From linkb at lurac.latrobe.edu.au Mon Sep 6 11:34:34 1999 From: linkb at lurac.latrobe.edu.au (Kate Burridge) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 07:34:34 EDT Subject: Endangered languages conference Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Symposium LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT AND LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE: AN ACTIVE APPROACH La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Monday-Tuesday 29-30 November 1999 convened by David Bradley, Department of Linguistics The symposium will start with a panel discussion on issues in language endangerment, with David Bradley as well as Alexandra Aikhenvald (Australian National University; from 2000 La Trobe University), Michael Clyne (Monash University), Bob Dixon (Australian National University; from 2000 La Trobe University), Peter Mühlhäusler (Adelaide University) and Steven Wurm (Australian National University) and conclude with a general discussion on strategies for language maintenance. The panel discussion will focus on (1) factors contributing to language endangerment: demographic, political, geographical, economic, social, attitudinal and linguistic; (2) the process of language shift and its linguistic and practical implications, and (3) the stages of language endangerment, whether gradual or abrupt. Case study presentations on individual communities will be given by these and other scholars including Barry Blake, Kate Burridge and Maya Bradley (La Trobe University), Margaret Florey (University of Newcastle), Rob Amery (Adelaide University) and others. These case studies will include Australian Aboriginal and migrant communities as well as indigenous and migrant communities in various other countries including Indonesia, Thailand, China, Canada and the Netherlands. Specific case studies to be presented include studies on the revival of Australian Aboriginal languages (Blake and others in Victoria, Amery and Mühlhäusler in South Australia), preparation of materials to assist communities in language maintenance (Bradley, Burridge and others, in Canada, China and Thailand), language maintenance in migrant versus autochthonous communities (Florey and others, in Indonesia and the Netherlands), sociolinguistic factors in language maintenance, and other topics. All others who wish to make a presentation (20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion) should submit a one-page abstract and email or fax address by 1 November; notification of acceptance will be sent by email or fax on 14 November. It is intended to produce a volume on the outcomes of the symposium. Those who wish their presentation to be considered for inclusion in this volume should submit it in hard copy AND on disk or as email attachment in rtf or Word 6 at or before the symposium. Please follow the Pacific Linguistics format which is available from . If you use any unusual fonts, please provide details and if possible a copy of the font. The symposium is planned to start at 10:30 AM on 29 November and finish on the afternoon of 30 November. It will be held in the HuEd area which is near the Department of Linguistics. Registration (no charge) will be in the David Myers Building, East wing, Room E229 starting from 9:30 AM on 29 November. Accommodation should be booked directly with Menzies College (tel. (+613/03) 9479 1071, fax (+613/03) 9479 3690, email ; a few double rooms $40, single rooms $30 or $24-50; please indicate that you are coming for this symposium) or Parkside Inn (1045 Plenty Road, Bundoora VIC 3083; tel. (+613/03) 9467 3344, fax (+613/03) 9467 5462; motel-style accommodation walking distance from the campus, $69 and upwards). Those who prefer to stay in the centre of Melbourne can travel by bus or tram to the university in under an hour. Meals are available on campus weekdays until 7 PM. Free parking is available in unpaved Car Parks 4 and 2A, or parking by daily permit in paved areas. This symposium is free and open to the public. Support from the UNESCO CIPSH Endangered Languages programme and the Australian Research Council (A59803475) is very gratefully acknowledged. Koori and other indigenous and NESB participation is most welcome. All enquiries and abstracts to or Department of Linguistics, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia Telephone +613/03 9479 2338 Fax +613/03 9479 1520 +613 is the international dialling code from outside Australia; 03 is the STD prefix from outside Victoria Please consult our web site on ; the final symposium programme will be on this web site from 14 November. text ends David Bradley Linguistics La Trobe University Bundoora VIC 3083 Australia tel +61 3 9479 2362 fax +61 3 9479 1520 web http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/linguistics Kate Burridge Associate Professor, Linguistics La Trobe University Bundoora, 3083 Vic From embleton at YorkU.CA Sat Sep 11 18:46:18 1999 From: embleton at YorkU.CA (Sheila Embleton) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:46:18 EDT Subject: ILA call for papers, April 7-9/2000, Georgetown University Message-ID: This conference has language change and contact as a theme, although papers on any theoretical or applied linguistics topic are also welcome. The call is included below as text, and is also attached. Please direct any questions to the people indicated in the message below, not to me! Sheila Embleton embleton at yorku.ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:07:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Ruth M. Brend To: embleton at yorku.ca Subject: ILA CALL FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 45th Annual Conference, International Linguistic Association April 7-9, 2000, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. The 45th ILA conference will have as its major theme Language Contact/Language Change. While papers on that theme are especially welcomed, abstracts on any subject in theoretical and applied linguistics are also solicited. Invited speakers: Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania and Lesley Milroy and Sarah Thomason, both of the University of Michigan. Local host: Father Solomon Sara. Single-spaced abstracts, bearing the title of the paper (but no author), of not more than 425 words should clearly state the problems or research questions addressed, and should give some indication of results or conclusions. (Anonymity will be preserved when abstracts are forwarded to the judges.) Send via e-mail to the conference chair (see below). Simultaneously, send via airmail 3 camera-ready hard copies of the abstract, plus a 3x5 card bearing name, title of paper, addresses, affiliation, audio-visual equipment needed and time desired (maximum 20 minutes plus discussion) to the conference secretary. Submissions on diskettes will not be accepted. Those wishing to propose panels,or special sessions, etc., should contact the conference chair. Deadline for recept of abstracts: January 10, 2000. Send e-mailed abstracts Send hard copies & info. to the chair: card to the secretary: rbrend at umich.edu ilaconf.woltjer at gte.net Dr. Ruth M. Brend Ms. Johanna J. 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Agnes Korn Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft : Tel. + 49 - 69 - 798 22 847 Universitaet Frankfurt : Fax + 49 - 69 - 798 22 873 PF 11 19 32 : http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de D - 60054 Frankfurt : mailto:a.korn at em.uni-frankfurt.de From jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net Sat Sep 18 14:45:57 1999 From: jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net (Jay Bowks) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:45:57 EDT Subject: TITUS - TEXTUS Making the rounds ;-) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: jdm314 at aol.com To: gothic-l at egroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 9:58 PM Subject: [gothic-l] Re: TITUS Texte Liufái gajukans jah liufôs gajukôs, Þeihandei raþjô gamelidanê af þizái TITUS skalkinassáus-makeinái (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ saíhv þata "TEXTUS") ju atsatjanda bi HTML. Alja þanaseiþ afargaggan skulun. Gôlja izwis, Agnês Kaúrn jdm31- at aol.com wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/gothic-l/?start=890 --- Message Original --- Fw: interlingua at coollist.com > Car collegas, > un augmentante numero de textos del servitor TITUS > ( http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ , vide "textus") nunc es > disponibile in HTML > > ----- Message Original ----- > ab: agnes korn > thema: TITUS Texte > >Liebe KollegInnen, > > > >von den TITUS-Texten (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ , unter "Textus") > >sind einige jetzt auch in HTML-Format vorraetig; weitere sollen folgen. > > > >Beste Gruesse > >Agnes Korn > > > > > >Dear colleagues, > > > >an increasing number of texts on the TITUS server > >(http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ , see "textus") are now also available > >in HTML. > > > >Best regards > >Agnes Korn > > Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft > > Universitaet Frankfurt > From shaxbi at usa.net Mon Sep 27 12:41:09 1999 From: shaxbi at usa.net (Madina Shaxbijeva) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 08:41:09 EDT Subject: No subject Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Dorothy Disterheft I ask you to send the text to all the subscriders of Histling again with some changes. RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES THE INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS 103009 Moscow K-9, B. Kislovsky per., 1/12 T. (095) 290-16-74; Fax (095) 290-05-28 E-mail Dear Colleagues �Linguistic Encyclopaedia: The Main Scholars of Russia and Abroad� (= LE) is being completed by Dr Phil Yudakin A.P. (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences). Russian and Foreign Lcs does not know such an edition. LE comprises practically all the domains of Lcs; the main scholars of many countries (over 50) are described in it. LE differs from the existing �Who is Who� in the following way: 1. The author of LE is a scholar at large, so to LE are impartially included the specialists who have made a considerable contribution to Lcs. 2. This contribution is assessed as a rule at its true value. 