From lsa at lsadc.org  Wed Feb  2 22:22:02 2000
From: lsa at lsadc.org (LSA)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:22:02 EST
Subject: December 1999 LSA Bulletin
Message-ID: <WED.2.FEB.2000.172202.EST.LSA@LSADC.ORG>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
The December 1999 issue of the LSA Bulletin is now available on the LSA web
site:  www.lsadc.org


From shaxbi at usa.net  Wed Feb  2 22:22:29 2000
From: shaxbi at usa.net (Madina Shaxbijeva)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:22:29 EST
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <WED.2.FEB.2000.172229.EST.SHAXBI@USA.NET>

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 <yudakin at mail.ru>                    
Dear Colleagues            
   �Linguistic Encyclopaedia: The Famous Scholars of the World� (= LE) has
been 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
(400 ill.) 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 Famous Scholars of the World. // Ed. by Dr
Phil Yudakin A.P. (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences )./
About 1 500 articles, ill., indexes./ In April 2000.
   Linguistic Encyclopaedia is published to order and only to your order, so
preliminary payment is wanted. The book is coming out in April 2000. The price
is 200 American Dollars for a copy. For the persons included in the
Encyclopaedia the price is 170 $ USA. The money should be sent till the 15th
of March (that�s limit). 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�
KIEVSKY 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 traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU  Fri Feb  4 00:00:41 2000
From: traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU (Elizabeth Traugott)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:00:41 EST
Subject: sad news about Suzanne Fleischman
Message-ID: <THU.3.FEB.2000.190041.EST.TRAUGOTT@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
It is with great sorrow that I write to let you know that
Suzanne Fleischman died last night, Wed. Feb 2nd, at the age of 50.
She was a pioneer in grammaticalization, historical
discourse analysis, historical narratology, orality and literacy,
and more recently, medical discourse.  Among her many
influential works are The Future in Thought and Language:
Diachronic Evidence from Romance, 1982,
and Tense and Narrativity, 1990.  Edited works include
Discourse-Pragmatics and the Verb : the Evidence from Romance,
with Linda R. Waugh, and Modality in Grammar and Discourse,
with Joan Bybee, 1995.  She will be sorely missed.


From DISTERH at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU  Tue Feb  8 13:51:03 2000
From: DISTERH at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU (Dorothy Disterheft)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 08:51:03 EST
Subject: Conference on medieval plant studies
Message-ID: <TUE.8.FEB.2000.085103.EST.>

 Early Medieval  Plant Studies Conference

 The first conference of the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Names Survey
(ASPNS) will be held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland,
from 5-7 April 2000 under the auspices of the Glasgow  Institute
 for the Historical Study of Languages. The papers to be presented
range across subjects such as medicine, agriculture, food studies,
dyes,  place-names, art history, archaeology, and more. The informal
social programme comprises receptions, including one in the Kibble
Palace of  Glasgow's Botanic Gardens, dinners, and a half-day
excursion to Crarae Gardens and Inveraray in the Scottish
Highlands.

Full details and the registration form are available at:

 http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/EngLang/ihsl/projects/plants.htm

 If you would like a paper version, please contact Christian Kay or
 Carole Biggam at

Department of English Language
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
U.K.

There is a late registration fee after March 13th.


*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
Professor Christian Janet Kay, Department of English Language, University of
 Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK    C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0)141 330 4150    fax: +44 (0)141 330 3531
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/EngLang/


From traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU  Fri Feb 18 10:32:59 2000
From: traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU (Elizabeth Traugott)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 05:32:59 EST
Subject: requesting input for revisions
Message-ID: <FRI.18.FEB.2000.053259.EST.TRAUGOTT@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are in the process of revising our book "Grammaticalization"
Cambridge University Press (1993).  The plan is to correct and
update the current version and add a final chapter on developments
since the publication of the book.  If you have suggestions, large
or small, we would much appreciate them. Please send them to
both of us.

