7th annual workshop on comparative linguistics

[Martha Ratliff]

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7TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS
November 21-22, 1998
 
at
 
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room 210, Illini Union
 
 
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURE
 
 
Speakers and topics include:
 
Hans Henrich Hock: "Use and misuse of linguistic prehistory: India and beyond"
Frederick Schwink: "The reconstruction of IE gender as a reflection of culture"
Mary Niepokuj: "IE poetics"
Rex Wallace: "Sabellian"
Martha Ratliff: "Vocabulary of environment and subsistence in Proto-Hmong-Mien"
William Baxter: "Evidence for early Austronesian-Chinese contact in China"
Colleen Reilly: "Gender and sexuality in Anglo-Saxon"
Graham Thurgood "What proto-Chamic reconstructions tells us about early
Chamic culture"
Craig Hilts "Vocabulary for flora and fauna of Mixe-Zoquean"
 
 
 
Co-sponsored by: English, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Classics, Program
in Comparative Literature.
 
For information, contact
 
Frederick Schwink  <schwink at uiuc.edu>
Dept. of Germanic Languages
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3072 FLB
707 South Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801