From nsgisbor at hkucc.hku.hk Mon Mar 2 10:57:52 1998 From: nsgisbor at hkucc.hku.hk (Nik Gisborne) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 05:57:52 EST Subject: Professorial job announcement Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I'd be grateful if this job announcement could be posted on Histling. Nik Gisborne. ================ Ref: RF-97/98-34 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG As the oldest tertiary education institution in Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong has attained paralleled achievements since 1911 in Hong Kong and the region by drawing on the great cultural traditions of China and the West. The University is a major researchinstitution with nine major faculties and 100+ departments and sub-divisions of studies and learning, and a full- and part-time postgraduate and undergraduate student body of almost 15,000, including 1,900 research students. Our firm commitment to research excellence and internationalisation has established us as one of the top Universities in the Region. We are firmly committed to our vision of globalisation and enhancing our research excellence. Professor : Chair of English Applications and nominations are now invited for appointment as Professor: Chair of English from January 1, 1999. The Department of English seeks to play a pivotal role in leading English Studies in Hong Kong and to support the University's determination to retain its international standards and status, and its unique position within China and Asia. We therefore seek an academic leader with strong academic qualifications, and a substantial record of teaching and research publications, to contribute actively to research and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate (M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D.) levels in the context of the Department's work in English and American literatures, world literature in English, sociolinguistics, critical linguistics and English language and linguistics. Competitive remuneration within the professorial range of HKD1M+ with 15% terminal gratuity and an attractive benefits package (comprising housing, leave, passage, medical/dental benefits and children's local education allowances) will be offered to the successful candidate. The University would prefer to make a fixed term appointment of not less than three academic years, but consideration may also be given to appointment on permanent terms. Further particulars and application forms can be obtained on WWW at http://www.hku.hk; or from the Appointments Unit, Registry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (fax: (852) 2540 6735 or 2559 2058; e-mail: APPTUNIT at REG.HKU.HK). Further details about the Department, including its research profile, are available at http://www.hku.hk/english, or on application. Review of applications will begin from early-March until the closing date of March 31, 1998. The University is an equal opportunity employer and is working towards a smoke-free environment. From nsgisbor at hkucc.hku.hk Mon Mar 2 11:04:04 1998 From: nsgisbor at hkucc.hku.hk (Nik Gisborne) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 06:04:04 EST Subject: Job announcement #2 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I'd be grateful if this could go on Histling, too. Nik Gisborne. ================= Ref.: RF-97/98-36 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG As the oldest tertiary education institution in Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong has attained unparalleled achievements since 1911 in Hong Kong and the region by drawing on the great cultural traditions of China and the West. The University is a major research institution with nine major faculties and 100+ departments and sub-divisions of studies and learning, and a full- and part-time postgraduate and undergraduate student body of almost 15,000, including 1,900 research students. Our firm commitment to research excellence and internationalisation has established us as one of the top universities in the Region. We are firmly committed to our vision of globalisation and enhancing our research excellence. Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in English Linguistics Applications are invited for appointment as Associate Professor/Assistant Professor (1 post) in English Linguistics in the Department of English, tenable from January 1, 1999 or as soon as possible thereafter, subject to availability of funding. The appointment will initially be made on a fixed-term basis of three years, with a possibility of renewal. The Department of English seeks to play a pivotal role in leading English Studies in Hong Kong and to support the University's determination to retain its international standards and status, and its unique position within China and Asia. The Department is therefore interested in applicants who possess a Ph.D., with specialization in English Linguistics. The department undertakes teaching and research in English language and linguistics, sociolinguistics, critical linguistics, and journalism in English; and encourages interdisciplinary approaches to the study of language. Applicants should note that the Department's primary concern is with English studies and that it is not an ESL teaching unit. Appointees will be expected to offer courses in their areas of specialization, to contribute to the teaching of existing courses in the Department at both undergraduate and Master's levels, to supervise M.Phil. and Ph.D. students in their areas of specialization, and to pursue an active programme of research and publication. Applicants should state clearly which area (with reference number) they wish to be considered for. Those who apply for appointment as Associate Professor are invited to indicate whether they wish to be considered for appointment at Assistant Professor level as well. Annual salaries [attracting 15% (taxable) terminal gratuity] are on the following scales, with starting salary depending on qualifications and experience: Associate Professor : HK$812,220 - 1,091,100 (9 points) (in the grade of Senior Lecturer) (approx. GBP63,855 - 85,780) Assistant Professor : HK$522,780 - 873,360 (11 points) * (in the grade of Lecturer) (approx. GBP41,100 - 68,660) (sterling equivalents as at February 23, 1998) * An appointee with an annual salary at HK$698,520 (approx. GBP54,915) or above may be considered for the award of the title of Associate Professor. At current rates, salaries tax will not exceed 15% of gross income. The appointment carries leave, medical and dental benefits, an allowance for children's education in Hong Kong, and, in most cases, a financial subsidy for private tenancy may also be