Paul Hopper                             Elizabeth C. Traugott
ph1u+ at andrew.cmu.edu                    traugott at turing.stanford.edu
Department of English                   Department of Linguistics
Carnegie-Mellon University              Stanford University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213                    Stanford, CA 94305-2150


From traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU  Wed Feb 23 13:38:31 2000
From: traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU (Elizabeth Traugott)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:38:31 EST
Subject: a tribute to Suzanne Fleischman
Message-ID: <WED.23.FEB.2000.083831.EST.TRAUGOTT@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Many members of the lists on which the death of Suzanne
Fleischman was announced very briefly a few weeks ago have
asked for further news about her life and work.

The following is based on the University of California, Berkeley,
news release, with information about a memorial to be held on
March 11th.

Suzanne Fleischman, an internationally recognized professor of
French and Romance Philology at the University of California,
Berkeley,  died Wednesday February 2nd, aged 51.

She had taught at UC Berkeley since 1975. During her career,
Fleischman earned numerous honors, including Fulbright,
Guggenheim, American Council of Learned Societies and French
government fellowships, and a 1995 medal of honor for
research from the University of Helsinki. She was invited to deliver
the Zaharoff lectures in French studies at Oxford University last
year.

Fleischman earned her PhD in Romance Philology at UC Berkeley
in 1975. She received her MA in Spanish from UC Berkeley in
1971 and a BA in Spanish from the University of Michigan in 1969.

In addition to dozens of articles, Fleischman wrote and edited five
books: Cultural and Linguistic Factors in Word Formation: An
Integrated Approach to the Development of the Suffix '-age',
University of California Publications in Linguistics 86, Univ. of
California Press (1987); The Future in Thought and Language:
Diachronic Evidence from Romance, Cambridge Studies in
Linguistics 35, Cambridge UP (1982); Tense and Narrativity: From
Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction, Univ. of Austin Press
(1990); Discourse Pragmatics and the Verb: The Evidence from
Romance, ed. with Linda R. Waugh, Routledge, Chapman & Hall
(1991); Modality in Grammar and Discourse, ed. with Joan L.
Bybee, Benjamins (1995).

A volume of Fleischman's papers is being prepared by Dan I.
Slobin and Eve E. Sweetser.

Colleagues and friends recall Fleischman as an athletic, joyful,
witty friend and a dedicated professor. In the past several
years she devoted her energies to studying, understanding and
clarifying the relationships between language and disease, after
being diagnosed in 1993 with myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood
disorder known as MDS.

At the time of her death, Fleischman was working on a book
examining the pervasiveness of the military metaphor in the
language of medicine and illness. People with illnesses are no longer
the focus of medicine, Fleischman wrote, "but merely the clinical
stage on which the main protagonists of the drama - the doctors and
the disease - battle it out". Last December, she gave a lecture on
language and medicine at a hematology conference at Mount Sinai
Hospital in New York.

Contributions to the memorial fund, which the MDS Foundation is
calling the Suzanne Fleischman Memorial Fund for MDS Patient
Outreach, may be sent to: The MDS Foundation, Box 477, 464
Main Street Crosswicks, NJ 08515. Those who wish to direct
contributions to the new MDS Patient Outreach Fund may specify
"Suzanne Fleischman Memorial Patient Outreach Fund".  Donors
who wish to earmark contributions for general research into causes
of and treatment for MDS may specify "MDS General Fund".

According to the MDS Foundation, the Suzanne Fleischman
Memorial Patient Outreach Fund will provide for patient education
conferences around the country, support MDS sufferers who cannot
afford care, and enable the MDS Foundation to reproduce and
distribute to patients a speech Fleischman gave last April in Prague,
at the International Symposium on Myelodysplastic Syndromes, in
which she outlined ways for patients to research and cope with
MDS.

A memorial gathering for Suzanne Fleischman, hosted by the
University of California at Berkeley in conjunction with her family
and friends, will take place on Saturday, March 11 2000, at 2 p.m.
in the Great Hall of the Faculty Club on the UC-Berkeley campus.


