9.1823, FYI: Endangered Lang, Feedback Wanted, Semitic Ling

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1823. Tue Dec 22 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1823, FYI: Endangered Lang, Feedback Wanted, Semitic Ling

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1)
Date:  Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:08:01 -0500
From:  whalen at lenny.haskins.yale.edu
Subject:  Addendum, Endangered Language Fund

2)
Date:  Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:24:28 +0100
From:  JoAnne Marie <jmarie at filnet.fr>
Subject:  Feedback wanted

3)
Date:  Tue, 22 Dec 98 15:10:58 -0000
From:  Uri Horesh <urihores at post.tau.ac.il>
Subject:  Symposium -- Semitic Linguistics

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:08:01 -0500
From:  whalen at lenny.haskins.yale.edu
Subject:  Addendum, Endangered Language Fund

  In the original posting, the rather important information of the day
of our annual meeting was omitted.  Here is the complete information:

  The Endangered Language Fund is a US nonprofit organization
dedicated to helping maintain endangered languages, documenting
endangered languages for linguistic science, and disseminating the
results of both efforts to the scholarly community and the native
language community. Our annual meeting will take place in conjunction
with the Linguistic Society of America on Friday, January 8th,
1999, in Los Angeles.  It will begin at 8 a.m. in the LaBrea room of
the Westin Bonaventure Hotel (404 S. Figueroa St.).  If you will be at
the LSA,please come join us.

The Endangered Language Fund
Dept. of Linguistics
Yale University
P. O. Box 208236
New Haven, CT  06520-8236  USA
Tel:  203-432-2450
FAX:  203-432-4087
http://www.ling.yale.edu/~elf

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Date:  Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:24:28 +0100
From:  JoAnne Marie <jmarie at filnet.fr>
Subject:  Feedback wanted

I would very much appreciate feedback from your readers on the new phonetic
writing system described on my web site (in signature).  Thank you in
advance, JoAnne Marie
JoAnne Marie, jmarie at filnet.fr
CV, Phonetics and Poetry on:
www.filnet.fr/perso/jmarie

-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 22 Dec 98 15:10:58 -0000
From:  Uri Horesh <urihores at post.tau.ac.il>
Subject:  Symposium -- Semitic Linguistics

Semitic Linguistics: The State of the Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First
Century

Israel Oriental Studies (IOS) is an annual devoted to the study of the
Near East in various disciplines. Appearing under the auspices of the
Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, it began publication in 1971,
and quickly earned a reputation for its contribution to scholarship, with
major concentrations in the study of Near Eastern languages, philology,
history and religions.
For the year 2000, the editorial board of IOS have planned an ambitious
project, and volume 20 of this annual will be devoted to the state of the
art of Semitic linguistics at the turn of the 21st century. What we would
like to convey are the achievements, the drawbacks and the desiderata in the
wide and diverse field of Semitic linguistics, i.e., to emphasize progress,
conservatism and current gaps in research.

While languages and language families are the main concern of Semitic
linguistics in general, we thought it would be preferable to adopt a
different point of view, and to present our interest in the various languages
in this family from a variety of angles. Thus, aside from commonly studied
issues such as comparative linguistics, typology and genetics, or scripts, we
should like to shed light from the point of view of Semitic linguistics on
more general topics like dialectology, the study of rare or extinct languages,
 geographical linguistics, languages in contact, the relationship between
linguistics and other disciplines, child language and first language
acquisition, and others. Some topics may be dealt with by more than a single
author, and be combined later into a set of articles in a single category.

Special attention will be paid to the impact of the advances in general
linguistics on the study of Semitic languages and on Semitic linguistics,
as well as to the actual and potential impact of Semitic linguistics on the
general study of language.

As a first step towards the publication of this volume, we are planning a
preparatory symposium. This will provide an opportunity for contributors to
the volume, many of whom are involved in large research projects, to offer
oral presentations in the investigated areas and to discuss matters of mutual
interest. Special emphasis will be drawn on pinpointing desiderata and on
raising suggestions for future research and possible international cooperation. The planned symposium will be the basis upon which the written contributions
and the setup of the IOS volume will emerge.

The symposium will take place on January 11-13, 1999, at 496 Gilman Hall,
Tel Aviv University.