3. The most quoted Russian and Foreign Scholars are described more in detail. 4. The biographies of Russian and Slavonic scholars are more detailed. And what is more, LE discovers above a hundred new names of the specialists. 5. A lot of articles are accompanied by photos of the scholars. 6. Some scientists of the adjacent domains (psychologists, mathematicians, philosophers) who were occupied with the linguistic problems are included to LE. 7. The author addresses the book to the large audience ( scholars, students, post--graduates ), that is why LE is applied by the list of the manuals of about 100 languages. LINGUISTIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA: The Main Scholars of Russia and Abroad. // Ed. by Dr Phil Yudakin A.P. (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences )./ About 1 500 articles, ill., indexes./ Approximately: 1999 Dec � 2000 Jan. Considering the complexity of the edition , Linguistic Encyclopaedia will be published to order and only to your order. The price is 200 American Dollars for a copy. The book is supposed to come out in Dec 1999 � Jan 2000. Your help is wanted. The author asks those scholars who wants to possess LE to send the money in the name of Yudakin Anatoly Petrovich to the account: ACB �MOSCOW INDUSTRIAL BANK� KI EVSKY BRANCH 5, ORDZHONIKIDZE STREET MOSCOW, 117419, RUSSIA SWIFT: MINNRUMM ACCOUNT 42301840000060000001 YUDAKIN ANATOLY PETROVICH The author asks you to inform about the remittance by E-mail, by Fax or by Post. The address is at the beginning of the letter. Sincerely yours Anatoly P. Yudakin, Dr Phil. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 From polikarp at philol.msu.ru Tue Sep 28 17:33:58 1999 From: polikarp at philol.msu.ru (Anatoliy Polikarpov) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:33:58 EDT Subject: HumLang: New list in Linguistics is opened!!! Message-ID: Dear Colleague! Please, read attached file-letters, where you'll find information about new List HumLang (Human Language) (This file is attached in textual format, as well as in html one) . Editor of the HumLang List - Anatoliy A.Polikarpov Дорогой коллега! Посмотрите, пожалуйста, вложенный файл-письмо, в котором Вы найдете информацию о новом листе рассылки Humlang (Язык Человека) (файл прилагается как в текстовом, так и в html формате). Редактор листа HumLang - Анатолий Анатольевич Поликарпов -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: Letter-Engl.txt URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: Letter-Rus.txt URL: From jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu Wed Sep 29 14:33:43 1999 From: jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu (Joseph C. Salmons) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:33:43 EDT Subject: final announcement: Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8: Variation & Reconstruction October 29-31, 1999 Pyle Center (formerly "Wisconsin Center"), 702 Langdon Street University of Wisconsin, Madison Friday , Oct. 29, 7:00 p.m. Informal gathering, Max Kade Institute, 901 Univ. Bay Dr. 262-7546. (Transportation is available from Lowell Hall at 7:00 or on request by calling the MKI.) Saturday. Oct. 30 Reconstructing Social Variation 9:30 Robert Howell (UW) Reconstructing social variation in Early Modern Europe 10:15 Ray Harris (UW) Reduction of variation in the standardization of Castilian Spanish around 1500 11:00: Coffee break 11:30: Paul T. Roberge (UNC) "Reconstructing a Creole Continuum in early Afrikaans" 12:30 Lunch Reconstructing morphological variation 2:00 Frederick Schwink (Illinois) Reconstructing Variation in Proto-Germanic Gender 2:45 Sergio Meira (Rice/Nijmegen) Reconstructing Irregularity from Regularity: The Case of Competing First-Person Prefixes In Taranoan 3:30: Break 4:00: James Milroy (Michigan) "Some comments on the role of speakers in language change" 7:00: Dinner Sunday, Oct. 31 9:00 Cynthia Miller (UW) Variation in the Use of a Grammaticalized Complementizer in Ancient Northwest Semitic Identifying (pre-)historic variation 9:30 Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State) Projecting variation back onto the proto language 10:00 Thomas Cravens (UW) Approaching orthographic "confusion": stable allophony, change in progress, and lexicalized restucturing in early texts 11:00: Coffee break 11:30 Concluding Discussion, Mary Niepokuj (Purdue University) Rooms are available at Lowell Hall (610 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706) for Friday and Saturday night, single $52, double $62. Reservations should be made immediately: phone 608.256.2621, fax 256.5445. Please mention the WCL. WCL 8 is co-sponsored