From mithun at humanitas.ucsb.edu  Thu Feb 24 23:05:01 2000
From: mithun at humanitas.ucsb.edu (Marianne Mithun)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:05:01 EST
Subject: Message from Joe Grimes (fwd)
Message-ID: <THU.24.FEB.2000.180501.EST.MITHUN@HUMANITAS.UCSB.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 06:36:48 -1000
From: Joe Grimes <jgrimes at concentric.net>
Subject: Change simulator

Would you happen to have a line on any software to generate the
correspondence sets from matching word lists, and store them as evidence
for a hypothesis about the history of a family? I did a prototype once
that works fine but is totally user unfriendly, even to me. Before I do a
Windows application I'd like to make sure it isn't already covered
somewhere.


From jhewson at morgan.ucs.mun.ca  Sat Feb 26 19:27:15 2000
From: jhewson at morgan.ucs.mun.ca (John Hewson)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:27:15 EST
Subject: Message from Joe Grimes (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0002241110330.11124-100000@humanitas.ucsb.edu>
Message-ID: <SAT.26.FEB.2000.142715.EST.JHEWSON@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Marianne Mithun wrote:

> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 06:36:48 -1000
> From: Joe Grimes <jgrimes at concentric.net>
> Subject: Change simulator
>
> Would you happen to have a line on any software to generate the
> correspondence sets from matching word lists, and store them as evidence
> for a hypothesis about the history of a family? I did a prototype once
> that works fine but is totally user unfriendly, even to me. Before I do a
> Windows application I'd like to make sure it isn't already covered
> somewhere.
>

John B. Lowe worked with Martine Mazaudon to set up a very efficient
Reconstruction Engine that finds cognates and reconstructs proto-forms. It
is adaptable to different language families. John's e-mail is

        jblowe at garnet.berkeley.edu

Their work was described in an article they did for the Bulletin de la
Socie'te' Linguistique de Paris about 10 years ago.


*******************************************************************************
John Hewson, FRSC                               tel: (709)737-8131
Henrietta Harvey Professor Emeritus             fax: (709)737-4000
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's NF, CANADA A1B 3X9
*******************************************************************************


From lsa at lsadc.org  Wed Feb  2 22:22:02 2000
From: lsa at lsadc.org (LSA)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:22:02 EST
Subject: December 1999 LSA Bulletin
Message-ID: <WED.2.FEB.2000.172202.EST.LSA@LSADC.ORG>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
The December 1999 issue of the LSA Bulletin is now available on the LSA web
site:  www.lsadc.org


From shaxbi at usa.net  Wed Feb  2 22:22:29 2000
From: shaxbi at usa.net (Madina Shaxbijeva)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:22:29 EST
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <WED.2.FEB.2000.172229.EST.SHAXBI@USA.NET>

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 <yudakin at mail.ru>                    
Dear Colleagues            
   ?Linguistic Encyclopaedia: The Famous Scholars of the World? (= LE) has
been 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
(400 ill.) 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 Famous Scholars of the World. // Ed. by Dr
Phil Yudakin A.P. (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences )./
About 1 500 articles, ill., indexes./ In April 2000.
   Linguistic Encyclopaedia is published to order and only to your order, so
preliminary payment is wanted. The book is coming out in April 2000. The price
is 200 American Dollars for a copy. For the persons included in the
Encyclopaedia the price is 170 $ USA. The money should be sent till the 15th
of March (that?s limit). 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?
KIEVSKY 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 traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU  Fri Feb  4 00:00:41 2000
From: traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU (Elizabeth Traugott)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:00:41 EST
Subject: sad news about Suzanne Fleischman
Message-ID: <THU.3.FEB.2000.190041.EST.TRAUGOTT@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
It is with great sorrow that I write to let you know that
Suzanne Fleischman died last night, Wed. Feb 2nd, at the age of 50.
She was a pioneer in grammaticalization, historical
discourse analysis, historical narratology, orality and literacy,
and more recently, medical discourse.  Among her many
influential works are The Future in Thought and Language:
Diachronic Evidence from Romance, 1982,
and Tense and Narrativity, 1990.  Edited works include
Discourse-Pragmatics and the Verb : the Evidence from Romance,
with Linda R. Waugh, and Modality in Grammar and Discourse,
with Joan Bybee, 1995.  She will be sorely missed.