provided at a charge of a percentage of salary, currently 7.5%. Further particulars and application forms can be obtained on WWW at http://www.hku.hk; or from the Appointments Unit, Registry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Fax (852) 2540 6735 or 2559 2058; E-mail: APPTUNIT at REG.HKU.HK). Further details about the department, including information about the department's research profile, are available on application, or on WWW at http://www.hku.hk/english. Closes April 24, 1998. The University is an equal opportunity employer and is working towards a smoke-free environment From lsa at lsadc.org Mon Mar 2 21:05:55 1998 From: lsa at lsadc.org (LSA) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:05:55 EST Subject: 1998 March LSA Bulletin Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- PLEASE POST: The March 1998 LSA Bulletin (#159) is now available at http://www.lsadc.org/marbull.html Members are encouraged to consult Nota Bene (p. 9) for upcoming award deadlines. From alemko.gluhak at infocentar.tel.hr Wed Mar 4 14:00:49 1998 From: alemko.gluhak at infocentar.tel.hr (Alemko Gluhak) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 09:00:49 EST Subject: Etymological conference -- Krk, Croatia, November 1998 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 6--7 November '98 4th Petar Skok etymological conference, Krk, Croatia Deadline for abstracts: 15 June '98 Themes: Dalmatian and Vegliote language, Dalmatian elements in Croatian, Mediterranean, etymology (Rom., Sl., IE, general) Contact: prof. dr. Vojmir Vinja, Alfireviceva 43, HR-10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska/Croatia, vojmir.vinja at public.srce.hr or prof. dr. Vojmir Vinja, Zavod za lingvisticka istrazivanja HAZU, Ante Kovacica 5, HR-10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska/Croatia For more information about lodging in Krk, please contact: prof. dr. Goran Filipi, Koparska 70, HR-52100 Pula, Hrvatska/Croatia, tel. +385-52-501374, gfilipi at pefpu.hr More information after 16 March 1998: http://mahazu.hazu.hr/LingResIn/Skok4.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth Skok etymological conference will be held on November 6--7, 1998, in the city of Krk. The last Dalmatophone, Tone Udaina Burbur, died in 1898. He spoke Vegliote, a dialect of the Dalmatian language. Vegliote was spoken in the island of Krk (city of Krk = Vegliote _Vekla_, from Lat. _civitas vetula_; Vegliote _Vekla_ gave Italian _Veglia_), in Croatia. As you can read in Matteo Giulio Bartoli's _Das Dalmatische_ II (Wien 1906; modified writing) -- naNka join dei sinyáuri noN sapája favlúr iN veklisún. "Neanche uno dei signori non sapeva parlar in vegliesano." (7/8) -- said Tone Udaina Burbur. In connection with the 100th aniversary of the death of Tone Udaina Burbur and the Dalmatian and Vegliote language, _Fourth Skok etymological conference_ will be held on November 6--7, 1998, in the city of Krk. Linguists working with Adriatic, Croatian, Mediterranean and general themes of the etymological theory and praxis, are invited to submit their contributions. Interested linguistist should send their registration (with the title of the paper and a short summary), to the following address: Razred za filoloske znanosti HAZU Odbor za etimologiju (za IV. Skokove etimoloske susrete) Ul. Andrije Hebranga 2 HR-10000 Zagreb Hrvatska/Croatia (or e-mails). Deadline: June 15, 1998. If it is not possible to you to take part in the conference, your paper would be read. Please, inform other colleagues! Please, inform other colleagues! Sorry, your trip to Croatia and stay in Krk can not be paid by Croatian Academy. Petar Skok etymological conference is a conference held by Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Pula 1994, Zadar 1990, Zagreb 1986). Petar Skok (1881--1956) was a great Croatian linguist. He worked mostly in Romanic languages, in Balkan linguistics (Vulgar Latin, Dalmatian, Romanisms in Croatian and other languages). -- He wrote Etimologijski rjecnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971--74), Pregled francuske gramatike (1939), Francuska knjizevnost XIX. i XX. vijeka (1939), Osnovi romanske lingvistike (1940). -- He wrote about 520 articles and books (340 in linguistics). -- See more f.e. in Zarko Muljacic, Petar Skok come linguista, in Richard Baum et al. (ed.), Lingua et Traditio. Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft und der neueren Philologien. Festschrift fuer Hans Helmut Christmann zum 65. Geburtstag, G. Narr Verlag, Tuebingen 1994. Contacts: prof. dr. Vojmir Vinja /president of the etymological committee/ Frana Alfirevica 43 HR-10000 Zagreb vojmir.vinja at public.srce.hr For more information about lodging in Krk, please contact: prof. dr. Goran Filipi Koparska 70 HR-52100 Pula tel. +385-(0)52-501374 gfilipi at pefpu.hr More informations also in http://mahazu.hazu.hr/LingResIn/Skok4.html (after March 16, 1998). Sent by Alemko Gluhak Zavod za lingvisticka istrazivanja Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti (Linguistic Research Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) Ante Kovacica 5, HR-10000 Zagreb Hrvatska/Croatia alemko.gluhak at infocentar.tel.hr From C.J.Arthur at uel.ac.uk Fri Mar 6 13:41:44 1998 From: C.J.Arthur at uel.ac.uk (Evolution of Language '98) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 08:41:44 EST Subject: Evolution of Language Conference Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- (Apologies for multiple postings) ********THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE******** 2nd International Conference Date: Monday 6th - Thursday 9th April, 1998 Venue: City University, London Organised by: Prof. JEAN AITCHISON (Oxford University), Prof. JAMES HURFORD (University of Edinburgh) and Dr. CHRIS KNIGHT (University of East London) A preliminary programme for this conference is now available. Further details and a registration form can be obtained from: Joan Tremble UEL Business Services Duncan House High Street London E15 2JB Tel. 0181 2150705 Fax: 0181 849 3619 Email: J.Tremble at uel.ac.uk or from our website at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/faculties/socsci/anthro/confreg.htm PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Monday 6th April 2pm-6pm - Plenary Session 2pm OPENING REMARKS 2.10 JEAN AITCHISON 'Language origins and (psycho-) linguistic theories' 2.40 COLIN RENFREW 'Small talk, or why was the `Human Revolution' so impressive' 3.10 MARK PAGEL 'The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution' 3.