by the Depts of German, Hebrew & Semitic, Linguistics, French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, and the Max Kade Institute. The Workshop is made possible by generous support from the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters & Science, UW. From linkb at lurac.latrobe.edu.au Mon Sep 6 11:34:34 1999 From: linkb at lurac.latrobe.edu.au (Kate Burridge) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 07:34:34 EDT Subject: Endangered languages conference Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Symposium LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT AND LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE: AN ACTIVE APPROACH La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Monday-Tuesday 29-30 November 1999 convened by David Bradley, Department of Linguistics The symposium will start with a panel discussion on issues in language endangerment, with David Bradley as well as Alexandra Aikhenvald (Australian National University; from 2000 La Trobe University), Michael Clyne (Monash University), Bob Dixon (Australian National University; from 2000 La Trobe University), Peter M?hlh?usler (Adelaide University) and Steven Wurm (Australian National University) and conclude with a general discussion on strategies for language maintenance. The panel discussion will focus on (1) factors contributing to language endangerment: demographic, political, geographical, economic, social, attitudinal and linguistic; (2) the process of language shift and its linguistic and practical implications, and (3) the stages of language endangerment, whether gradual or abrupt. Case study presentations on individual communities will be given by these and other scholars including Barry Blake, Kate Burridge and Maya Bradley (La Trobe University), Margaret Florey (University of Newcastle), Rob Amery (Adelaide University) and others. These case studies will include Australian Aboriginal and migrant communities as well as indigenous and migrant communities in various other countries including Indonesia, Thailand, China, Canada and the Netherlands. Specific case studies to be presented include studies on the revival of Australian Aboriginal languages (Blake and others in Victoria, Amery and M?hlh?usler in South Australia), preparation of materials to assist communities in language maintenance (Bradley, Burridge and others, in Canada, China and Thailand), language maintenance in migrant versus autochthonous communities (Florey and others, in Indonesia and the Netherlands), sociolinguistic factors in language maintenance, and other topics. All others who wish to make a presentation (20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion) should submit a one-page abstract and email or fax address by 1 November; notification of acceptance will be sent by email or fax on 14 November. It is intended to produce a volume on the outcomes of the symposium. Those who wish their presentation to be considered for inclusion in this volume should submit it in hard copy AND on disk or as email attachment in rtf or Word 6 at or before the symposium. Please follow the Pacific Linguistics format which is available from . If you use any unusual fonts, please provide details and if possible a copy of the font. The symposium is planned to start at 10:30 AM on 29 November and finish on the afternoon of 30 November. It will be held in the HuEd area which is near the Department of Linguistics. Registration (no charge) will be in the David Myers Building, East wing, Room E229 starting from 9:30 AM on 29 November. Accommodation should be booked directly with Menzies College (tel. (+613/03) 9479 1071, fax (+613/03) 9479 3690, email ; a few double rooms $40, single rooms $30 or $24-50; please indicate that you are coming for this symposium) or Parkside Inn (1045 Plenty Road, Bundoora VIC 3083; tel. (+613/03) 9467 3344, fax (+613/03) 9467 5462; motel-style accommodation walking distance from the campus, $69 and upwards). Those who prefer to stay in the centre of Melbourne can travel by bus or tram to the university in under an hour. Meals are available on campus weekdays until 7 PM. Free parking is available in unpaved Car Parks 4 and 2A, or parking by daily permit in paved areas. This symposium is free and open to the public. Support from the UNESCO CIPSH Endangered Languages programme and the Australian Research Council (A59803475) is very gratefully acknowledged. Koori and other indigenous and NESB participation is most welcome. All enquiries and abstracts to or Department of Linguistics, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia Telephone +613/03 9479 2338 Fax +613/03 9479 1520 +613 is the international dialling code from outside Australia; 03 is the STD prefix from outside Victoria Please consult our web site on ; the final symposium programme will be on this web site from 14 November. text ends David Bradley Linguistics La Trobe University Bundoora VIC 3083 Australia tel +61 3 9479 2362 fax +61 3 9479 1520 web http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/linguistics Kate Burridge Associate Professor, Linguistics La Trobe University Bundoora, 3083 Vic From embleton at YorkU.CA Sat Sep 11 18:46:18 1999 From: embleton at YorkU.CA (Sheila Embleton) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:46:18 EDT Subject: ILA call for papers, April 7-9/2000, Georgetown University Message-ID: This conference has language change and contact as a theme, although papers on any theoretical or applied linguistics topic are also welcome. The call is included below as text, and is also attached. Please direct any questions to the people indicated in the message below, not to me! Sheila Embleton embleton at yorku.ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:07:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Ruth M. Brend To: embleton at yorku.ca Subject: ILA CALL FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 45th Annual Conference, International Linguistic Association April 7-9, 2000, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. The 45th ILA conference will have as its major theme Language Contact/Language Change. While papers on that theme are especially welcomed, abstracts on any subject in theoretical and applied linguistics are also solicited. Invited speakers: Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania and Lesley Milroy and Sarah Thomason, both of the University of Michigan. Local host: Father Solomon Sara. Single-spaced abstracts, bearing the title of the paper (but no author), of not more than 425 words should clearly state the problems or research questions addressed, and should give some indication of results or conclusions. (Anonymity will be preserved when abstracts are forwarded to the judges.) Send via e-mail to the conference chair (see below). Simultaneously, send via airmail 3 camera-ready hard copies of the abstract, plus a 3x5 card bearing name, title of paper, addresses, affiliation, audio-visual equipment needed and time desired (maximum 20 minutes plus discussion) to the conference secretary. Submissions on diskettes will not be accepted. Those wishing to propose panels,or special sessions, etc., should contact the conference chair. Deadline for recept of abstracts: January 10, 2000. Send e-mailed abstracts Send hard copies & info. to the chair: card to the secretary: rbrend at umich.edu ilaconf.woltjer at gte.net Dr. Ruth M. Brend Ms. Johanna J. 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Agnes Korn Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft : Tel. + 49 - 69 - 798 22 847 Universitaet Frankfurt : Fax + 49 - 69 - 798 22 873 PF 11 19 32 : http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de D - 60054 Frankfurt : mailto:a.korn at em.uni-frankfurt.de From jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net Sat Sep 18 14:45:57 1999 From: jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net (Jay Bowks) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:45:57 EDT Subject: TITUS - TEXTUS Making the rounds ;-) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: jdm314 at aol.com To: gothic-l at egroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 9:58 PM Subject: [gothic-l] Re: TITUS Texte Liuf?i gajukans jah liuf?s gajuk?s, ?eihandei ra?j? gamelidan? af ?iz?i TITUS skalkinass?us-makein?i (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ sa?hv ?ata "TEXTUS") ju atsatjanda bi HTML. Alja ?anasei? afargaggan skulun. G?lja izwis, Agn?s Ka?rn jdm31- at aol.com wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/gothic-l/?start=890 --- Message Original --- Fw: interlingua at coollist.com > Car collegas, > un augmentante numero de textos del servitor TITUS > ( http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ , vide "textus") nunc es > disponibile in HTML > > ----- Message Original ----- > ab: agnes korn > thema: TITUS Texte > >Liebe KollegInnen, > > > >von den TITUS-Texten (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ , unter "Textus") > >sind einige jetzt auch in HTML-Format vorraetig; weitere sollen folgen. > > > >Beste Gruesse > >Agnes Korn > > > > > >Dear colleagues, > > > >an increasing number of texts on the TITUS server > >(http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ , see "textus") are now also available > >in HTML. > > > >Best regards > >Agnes Korn > > Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft > > Universitaet Frankfurt > From shaxbi at usa.net Mon Sep 27 12:41:09 1999 From: shaxbi at usa.net (Madina Shaxbijeva) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 08:41:09 EDT Subject: No subject Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Dorothy Disterheft I ask you to send the text to all the subscriders of Histling again with some changes. RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES THE INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS 103009 Moscow K-9, B. Kislovsky per., 1/12 T. (095) 290-16-74; Fax (095) 290-05-28 E-mail Dear Colleagues ?Linguistic Encyclopaedia: The Main Scholars of Russia and Abroad? (= LE) is being completed by Dr Phil Yudakin A.P. (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences). Russian and Foreign Lcs does not know such an edition. LE comprises practically all the domains of Lcs; the main scholars of many countries (over 50) are described in it. LE differs from the existing ?Who is Who? in the following way: 1. The author of LE is a scholar at large, so to LE are impartially included the specialists who have made a considerable contribution to Lcs. 2. This contribution is assessed as a rule at its true value. 