Following is the schedule for the Symposium:

Sunday, January 10, 1999
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19.00
Reception for participants
Address: Prof. Nili Cohen, Rector, Tel Aviv University

Monday, January 11, 1999
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9.30-10.00
Opening Addresses:
Prof. Marcelo Dascal, Dean, The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
Dr. Moshe Florentin, Chair, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages
Prof. Shlomo Izre'el, Editor, Israel Oriental Studies, and Coordinator, Section of Semitic Languages

Morning session (Chair: Stephen A. Kaufman)

10.00-10.40
Gideon Goldenberg (Jerusalem)
Semitic Linguistics and the General Study of Language

10.40-11.20
Jo Ann Hackett (Cambridge, MA)
The Study of Partially Documented Languages

11.20-11.50 Coffee break

11.50-12.30
Michael Patrick O'Connor (Washington, DC)
The Study of Extinct Languages

12.30-13.10
Baruch Podolsky (Tel Aviv)
The Study of Rare, Dying Out and Extinct Semitic Dialects in the Modern World

13.10-14.40 Lunch break

Afternoon session (Chair: Geoffrey Khan)

14.40-15.20
Peter T. Daniels (New York)
Writing and Scripts in the Semitic World

15.20-16.00
John Huehnergard (Cambridge, MA)
Comparative Semitic Linguistics

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.10
Helmut Satzinger (Vienna)
The Egyptian Connection: Egyptian and the Semitic Languages

17.10-17.50
Rainer M. Voigt (Berlin)
The Hamitic Connection: Semitic and Hamito-Semitic

Tuesday, January 12, 1999
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Morning session (Chair: Rainer M. Voigt)

9.30-10.10
Anna G. Belova and Victor Ja. Porkhomovsky (Moscow)

10.10-10.50
Joseph L. Malone (New York)  in absentia
The Chomskian School and Semitic Linguistics

10.50-11.20 Coffee break

11.20-12.00
Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge, UK)
Syntax

12.00-12.40
Uri Horesh (Tel Aviv)
TMA (Tense-Mood-Aspect)

12.40-13.20
Baruch Podolsky (Tel Aviv)
Lexicography

13.20-14.50 Lunch break

Afternoon session (Chair: David L. Appleyard)

14.50-15.30
Shlomo Raz (Tel Aviv)
Dialectology: The Ethiopian Languages

15.30-16.10
Otto Jastrow (Erlangen)
Dialectology: Arabic

16.10-16.40 Coffee break

16.40-17.20
Otto Jastrow (Erlangen)
Dialectology: Aramaic

17.20-18.00
Olga Kapeliuk (Jerusalem)
Languages in Contact: The Contemporary Semitic World

Wednesday, January 13, 1999
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Morning session (Chair: Jo Ann Hackett)

9.30-10.10
Stephen A. Kaufman (Cincinnati)
Languages in Contact: The Ancient Near East

10.10-10.50
Bruce Zuckerman (Rolling Hills Estates, CA)
New Finds in the 20th Century: The Semitic Languages of the Ancient World

10.50-11.20 Coffee break

11.20-12.00
David L. Appleyard (London)
New Finds in the 20th Century: The South Semitic Languages

12.00-12.40
Edward L. Greenstein (Tel Aviv)
Advances in Linguistic Study as an Aid for Other Disciplines: The Ancient World

12.40-13.20
Victor Ja. Porkhomovsky (Moscow)
Advances in Linguistic Study as an Aid for Other Disciplines: The Ethiopian and South Arabian Languages and Cultures

13.20-14.50 Lunch break

Afternoon session (Chair: Michael Patrick O'Connor)

14.50-15.30
Ruth A. Berman and Dorit D. Ravid (Tel Aviv)
Insights into Semitics from Research on the Acquisition of Israeli Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic

15.30-16.30
Yaacov Choueka (Ramat Gan, Israel)
Computational Linguistics and Semitic Languages: Achievements and Desiderata

16.30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:00
Semitic Linguistics: Looking into the 21st Century  General Discussion Concluding remarks and business meeting

* The volume of _Israel Oriental Studies_ will further include a paper not presented at this Symposium: New Finds in the 20th Century: The Modern South Arabian Languages, by Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle (Meudon, France).

Information on the Symposium can also be found on the web:
http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/dep/semitic/symposium.html

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