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 4.10 TERRENCE DEACON 'Constraints on brain-language co-evolution' 4.40 DEREK BICKERTON 'Protolanguage to language: the rest of the story' 5.10 ROBERT BERWICK 'Evolution and language acquisition: from `classical' to `modern' models of evolutionary innovation' 5.40 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 9am HEIDI LYN SAFFER & E. SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH 'Observational word learning in Bonobos (Pan paniscus)' 9.25 MICHAEL BERAN, E. SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH & KAREN BRAKKE 'Language comprehension in three chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): effect of rearing on level of comprehension' 9.50 ROBERT WORDEN 'Words, memes and language evolution' 10.15 PAUL BLOOM 'The evolution of words' 10.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.05 WILLIAM ABLER 'Algebraic Syntax' 11.30 EZEQUIEL DI PAOLO 'Spatio-temporal and structural constraints in the evolution of communication' 11.55 ANGELO CANGELOSI & STEVAN HARNAD 'Adaptive advantages of `hearsay' over direct sensorimotor experiences' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 9am PETER MACNEILAGE & BARBARA DAVIS 'Evolution of speech: the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny' 9.25 MARILYN MAY VIHMAN & RORY DE PAOLIS 'The role of mimesis in infant language development: evidence for phylogeny?' 9.50 LUC STEELS 'The origins of linguistic categories' 10.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 10.40 JOHN BATALI 'The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars' 11.05 SIMON KIRBY 'How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners' 11.30 JAMES HURFORD 'Syntax creation from randomness' 11.55 TED BRISCOE 'How natural is natural language? Human languages as complex adaptive systems' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 2pm DEAN FALK 'Proto-music and proto-language in Australopithecines and beyond' 2.25 JAMES STEELE 'Right-shifted handedness frequencies: a marker of selection for proto-language abilities?' 2.50 TIM CROW 'Did Homo sapiens speciate (and language originate) on the Y chromosome?' 3.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.40 MYRNA GOPNIK 'Language evolution = rules and representations' 4.05 HEATHER K. J. VAN DER LELY 'Evidence for a grammar specific deficit in children: implications for the biological evolution of language' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Tuesday 7th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 2pm PETER GARDENFORS & SIMON WINTER 'Evolving social constraints on individual conceptual relations' 2.25 ALISON WRAY 'Holistic utterances: the common link from primates to humans' 2.50 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.15 JASON NOBLE 'The evolution of communication with and without conflicts of interest; an argument for modelling proto-proto-language' 3.40 EDWARD KAKO 'Reconstructing proto-language from the capacities of language-trained animals' 4.05 GWEN HEWITT & ANN MACLARNON 'Respiratory adaptations: protolanguage and fission-fusion groups' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Wednesday 8th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 9am STEVEN MITHEN 'Thought, language and the manufacture of hand-axes' 9.25 ALEXANDER MARSHACK 'Coevolution of the language and visual capacities: the archaeological and cognitive evidence' 9.50 DANIEL DOR, EVA JABLONKA, SHIMONA GINZBERG & GEVA RECHAV 'Linguistic meaning, linguistic sound, and the mechanism of genetic assimilation: towards an explicit model of the evolution of language' 10.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 10.40 PAUL VOGT 'The evolution of a lexicon and meaning in robotic agents through self-organizing adaptation' 11.05 MIKE OLIPHANT 'Rethinking the language bottleneck: why don't animals learn to communicate?' 11.30 GEOFFREY MILLER & PETER TODD 'Evolution of vocabulary size through runaway sexual selection: theory, data and simulations' 11.55 JOHN LOCKE 'Rank, reciprocity and relationships in the evolution of language' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Wednesday 8th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 9am JEFFREY LAITMAN, SAMUEL MARQUEZ & JOY REIDENBERG 'New insights from Neanderthal craniofacial biology and implications for understanding their vocal abilities and speech' 9.25 PHILIP LIEBERMAN 'On the functional language system of the human brain' 9.50 LYNNE SCHEPARTZ 'The evolution of complex language from a Darwinian perspective' 10.15 IAN MADDIESON 'Vowel systems and language origin' 10.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.05 MICHAEL STUDDERT-KENNEDY 'Implications of the particulate principle for the evolution of language' 11.30 TECUMSEH FITCH 'Vocal tract anatomy, formants and the evolution of speech' 11.55 RENE CARRE 'The origin of speech gestures' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Wednesday 8th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 2pm JEAN LOUIS DESSALLES 'Linguistic relevance in hominidae politics 2.25 ROBERT KLUENDER 'Getting from there to here: the intermediating role of ritual in the evolution of language' 2.50 CHRIS KNIGHT 'Ritual and the evolution of syntactical speech' 3.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.40 ROBIN DUNBAR 'The freerider problem and the evolution of language' 4.05 CAMILLA POWER 'Secret language in contexts of female initiation ritual' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Wednesday 8th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 2pm APRIL MCMAHON 'The evolution of phonological constraints' 2.25 JAN ANWARD & BJORN LINDBLOM 'Morphogenesis: the systemic growth of linguistic form' 2.50 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.15 ANDREW CARSTAIRS-MCCARTHY 'The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: an impediment to language evolution?' 3.40 BART DE BOER 'Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation' 4.05 DANIEL LIVINGSTONE & COLIN FYFE 'A computational model of language-physiology coevolution' 4.30 ANN MACLARNON & GWEN HEWITT 'Protolanguage to language: evidence from the evolution of breathing control' 5.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION Thursday 9th April 9am-1pm - Plenary Session 9am FREDERICK NEWMEYER 'On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order' 9.30 DAVID LIGHTFOOT 'The maladaptiveness of Universal Grammar' 10.00 MICHAEL FORTESCUE 'Linguistic bottlenecks and early population movements' 10.30 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.00 ROBBINS BURLING 'Comprehension and production in early language' 11.30 LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA 'A view of the relationships between genetics and linguistics' 12.