3. The most quoted Russian and Foreign Scholars are described more in detail. 4. The biographies of Russian and Slavonic scholars are more detailed. And what is more, LE discovers above a hundred new names of the specialists. 5. A lot of articles are accompanied by photos of the scholars. 6. Some scientists of the adjacent domains (psychologists, mathematicians, philosophers) who were occupied with the linguistic problems are included to LE. 7. The author addresses the book to the large audience ( scholars, students, post--graduates ), that is why LE is applied by the list of the manuals of about 100 languages. LINGUISTIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA: The Main Scholars of Russia and Abroad. // Ed. by Dr Phil Yudakin A.P. (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences )./ About 1 500 articles, ill., indexes./ Approximately: 1999 Dec ? 2000 Jan. Considering the complexity of the edition , Linguistic Encyclopaedia will be published to order and only to your order. The price is 200 American Dollars for a copy. The book is supposed to come out in Dec 1999 ? Jan 2000. Your help is wanted. The author asks those scholars who wants to possess LE to send the money in the name of Yudakin Anatoly Petrovich to the account: ACB ?MOSCOW INDUSTRIAL BANK? KI EVSKY BRANCH 5, ORDZHONIKIDZE STREET MOSCOW, 117419, RUSSIA SWIFT: MINNRUMM ACCOUNT 42301840000060000001 YUDAKIN ANATOLY PETROVICH The author asks you to inform about the remittance by E-mail, by Fax or by Post. The address is at the beginning of the letter. Sincerely yours Anatoly P. Yudakin, Dr Phil. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 From polikarp at philol.msu.ru Tue Sep 28 17:33:58 1999 From: polikarp at philol.msu.ru (Anatoliy Polikarpov) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:33:58 EDT Subject: HumLang: New list in Linguistics is opened!!! Message-ID: Dear Colleague! 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Name: Letter-Rus.txt URL: From jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu Wed Sep 29 14:33:43 1999 From: jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu (Joseph C. Salmons) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:33:43 EDT Subject: final announcement: Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8: Variation & Reconstruction October 29-31, 1999 Pyle Center (formerly "Wisconsin Center"), 702 Langdon Street University of Wisconsin, Madison Friday , Oct. 29, 7:00 p.m. Informal gathering, Max Kade Institute, 901 Univ. Bay Dr. 262-7546. (Transportation is available from Lowell Hall at 7:00 or on request by calling the MKI.) Saturday. Oct. 30 Reconstructing Social Variation 9:30 Robert Howell (UW) Reconstructing social variation in Early Modern Europe 10:15 Ray Harris (UW) Reduction of variation in the standardization of Castilian Spanish around 1500 11:00: Coffee break 11:30: Paul T. Roberge (UNC) "Reconstructing a Creole Continuum in early Afrikaans" 12:30 Lunch Reconstructing morphological variation 2:00 Frederick Schwink (Illinois) Reconstructing Variation in Proto-Germanic Gender 2:45 Sergio Meira (Rice/Nijmegen) Reconstructing Irregularity from Regularity: The Case of Competing First-Person Prefixes In Taranoan 3:30: Break 4:00: James Milroy (Michigan) "Some comments on the role of speakers in language change" 7:00: Dinner Sunday, Oct. 31 9:00 Cynthia Miller (UW) Variation in the Use of a Grammaticalized Complementizer in Ancient Northwest Semitic Identifying (pre-)historic variation 9:30 Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State) Projecting variation back onto the proto language 10:00 Thomas Cravens (UW) Approaching orthographic "confusion": stable allophony, change in progress, and lexicalized restucturing in early texts 11:00: Coffee break 11:30 Concluding Discussion, Mary Niepokuj (Purdue University) Rooms are available at Lowell Hall (610 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706) for Friday and Saturday night, single $52, double $62. Reservations should be made immediately: phone 608.256.2621, fax 256.5445. Please mention the WCL. WCL 8 is co-sponsored by the Depts of German, Hebrew & Semitic, Linguistics, French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, and the Max Kade Institute. The Workshop is made possible by generous support from the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters & Science, UW.