Nov 3-4 workshop on reconstruction

[Martha Ratliff]

(If you are interested in attending the workshop described below,
please contact the organizer, Martha Ratliff, at
<martha_ratliff at wayne.edu>).



Tenth Annual Workshop on Comparative Linguistics

Reconstruction Fundamentals

The Detroit Athletic Club
Detroit, Michigan
November 3-4, 2001

Sponsored by Wayne State University
Office of the Vice President for Research, College of Liberal Arts,
College of Science, Humanities Center, Department of English, and
Linguistics Program

Saturday, November 3

8:30 - 8:55     Continental Breakfast

8:55            Welcome
9:00 - 9:45     Brian Joseph    The Ohio State University
                "The limits of internal reconstruction"
9:45 - 10:30    Paul Newman     Indiana University
                "Internal reconstruction without morpheme alternants"

10:30 - 10:45   Break

10:45 - 11:30   Mary Niepokuj   Purdue University
                "How morphology interferes with phonological reconstruction"
11:30 - 12:15   Hans Henrich Hock       University of Illinois
                "Indo-Europeanists and the development of the 'Aryan
Race' theory"

12:15 - 1:30    Lunch  (catered at the DAC; cost $20 per person)

1:30 - 2:15     William Baxter  University of Michigan
                "Mandarin dialect phylogeny"
2:15 - 3:00     Joe Eska                Virginia Technological University
                Don Ringe       University of Pennsylvania
                "The Celtic computational cladistics project: A status report"

3:00 - 3:15     Break

3:15 - 4:00     Brett Kessler   Wayne State University
                "Determining the statistical significance of sound
correspondences"
4:00 - 4:45     Paul Heggarty   Cambridge University
                "Quantifying phonetic similarity: How reconstructions
help, and how they gain"

Sunday, November 4

8:30 - 9:00     Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00    Richard Janda   The Ohio State University
                "Reconstruction doth ever prosper:  What's the reason?"
10:00 - 11:00   Comments by
                Anthony Aristar Wayne State University
                Sally Thomason  University of Michigan
                Joe Salmons     University of Wisconsin

End of Workshop

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