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION 12.30 CONCLUDING REMARKS (The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the programme at any time) From jhewson at morgan.ucs.mun.ca Mon Mar 9 20:54:43 1998 From: jhewson at morgan.ucs.mun.ca (John Hewson) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:54:43 EST Subject: Protolanguage dictionaries of NAmerican languages Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Mary Haas suggested in The Prehistory of Languages that deeper reconstruction could best be done on the basis of protolanguage dictionaries of families with a time depth similar to Romance or Germanic. Algonkian is such a family, and we have some 4000+ items of reconstructed vocabulary. Are there any other such protolanguage dictionaries or equivalent resources for other Amerindian families? Information would be greatly appreciated. John Hewson tel: (709)737-8131 University Research Professor fax: (709)737-4000 Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's NF, CANADA A1B 3X9 From kturrill at IMAP3.asu.edu Sat Mar 21 18:32:43 1998 From: kturrill at IMAP3.asu.edu (Kristin Turrill) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 13:32:43 EST Subject: seeking info on Spain's languages Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- To all subscribers: I am a graduate student and am seeking information on the effects of Franco's language planning/policies on Spain's languages (other than Castilian). I am concentrating and Basque and/or Catalan. What I am particularly interested in is what happens to a language when it is forced out of the public domain; how a language changes as a result of being supressed. I am looking at this in terms of Spain's languages. I am aware that only Castilian had official status during most of Franco's rule (although I have yet to find specifics on his policies), so I am interested in what happened to the other languages. In order to understand the situation in context, I am interested in learning about the status of the language(s) in the early 20th Century (pre-Franco) as well as under Franco's regime and in the decades since. How have these language(s) changed, adapted? Thank you, Kristin Turrill Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona kturrill at IMAP3.asu.edu From larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk Thu Mar 26 19:16:21 1998 From: larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk (Larry Trask) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:16:21 EST Subject: Q: `crystallization' Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The term `crystallization' has been applied to various (attested or posited) occasions on which a single more or less unified language arises out of a welter of diverse linguistic activity. Among the linguists who have argued for this kind of scenario are Bob Le Page, John (?) Chew, Charles-James Bailey, and Sally Thomason and Terrence Kaufman in their well-known 1988 book. According to T&K (p. 150), the term `crystallization' was coined by Uriel Weinreich, but they give no explicit reference. Can anybody provide one? I suspect it may be Weinreich's 1958 paper in _Word_, but I don't have ready access to that journal here. Larry Trask COGS University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH England larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk From sally at isp.pitt.edu Fri Mar 27 12:01:31 1998 From: sally at isp.pitt.edu (Sarah G. Thomason) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 07:01:31 EST Subject: Q: `crystallization' In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:16:21 EST." Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I first saw the term "crystallization" in Weinreich's LANGUAGES IN CONTACT (1953, 1968); I don't have the book at hand to check the page number. Sally Thomason sally at isp.pitt.edu From BMScott at stratos.net Sun Mar 29 14:44:20 1998 From: BMScott at stratos.net (Brian M. Scott) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 09:44:20 EST Subject: Q: `crystallization' Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Sarah G. Thomason wrote: > I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I first saw the term > "crystallization" in Weinreich's LANGUAGES IN CONTACT (1953, 1968); > I don't have the book at hand to check the page number. Section 4.6, Crystallization of New Languages, p.104 in the 1963 2nd printing. Brian M. Scott BMScott at stratos.net From manaster at umich.edu Sun Mar 29 14:53:31 1998 From: manaster at umich.edu (manaster at umich.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 09:53:31 EST Subject: A question re IE Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Now that the IE list is no more, I hope someone here can fill in the '??' in the following list of the 14 branches Bird assumes based on Pokorny for IE: Albanian, Anatolian, Armenian, Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Italic, Indic, Iranian, Slavic, Tocharian, Illyrian, and ?? Alexis ManasterRamer From mcv at wxs.nl Mon Mar 30 11:52:38 1998 From: mcv at wxs.nl (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 06:52:38 EST Subject: A question re IE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Alexis (manaster at umich.edu) wrote: >Now that the IE list is no more, I hope someone here can fill in >the '??' in the following list of the 14 branches Bird assumes >based on Pokorny for IE: > >Albanian, Anatolian, Armenian, Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, >Italic, Indic, Iranian, Slavic, Tocharian, Illyrian, and ?? Based on Harry B. Partridge's Register to Pokorny, that would be "Phrygisch (Makedonisch eingerueckt, Thrakisch doppelt eingerueckt) und Dakisch". ======================= Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl Amsterdam From maxw at cogs.susx.ac.uk Mon Mar 30 13:25:26 1998 From: maxw at cogs.susx.ac.uk (Max Wheeler) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 08:25:26 EST Subject: Q: `crystallization' (fwd) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Forwarded message: > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > > I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I first saw the term > "crystallization" in Weinreich's LANGUAGES IN CONTACT (1953, 1968); > I don't have the book at hand to check the page number. > > Sally Thomason > sally at isp.pitt.edu > Yes, section 4,6 of Languages in Contact is called 'Crystallization of New Languages'. (Larry, I have a copy on my desk if you want it :-) Max Wheeler ___________________________________________________________________________ Max W. Wheeler School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1273 678975; fax: +44 (0)1273 671320 ___________________________________________________________________________ From nsgisbor at hkucc.hku.hk Mon Mar 2 10:57:52 1998 From: nsgisbor at hkucc.hku.hk (Nik Gisborne) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 05:57:52 EST Subject: Professorial job announcement Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I'd be grateful if this job announcement could be posted on Histling. Nik Gisborne. ================ Ref: RF-97/98-34 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG As the oldest tertiary education institution in Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong has attained paralleled achievements since 1911 in Hong Kong and the region by drawing on the great cultural traditions of China and the West. The University is a major researchinstitution with nine major faculties and 100+ departments and sub-divisions of studies and learning, and a full- and part-time postgraduate and undergraduate student body of almost 15,000, including 1,900 research students. Our firm commitment to research excellence and internationalisation has established us as one of the top Universities in the Region. We are firmly committed to our vision of globalisation and enhancing our research excellence. Professor : Chair of English Applications and nominations are now invited for appointment as Professor: Chair of English from January 1, 1999. The Department of English seeks to play a pivotal role in leading English Studies in Hong Kong and to support the University's determination to retain its international standards and status, and its unique position within China and Asia. We therefore seek an academic leader with strong academic qualifications, and a substantial record of teaching and research publications, to contribute actively to research and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate (M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D.) levels in the context of the Department's work in English and American literatures, world literature in English, sociolinguistics, critical linguistics and English language and linguistics. Competitive remuneration within the professorial range of HKD1M+ with 15% terminal gratuity and an attractive benefits package (comprising housing, leave, passage, medical/dental benefits and children's local education allowances) will be offered to the successful candidate. The University would prefer to make a fixed term appointment of not less than three academic years, but consideration may also be given to appointment on permanent terms. Further particulars and application forms can be obtained on WWW at http://www.hku.hk; or from the Appointments Unit, Registry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (fax: (852) 2540 6735 or 2559 2058; e-mail: APPTUNIT at REG.HKU.HK). Further details about the Department, including its research profile, are available at http://www.hku.hk/english, or on application. Review of applications will begin from early-March until the closing date of March 31, 1998. The University is an equal opportunity employer and is working towards a smoke-free environment. From nsgisbor at hkucc.hku.hk Mon Mar 2 11:04:04 1998 From: nsgisbor at hkucc.hku.hk (Nik Gisborne) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 06:04:04 EST Subject: Job announcement #2 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I'd be grateful if this could go on Histling, too. Nik Gisborne. ================= Ref.: RF-97/98-36 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG As the oldest tertiary education institution in Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong has attained unparalleled achievements since 1911 in Hong Kong and the region by drawing on the great cultural traditions of China and the West. The University is a major research institution with nine major faculties and 100+ departments and sub-divisions of studies and learning, and a full- and part-time postgraduate and undergraduate student body of almost 15,000, including 1,900 research students. Our firm commitment to research excellence and internationalisation has established us as one of the top universities in the Region. We are firmly committed to our vision of globalisation and enhancing our research excellence. Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in English Linguistics Applications are invited for appointment as Associate Professor/Assistant Professor (1 post) in English Linguistics in the Department of English, tenable from January 1, 1999 or as soon as possible thereafter, subject to availability of funding. The appointment will initially be made on a fixed-term basis of three years, with a possibility of renewal. The Department of English seeks to play a pivotal role in leading English Studies in Hong Kong and to support the University's determination to retain its international standards and status, and its unique position within China and Asia. The Department is therefore interested in applicants who possess a Ph.D., with specialization in English Linguistics. The department undertakes teaching and research in English language and linguistics, sociolinguistics, critical linguistics, and journalism in English; and encourages interdisciplinary approaches to the study of language. Applicants should note that the Department's primary concern is with English studies and that it is not an ESL teaching unit. Appointees will be expected to offer courses in their areas of specialization, to contribute to the teaching of existing courses in the Department at both undergraduate and Master's levels, to supervise M.Phil. and Ph.D. students in their areas of specialization, and to pursue an active programme of research and publication. Applicants should state clearly which area (with reference number) they wish to be considered for. Those who apply for appointment as Associate Professor are invited to indicate whether they wish to be considered for appointment at Assistant Professor level as well. Annual salaries [attracting 15% (taxable) terminal gratuity] are on the following scales, with starting salary depending on qualifications and experience: Associate Professor : HK$812,220 - 1,091,100 (9 points) (in the grade of Senior Lecturer) (approx. GBP63,855 - 85,780) Assistant Professor : HK$522,780 - 873,360 (11 points) * (in the grade of Lecturer) (approx. GBP41,100 - 68,660) (sterling equivalents as at February 23, 1998) * An appointee with an annual salary at HK$698,520 (approx. GBP54,915) or above may be considered for the award of the title of Associate Professor. At current rates, salaries tax will not exceed 15% of gross income. The appointment carries leave, medical and dental benefits, an allowance for children's education in Hong Kong, and, in most cases, a financial subsidy for private tenancy may also be