From DISTERH at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU  Tue Feb  8 13:51:03 2000
From: DISTERH at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU (Dorothy Disterheft)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 08:51:03 EST
Subject: Conference on medieval plant studies
Message-ID: <TUE.8.FEB.2000.085103.EST.>

 Early Medieval  Plant Studies Conference

 The first conference of the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Names Survey
(ASPNS) will be held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland,
from 5-7 April 2000 under the auspices of the Glasgow  Institute
 for the Historical Study of Languages. The papers to be presented
range across subjects such as medicine, agriculture, food studies,
dyes,  place-names, art history, archaeology, and more. The informal
social programme comprises receptions, including one in the Kibble
Palace of  Glasgow's Botanic Gardens, dinners, and a half-day
excursion to Crarae Gardens and Inveraray in the Scottish
Highlands.

Full details and the registration form are available at:

 http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/EngLang/ihsl/projects/plants.htm

 If you would like a paper version, please contact Christian Kay or
 Carole Biggam at

Department of English Language
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
U.K.

There is a late registration fee after March 13th.


*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
Professor Christian Janet Kay, Department of English Language, University of
 Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK    C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0)141 330 4150    fax: +44 (0)141 330 3531
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/EngLang/


From traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU  Fri Feb 18 10:32:59 2000
From: traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU (Elizabeth Traugott)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 05:32:59 EST
Subject: requesting input for revisions
Message-ID: <FRI.18.FEB.2000.053259.EST.TRAUGOTT@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are in the process of revising our book "Grammaticalization"
Cambridge University Press (1993).  The plan is to correct and
update the current version and add a final chapter on developments
since the publication of the book.  If you have suggestions, large
or small, we would much appreciate them. Please send them to
both of us.

Paul Hopper                             Elizabeth C. Traugott
ph1u+ at andrew.cmu.edu                    traugott at turing.stanford.edu
Department of English                   Department of Linguistics
Carnegie-Mellon University              Stanford University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213                    Stanford, CA 94305-2150


From traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU  Wed Feb 23 13:38:31 2000
From: traugott at csli.Stanford.EDU (Elizabeth Traugott)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:38:31 EST
Subject: a tribute to Suzanne Fleischman
Message-ID: <WED.23.FEB.2000.083831.EST.TRAUGOTT@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Many members of the lists on which the death of Suzanne
Fleischman was announced very briefly a few weeks ago have
asked for further news about her life and work.

The following is based on the University of California, Berkeley,
news release, with information about a memorial to be held on
March 11th.

Suzanne Fleischman, an internationally recognized professor of
French and Romance Philology at the University of California,
Berkeley,  died Wednesday February 2nd, aged 51.

She had taught at UC Berkeley since 1975. During her career,
Fleischman earned numerous honors, including Fulbright,
Guggenheim, American Council of Learned Societies and French
government fellowships, and a 1995 medal of honor for
research from the University of Helsinki. She was invited to deliver
the Zaharoff lectures in French studies at Oxford University last
year.

Fleischman earned her PhD in Romance Philology at UC Berkeley
in 1975. She received her MA in Spanish from UC Berkeley in
1971 and a BA in Spanish from the University of Michigan in 1969.

In addition to dozens of articles, Fleischman wrote and edited five
books: Cultural and Linguistic Factors in Word Formation: An
Integrated Approach to the Development of the Suffix '-age',
University of California Publications in Linguistics 86, Univ. of
California Press (1987); The Future in Thought and Language:
Diachronic Evidence from Romance, Cambridge Studies in
Linguistics 35, Cambridge UP (1982); Tense and Narrativity: From
Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction, Univ. of Austin Press
(1990); Discourse Pragmatics and the Verb: The Evidence from
Romance, ed. with Linda R. Waugh, Routledge, Chapman & Hall
(1991); Modality in Grammar and Discourse, ed. with Joan L.
Bybee, Benjamins (1995).

