting Address: Institut f|r Vergleichende Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft Kochstra_e 4 D-91054 Erlangen-N|rnberg Tel: +49-9131-85-9376 oder -85-2404 Fax: +49-9131-85-6390 email: p2indog at phil.uni-erlangen.de From eeyore at leland.Stanford.EDU Tue Jun 24 23:22:15 1997 From: eeyore at leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Getty) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 19:22:15 EDT Subject: Phrase structures in competition Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear HISTLINGers, In connection with work on grammaticalization and language change, I've begun to look into the problem of gradient change within approaches to historical linguistics based on X-bar-type phrase structure grammars. The problem is easy to anticipate: most observable changes in languages over time language are resolutely gradient, layered, and prolonged, while change within phrase structure models is generally predicted to be discrete and, for lack of a better word, catastrophic. Recently, though, a new line of approach has emerged in the work of a number of people currently or formerly at UPenn: Anthony Kroch, Susan Pintzuk, Beatrice Santorini, and Ann Taylor (citations follow). This approach tackles the problem language variability and change in terms of phrase structures in competition. Variation between two or more grammatical options within one language community is thought of in terms of a kind of internal diglossia, that is, discrete but co-existing grammars within the brain of every member of the community in which the variation is afoot. Over time, innovating grammatical options can gradually displace older options, eventually becoming categorical. On the surface, this notion might strike many as quite plausible, and a welcome advance in the impasse encountered in phrase-structure-driven approaches to language change. However, I'm also aware that it raises ominous issues surrounding learnability, processing constraints, and similar functional considerations. The idea of phrase structures in competition has only been around, as far as I've been able to determine, since 1989, and doesn't seem to have generated much in the way of critical reactions. So I'll end this long message with two requests: one for any citations on this subject I might have missed, and the second for any personal reactions subscribers might have to the issues raised here. I'll be sure and post a summary of replies, since I anticipate that this topic will generate an appreciable degree of interest. Michael Getty German Studies / Stanford University eeyore at leland.stanford.edu Citations: -Kroch, Anthony. Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change. Language Variation and Change. 1 (1989), 199-244 -Kroch, Anthony. (1989)Function and grammar in the history of English: Periphrastic "do." In Palph Fasold (ed.), Language change and variation. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 133-172 -Pintzuk, Susuan. Variation and change in Old English clause structure. Language Variation and Chagne 7 (1995), 229-260. -Santorini, Beatrice. The rate of phrase structure change in the history of Yiddish. Language Variation and Change, 5 (1993), 257-283.-Taylor, Ann. The change from SOV to SVA in Ancient Greek. Language Variation and Change, 6 (1994), 1-37. From coon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU Thu Jun 5 21:18:53 1997 From: coon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU (BRAD COON) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:18:53 EDT Subject: Nostratic et al. "etymologies" Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Is anyone aware of a comprehensive list supposedly very deep level etymologies. I am actually interested in those proposed for pre-Afro-Asiatic, Dene-Caucasian, Nostratic, etc. I have seen the handful proposed as Proto-Human in sources like Ruhlen and Shevoroshkin. My own work is with phonesthemes and sound symbolism among other things and I occasionally come across some new bit of data looking at lists of this sort. Any help would be appreciated. ********************************************************************** Brad Coon If you are not living on COON at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU the edge, you are taking http://www.ipfw.indiana.edu/east1/coon/web/ up too much space. "Civilize the mind and make savage the body." Chinese proverb ********************************************************************** From lsa at lsadc.org Fri Jun 13 20:59:24 1997 From: lsa at lsadc.org (LSA) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:59:24 EDT Subject: Additions to LSA web site Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- You are invited to visit the LSA web page (http://www.lsadc.org) which now contains a revised version of _The Field of Linguistics_ edited by Geoffrey Nunberg & Thomas Wasow. This is a new version of a long-out-of-print but very popular publication. In addition, you will find in the Statements/Policy section the recently approved Sexual Harassment Policy. Finally, for those of you who cannot wait for the mail, the June LSA Bulletin is now available online. From C.J.Arthur at uel.ac.uk Tue Jun 17 15:09:51 1997 From: C.J.Arthur at uel.ac.uk (C. Arthur) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:09:51 EDT Subject: Evolution of Language Conference Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- **********Apologies for any multiple postings********** CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE: THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE LONDON APRIL 6-9 1998 ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University), Professor Jim Hurford (Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh) and Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of East London). This will be the second conference in a series concerned with the evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives with those of modern Darwinism. FOCUSED THEMES: - From Proto-Language to Language - Modelling Language Evolution SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE: Derek Bickerton (Hawaii), Paul Bloom (Arizona), Luigi Cavalli- Sforza (Stanford), Robin Dunbar (Liverpool), Dean Falk (New York), Philip Lieberman (Brown), Bjorn Lindblom (Stockholm), John Maynard-Smith (Sussex), Frederick Newmeyer (Washington), Johanna Nichols (Berkeley), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Labs). PLEASE SEND YOUR 500-WORD ABSTRACT (DEADLINE OCTOBER 1ST, 1997) TO: Dr. Chris Knight, Department of Sociology, University of East London, Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS, UK, OR BY EMAIL TO: C.Knight at uel.ac.uk From s_nickn at eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au Sat Jun 21 15:06:28 1997 From: s_nickn at eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au (Nick Nicholas) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:06:28 EDT Subject: FYI: AHL/Dhumbadji! URL Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Please note that the URL for the Association for the History of Language, publishers of the periodical _Dhumbadji!_ is now: http://www.lexicon.net.au/~opoudjis/Work/ahl.html -- "Assuming, for whatever reasons, that neither scholar presented the evidence properly, then there remains a body of evidence you have not yet destroyed because it has never been presented." --- Harold Fleming |NickNicholas|Linguistics&AppliedLinguistics|UniversityOfMelbourne|Australia| |n.nicholas at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au||http://www.lexicon.net.au/~opoudjis/| From martinez at em.uni-frankfurt.de Mon Jun 23 14:41:30 1997 From: martinez at em.uni-frankfurt.de (martinez) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:41:30 EDT Subject: Confs: Ind-Arian, Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This message has been sent to Linguist List, Indoeuropean, Indology and HISTLING Apologies for cross-postings! See. http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/erl-97b.html -------------- Kolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft Indoarisch, Iranisch und die Indogermanistik Erlangen, 2. - 5. Oktober 1997 P r o g r a m m Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 1997 8.45 - 9.00 Begr|_ung 9.00 - 10.00 Thomas Oberlies (Freiburg i.B.): Pans Zahnl|cken und Hermes' Vorliebe f|r Backwerk: die gvedische Religion und ihre Vorldufer 10.00 - 10.25 Manfred Mayrhofer (Wien): Zum Etymologikon des nachvedischen Altindoarischen 10.25 - 10.50 Rosemarie L|hr (Jena): Zum Modalfeld im Altindischen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 10.50 - 11.