provided at a charge of a percentage of salary, currently 7.5%. Further particulars and application forms can be obtained on WWW at http://www.hku.hk; or from the Appointments Unit, Registry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Fax (852) 2540 6735 or 2559 2058; E-mail: APPTUNIT at REG.HKU.HK). Further details about the department, including information about the department's research profile, are available on application, or on WWW at http://www.hku.hk/english. Closes April 24, 1998. The University is an equal opportunity employer and is working towards a smoke-free environment From lsa at lsadc.org Mon Mar 2 21:05:55 1998 From: lsa at lsadc.org (LSA) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:05:55 EST Subject: 1998 March LSA Bulletin Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- PLEASE POST: The March 1998 LSA Bulletin (#159) is now available at http://www.lsadc.org/marbull.html Members are encouraged to consult Nota Bene (p. 9) for upcoming award deadlines. From alemko.gluhak at infocentar.tel.hr Wed Mar 4 14:00:49 1998 From: alemko.gluhak at infocentar.tel.hr (Alemko Gluhak) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 09:00:49 EST Subject: Etymological conference -- Krk, Croatia, November 1998 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 6--7 November '98 4th Petar Skok etymological conference, Krk, Croatia Deadline for abstracts: 15 June '98 Themes: Dalmatian and Vegliote language, Dalmatian elements in Croatian, Mediterranean, etymology (Rom., Sl., IE, general) Contact: prof. dr. Vojmir Vinja, Alfireviceva 43, HR-10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska/Croatia, vojmir.vinja at public.srce.hr or prof. dr. Vojmir Vinja, Zavod za lingvisticka istrazivanja HAZU, Ante Kovacica 5, HR-10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska/Croatia For more information about lodging in Krk, please contact: prof. dr. Goran Filipi, Koparska 70, HR-52100 Pula, Hrvatska/Croatia, tel. +385-52-501374, gfilipi at pefpu.hr More information after 16 March 1998: http://mahazu.hazu.hr/LingResIn/Skok4.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth Skok etymological conference will be held on November 6--7, 1998, in the city of Krk. The last Dalmatophone, Tone Udaina Burbur, died in 1898. He spoke Vegliote, a dialect of the Dalmatian language. Vegliote was spoken in the island of Krk (city of Krk = Vegliote _Vekla_, from Lat. _civitas vetula_; Vegliote _Vekla_ gave Italian _Veglia_), in Croatia. As you can read in Matteo Giulio Bartoli's _Das Dalmatische_ II (Wien 1906; modified writing) -- naNka join dei siny?uri noN sap?ja favl?r iN veklis?n. "Neanche uno dei signori non sapeva parlar in vegliesano." (7/8) -- said Tone Udaina Burbur. In connection with the 100th aniversary of the death of Tone Udaina Burbur and the Dalmatian and Vegliote language, _Fourth Skok etymological conference_ will be held on November 6--7, 1998, in the city of Krk. Linguists working with Adriatic, Croatian, Mediterranean and general themes of the etymological theory and praxis, are invited to submit their contributions. Interested linguistist should send their registration (with the title of the paper and a short summary), to the following address: Razred za filoloske znanosti HAZU Odbor za etimologiju (za IV. Skokove etimoloske susrete) Ul. Andrije Hebranga 2 HR-10000 Zagreb Hrvatska/Croatia (or e-mails). Deadline: June 15, 1998. If it is not possible to you to take part in the conference, your paper would be read. Please, inform other colleagues! Please, inform other colleagues! Sorry, your trip to Croatia and stay in Krk can not be paid by Croatian Academy. Petar Skok etymological conference is a conference held by Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Pula 1994, Zadar 1990, Zagreb 1986). Petar Skok (1881--1956) was a great Croatian linguist. He worked mostly in Romanic languages, in Balkan linguistics (Vulgar Latin, Dalmatian, Romanisms in Croatian and other languages). -- He wrote Etimologijski rjecnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971--74), Pregled francuske gramatike (1939), Francuska knjizevnost XIX. i XX. vijeka (1939), Osnovi romanske lingvistike (1940). -- He wrote about 520 articles and books (340 in linguistics). -- See more f.e. in Zarko Muljacic, Petar Skok come linguista, in Richard Baum et al. (ed.), Lingua et Traditio. Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft und der neueren Philologien. Festschrift fuer Hans Helmut Christmann zum 65. Geburtstag, G. Narr Verlag, Tuebingen 1994. Contacts: prof. dr. Vojmir Vinja /president of the etymological committee/ Frana Alfirevica 43 HR-10000 Zagreb vojmir.vinja at public.srce.hr For more information about lodging in Krk, please contact: prof. dr. Goran Filipi Koparska 70 HR-52100 Pula tel. +385-(0)52-501374 gfilipi at pefpu.hr More informations also in http://mahazu.hazu.hr/LingResIn/Skok4.html (after March 16, 1998). Sent by Alemko Gluhak Zavod za lingvisticka istrazivanja Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti (Linguistic Research Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) Ante Kovacica 5, HR-10000 Zagreb Hrvatska/Croatia alemko.gluhak at infocentar.tel.hr From C.J.Arthur at uel.ac.uk Fri Mar 6 13:41:44 1998 From: C.J.Arthur at uel.ac.uk (Evolution of Language '98) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 08:41:44 EST Subject: Evolution of Language Conference Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- (Apologies for multiple postings) ********THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE******** 2nd International Conference Date: Monday 6th - Thursday 9th April, 1998 Venue: City University, London Organised by: Prof. JEAN AITCHISON (Oxford University), Prof. JAMES HURFORD (University of Edinburgh) and Dr. CHRIS KNIGHT (University of East London) A preliminary programme for this conference is now available. Further details and a registration form can be obtained from: Joan Tremble UEL Business Services Duncan House High Street London E15 2JB Tel. 0181 2150705 Fax: 0181 849 3619 Email: J.Tremble at uel.ac.uk or from our website at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/faculties/socsci/anthro/confreg.htm PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Monday 6th April 2pm-6pm - Plenary Session 2pm OPENING REMARKS 2.10 JEAN AITCHISON 'Language origins and (psycho-) linguistic theories' 2.40 COLIN RENFREW 'Small talk, or why was the `Human Revolution' so impressive' 3.10 MARK PAGEL 'The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution' 3.