A volume of Fleischman's papers is being prepared by Dan I.
Slobin and Eve E. Sweetser.

Colleagues and friends recall Fleischman as an athletic, joyful,
witty friend and a dedicated professor. In the past several
years she devoted her energies to studying, understanding and
clarifying the relationships between language and disease, after
being diagnosed in 1993 with myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood
disorder known as MDS.

At the time of her death, Fleischman was working on a book
examining the pervasiveness of the military metaphor in the
language of medicine and illness. People with illnesses are no longer
the focus of medicine, Fleischman wrote, "but merely the clinical
stage on which the main protagonists of the drama - the doctors and
the disease - battle it out". Last December, she gave a lecture on
language and medicine at a hematology conference at Mount Sinai
Hospital in New York.

Contributions to the memorial fund, which the MDS Foundation is
calling the Suzanne Fleischman Memorial Fund for MDS Patient
Outreach, may be sent to: The MDS Foundation, Box 477, 464
Main Street Crosswicks, NJ 08515. Those who wish to direct
contributions to the new MDS Patient Outreach Fund may specify
"Suzanne Fleischman Memorial Patient Outreach Fund".  Donors
who wish to earmark contributions for general research into causes
of and treatment for MDS may specify "MDS General Fund".

According to the MDS Foundation, the Suzanne Fleischman
Memorial Patient Outreach Fund will provide for patient education
conferences around the country, support MDS sufferers who cannot
afford care, and enable the MDS Foundation to reproduce and
distribute to patients a speech Fleischman gave last April in Prague,
at the International Symposium on Myelodysplastic Syndromes, in
which she outlined ways for patients to research and cope with
MDS.

A memorial gathering for Suzanne Fleischman, hosted by the
University of California at Berkeley in conjunction with her family
and friends, will take place on Saturday, March 11 2000, at 2 p.m.
in the Great Hall of the Faculty Club on the UC-Berkeley campus.


From mithun at humanitas.ucsb.edu  Thu Feb 24 23:05:01 2000
From: mithun at humanitas.ucsb.edu (Marianne Mithun)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:05:01 EST
Subject: Message from Joe Grimes (fwd)
Message-ID: <THU.24.FEB.2000.180501.EST.MITHUN@HUMANITAS.UCSB.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 06:36:48 -1000
From: Joe Grimes <jgrimes at concentric.net>
Subject: Change simulator

Would you happen to have a line on any software to generate the
correspondence sets from matching word lists, and store them as evidence
for a hypothesis about the history of a family? I did a prototype once
that works fine but is totally user unfriendly, even to me. Before I do a
Windows application I'd like to make sure it isn't already covered
somewhere.


From jhewson at morgan.ucs.mun.ca  Sat Feb 26 19:27:15 2000
From: jhewson at morgan.ucs.mun.ca (John Hewson)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:27:15 EST
Subject: Message from Joe Grimes (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0002241110330.11124-100000@humanitas.ucsb.edu>
Message-ID: <SAT.26.FEB.2000.142715.EST.JHEWSON@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Marianne Mithun wrote:

> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 06:36:48 -1000
> From: Joe Grimes <jgrimes at concentric.net>
> Subject: Change simulator
>
> Would you happen to have a line on any software to generate the
> correspondence sets from matching word lists, and store them as evidence
> for a hypothesis about the history of a family? I did a prototype once
> that works fine but is totally user unfriendly, even to me. Before I do a
> Windows application I'd like to make sure it isn't already covered
> somewhere.
>

John B. Lowe worked with Martine Mazaudon to set up a very efficient
Reconstruction Engine that finds cognates and reconstructs proto-forms. It
is adaptable to different language families. John's e-mail is

        jblowe at garnet.berkeley.edu

Their work was described in an article they did for the Bulletin de la
Socie'te' Linguistique de Paris about 10 years ago.


*******************************************************************************
John Hewson, FRSC                               tel: (709)737-8131
Henrietta Harvey Professor Emeritus             fax: (709)737-4000
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's NF, CANADA A1B 3X9
*******************************************************************************