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 11.20 - 11.45 Maria Kozianka (Jena): Passivkonstruktionen mit aktivischen Endungen im Altindischen 11.45 - 12.10 Susanne Zeilfelder (Jena): Prdverben ohne Verben im Altindischen 12.10 - 12.35 Toshifumi Got (Sendai): Das Priesteramt des Vasiha und die indoiranische Sonnenverehrung - Interpretation von RV VII 88 12.35 - 13.00 Junko Sakamoto-Got (Osaka): Das Jenseits und i-prta- `die Wirkung des Geopferten und des Geschenkten' in der vedischen Religion M I T T A G S P A U S E 15.00 - 16.00 Konrad Klaus (Bochum): Die Srautastras 16.00 - 16.25 Irene Balles (Jena): Die indoiranischen "cvi-Bildungen" und ihre Deutungen im Lichte der Typologie 16.25 - 16.50 Lucio Melazzo (Palermo): Die Milch der Nacht -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 16.50 - 17.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 17.20 - 17.45 Frangois Heenen (Wien): Le disideratif dans le vida 17.45 - 18.10 Agnes Korn (Graz): Streckformen im Rigveda 18.10 - 18.35 Karl Praust (Wien): Der Se-Charakter der Wurzel d im Veda 18.35 - 19.00 Velizar Sadovski-Savtchov (Wien): Die Komposita mit prdpositionalem Vorderglied im Rigveda Freitag, 3. Oktober 1997 09.00 - 10.00 Karlheinz Kessler (Erlangen): Der Einflu_ des Iranischen auf das Akkadische der Achaimenidenzeit 10.00 - 10.25 Ignacio-Javier Adiego Lajara (Barcelona): Autour du relatif vieux-perse 10.25 - 10.50 Xavier Tremblay (Tournai): Zum avestischen Konsonantismus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 10.50 - 11.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 11.20 - 11.45 Onofrio Carruba (Pavia): \ber die Indoarier von Mitanni 11.45 - 12.10 Almut Hintze (Cambridge): Die avestische Wurzel mad `messen' 12.10 - 12.35 Michael Janda (Z|rich): Fesselndes von Yima 12.35 - 13.00 Matthias Fritz (Berlin): Eine indoiranische Bezeichnung f|r "heiraten" M I T T A G S P A U S E 15.00 - 16.00 Gert Klingenschmitt (Regensburg): Mittelpersisch 16.00 - 16.25 Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (M|nster): Das parthische Verbum 16.25 - 16.50 Nicholas Sims-Williams (Cambridge): The Bactrian verbal system -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 16.50 - 17.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 17.20 - 17.45 F. Javier Martmnez Garcma (Frankfurt/Main): Zur avestischen Lautlehre 17.45 - 18.10 Michiel de Vaan (Leiden): Bemerkungen zur handschriftlichen \berlieferung der Yasnas 18.10 - 18.35 Agustm Alemany Vilamajs (Barcelona): Wer waren die Alanen? 18.35 - 19.00 Johnny Cheung (Leiden): Same remarks on the Ossetic gemination 19.30 - 20.15 Jost Gippert (Frankfurt/Main): Indoiranistisches Text-Retrieval: Die neuen elektronischen Bearbeitungen altiranischer und vedischer Texte Samstag, 4. Oktober 1997 9.00 - 10.00 Michael Witzel (Harvard): Die sprachliche Situation in Nordindien in vedischer Zeit 10.00 - 10.25 Alexander Lubotsky (Leiden): The Vedic root v `to cover' and its present 10.25 - 10.50 Martin K|mmel (Freiburg i.B.): Der Aorist der Wurzel(n) ar im Indoiranischen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 10.50 - 11.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 11.20 - 11.45 Georges-Jean Pinault (Paris): Sur l'interpritation des comparaisons vidiques 11.45 - 12.10 Stefan Schaffner (Regensburg): Altindisch amnas 12.10 - 12.35 Katharina Kupfer (W|rzburg): Kopula- und Nominalsdtze im Rigveda 12.35 - 13.00 Norbert Oettinger (Augsburg): Zu Pan- und M I T T A G S P A U S E 15.00 - 16.00 Oskar von Hin|ber (Freiburg i.B.): Spurensuche im Vedischen: Mittelindisches im Altindischen 16.00 - 16.25 Wolfram Euler (M|nchen): Der Met - Rauschtrank oder Delikatesse der Indogermanen? \berlegungen zur Bedeutungsvielfalt von indoiran. *madhu 16.25 - 16.50 Leonid I. Kulikov (Leiden): The Vedic type syati revisited -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 16.50 - 17.20 Kaffeepause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 17.20 - 17.45 Josi Luis Garcma Ramsn (Kvln): Indoiranische Wurzelprdsentia und iterative Aktionsart 17.45 - 18.10 Caroline aan de Wiel (Halle/Saale): dy > jy, oder Prkritismus im Rigveda? 