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 4.10 TERRENCE DEACON 'Constraints on brain-language co-evolution' 4.40 DEREK BICKERTON 'Protolanguage to language: the rest of the story' 5.10 ROBERT BERWICK 'Evolution and language acquisition: from `classical' to `modern' models of evolutionary innovation' 5.40 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 9am HEIDI LYN SAFFER & E. SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH 'Observational word learning in Bonobos (Pan paniscus)' 9.25 MICHAEL BERAN, E. SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH & KAREN BRAKKE 'Language comprehension in three chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): effect of rearing on level of comprehension' 9.50 ROBERT WORDEN 'Words, memes and language evolution' 10.15 PAUL BLOOM 'The evolution of words' 10.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.05 WILLIAM ABLER 'Algebraic Syntax' 11.30 EZEQUIEL DI PAOLO 'Spatio-temporal and structural constraints in the evolution of communication' 11.55 ANGELO CANGELOSI & STEVAN HARNAD 'Adaptive advantages of `hearsay' over direct sensorimotor experiences' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 9am PETER MACNEILAGE & BARBARA DAVIS 'Evolution of speech: the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny' 9.25 MARILYN MAY VIHMAN & RORY DE PAOLIS 'The role of mimesis in infant language development: evidence for phylogeny?' 9.50 LUC STEELS 'The origins of linguistic categories' 10.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 10.40 JOHN BATALI 'The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars' 11.05 SIMON KIRBY 'How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners' 11.30 JAMES HURFORD 'Syntax creation from randomness' 11.55 TED BRISCOE 'How natural is natural language? Human languages as complex adaptive systems' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 2pm DEAN FALK 'Proto-music and proto-language in Australopithecines and beyond' 2.25 JAMES STEELE 'Right-shifted handedness frequencies: a marker of selection for proto-language abilities?' 2.50 TIM CROW 'Did Homo sapiens speciate (and language originate) on the Y chromosome?' 3.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.40 MYRNA GOPNIK 'Language evolution = rules and representations' 4.05 HEATHER K. J. VAN DER LELY 'Evidence for a grammar specific deficit in children: implications for the biological evolution of language' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Tuesday 7th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 2pm PETER GARDENFORS & SIMON WINTER 'Evolving social constraints on individual conceptual relations' 2.25 ALISON WRAY 'Holistic utterances: the common link from primates to humans' 2.50 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.15 JASON NOBLE 'The evolution of communication with and without conflicts of interest; an argument for modelling proto-proto-language' 3.40 EDWARD KAKO 'Reconstructing proto-language from the capacities of language-trained animals' 4.05 GWEN HEWITT & ANN MACLARNON 'Respiratory adaptations: protolanguage and fission-fusion groups' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Wednesday 8th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 9am STEVEN MITHEN 'Thought, language and the manufacture of hand-axes' 9.25 ALEXANDER MARSHACK 'Coevolution of the language and visual capacities: the archaeological and cognitive evidence' 9.50 DANIEL DOR, EVA JABLONKA, SHIMONA GINZBERG & GEVA RECHAV 'Linguistic meaning, linguistic sound, and the mechanism of genetic assimilation: towards an explicit model of the evolution of language' 10.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 10.40 PAUL VOGT 'The evolution of a lexicon and meaning in robotic agents through self-organizing adaptation' 11.05 MIKE OLIPHANT 'Rethinking the language bottleneck: why don't animals learn to communicate?' 11.30 GEOFFREY MILLER & PETER TODD 'Evolution of vocabulary size through runaway sexual selection: theory, data and simulations' 11.55 JOHN LOCKE 'Rank, reciprocity and relationships in the evolution of language' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Wednesday 8th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 9am JEFFREY LAITMAN, SAMUEL MARQUEZ & JOY REIDENBERG 'New insights from Neanderthal craniofacial biology and implications for understanding their vocal abilities and speech' 9.25 PHILIP LIEBERMAN 'On the functional language system of the human brain' 9.50 LYNNE SCHEPARTZ 'The evolution of complex language from a Darwinian perspective' 10.15 IAN MADDIESON 'Vowel systems and language origin' 10.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.05 MICHAEL STUDDERT-KENNEDY 'Implications of the particulate principle for the evolution of language' 11.30 TECUMSEH FITCH 'Vocal tract anatomy, formants and the evolution of speech' 11.55 RENE CARRE 'The origin of speech gestures' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Wednesday 8th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 2pm JEAN LOUIS DESSALLES 'Linguistic relevance in hominidae politics 2.25 ROBERT KLUENDER 'Getting from there to here: the intermediating role of ritual in the evolution of language' 2.50 CHRIS KNIGHT 'Ritual and the evolution of syntactical speech' 3.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.40 ROBIN DUNBAR 'The freerider problem and the evolution of language' 4.05 CAMILLA POWER 'Secret language in contexts of female initiation ritual' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Wednesday 8th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 2pm APRIL MCMAHON 'The evolution of phonological constraints' 2.25 JAN ANWARD & BJORN LINDBLOM 'Morphogenesis: the systemic growth of linguistic form' 2.50 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.15 ANDREW CARSTAIRS-MCCARTHY 'The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: an impediment to language evolution?' 3.40 BART DE BOER 'Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation' 4.05 DANIEL LIVINGSTONE & COLIN FYFE 'A computational model of language-physiology coevolution' 4.30 ANN MACLARNON & GWEN HEWITT 'Protolanguage to language: evidence from the evolution of breathing control' 5.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION Thursday 9th April 9am-1pm - Plenary Session 9am FREDERICK NEWMEYER 'On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order' 9.30 DAVID LIGHTFOOT 'The maladaptiveness of Universal Grammar' 10.00 MICHAEL FORTESCUE 'Linguistic bottlenecks and early population movements' 10.30 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.00 ROBBINS BURLING 'Comprehension and production in early language' 11.30 LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA 'A view of the relationships between genetics and linguistics' 12.