8.330, FYI: Indo-European

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-330. Sat Mar 8 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.330, FYI: Indo-European

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Date:  Fri, 07 Mar 1997 20:24:11 +0100
From:  "Fco. Javier Martinez Garcia" <martinez at em.uni-frankfurt.de>
Subject:  TITUS: Indo-European Course Register (Sommer 1997).

2)
Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 1997 18:25:01 +2910
From:  Paul Black <blackp at NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject:  Comparative Indoeuropean Data Corpus

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Date:  Fri, 07 Mar 1997 20:24:11 +0100
From:  "Fco. Javier Martinez Garcia" <martinez at em.uni-frankfurt.de>
Subject:  TITUS: Indo-European Course Register (Sommer 1997).

TITUS has the new Indo-European
Course Register (Sommer Semester 1997)

We have now incorporated it into the
TITUS Project web pages under following URL:
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/idg-ss97.html

Best Regards
    J. Martinez


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Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 1997 18:25:01 +2910
From:  Paul Black <blackp at NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject:  Comparative Indoeuropean Data Corpus

A set of 200-item lexicostatistical lists for 95 Indoeuropean varieties
is now available from the Linguistic Data Consortium in the US
(http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/), currently at page:

   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/service/comp-ie/HEADPAGE.html

and in Australia from:

   http://www.ntu.edu.au/education/langs/ielex/HEADPAGE.html

This data has provided the basis for several publications, including:

   Dyen, Isidore, Joseph B. Kruskal & Paul Black. 1992. An Indoeuropean
   classification: A lexicostatistical experiment. (Transactions of the
   American Philosophical Society Vol. 82, Part 5.) American
   Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.

The data is accompanied by an annotated bibilography of lexicostatistics
and by quantitative findings based on the data, including
lexicostatistical percentages and estimates of relative time depths and
replacement rates for meanings.

The data may be useful not only in reference the above monograph,
but also as a basis for comparing the results of other approaches to
lexicostatistics, such as the GLOTTO program of Jacques Guy discussed in
LINGUIST Vol-5-630 at:

  http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/archives/Linguist/Vol-5-0600-0699/0022.html

___________________________________________________________________
Paul Black <> Faculty of Education <> Northern Territory University
Darwin NT 0909 Australia <> ph (08) 8946 6133 <> fax (08) 8946 6151

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