18.10 - 18.35 Reinhard Stempel (Bonn): Armenisch und Indoiranisch 18.35 - 19.00 J|rgen Lehmann (W|rzburg): Die rigvedische Somapflanze war weder gr|ne Pflanze noch Pilz: Sicht eines Entomologen anschlie_end: gemeinsamer Abend in der Evangelischen Studentengemeinde Sonntag, 5. Oktober 1997 9.00 - 9.25 Sektion A: Hisashi Miyakawa (Erlangen): AB 5,14,2 nihv-a- avavadit, nih-va- avavadit 9.25 - 9.50 Sektion A: Oleg Poljakov (Vilnius): Einige Fragen der idg. Akzentologie 9.00 - 9.50 Sektion B: Peter Raulwing / Robert Oberheid (Bonn): Der Kikkuli-Text und die Rolle der Indoarier im altorientalischen Fuhrwesen - Einige Bemerkungen zu neueren hippologischen und philologischen Interpretationen Sektionen A und B: 9.50 - 10.15 Frank Bernhauer (M|nchen): Syntaktische Besonderheiten bei Vergleichskonstruktionen im Vedischen 10.15 - 10.40 N. Alberto Cantera Glera (Salamanca): Iranisch *xan- und germanisch *swin~a- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 10.40 - 11.00 Pause -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- 11.00 - 11.25 Birgit Anette Olsen (Kopenhagen): The PIE Background of the Types dev and vk 11.25 - 11.50 Jens Elmegerd Rasmussen (Kopenhagen): Zur Vorgeschichte des Plusquamperfekts 11.50 - 12.15 Robert Plath (Erlangen): Indoiranische Miszellen 12.15 - 12.40 Bernhard Forssman (Erlangen): Zu Yast 8,40 12.40 - 12.50 Schlu_wort, Verabschiedung Tagungsraum: Hvrsaal C, Philosophisches Seminargebdude II, Kochstra_e 4 (Eingang Hindenburgstra_e) Der Tagungsort von Sektion B am Sonntag (5.10.1997, 9.00-9.50 Uhr) wird noch bekanntgegeben. Bureau/Contacting Address: Institut f|r Vergleichende Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft Kochstra_e 4 D-91054 Erlangen-N|rnberg Tel: +49-9131-85-9376 oder -85-2404 Fax: +49-9131-85-6390 email: p2indog at phil.uni-erlangen.de From eeyore at leland.Stanford.EDU Tue Jun 24 23:22:15 1997 From: eeyore at leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Getty) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 19:22:15 EDT Subject: Phrase structures in competition Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear HISTLINGers, In connection with work on grammaticalization and language change, I've begun to look into the problem of gradient change within approaches to historical linguistics based on X-bar-type phrase structure grammars. The problem is easy to anticipate: most observable changes in languages over time language are resolutely gradient, layered, and prolonged, while change within phrase structure models is generally predicted to be discrete and, for lack of a better word, catastrophic. Recently, though, a new line of approach has emerged in the work of a number of people currently or formerly at UPenn: Anthony Kroch, Susan Pintzuk, Beatrice Santorini, and Ann Taylor (citations follow). This approach tackles the problem language variability and change in terms of phrase structures in competition. Variation between two or more grammatical options within one language community is thought of in terms of a kind of internal diglossia, that is, discrete but co-existing grammars within the brain of every member of the community in which the variation is afoot. Over time, innovating grammatical options can gradually displace older options, eventually becoming categorical. On the surface, this notion might strike many as quite plausible, and a welcome advance in the impasse encountered in phrase-structure-driven approaches to language change. However, I'm also aware that it raises ominous issues surrounding learnability, processing constraints, and similar functional considerations. The idea of phrase structures in competition has only been around, as far as I've been able to determine, since 1989, and doesn't seem to have generated much in the way of critical reactions. So I'll end this long message with two requests: one for any citations on this subject I might have missed, and the second for any personal reactions subscribers might have to the issues raised here. I'll be sure and post a summary of replies, since I anticipate that this topic will generate an appreciable degree of interest. Michael Getty German Studies / Stanford University eeyore at leland.stanford.edu Citations: -Kroch, Anthony. Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change. Language Variation and Change. 1 (1989), 199-244 -Kroch, Anthony. (1989)Function and grammar in the history of English: Periphrastic "do." In Palph Fasold (ed.), Language change and variation. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 133-172 -Pintzuk, Susuan. Variation and change in Old English clause structure. Language Variation and Chagne 7 (1995), 229-260. -Santorini, Beatrice. The rate of phrase structure change in the history of Yiddish. Language Variation and Change, 5 (1993), 257-283.-Taylor, Ann. The change from SOV to SVA in Ancient Greek. Language Variation and Change, 6 (1994), 1-37.