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION 12.30 CONCLUDING REMARKS (The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the programme at any time) From jhewson at morgan.ucs.mun.ca Mon Mar 9 20:54:43 1998 From: jhewson at morgan.ucs.mun.ca (John Hewson) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:54:43 EST Subject: Protolanguage dictionaries of NAmerican languages Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Mary Haas suggested in The Prehistory of Languages that deeper reconstruction could best be done on the basis of protolanguage dictionaries of families with a time depth similar to Romance or Germanic. Algonkian is such a family, and we have some 4000+ items of reconstructed vocabulary. Are there any other such protolanguage dictionaries or equivalent resources for other Amerindian families? Information would be greatly appreciated. John Hewson tel: (709)737-8131 University Research Professor fax: (709)737-4000 Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's NF, CANADA A1B 3X9 From kturrill at IMAP3.asu.edu Sat Mar 21 18:32:43 1998 From: kturrill at IMAP3.asu.edu (Kristin Turrill) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 13:32:43 EST Subject: seeking info on Spain's languages Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- To all subscribers: I am a graduate student and am seeking information on the effects of Franco's language planning/policies on Spain's languages (other than Castilian). I am concentrating and Basque and/or Catalan. What I am particularly interested in is what happens to a language when it is forced out of the public domain; how a language changes as a result of being supressed. I am looking at this in terms of Spain's languages. I am aware that only Castilian had official status during most of Franco's rule (although I have yet to find specifics on his policies), so I am interested in what happened to the other languages. In order to understand the situation in context, I am interested in learning about the status of the language(s) in the early 20th Century (pre-Franco) as well as under Franco's regime and in the decades since. How have these language(s) changed, adapted? Thank you, Kristin Turrill Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona kturrill at IMAP3.asu.edu From larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk Thu Mar 26 19:16:21 1998 From: larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk (Larry Trask) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:16:21 EST Subject: Q: `crystallization' Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The term `crystallization' has been applied to various (attested or posited) occasions on which a single more or less unified language arises out of a welter of diverse linguistic activity. Among the linguists who have argued for this kind of scenario are Bob Le Page, John (?) Chew, Charles-James Bailey, and Sally Thomason and Terrence Kaufman in their well-known 1988 book. According to T&K (p. 150), the term `crystallization' was coined by Uriel Weinreich, but they give no explicit reference. Can anybody provide one? I suspect it may be Weinreich's 1958 paper in _Word_, but I don't have ready access to that journal here. Larry Trask COGS University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH England larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk From sally at isp.pitt.edu Fri Mar 27 12:01:31 1998 From: sally at isp.pitt.edu (Sarah G. Thomason) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 07:01:31 EST Subject: Q: `crystallization' In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:16:21 EST." Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I first saw the term "crystallization" in Weinreich's LANGUAGES IN CONTACT (1953, 1968); I don't have the book at hand to check the page number. Sally Thomason sally at isp.pitt.edu From BMScott at stratos.net Sun Mar 29 14:44:20 1998 From: BMScott at stratos.net (Brian M. Scott) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 09:44:20 EST Subject: Q: `crystallization' Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Sarah G. Thomason wrote: > I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I first saw the term > "crystallization" in Weinreich's LANGUAGES IN CONTACT (1953, 1968); > I don't have the book at hand to check the page number. Section 4.6, Crystallization of New Languages, p.104 in the 1963 2nd printing. Brian M. Scott BMScott at stratos.net From manaster at umich.edu Sun Mar 29 14:53:31 1998 From: manaster at umich.edu (manaster at umich.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 09:53:31 EST Subject: A question re IE Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Now that the IE list is no more, I hope someone here can fill in the '??' in the following list of the 14 branches Bird assumes based on Pokorny for IE: Albanian, Anatolian, Armenian, Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Italic, Indic, Iranian, Slavic, Tocharian, Illyrian, and ?? Alexis ManasterRamer From mcv at wxs.nl Mon Mar 30 11:52:38 1998 From: mcv at wxs.nl (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 06:52:38 EST Subject: A question re IE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Alexis (manaster at umich.edu) wrote: >Now that the IE list is no more, I hope someone here can fill in >the '??' in the following list of the 14 branches Bird assumes >based on Pokorny for IE: > >Albanian, Anatolian, Armenian, Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, >Italic, Indic, Iranian, Slavic, Tocharian, Illyrian, and ?? Based on Harry B. Partridge's Register to Pokorny, that would be "Phrygisch (Makedonisch eingerueckt, Thrakisch doppelt eingerueckt) und Dakisch". ======================= Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl Amsterdam From maxw at cogs.susx.ac.uk Mon Mar 30 13:25:26 1998 From: maxw at cogs.susx.ac.uk (Max Wheeler) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 08:25:26 EST Subject: Q: `crystallization' (fwd) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Forwarded message: > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > > I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I first saw the term > "crystallization" in Weinreich's LANGUAGES IN CONTACT (1953, 1968); > I don't have the book at hand to check the page number. > > Sally Thomason > sally at isp.pitt.edu > Yes, section 4,6 of Languages in Contact is called 'Crystallization of New Languages'. (Larry, I have a copy on my desk if you want it :-) Max Wheeler ___________________________________________________________________________ Max W. Wheeler School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1273 678975; fax: +44 (0)1273 671320 ___________________________________________________________________________